My blog features the activities and projects I do with my children. I have 3 children age 11, 7 and 4. I watch an infant, plus my 4 year old nephew! This blog highlights the activities/projects we create during the week. It also provides a way for me to organize all of the activities and projects we do, and it is a great way to share the projects/activities. I hope this blog will become a great resource and inspire creativity.
Wednesday, August 31, 2011
Handprint Apple Tree!!
Project: Handprint Apple Tree - Cut trunk out of brown paper and glue to white sheet of paper. Paint hand and press onto paper to make a tree. Let dry. Press finger into red paint and press all over the tree to make apples. Materials Needed: brown paper, green and red paint, white paper, scissors, glue, paint brush
Monday, August 29, 2011
Apple Print Wreath!
Project: Apple Print Wreath - Cut an apple in half and dip into either red or green paint. Press onto white paper. Let dry. Cut out prints. Cut the inner circle out of a paper plate. Glue the apple prints to the paper plate. Glue on a ribbon for hanging. Materials Needed: apple, knife, red and green paint, white paper, scissors, paper plate, ribbon, glue
Thursday, August 4, 2011
First Name Ice Cream Cones!
Project: First Name Ice Cream Cones - Trace hand on construction paper and cut out. Cut cone shape out of brown construction paper. Glue hand print to cone. Use foam stickers to make first name and attach to the ice cream.
Materials Needed: colored construction paper, brown construction paper, scissors, foam stickers, glue stick
Materials Needed: colored construction paper, brown construction paper, scissors, foam stickers, glue stick
Wednesday, August 3, 2011
Milk Cap Bugs!
This Project comes from Family Fun Magazine
Directions: Cut a set of heart-shaped wings out of a plastic jug. Hold the wings in place on top of a plastic cap - I used milk carton caps. Use push-pins to make two holes through both. Fold an 18-inch length of floral wire in half and thread the ends through the holes. Then twist the wires to secure them into place. For the eyes, use a hole puch to make black craft-foam pupils, and use scissors to cut larger circles from white craft foam. Attach the yeas to the cap with a 4-inch lengh of floral wire just like before.
Materials Needed: milk carton caps, plastic jug, floral wire, push pin, black and white craft foam, hole punch, scissors
Directions: Cut a set of heart-shaped wings out of a plastic jug. Hold the wings in place on top of a plastic cap - I used milk carton caps. Use push-pins to make two holes through both. Fold an 18-inch length of floral wire in half and thread the ends through the holes. Then twist the wires to secure them into place. For the eyes, use a hole puch to make black craft-foam pupils, and use scissors to cut larger circles from white craft foam. Attach the yeas to the cap with a 4-inch lengh of floral wire just like before.
Materials Needed: milk carton caps, plastic jug, floral wire, push pin, black and white craft foam, hole punch, scissors
Tuesday, August 2, 2011
Jelly fish!
Project: Jelly Fish! Flatten a cupcake liner and apply a strip of glue to the inside. Cut strips from colorful tissue paper. Press the strips to the inside of the cupcake liner. Glue googly eyes to the outside of the cupcake liners. Materials Needed: cupcake liner, googly eyes, tissue paper, glue stick, scissors