Archive for the ‘Arts and Crafts’ Category

Today’s project was making a butterfly from a toilet paper roll. Mommy cut a butterfly out of construction paper and gave it to me to color. While I colored my butterfly mommy wrapped a toilet paper roll in black felt, glued a popsicle stick on the bottom and glued the antennas and head on. Once I finished coloring my butterfly mommy glued it on to the back of the toilet paper roll. After it dried I ran around the house and made it fly! Craft time is my favorite part of the day. Mommy says its not about doing things perfect, its about spending time together and having fun.

Me with my butterfly and wearing the butterfly shirt I picked out yesterday

I broke my magic wand last night and I’ve been missing it this morning because I liked carrying it around. Mommy made me a flower to carry around with me. It’s so pretty and I love flowers. I didn’t get to help much, I picked out the color tissue paper I wanted and commentated while Mommy made it.

Mexican Paper Flower Project Sheet

Me and my pretty flower

My friend Beth’s (miss you Beth) Mommy made her a paper flower as well. Her mommy used lots of different colors and made it much bigger than mine.

Beth and her big colorful flower

We love photo’s! If you do any of our projects please send us a photo so we can post it on my blog.

Today we looked out the window and talked about all the things that were in the sky during the day. Then we sat down with our craft box and made some of the things we talked about. Mommy cut the sun out of a paper plate and gave me some yellow paint and a paintbrush to paint it. This is the first time Mommy has let me loose with a paint brush and I did a really good job with it. While I was painting Mommy cut out a butterfly and kite from construction paper and a cloud from a paper plate. When I finished painting the sun we let that dry and I painted the kite and butterfly. I got to do one of my favorite things next, glue on cotton balls to the cloud. Mommy made a bird out of feathers and then we tied it all together with yarn. We made an airplane but Ethan tried to eat it before we had a chance to finish it.

Here’s some of the things I said I would see in the sky

Since it has been so cold lately we’ve been doing crafts with winter themes; today we made mittens. Mommy traced an outline of my hands on construction paper and cut them out. She then gave me stickers to put on them, I love stickers. After that I painted them with Crayola Glitter Glue. When I was finished decorating them Mommy poked two holes through the top and tied some yarn through them. It was really easy to do and great for a day when you do not have a lot of time.

Me and my mittens

It snowed! This morning when I woke up the ground was covered in snow. We got dressed and took Daddy to work and the roads were slippery. I liked the snow, I grabbed a big hand full of it and told Mommy how cold it was.

When I was taking a nap Mommy got everything ready for our project today, we made a snowman out of paper plates. I pulled apart cotton balls and glued them to the plates, then helped glue on pom poms for the eyes and buttons. Next we glued on the nose and hat that mommy cut out of construction paper, pipe cleaner for the mouth, felt for the scarf and pipe cleaner for the arms. The plates and hat are glued together in the back using popsicle sticks.

My paper plate snowman

It was another busy day today, we had to go get the oil in the car changed so we spent a long time out of the house. When we got back it was past my nap time so I had lunch and went to sleep. Today I decided to start acting my age and live up to being a terrible two. I got in trouble! I broke all the blinds I could reach in my room.

We only had a few minutes before we had to go pick up Daddy for craft time so we made a silly face. Mommy helped me add eyes, a nose and hair to a paper plate and then I got to draw the mouth on with glitter glue. I used it to play peek-a-boo with Ethan.

Tomorrow we’re going to do a project as big as me!!

My silly face

It was really busy today and we didn’t get to do a craft project but we wanted to share a couple that were done during the week. We had lots of scrap paper left from all the crafts we do and mommy let me rip them all up. We put glue on a sheet of paper and I stuck them all over it. I think they look like leaves.

My scrap paper art

The second one was from the day we made the ice cream cones. Ethan tore up way too much tissue paper so mommy let me color a paper plate and then we glued the rest of the tissue paper to it. It was really easy and a lot of fun.

Tissue paper art

We keep all our scraps in a big ziploc bag and save them for other projects, we always use them!

Whenever Mommy and Daddy take me out at night I always look for the moon. Last night I saw an airplane going straight for the moon and yelled out as loud as I could “Oh no airplane on the moon”. I said it over and over the entire time we were out shopping. This mommy took me to free play at gymnastics and I was looking for the moon, I thought something had happened to it!

After I had my nap mommy decided to teach me about night and day. First we made night. Mommy cut out a moon and I got to draw circles on it. Then we got to draw stars with glue and sprinkle glitter all over them. It was messy and I liked it. Ethan came walking by and fell face first into our glitter and ended up with it all over him.

Next we made day. Mommy cut out a yellow circle and I got to draw daddy in it. I always draw a smiley face for daddy. We glued the sun on the paper and cut some yarn and glued that on for the suns rays. Then we made a big cloud a medium cloud and a little cloud by gluing on some cotton balls. I told mommy I wanted a bird so we made one with feathers and a little orange triangle for the beak.

It was a very quick craft day but still a lot of fun!

Night and Day

We worked on colors today. I know my colors fairly well but mommy likes to test me. Today we made ice cream cones with construction paper and tissue paper. Ethan is good at tearing so he helped me tear the tissue paper while mommy made the ice cream cones. We glued the cones to the paper then we drew circles with glue. I stuck the tissue paper on the glue to make it look like ice cream. Mommy is mean making ice cream that I can’t eat! We talked about colors and mommy showed me how colors can have different shades. Our paper wasn’t big enough so we had to make two more ice cream cones to put all the colors on.

Tissue paper ice cream cones

Ethan helped us make a log cabin today. I helped mommy glue the sticks on the paper and Ethan tore up the tissue paper for the grass. He liked to tear the tissue paper and got really excited. While mommy cut construction paper for the roof, windows and doors I tore up cotton balls to make clouds with. After gluing on the sticks we glued the windows, doors and roof on. Mommy helped me put glue all over the bottom of the paper and then I stuck green tissue paper all over it for grass. I like glue, it gets on my fingers and makes me laugh when the tissue paper sticks to me instead of the page.

Ethan tore up lots of tissue paper so we decided to make a tree. I helped glue pipe cleaners to the page and we made a huge mess doing it. After that had dried enough we glued the rest of tissue paper on the tree to make leaves. After that we added a cloud made out of cotton balls. It still didn’t look done so we added some flowers made out of pipe cleaners and yarn.

Since I’m still little and just learning mommy helps me a lot and shows me where to put things. She guides my hands for a lot of things but for most things like adding the grass she will show me how to do a few and then I’ll do the rest.

Our log cabin

Project Sheet