I found this great idea from Mama Jenn and knowing how much my kiddos love to play with the little water droppers, knew we had to do it! Supplies/Instructions: Visit Mama Jenn’s blog and download the color mixing wheel. Cardstock and lamination Red, Yellow, Blue Food Coloring Egg cartons for…
Every month our local homeschool group has “Kid’s Presentation Day”. It’s a chance for them to get up in front of a group and give a short presentation on what they’ve been working on in school. Since it was also the Valentine’s Day party, my 2nd grader did a presentation…
This was a craft gone awry, I had planned on painting over doilies with a sponge like stenciling, but it didn’t work, so we just ended up painting the hearts instead! oh well, sometimes crafts don’t quite go as planned! In the end everyone had a good time,…
I LOVE LOVE LOVE the stART concept, if you haven’t gotten involved yet, Visit A Mommy’s Adventures for more info! Each Thursday Michelle puts up her stART project for everyone to link up to and share ideas. Simply put: A Story + Art = A Great stART!! Our first project…
This was a total experiment, but it worked out well. We made small doll blankets since there was A LOT of knotting required here. And really its for 6yrs and up I’d say. My 3yr old couldn’t tie the knots so I ended up doing most of her blanket. However,…
We did a new type of painting today called “dabbing”. The goal is to mix the paint on the paper instead of the plate. So in order to do paint “dabbing” one must carefully dip their brush into a couple colors on the palette, then dab it gently onto the…
We found this fun activity on Blissfully Domestic today! It looked so easy I had to try it, especially since I hadn’t planned anything else for the afternoon out of sheer laziness, and I had everything for this already. Supplies: Construction Paper Elmer’s Glue Baking Sheet or Plastic Tray Crayons…
Wanna keep a couple kids busy for about 30 minutes? Give ‘em a stack of old broken crayons and have them peel and break them into tiny pieces so you can make some Rainbow Crayons for your Prek Letter R for Rainbow curriculum! Supplies: used, broken crayons no one likes…
What would possess my Mom to buy 3 different Gingerbread kits this year is beyond me, but let’s just say I’m happy this one got done (and left) at HER house! This is becoming a tradition for our kids to do with Nana. Its a huge mess and I usually…
Here’s a fun marble painting craft you can do! I found the idea on Cullen’s Abc’s and I’ve seen it on a couple other blogs but don’t remember where, sorry! Supplies: Poster or tempera paint Paper Painting container (gift box, shoe box, 13×9 baking dish, we used our workboxes!) Directions:…
