The following websites are great for teaching kids about different animals. Enjoy a day or an hour of learning with your child and top it off with the last website on this list that allows you to build a wild you!
http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/
http://www.animalcorner.co.uk/
http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/index.html
http://www.animalfactguide.com/
http://www2.aspca.org/site/PageServer?pagename=kids_home
http://www.buildyourwildself.com/
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Alice in Wonderland party ideas
Plan your very own Mad Hatter Tea Party with your friends! Celebrating your Unbirthday, Or are you having a croquet game in your backyard?
Party invitations:
* Have your invitations come from the Fish-Footman, addressed to `For the Duchess. An invitation from the Queen to play croquet.'
* Tell your guests not to be late for a very important date, like the White Rabbit
* Ask them to meet you in Wonderland
* Put a teabag, playing cards, or other stuff together with the invitation into the envelope
Decorations:
* Set up a long table, covered with all different kinds of teapots, mismatched teacups and saucers, chandeliers, etc. Have an assortment of 'odd' chairs around the table, so that people have to sit at different heights. Use a colorful tablecloth.
* Hide a stuffed toy representing the Dormouse in one of the teapots.
* Hang colorful paper lanterns above the table
* Decorate your door so it represents the rabbit hole, or the looking glass, where people have to go through to enter the party. Or use a play tunnel.
* Hang up signs with 'this way', 'that way', 'up', 'down', etc. painted on them, like in Disney's Tulgey wood.
* Put some clocks in the room that are stopped at tea-time.
* Decorate the walls with playing cards (normal size or really huge ones from cardboard), and the floor with a chessboard-like pattern. Scatter around some chess pieces.
* Hang a branch to the ceiling with a Cheshire Cat (or just it's grin) in it.
* Use lawn flamingos
* If you have a fireplace, put a large mirror on the mantelpiece. Or attach one to a door so people can actually go through the looking glass. If you don't have a huge mirror, create one with aluminium foil
* Make rabbit paw tracks and put them on the floor, leading in various paths through your house and/or garden
* Put up a children's swimming pool to represent the pool of tears
* Make vulture heads and paste them on top of some umbrella's. Hang the opened umbrella's from the ceiling
* Buy rose bushes at a garden store and decorate them with white and red roses
* Stuff a big Alice-like doll into a small doll-house
* Fill vases with white and red roses, and hide one or several brushes with red paint in them
Games:
* Play lawn croquet: with hedgehog plush toys as balls, or perhaps hedgehogs painted on the balls. Attach colored and stuffed socks to the end of the mallets and sew on eyes, to represent flamingos. Create large cardboard playing cards for the arches.
* Play chess. You can do this on a normal sized chessboard, or you can make a huge chessboard in your garden and have your guests play the pieces!
* Play "pin the grin on the Cheshire Cat"
* Turn on the TV and play Alice movies during the party.
* Paint eggs so they resemble Humpty Dumpty. Or buy white tea pots and tea cups, and paint them yourself.
* Do the Caucus race. Make your guests run around in a circle, and when you shout 'stop' the last one to sit down/run to the middle is out. Or make a caucus version of the game musical chairs, where you remove one of the chairs each round and people have to find a chair to sit on when the music (the caucus race song from the Disney movie) stops.
* Make up silly riddles
* Play 'Paint the roses red'. Buy some fabric white roses and red paint (or markers). The person (or team) who finishes painting his rose first wins. You could give time penalties for sloppy painting or spilled drops. You could also set a general time limit and have someone dressed as the Queen of Hearts storm into the room when the time is up.
* Buy some basic hats and let your guests decorate them
* Hide a small golden key or a White Rabbit plush and have your guests find it
* Do a quiz with trivia questions based on the Alice stories
* Play games with a 'Contrariwise' theme: make people name stickers, where you write their names on backwards. Everyone must call everyone else by their backwards name, or risk a forfeit. You could invent a game where names must be called, or you could just have this going on throughout the party. Also, you could ask people questions and they must give the opposite answer. Or, say the answer, but backwards. For most of these games, some kind of time pressure is essential to make it more difficult and to make people make mistakes and have to do forfeits. The more adult the party, the more adult the questions. 'Have you ever done xyz?' would be interesting if people have to say the opposite. It becomes more like a truth or dare game then.
