Activités pour le Préscolaire: Une coccinelle printanière fait à partir d'un bouchon d'aérosol D'une facilité désarmante, j'ai fait une coccinelle à partir du bouchon du contenant de crème à raser que j'ai vidé cette semaine. Aucun gaspillage! On recyle. J'ai simplement collé des pompons noirs pour les pois, des yeux mobiles et deux bouts de ficelle noire pour les antennes. J'avais déjà en ma possession des fleurs et des feuilles de feutrines. J'ai donc collé la coccinelle sur les feuilles pour qu'elle puisse s'y reposer et profiter du joli soleil printanier (dans mes rêves). :) Bon bricolage!
Summer Nature Crafts and Activities for Young ChildrenRhythm of the Home The summer is a time for children to ‘breathe out’ after a busy year of focused work and activity. For this reason, I recommend keeping the season as relaxed and carefree as possible while doing your best to keep a healthy rhythm to your day that the children can depend on. This daily rhythm will look different for each family but your day should include as much outdoor time as possible along with periods of both active outward play and quiet inward focus. Following are some fun ways to incorporate seasonal crafting and fun activities into your summer plans, taken from the Little Acorn Learning childcare guides. Have fun, celebrate and enjoy this beautiful season with your children! Ask each child to bring in an empty orange juice or milk jug container. Organic or Homegrown Rose Petals (no pesticides) Food Processor Waxed Paper Pot Place petals into food processor and run until they are ground up. These beads should be handled with care and should not get wet.
Spring Kid's Craft Hello! Kristen here with a fun craft for kid's! These cute, crafty and earth friendly toilet paper roll butterflies are so colorful, and easy to make. You could make just one, or a big flock of them. First, you will need: Bobunny dot cardstock, a toilet paper roll, Bobunny double dot ribbon, googly eyes, a 1.5 inch flower punch and a 1/2 inch circle punch, and adhesives. To create the base of the butterfly, I cut a piece of cardstock into a 4.25 x 5.25 inch rectangle. Next, cut two 3 inch strips of ribbon. Now we can work on the wings. Trace the wing pattern onto cardstock, and cut out. To finish the butterfly, place adhesive along the middle of the wings, and adhere to the back of the finished tube. Hope you enjoy my fast and fun butterfly project! Bobunny supplies- Double Dot cardstock ( Clover, Brilliant Blue, Pink Punch, Buttercup, Orange Citrus, Wild Berry) , Double Dot ribbon ( Clover, Brilliant Blue, Orange Citrus), My Eye On U iCandy Jewels Kristen
DIY: Chick & Bunny Treat Holders This one’s for the kiddies… a fun little craft project + “friendly” holders for all those Easter Bunny treats! (Full instructions for both versions after the jump…) PAPER BUNNY CUP Treat Holders You’ll Need: white paper cup white cardstock pink felt or pink cardstock 2 wiggle eyes small pink pom-pom medium white pom-pom (for tail) white chenille stems scissors, glue, glue dots or a stapler Directions • From the white cardstock, cut 2 large white ovals for the bunny ears. Trim one side of the oval off so it’s squared off at the bottom. • Cut 2 smaller oval shapes from the pink felt (or paper) for the inner part of the ear. • Cut white chenille craft stems into short pieces for the whiskers. • Attach the ears to the back rim of the cup with a stapler or glue dots. • Glue the white pom pom to the back of the cup to create a cotton tail. • Fill with a colorful Easter grass and candy treats! PAPER CHICK CUP Treat Holders • Glue the wiggle eyes above the beak.
Bugs We had fun today being inspired by the famous Eric Carle book "The Very Hungry Caterpillar". I've seen some awesome caterpillar prints around blog land lately using a balloon and thought my boys would really enjoy this technique. Before we actually painted our caterpillars we had fun making one out of our balloons first. Don't you just love how kids find joy in the simplest of things?? Anyways, on to our balloon painted caterpillar. Simply dab a small balloon into paint and place it onto your paper. While we waited for the caterpillar to dry we had fun watching some You Tube videos of caterpillar's transforming into butterflies. Then we came back to our caterpillars and added some finishing touches like eyes, nose, antennae, lets. I love that my children are very artistic! And this is why I enjoy creating things with my children. I also printed out these cute Very Hungry Caterpillar size sequencing pictures from 1+1+1=1. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. Linking up to THESE Parties. Happy Crafting!!
