The blossoms on the trees is one of my favorite parts of spring. The girls and I made some fun Spring Blossoms to hang in our windows at home. Before we started this activity we read a few books one of which was Seasons by Anne Crausaz. I just love to read that book. I…
The Watercolor Color Wheel is a great addition to the monster activities and color activities on the site. What is a Color Wheel? A color wheel is a circular diagram that organizes colors based on their relationships to each other We made this fun color wheel activity with paper, and mixing watercolor pencils. It is…
Recently we had a late birthday party for one of my girls and one of the fun activities that we did was balloon painting! I don’t remember where I first saw this idea. I think it was somewhere on pinterest. So we tried it out at the party. It was a big hit! What you…
We have been having a Ocean week here! We have been doing the Ocean Pack. We did this fun activity with to go with my week. We read the book Commotion in the Ocean. It is a nice book of small poems about different fish. It is fun to read the book and then find…
This month we read Swimmy by Leo Lionni. This is a favorite book at our house. They girls did not want any of the other books for this activity. We read through several new books but came right back to Swimmy! What you need: paper with fish drawn on it, lids, and paint red &…
We love saving and using paper rolls for different art projects. We loved out Paper Roll Flowers from a year ago. It was so much fun and we wanted to make more flowers with paper rolls. This was simple and easy to set up and loads of fun. It makes a great process art project…
We read the book Mrs. Spitzer’s Garden by Edith Pattou. This is a fun book about how your grow flowers. We loved this book last year and still do this year. The girls wanted to read it again. I pulled it out of the Spring box and we had fun! After reading the book we…
We read the book Hooray for St. Patrick’s Day! (Lift-the-Flap, Puffin). After we finished reading the book we look through again for all the clovers we could find. They girls liked seeing them all over in the book. What you need: paper plate, green paint, and paper. First we talked about what we were doing…
We read Snowy Valentine by David Petersen. I love this book because it points out that we don’t have to give complex gifts to someone we love. You can do simple gifts. After the book was read we did q-tip heart tracing. What you need: Heart Tracing from the Valentines Pack part 3, q-tips and…
I have a lot of painted projects we did that I really loved, but for me three of them really stood out. Paper Roll Flowers Paper Roll Flowers was simple and easy to do. I would gladly do it again! We reused those empty paper rolls for various projects over time. Fingerprint Daisies Fingerprint Daisies…
There are so many great dinosaur books that you can read with kids. We load exploring and reading new dinosaur books when we can. We also like exploring new authors. So today we did a little of both a new dinosaur book and a new author (who quickly became a FAVORITE to read) for us…
We have been working on Mary learning her name letters and Amelia learning the uppercase and lowercase letters of her name. What you need: white paper, white crayon and water color paints. They were given the paper to start painting. They were told to tell me when they found something. Amelia found her “A” first….
We read the book Spoon by Amy Krouse Rosenthal and Scott Magoon. Then we took kitchen utensils and painted with them. What you need: paper, paint, and kitchen utensils. We started first with spoons. The girls used knives. The girls liked using the knife to spread paint around. Then they used forks. Rose and Amelia…
We read Pete the Cat: I Love My White Shoes. Then we did painting with strawberries, blueberries and mud. What you need: 3 plastic bins, strawberries, blueberries, dirt, water, paintbrushes, spoon, potato masher, paper with shoes. Amelia smashed the strawberries. Rose smashed the blueberries. Mary mixed the mud. The girls painted their strawberry shoes. The…
We read Birds for this months Virtual Book Club for Kids. This book also is one I used with my Bird Pack. What you need: paper towel roll, foam bird stickers, glue, paints, tray, paper, and marker. Draw a line down the paper towel roll. The put the stickers on the paper towel roll on…
We read From Here to There by Margery Cuyler and Yu Cha Pak. It is a good book about pointing out all the different ways you can live. Starting with the town all the way to the universe. What we used: brushes, textured paper, water color pencils, bowl and water. Rose and Amelia felt the…
We have joined the Virtual Summer Reading Program.. June’s author is Mo Willems. We read the book Are You Ready to Play Outside? (An Elephant and Piggie Book) (An Elephant and Piggie Book (7)). The girls loved the book. We read and acted out many parts: running, jumping, and skipping. Then we talked about playing…
Flower have always been one of our favorite crafts and activities to do for spring. When you add a little change in how you paint it can be fun. By using straws you work on breath control while painting fun flowers. It gives kids a different way to paint instead of the same old way…
Using unique paint brushes is a fun way to do art. See how we reused our flowers that we colored. Most children love to paint and giving them something new to paint with is always fun. We colored some flower and before the flowers were thrown away we reused them for another project. I try…
Stamping Flowers What you need: Flower cookies cutters, different paint colors, lids to put paint on, green finger paint, white paper. Amelia and Mary stamped their flowers on the paper. They painted grass and stems with finger paint. Spring Blossom Tree What you need: Blue construction paper, cut up brown construction paper, glue, pink and…
Footprint activities can be loads of fun. And kids can enjoy doing them. Plus this is a really fun activity to do for dinosaurs! You can work on learning about how different footprints can be done by similar feet. Recently the girls went to Dinosaur State Park and saw dinosaur foot prints. As a follow…
Spring Flower Painting What you need: flower shapes, pencil, paper, and water colors. Amelia traced the flower cookie cutters. Amelia then colored in the flowers Amelia then painted the stems for the flowers and grass. Spring Window What you need: blue construction paper, 3 short and long strips of brown construction paper, half a piece…
My mother showed me an article in Family Fun Magazine called Adoily-able T-shirt. I liked the idea and wanted to try it with the girls. What you need for this activity: pre-washed t-shirt, doily, glue stick, newspaper, fabric paint, and foam stencil brush. I collected what items I had in the house and then bought…