* Make a game of Clean Cup: have guests assemble at table. They fill their plates with food and make their tea (or other drink) as they like for a certain amount of time. When the time is over, say "Clean cup. Clean cup. Move down. Move down." The guests move to the next place and put more food on the plate and change the tea however they wish. This goes on and on until everyone returns to their own place setting. Now, everyone must eat and drink what the others have put. Prizes can be awarded to the most weird concoction.
* Make coloring pages for children so they can paint the roses red
* Make teams, put a bucket (or large teapot) with tea on one side and an empty one on the other side of a course. Your guests have to fill a teacup, run to the other side (with the cup in their hands, or balancing them on their heads...), and empty the cup there. The team that has filled the bucket first wins.
* Have an "I'm late!" potato sack race, in which everyone has to hop to the finish like the White Rabbit.
* Gather a lot of teacups and put them upside down on a table. Under one of them, you hide a Dormouse (or White Rabbit). Your guests take turns and may lift one cup per turn to see whether something is underneath it. The one who finds the Dormouse wins. You can make the game harder by inventing extra rules, like shuffling the cups after each turn.
* Get a hookah and attach a bubble blower to the end (or create one by bending a wire), so you can blow soap bubbles. Who makes the largest?
* Dance the Lobster Quadrille
* And of course, don't forget: EVERYBODY has won, and all must have prizes!
Costumes:
* Of course you and your guest all dress up as Wonderland characters!
* Have your guests wear top-hats or rabbit ears.
ood & drinks:
* Attach labels with the words 'eat me' and 'drink me' to all kinds of things, like the sugar bowl and bottles.
* Bake little cupcakes with the words 'eat me' written on them in icing
* Bake cookies in the shape of the letters EAT ME, and/or hearts, clubs, diamond and spades.
* Serve lots of (ice)tea, edible mushrooms, pepper soup or Mock Turtle soup, oysters, plum-pudding and a leg of mutton.
* Glue the lid on a jar of jam, so nobody is able to open it. You know, the rule is, jam to-morrow and jam yesterday -- but never jam to-day...
* Make a cake in the shape of a mushroom or teapot. Or a three-tiered cake like in the Disney movie.
* From a loaf of bread you can create bread-and-butterflies
* Order (or create) some custom made tea bags or tea favors for your guests
Music:
* Soundtracks from movies, like Disney's
* 'White Rabbit' from Jefferson Airplane
* 'I am the Walrus' from the Beatles
* 'Looking Glass' from Hypnogaja
* 'Through The Looking Glass' from Symphony X
* Grease-paint children as rabbits, or cats, or other Wonderland characters.
Party invitations:
* Have your invitations come from the Fish-Footman, addressed to `For the Duchess. An invitation from the Queen to play croquet.'
* Tell your guests not to be late for a very important date, like the White Rabbit
* Ask them to meet you in Wonderland
* Put a teabag, playing cards, or other stuff together with the invitation into the envelope
Decorations:
* Set up a long table, covered with all different kinds of teapots, mismatched teacups and saucers, chandeliers, etc. Have an assortment of 'odd' chairs around the table, so that people have to sit at different heights. Use a colorful tablecloth.
* Hide a stuffed toy representing the Dormouse in one of the teapots.
* Hang colorful paper lanterns above the table
* Decorate your door so it represents the rabbit hole, or the looking glass, where people have to go through to enter the party. Or use a play tunnel.
* Hang up signs with 'this way', 'that way', 'up', 'down', etc. painted on them, like in Disney's Tulgey wood.
* Put some clocks in the room that are stopped at tea-time.
* Decorate the walls with playing cards (normal size or really huge ones from cardboard), and the floor with a chessboard-like pattern. Scatter around some chess pieces.
* Hang a branch to the ceiling with a Cheshire Cat (or just it's grin) in it.
* Use lawn flamingos
* If you have a fireplace, put a large mirror on the mantelpiece. Or attach one to a door so people can actually go through the looking glass. If you don't have a huge mirror, create one with aluminium foil
* Make rabbit paw tracks and put them on the floor, leading in various paths through your house and/or garden
* Put up a children's swimming pool to represent the pool of tears
* Make vulture heads and paste them on top of some umbrella's. Hang the opened umbrella's from the ceiling
* Buy rose bushes at a garden store and decorate them with white and red roses
* Stuff a big Alice-like doll into a small doll-house
* Fill vases with white and red roses, and hide one or several brushes with red paint in them
Games:
* Play lawn croquet: with hedgehog plush toys as balls, or perhaps hedgehogs painted on the balls. Attach colored and stuffed socks to the end of the mallets and sew on eyes, to represent flamingos. Create large cardboard playing cards for the arches.