Summer time crafts I have been trying to sneak some learning into our Summer fun this year. I grabbed this book at the library and it created the perfect opportunity for us to go explore a Pond. While the book is geared towards preschool age children, I got my boys (6 and 8) involved by helping to read the book to my toddler. Pond Walk by Nancy Elizabeth Wallace I also made this little Pond Scavenger Hunt worksheet for our trip to the Pond. (This worksheet is for educational purposes only. We first visited a small man made pond at a local Village shopping center (Gardner Village). My kids got up close and personal and noticed some tadpoles and small fish in the water. It was the perfect small outing for a Sunday afternoon and it got my kids pumped up to explore something bigger. Our next adventure was at Willow Pond in Murray, Utah. Some of our favorites... Beautiful, blue dragonflies. Lots of Mommy and baby ducks. "Look Mom, I caught a little fish!" Want to keep up to date on our adventures?
Transforming Preschool “BAND AID” love into a Butterfly’s Life Cycle! Using band Aids for a Butterfly’s Life Cycle Most kids WANT to use band aids (even for those imaginary “ouchies” that sometimes arise!) While our kids were in a particularly long phase of “band aid love,” we transformed the interest into a “Butterfly’s Life Cycle” (and practiced our fine motor skills with all of the peeling and sticking). Materials needed per craft: One paper plate, 2 colored band aid strips, 3 circle band aids, 1 fingertip butterfly band aid, 1 small white gauze pad and first aid tape (or the children can roll two regular band-aid strips for the pupa stage), markers or crayons, scissors, glue sticks, and one life cycle printable - Life Cycle of a Butterfly Help the children draw lines to divide their paper plate into 4 sections (or do prior to the activity). 1. 2. 3. 4. After discussing the 4 Stages of a Butterfly, have the children place the circle band aids (eggs) at the top (left corner) of the paper plate.
Spring crafts Archives | happy hooligans Quick and Easy Paper Plate Flowers: What signals spring more than a colourful flower? You’re going to love how quick Continue Reading Easy Paper Plate Flowers (for Toddlers and Preschoolers) Toddlers and preschoolers use buttons and corks to decorate a cute and easy ladybug craft! ‘Tis the season Continue Reading Ladybug Craft for Toddlers (with Corks and Buttons) Easter playdough activities for toddlers and preschoolers, and homemade playdough in the softest shades of spring! If Continue Reading Easter Playdough Activities for Toddlers A collection of my favourite Spring crafts for kids: 10 spring crafts for toddlers and preschoolers. Continue Reading 10 Spring Crafts for Kids! If you’re looking for an easy Easter craft for kids, you’ll love this Coffee Filter Easter Wreath! Continue Reading Coffee Filter Easter Wreath Ready for a cute and easy St. Continue Reading Paper Plate Rainbow Craft with Tissue Paper Here’s a really easy flower craft for kids to make for spring!
Ocean Theme Ideas We created this fun mural the other day after reading the book "Hooray for Fish" by Lucy Cousins. Ok, actually we've read the book a billion times the last several weeks. Love this book! It's a story about going along with Little Fish on a mesmerizing underwater tour of friends spotty and stripy, happy and gripy, hairy and scary, even curly whirly and twisty twirly. We like to take a pause after reading each page and decide which fish was our favorite on the page. It is fun because the author made imaginary fish reminiscent of things like a butterfly, a leaf, a heart, a star, and a peacock (all pictured below). To make our mural we started by cutting a piece of poster board in half. I've had bubble wrap stored away for months now for this project. Then pressed it onto our paper and carefully lifted it off. After we done filling the entire paper, we had created our water background. Meet some of our fish: Little Fish (the main character) Fat fish Peacock Fish Mean Fish Fly fish 3 Fish Star Fish
Activités pour le Préscolaire: Couronne printanière en papier - Spring paper tiara PLEASE NOTE, this blog post is written in ENGLISH and FRENCH. Here is a fun and colorful Spring paper crown to make with kids. Voici une couronne printanière colorée et amusante à faire avec les enfants. Fold 3 sheets of green construction paper and fold them in half. Pliez 3 feuilles vertes de papier construction et pliez-les en deux. We made Origami Fortune Teller as the flowers. Nous avons fait les fleurs avec des coin-coin. To create the leaves, we folded green sheets in 4 and we cut a leaf shape, starting from the fold. Pour les feuilles, nous avons plié des feuilles vertes en quatre et avons découpé une forme de feuille, en partant du pli. Your Spring paper crown is done! Votre couronne printanière est terminée!