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Making Masks

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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

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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

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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

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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!

Sea Creatures

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If you’re anything like me, it can sometimes be difficult to think up fun craft projects for your kids. Luckily, lots of wonderfully creative people have done the work for us. Lizzie and I ran across Cut and Paste Sea Creatures at our local library and we’ve all been having fun with it.
The instructions are clear and easy to follow. For my girls, I pre-cut all the shapes we needed. Lizzie was able to piece them together according to the pictures while I helped AJ. An older child would need very little, if any, parental help. The projects are simple and it’s very likely you’ll already have all the materials you need to complete the projects.
Here are the results of our fun!
(Please ignore the messy kitchen!)
The next time you’re at the library, check out the craft book section. You’ll definitely find some fun activities to do!