* Play chess. You can do this on a normal sized chessboard, or you can make a huge chessboard in your garden and have your guests play the pieces!
* Play "pin the grin on the Cheshire Cat"
* Turn on the TV and play Alice movies during the party.
* Paint eggs so they resemble Humpty Dumpty. Or buy white tea pots and tea cups, and paint them yourself.
* Do the Caucus race. Make your guests run around in a circle, and when you shout 'stop' the last one to sit down/run to the middle is out. Or make a caucus version of the game musical chairs, where you remove one of the chairs each round and people have to find a chair to sit on when the music (the caucus race song from the Disney movie) stops.
* Make up silly riddles
* Play 'Paint the roses red'. Buy some fabric white roses and red paint (or markers). The person (or team) who finishes painting his rose first wins. You could give time penalties for sloppy painting or spilled drops. You could also set a general time limit and have someone dressed as the Queen of Hearts storm into the room when the time is up.
* Buy some basic hats and let your guests decorate them
* Hide a small golden key or a White Rabbit plush and have your guests find it
* Do a quiz with trivia questions based on the Alice stories
* Play games with a 'Contrariwise' theme: make people name stickers, where you write their names on backwards. Everyone must call everyone else by their backwards name, or risk a forfeit. You could invent a game where names must be called, or you could just have this going on throughout the party. Also, you could ask people questions and they must give the opposite answer. Or, say the answer, but backwards. For most of these games, some kind of time pressure is essential to make it more difficult and to make people make mistakes and have to do forfeits. The more adult the party, the more adult the questions. 'Have you ever done xyz?' would be interesting if people have to say the opposite. It becomes more like a truth or dare game then.
* Make a game of Clean Cup: have guests assemble at table. They fill their plates with food and make their tea (or other drink) as they like for a certain amount of time. When the time is over, say "Clean cup. Clean cup. Move down. Move down." The guests move to the next place and put more food on the plate and change the tea however they wish. This goes on and on until everyone returns to their own place setting. Now, everyone must eat and drink what the others have put. Prizes can be awarded to the most weird concoction.
* Make coloring pages for children so they can paint the roses red
* Make teams, put a bucket (or large teapot) with tea on one side and an empty one on the other side of a course. Your guests have to fill a teacup, run to the other side (with the cup in their hands, or balancing them on their heads...), and empty the cup there. The team that has filled the bucket first wins.
* Have an "I'm late!" potato sack race, in which everyone has to hop to the finish like the White Rabbit.
* Gather a lot of teacups and put them upside down on a table. Under one of them, you hide a Dormouse (or White Rabbit). Your guests take turns and may lift one cup per turn to see whether something is underneath it. The one who finds the Dormouse wins. You can make the game harder by inventing extra rules, like shuffling the cups after each turn.
* Get a hookah and attach a bubble blower to the end (or create one by bending a wire), so you can blow soap bubbles. Who makes the largest?
* Dance the Lobster Quadrille
* And of course, don't forget: EVERYBODY has won, and all must have prizes!
Costumes:
* Of course you and your guest all dress up as Wonderland characters!
* Have your guests wear top-hats or rabbit ears.
ood & drinks:
* Attach labels with the words 'eat me' and 'drink me' to all kinds of things, like the sugar bowl and bottles.
* Bake little cupcakes with the words 'eat me' written on them in icing
* Bake cookies in the shape of the letters EAT ME, and/or hearts, clubs, diamond and spades.
* Serve lots of (ice)tea, edible mushrooms, pepper soup or Mock Turtle soup, oysters, plum-pudding and a leg of mutton.
* Glue the lid on a jar of jam, so nobody is able to open it. You know, the rule is, jam to-morrow and jam yesterday -- but never jam to-day...
* Make a cake in the shape of a mushroom or teapot. Or a three-tiered cake like in the Disney movie.
* From a loaf of bread you can create bread-and-butterflies
* Order (or create) some custom made tea bags or tea favors for your guests
Music:
* Soundtracks from movies, like Disney's
* 'White Rabbit' from Jefferson Airplane
* 'I am the Walrus' from the Beatles
* 'Looking Glass' from Hypnogaja
* 'Through The Looking Glass' from Symphony X
* Grease-paint children as rabbits, or cats, or other Wonderland characters.
