We did a paper plate turtle craft today for our Letter T art project. Turn your paper plates upside down and paint, decorate with shapes cut from construction paper. I cut out heads, feet and tails for them and we glued them on the underside of the plates once they…
Since our coffee filter butterfly craft didn’t go so well, we decided to try the tissue paper one this time. They liked and the finished products were reall pretty especially my 6 year olds. She diligently crumpled up her paper and glued it on so carefully! This was however a…
Since it was so nice today, we did a Leaf Art project. I got the idea from The Girlies Of Mt Hope. The kids had a blast collecting leaves, then making their creations. Here are our finished products:A Leaf monster with lots of eyes, the numbers are how much he…
We did a color mixing project today. I got the idea from The Pioneer Woman’s homeschooling blog. I provided them with Blue, Red and Yellow water, and then gave them ‘recipe’ cards to work from. Just because I don’t trust my kids with that large a quantity of water, I…
To go along with our Letter C stuff, we made pom-pom caterpillars today. I used a large popsicle stick as the base, then just glued pom-poms to it, added eyes, antennae and don’t forget the flare! And voila:
We did an art lesson from I Can Do All Things today on colored pencil blending. I have to say this was one of the lessons that seemed like a good idea, but then didn’t go so well. Maybe it is the brand of our colored pencils, but they didn’t…
We tried the autumn collage from Deep Space Sparkle today to finish up our Letter P week. Ours don’t look quite as cool as hers, but they were still fun none the less. I like the painting on black paper, it turns out cool. Here we are painting our pumpkins:…
While searching for letter p art ideas, I found this fun one on Deep Space Sparkle: The Self Portrait. I love that site, tons of fun art ideas! Here’s our results: Yep, he’s smelling the chocolate marker… I cut out the head/neck silhouette as well as the white eyes. The…
I ran across this awesome Art idea blog in my Yahoo Workboxes group! It’s definitely worth taking a look at Deep Space Sparkle! Here is a sample photo from today’s lesson in leaf stamping and painting:
Our canoe making, I cut and punched holes in the construction paper, then the kids decorated and laced the canoes. They are currently playing with them with our counting bears as passengers…the 3 year old wants to know where her wigwam and tepees are…um, hmmm…where did I put those?…(Ok, fine,…
