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Crafts

Tiger Masks

September 23, 2011 By Terri Thompson

ROOOOAAAARRRRR!

Since our exploration of Japan was such a success, I decided we’d continue on with our trip around the world and stop off in India. Since India is one of the few places in the world that tigers live in the wild, I knew the girls would enjoy learning about them.

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We enjoy making masks, so making a tiger mask was an obvious choice. (Plus, I’m always trying to find ways to use up that 100 pack of paper plates I bought!).I cut eye holes out of the plates, found our orange paint and a bit of yarn to tie the masks around the girls heads. For the stripes, we tore strips of black construction paper.

The first step was painting and we painted the entire plate orange.While the plates were drying, we pulled out the book about tigers we had found at the library. Lizzie was fascinated! She soaked in the information, learning about tiger habitats, what they eat, how they mark their territory and how big tigers can grow.

The part of the book that made the most impact on Lizzie was the danger that tigers face and the reasons why they are endangered. We talked about illegal hunting and the destruction of their habitat. If you think that a 4-year-old wouldn’t understand, you would be wrong. The book broached the subject simply and honestly and Lizzie’s natural empathy towards animals really helped her understand.

Once the paint was dry, we moved on. It was time to glue on the stripes.While we were gluing, we talked some more about tigers. Lizzie was determined to do that beautiful animal justice.

She was quite concerned that we didn’t have any white paint or paper out. She knew that tigers had white fur in addition to the orange and black. She finally solved the problem herself by using glue to make the white fur. (I didn’t have the heart to tell her that the glue would dry clear!)

This project turned out much better than I anticipated!I had originally planned on reading the book prior to starting the project, but since the girls are young, I’m learning to be much more flexible.The craft seemed to have much more meaning when we read the book while working on it. We learned a lot, made a really cool craft and most importantly planted the seed about wildlife conservation.

Making Masks

September 6, 2011 By Terri Thompson

Lizzie loves to find a project waiting for her when she wakes up in the morning.This morning, to go along with our art week, I put out several elements the girls could use to make masks.

I cut out simple mask shapes from paper plates, added crayons, a small basket of star stickers, glue sticks and the paper plate scraps I had cut off the masks.

It didn’t take her long this morning to get to work. AJ soon joined the fun.

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They glued, stuck stickers and largely ignored the crayons (oh well).Lizzie opted for a more formal arrangement of the stickers, while AJ was all about the glue sticks. She added quite a few of the paper plate scraps.

I left them free to do as they pleased and only helped when asked. I love to see what they come up with on their own. Here are the finished products:

What are you and your kids up to this week?

Coffee Filter Butterflies

September 5, 2011 By Terri Thompson

This week is going to be all about art! I have tons of projects for us to do and we’re going to create, create, create.

Our first project was coffee filter butterflies. I was inspired by all the fun versions of this craft that I’ve seen.

We started out with stretched-out coffee filters (ours were the unbleached kind) and our watercolors.

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Then the girls painted, blobbed on paint, and painted some more. Finally, they were done. And…. we had to wait.

After the filters dried, which did take awhile since they got their filters quite wet, we gathered the filter in the middle and fanned out the two ends. We twisted the pipe cleaner around the middle, twisted some more, then formed the antennae.

Ta-da… coffee filter butterflies!

Paper Princess

August 26, 2011 By Terri Thompson

Princess week is coming to a close. So to end it, we made our own paper princesses.

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We were completely inspired by the book, The The Paper Princess by Elisa Kleven. It’s a well-loved book in our personal collection and one of the many that showed up in our book basket this week.

The book tells the story of a simple paper princess. She was lovingly drawn and cut out only to blow away in a strong wind. She travels through the wind and loves to see the world. Soon, she realizes that she misses her little girl and searches long and hard to find her again.So, of course, after reading this, I couldn’t think of any better art project than making our own paper princesses.

I took some card stock and my Sharpie and drew princesses in the same shape as the one in the book. Then, I let the girls draw and decorate to their heart’s content.

They worked hard because after all, their princesses needed to be pretty. I loved the creativity coming from Lizzie. She decided her princess needed to wear rainbow socks and a golden dress!

So, here they are, our version of The Paper Princess… and our new favorite toy!

Suncatchers

August 24, 2011 By Terri Thompson

It’s a sunny day, the kids are freshly bathed after a mud pie baking session, and you need to cook dinner.So what do you do?

Grab a bucket of tissue paper scraps, a roll of contact paper, and some painter’s tape. It’s time to make suncatchers!

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The process was easy.I taped up a couple of squares of contact paper to our patio window and told the girls to cover all the sticky bits with the tissue paper.

After that, they started working.

They were quite deliberate at times and others times they just started randomly sticking tissue paper. This was one of those projects that needed very little supervision, so I got to sit back and enjoy watching the process. (Oh, and cook dinner too!)

Once they were finished, I covered their handiwork with another square of contact paper. and we hung them back up on the window.

The results were quite colorful and very pretty! And now we still have a bucket full of tissue paper… I need to think of some more craft projects!

P.S. You can find another fun version of this at Mamma May I Blog… tissue paper fish!

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