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Candy corn bingo
You will need :
bingo form on pumpkin shaped cutout
candy corn
How to play :
Program a bingo form with whatever skill is appropriate for age level (letters, numbers, shapes). Laminate for future use. Make enough for all your friends. Each child will use candy corn for their markers. After playing the children can enjoy the candy corn for a snack!!
bingo form on pumpkin shaped cutout
candy corn
How to play :
Program a bingo form with whatever skill is appropriate for age level (letters, numbers, shapes). Laminate for future use. Make enough for all your friends. Each child will use candy corn for their markers. After playing the children can enjoy the candy corn for a snack!!
Teach your kids the Five Little Squirrels song
Five little squirrels sitting in a tree.
The first one said, "It's getting cold for me."
The second one said, "The leaves are falling to the ground."
The third one said, "Let's get busy there's nuts to be found."
The fourth one said, "We better not wait."
The fifth one said, "Fall is really great!"
(Hold up five fingers during the first line. For following lines hold up the correct number of fingers to correspond with the squirrel's number)
The first one said, "It's getting cold for me."
The second one said, "The leaves are falling to the ground."
The third one said, "Let's get busy there's nuts to be found."
The fourth one said, "We better not wait."
The fifth one said, "Fall is really great!"
(Hold up five fingers during the first line. For following lines hold up the correct number of fingers to correspond with the squirrel's number)
Digging for Treasure
sandbox
rocks
gold spray paint
Use your sandbox to dig for Treasure!! Ahead of time - have an adult spray several rocks with gold spray paint - let dry. Then bury then in the sandbox. Let each child take a turn to find the buried treasure! Options: you can use plastic gold coins or small toys to bury as well.
rocks
gold spray paint
Use your sandbox to dig for Treasure!! Ahead of time - have an adult spray several rocks with gold spray paint - let dry. Then bury then in the sandbox. Let each child take a turn to find the buried treasure! Options: you can use plastic gold coins or small toys to bury as well.
Acorn Designs
You will need
* acorns
* construction paper
* scissors
* sm cardboard box
* paint
Directions
Draw a "fall shape" on construction paper. A leaf, tree, or pumpkin works! Use light colored paper for better effect. Next, place the design in a small cardboard box or container. Squeeze a small amount of fall colored paint in the center of the paper. Place a few acorns in the box and roll them through the paint. Dry, cut out shape and enjoy!
* acorns
* construction paper
* scissors
* sm cardboard box
* paint
Directions
Draw a "fall shape" on construction paper. A leaf, tree, or pumpkin works! Use light colored paper for better effect. Next, place the design in a small cardboard box or container. Squeeze a small amount of fall colored paint in the center of the paper. Place a few acorns in the box and roll them through the paint. Dry, cut out shape and enjoy!
Monday, September 28, 2009
Middle of the winter beach party!
My friend Lizanne had a great idea- She said " My kids & I liked having a "beach" party in the middle of winter. Would turn up the heat in the house, blow up beach balls, cover the floor w/yellow towels & we'd put on our swimming suits and pretend we were at the beach - watch a beach themed movie, have a squirt guns, etc."
Homemade Silly Putty ~ An all time favorite of my kids!
What You Need:
* Two parts white glue
* One part liquid starch
What You Do:
* Mix ingredients and let dry until workable (like silly putty is supposed to be) . Add more glue or starch if necessary. Store in airtight container.
* Two parts white glue
* One part liquid starch
What You Do:
* Mix ingredients and let dry until workable (like silly putty is supposed to be) . Add more glue or starch if necessary. Store in airtight container.
