Arts Integration. TeachKidsArt. Milk Jug Decorative Window Crafts. Jun30 by Lindsey Boardman We’re always looking for cheap or– better yet– free materials to craft with here, so we’ve played around with crafting all sorts of things out of those big plastic gallon milk jugs over the last couple of years. The type of plastic they are made from is pretty versatile as far as crafting goes. You can cut it easily with scissors, use hole punches on it, stick it with hot glue and best of all you can draw on it with permanent markers with great results due to it being semi-opaque and mildly textured on one side. We have two crafts here to show you.
Milk Jug Window Art Then I used a sturdy pair of scissors to cut out any flat side panels from the milk jug plastic. If you have really little kids then you could cut them simple shapes to scribble colors on like hearts or flowers or circles etc, or even the letters of their name. Milk Jug Butterflies Here’s the PDF. Then when they were done I drew the intricate black details with a fine line permanent marker for them.
Drawing Lessons for Preschoolers. Puffy Paint Fall Art. Fall Activities: Leaves Art with puffy paint Puffy Paint- just the word sounds fun. The activity itself couldn’t have been more fun. The funnier part however was the day the girls chose to do this activity. We made fall art on a really HOT day! To make some amazing puffy paint right at home, I used the recipe from Mom to 2 posh lil Divas Ingredients for puffy paint 1 cup white flour2 Tbsp baking powder2 Tbsp saltWater Start adding water gradually until you reach a consistency of pancake batter. After the “batter” was done, we separated them into bowls and added food colors to each of them.
Now armed with our puffy paint,we gathered the following. Things you need Puffy PaintSqueeze bottlesBlack poster boardCups and spoons if you have toddler who will empty the contents in under 2 seconds. We put the puffy paint in different squeeze bottles and were ready to play. I love black poster boards – makes art very dramatic.
Let me ask you this – Do toddler and squeeze bottles full of paint go together? Animal resist painting. Easy clothespin animals. Days to World Animal Day [tminus t="2012-10-04" style="carbonlite"]World Animal Day[/tminus] Day-7 This is going to be a quick one. Why? I did this activity with my toddler and you how long a toddler activity lasts –however pintastic it is! I kept it simple with my almost two-year old with a very short attention span. No gluing,cutting,pretty paper, glitter, sparkly stuff. Things you need Craft sticksPlastic clothespinsOld yogurt container Before I go on, I can guarantee you that many toddlers (especially if they have older siblings) will pretend the clothespins is an alligator and will try to snap you or worse snap themselves.
Use caution and please supervise. Initially, my plan was to just clip clothespins on an empty yogurt container. We did this for a little while and baby A was off to snapping her hair with clothespins and having a “gigglishy” good time. When the snapping clothespins timer went off, she started snapping clothespins on the craft sticks. A few more Thanks for reading. Candy Creations. This candy craft will come in really handy when Halloween rolls around. Crafts with candy and crafts with candy wrappers may seem undoable because you might think “my kid would want to eat that candy, not craft with candy”.
But kids love to create with non-toys, even candy remember.Read on.. Like many kids, Big S loves her sugar candies. With candy comes the need to keep reminding that the wrappers need to go to the trash bin. We made butterflies & flowers To quiet them down, I took the wrappers and started twisting them to make simple butterflies. Smooth out the wrappers and give them a good twist. We made some cute, colorful butterflies. Big S squeals: Flowers mommy ! I saw the pack of candy and said ” Let’s make flowers with these” Big S: No. Did she just say candy is her food? Resistant at first to turn the little delicacies into crafting material, she finally started making flower shapes with them.
The candy flower patterns looked so cute, it inspired us to make a scenery with them. Paint Chip Phonics. I found a great idea on The Snail’s Tail. She really does a good job of explaining it on her site, but I’ll try to do it here too. The idea is to practice the consonants, blends, digraphs and common word families. I have to admit I was a tad intimidated to walk into Lowe’s and grab a whole pile of paint chips, but the lady was talking to me the whole time and didn’t seem to mind. (Note: I did try Home Depot first, but didn’t like their paint chips, they were mostly 1 color on a card and didn’t have the ones with the hole cut out. Though later, I decided the hole was too small and used a 1 1/4″ hole punch to make it bigger.) Here is the list of the phonograms she used.
Shopping List: 13 long cards (6 colors to a card) or 26 short cards (3 colors to a card) for consonants, blends, and diagraphs34 cards that have the hole cut out…12 if there are 3 colors on a card. Here is a sample of the families, blends and digraphs (you can click on the images to see them larger): Consonants: Blends: AMAZING PRESCHOOL ACTIVITIES. Learn to Draw Animals. Print and enjoy our Learn to Draw Animals pages for kids of all ages. Kids can use our step by step illustrations to discover how to draw all sorts of animals and build up their skills and confidence in the process...plus they are just good fun! You could build up a whole folder of these printable pages for rainy days - teachers might even want to laminate them and keep them ready as a time-filler or reward.
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