This week, in order to get us in the back-to-school spirit for next week, the theme is “apples”! There are lots of fun projects to do with actual real edible apples, but it was too windy to go apple picking yesterday (we were worried we might wind up with apples falling on our heads, and [...]
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Jenny sent me a link to glitter dough several weeks ago, and it occurred to me that this would fit in well with this week’s theme. Blue playdough + silver glitter = starry, starry night. We started with “Berry Blue” flavored Kool-Aid – I used our usual playdough recipe. That seemed a little greenish, so [...]
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We didn’t do our art project yesterday, so we did two today! First up: planets. My biscuit cutters came in handy tracing circles, and I was inspired by this post to make a couple of ovals for rings. The crescent moons were mostly to use up as much cardstock as possible. Then we broke out [...]
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This week’s theme is “Out of this World!” I had found some moon sand on clearance at Target, and thought it sounded like fun (and would be perfect for this theme) so I picked up a two-pack. The verdict? Not nearly so much fun as playdough. The girls were pretty “meh” about this (though they [...]
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To wrap up our “On the Farm” week, we made fingerprint corn. This one was pretty simple. I cut vaguely corn-like shapes out of white paper, something resembling leaves from green paper, and put a dollop of yellow paint on a plate. The girls had different ideas of how much painting to do, so Carolyn [...]
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I found some printables for collages and tried to figure out what materials we had that could work for various textures and colors. Turns out I just had to look in the pantry for a perfect tie-in to “On the Farm”. We used dried lentils, tri-colored couscous, a rice blend, navy beans, (unpopped) popcorn, a [...]
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Or, how to get paint everywhere in just a few easy steps… We used a combination of these instructions and these. So we put a layer of bubble solution (maybe 2-3 Tbsp? I didn’t measure) and paint (1 Tbsp? -ish?) in the cups. I poked pinholes in the straws (note that this was not as [...]
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Yesterday we made some green playdough using our usual recipe and one of the lemon-lime Kool-Aid packets we found. Now the strawberries can have leaves!
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Today’s project is a good example of why you need to flexible when planning kids’ crafts. The plan was tissue paper flowers: I thought they would be pretty easy, and sort of an instant-gratification thing. But they were completely beyond Anna’s abilities, and Carolyn didn’t like how hers turned out compared the ones I made [...]
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Our birdhouses, according to Anna, needed birdies. So I bought a big bag of assorted pompoms and pulled out a few other supplies: A little glue here, a little cutting there… …and we had fuzzy little googly-eyed birds! And then we made some name caterpillars because gluing pompoms is kind of addictive. After that, the [...]
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