101 things to do with your child before they are 6
1 Have a reading marathon.
2 Write stories together.
3 Play soccer.
4 Paint or draw together.
5 Create a fort in your living room out of blankets or cardboard boxes.
6 Go on a hike.
7 Have a sunset picnic at a park or beach.
8 Play board games.
9 Play kickball.
10 Get up early, pack breakfast, and have a sunrise breakfast.
11 Go to a museum.
12 Go to a playground.
13 Play hide-and-seek.
14 Have a pillow fight.
15 Ride bikes.
16 Build sandcastles.
17 Go on a nature walk- collect what you find.
18 Tell stories.
19 Have a scavenger hunt.
20 Make mazes or puzzles for each other to solve.
21 Play card games.
22 Garden together.
23 Bake cookies (let the kids help).
24 Go to the zoo.
25 Go to the library.
26 Shop at a thrift shop.
27 Create a blog together.
28 Create a scrapbook.
29 Make a movie using a camcorder and computer.
30 Learn to play music.
31 Fingerpaint.
32 Make play dough from scratch.
33 Make homemade mini pizzas.
34 Buy popsicles.
35 Make hand-painted T-shirts.
36 Set up a hammock, make lemonade, relax.
37 Go to a pool.
38 Go to a public place, people watch, and make up imaginary stories about people.
39 Visit family.
40 Write letters to family.
41 Paint or decorate the kids’ room.
42 Make milkshakes.
43 Play freeze tag.
44 Create a treasure hunt for them (leaving clues around the house or yard).
45 Decorate a pair of jeans.
46 Do a science experiment.
47 Play games online.
48 Teach them to play chess.
49 Learn magic tricks.
50 Create a family book, with information and pictures about each family member.
51 Fly kites.
52 Go snorkeling.
53 Barbecue.
54 Volunteer.
55 Donate stuff to charity.
56 Compete in a three-legged or other race.
57 Create an obstacle course.
58 Pitch a tent and sleep outside with marshmallows.
59 Roast marshmallows.
60 Play loud music and dance crazy.
61 Write and produce a play (to perform before other family members).
62 Paint each other’s faces.
63 Have a water balloon fight.
64 Have a gun-fight with those foam dart guns.
65 Explore your yard and look for insects.
66 Go for a walk and explore the neighborhood.
67 Go jogging.
68 Take pictures of nature.
69 Play a trivia game.
70 Make up trivia questions about each other.
71 Make hot cocoa.
72 Play house.
73 Decorate the house with decorations you make.
74 Make popsicles.
75 Play school.
76 Do shadow puppets.
77 Make a comic book.
78 Play in the rain.
79 Make mud pies.
80 Blow bubbles.
81 Take turns saying tongue twisters.
82 Sing songs.
83 Tell ghost stories in the dark with a flashlight.
84 Build stuff with Legos.
85 Give them a bubble bath.
86 Play with squirt guns.
87 Play video games together.
88 Play wiffleball.
89 Play nerf football.
90 Build a rocket from a kit.
91 Bake a cake and decorate it.
92 Play dress-up.
93 Thumb-wrestle, play mercy, or have a tickle fight.
94 Make a gingerbread house, or decorate gingerbread men.
95 Learn and tell each other jokes.
96 Play basketball.
97 Learn to juggle.
98 Walk barefoot in the grass and pick flowers.
99 Build paper airplanes and have a flying contest.
100 Have a neighborhood party and get to know everyone
101 Put on a play
2 Write stories together.
3 Play soccer.
4 Paint or draw together.
5 Create a fort in your living room out of blankets or cardboard boxes.
6 Go on a hike.
7 Have a sunset picnic at a park or beach.
8 Play board games.
9 Play kickball.
10 Get up early, pack breakfast, and have a sunrise breakfast.
11 Go to a museum.
12 Go to a playground.
13 Play hide-and-seek.
14 Have a pillow fight.
15 Ride bikes.
16 Build sandcastles.
17 Go on a nature walk- collect what you find.
18 Tell stories.
19 Have a scavenger hunt.
20 Make mazes or puzzles for each other to solve.
21 Play card games.
22 Garden together.
23 Bake cookies (let the kids help).
24 Go to the zoo.
25 Go to the library.
26 Shop at a thrift shop.
27 Create a blog together.
28 Create a scrapbook.
29 Make a movie using a camcorder and computer.
30 Learn to play music.
31 Fingerpaint.
32 Make play dough from scratch.
33 Make homemade mini pizzas.
34 Buy popsicles.
35 Make hand-painted T-shirts.
36 Set up a hammock, make lemonade, relax.
37 Go to a pool.
38 Go to a public place, people watch, and make up imaginary stories about people.
39 Visit family.
40 Write letters to family.
