Audrey loves to do crafts. For mother's day she paints clay pots, for father's day she paints landscape pavers, at Christmas she used old Christmas cards to make a collage. We use glitter, stickers, glue, construction paper, stamps, markers, and so on for weekly craft projects. Sometimes I allow Audrey to use finger paint on a big sheet of paper and incorporate her toes and hands in the painting. Her current favorite is taking a pine cone, painting it with melted peanut butter, placing it in container full of bird seed, shaking the container until the pine cone is coated with bird seed, then tie a string to the cone and putting it in a tree for the birds. The birds must love Audrey right now b/c they have plenty of pine cone treats :)
I think crafts are a good way for Audrey to express her creativity and a great opportunity for me to teach so this is where I am asking for your help......
I am running low on creative craft ideas......any suggestions?
Now is a great time to start planting seeds. Make some flower pots out of discarded materials such as milk cartons, plastic cups, etc., and plant marigold & pumpkin seeds indoors. Transplant outdoors is a few weeks when the weather is warmer. Paint or use markers on a 1/2 gallon milk carton and this can be her watering can. Be sure to plant the pumpkins in an area where they can vine. The kids will love watching their pumpkins grow! And when fall gets here, they will be excited to harvest their very own pumpkins.
ReplyDeleteI really like Danielle's place.(google it):) This is a christian mom who started out putting her ideas on the web. Her site has taken off. There are somethings free and there are something that you have to be a member for. All christian based. I really like it. Tiffany is into crafts as well. I do use this a lot for my church kids too.
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This is a little hard to explain, but it was really alot of fun. You can make sandcastles - you take a couple different sizes of styrofoam or plastic cups, paint them all over with glue, and then shake over or roll them in sand and then glue the cups onto a piece of cardboard or box with sand in the bottom too. This is Holly Summers by the way...my AIM that I had to use to sign on here is really old.
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