41 Paint or decorate the kids’ room.
42 Make milkshakes.
43 Play freeze tag.
44 Create a treasure hunt for them (leaving clues around the house or yard).
45 Decorate a pair of jeans.
46 Do a science experiment.
47 Play games online.
48 Teach them to play chess.
49 Learn magic tricks.
50 Create a family book, with information and pictures about each family member.
51 Fly kites.
52 Go snorkeling.
53 Barbecue.
54 Volunteer.
55 Donate stuff to charity.
56 Compete in a three-legged or other race.
57 Create an obstacle course.
58 Pitch a tent and sleep outside with marshmallows.
59 Roast marshmallows.
60 Play loud music and dance crazy.
61 Write and produce a play (to perform before other family members).
62 Paint each other’s faces.
63 Have a water balloon fight.
64 Have a gun-fight with those foam dart guns.
65 Explore your yard and look for insects.
66 Go for a walk and explore the neighborhood.
67 Go jogging.
68 Take pictures of nature.
69 Play a trivia game.
70 Make up trivia questions about each other.
71 Make hot cocoa.
72 Play house.
73 Decorate the house with decorations you make.
74 Make popsicles.
75 Play school.
76 Do shadow puppets.
77 Make a comic book.
78 Play in the rain.
79 Make mud pies.
80 Blow bubbles.
81 Take turns saying tongue twisters.
82 Sing songs.
83 Tell ghost stories in the dark with a flashlight.
84 Build stuff with Legos.
85 Give them a bubble bath.
86 Play with squirt guns.
87 Play video games together.
88 Play wiffleball.
89 Play nerf football.
90 Build a rocket from a kit.
91 Bake a cake and decorate it.
92 Play dress-up.
93 Thumb-wrestle, play mercy, or have a tickle fight.
94 Make a gingerbread house, or decorate gingerbread men.
95 Learn and tell each other jokes.
96 Play basketball.
97 Learn to juggle.
98 Walk barefoot in the grass and pick flowers.
99 Build paper airplanes and have a flying contest.
100 Have a neighborhood party and get to know everyone
101 Put on a play
Bread and Glue Clay
Easy Recipe
8 slices of day-old white bread
(Less expensive fluffy type)
1 /2 C. White Glue
Food color
Flour for work space
Wax paper
To Make:
Remove Crusts. Break bread into small pieces and put in mixing bowl. Pour glue over bread. Mix with one hand until
it becomes a sticky mass. Take the out of the bowl and
form into a ball .With both hands keep patting into a smaller ball until it becomes just slightly tacky. Dust work surface
with a small amount of flour and knead gently until it
becomes smoother and more pliable. Knead firmly at this
time. Knead until texture is satiny, about 5 mins.
Wrap tightly with plastic to store. Remember to seal the unused portion while working.
To color dough tear of portion needed , flatten and add
color directly onto dough. Blend until satiny again.
Add flour, if needed to achieve the proper texture.
Air dry. Drying times vary depending on thickness.
To speed up drying place on cookie sheet and leave
overnight in an unlit oven. Paint with acrylic paints
(optional) and seal with spray on finish.
Easy Tip - Clean Up Time
Keep sticky, paint covered hands away from walls and furniture, with a wet soapy washcloth next to the project area.
8 slices of day-old white bread
(Less expensive fluffy type)
1 /2 C. White Glue
Food color
Flour for work space
Wax paper
To Make:
Remove Crusts. Break bread into small pieces and put in mixing bowl. Pour glue over bread. Mix with one hand until
it becomes a sticky mass. Take the out of the bowl and
form into a ball .With both hands keep patting into a smaller ball until it becomes just slightly tacky. Dust work surface
with a small amount of flour and knead gently until it
becomes smoother and more pliable. Knead firmly at this
time. Knead until texture is satiny, about 5 mins.
Wrap tightly with plastic to store. Remember to seal the unused portion while working.
To color dough tear of portion needed , flatten and add
color directly onto dough. Blend until satiny again.
Add flour, if needed to achieve the proper texture.
Air dry. Drying times vary depending on thickness.
To speed up drying place on cookie sheet and leave
overnight in an unlit oven. Paint with acrylic paints
(optional) and seal with spray on finish.
Easy Tip - Clean Up Time
Keep sticky, paint covered hands away from walls and furniture, with a wet soapy washcloth next to the project area.
Indian Corn Napkin Rings
What you'll need:
* Green construction paper
* Scissors
* Tissue paper: yellow, orange and burgundy
* White craft glue
* Pencil with an eraser
How to make it:
1. Cut construction paper vertically in strips about 1.5” wide. Each strip will yield two napkin holders.
2. Cut each strip in half to get 2 napkin holders.
3. Cut tissue paper into 1” squares.
4. Cover a 1” section of the construction paper strip with white craft glue.
5. Twist a square of yellow tissue paper around the pencil eraser and push down onto the glue. Remove pencil, leaving the tissue paper on the construction paper.
6. Repeat step number 5 with tissue paper, alternating orange and burgundy for every 2-3 yellow.
7. Cover entire strip of construction paper, leaving only ½” at the end without tissue paper.
8. Bend into a “ring” and glue together.
9. Let dry completely then carefully insert a napkin.
Tips:
* Save tissue paper from birthday gifts to use in future projects.
* Buy construction paper in value packs from discount department stores.
* White school glue is a suitable substitute for white craft glue.
* Green construction paper
* Scissors
* Tissue paper: yellow, orange and burgundy
* White craft glue
* Pencil with an eraser
How to make it:
1. Cut construction paper vertically in strips about 1.5” wide. Each strip will yield two napkin holders.
2. Cut each strip in half to get 2 napkin holders.
3. Cut tissue paper into 1” squares.
4. Cover a 1” section of the construction paper strip with white craft glue.
5. Twist a square of yellow tissue paper around the pencil eraser and push down onto the glue. Remove pencil, leaving the tissue paper on the construction paper.
6. Repeat step number 5 with tissue paper, alternating orange and burgundy for every 2-3 yellow.
7. Cover entire strip of construction paper, leaving only ½” at the end without tissue paper.
8. Bend into a “ring” and glue together.
9. Let dry completely then carefully insert a napkin.
Tips:
* Save tissue paper from birthday gifts to use in future projects.
* Buy construction paper in value packs from discount department stores.
* White school glue is a suitable substitute for white craft glue.
Fall is here make a scare crow!
Make a Scarecrow
Here's a fun idea for your Fall and Halloween decorating - make a scarecrow! It's easier than you think.
You'll Need:
* Old pair of over-alls or old pants
* Old plaid shirt
* An old hat
* Old work gloves
* Old boots or shoes
* Twine or rope
* Straw, hay, newspaper or something you can stuff your scarecrow with
To make your scarecrow head/face you can use a white pillow case, stuffed, and draw/paint a face, or, use a pumpkin. You can also try your hand at making a paper mache head/face. If you don't want a bald scarecrow you can use yarn for hair.
How to Make:
Once you have your head/face created, you can simply put your scarecrow together by stuffing your articles of clothes with straw, hay or newspaper. Put together as if you were dressing a human. You can hold things together with twine.
Instead of hands/feet use gloves and boots. Much easier than creating hands or feet.
To attach your head use the twine to tie the base of your head to the body, or, use a stick or piece of wood - insert in your head and then into the body of your scarecrow.
Once complete you can prop your scarecrow up against a tree, the house, a fence, or sit him in a lawn chair or on a bale of hay. You can ask an adult to make you a "T" shape out of lumber if you want to "hang" your scarecrow in the yard.
Be creative and have fun!
Here's a fun idea for your Fall and Halloween decorating - make a scarecrow! It's easier than you think.
You'll Need:
* Old pair of over-alls or old pants
* Old plaid shirt
* An old hat
* Old work gloves
* Old boots or shoes
* Twine or rope
* Straw, hay, newspaper or something you can stuff your scarecrow with
To make your scarecrow head/face you can use a white pillow case, stuffed, and draw/paint a face, or, use a pumpkin. You can also try your hand at making a paper mache head/face. If you don't want a bald scarecrow you can use yarn for hair.
How to Make:
Once you have your head/face created, you can simply put your scarecrow together by stuffing your articles of clothes with straw, hay or newspaper. Put together as if you were dressing a human. You can hold things together with twine.
Instead of hands/feet use gloves and boots. Much easier than creating hands or feet.
To attach your head use the twine to tie the base of your head to the body, or, use a stick or piece of wood - insert in your head and then into the body of your scarecrow.
Once complete you can prop your scarecrow up against a tree, the house, a fence, or sit him in a lawn chair or on a bale of hay. You can ask an adult to make you a "T" shape out of lumber if you want to "hang" your scarecrow in the yard.
Be creative and have fun!
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