Friday, March 27, 2015

STORY & ACTIVITY TIME: Clara the Cookie Fairy

My daughter got this book as a gift. And both of my girls LOVE it!

Its concept is pretty simple, the main characters are a part of a fairy girl scout type troop who sells cookies to go camping. They make their cookies using magic wands. One girl tosses her wand because she got a new shinier one... well, it breaks and she is so sad she can't find her old one. The fairies end up starting a swap/recycling center and (spoiler alert) she gets her old wand back. Its not very long and its cute and rhymes. I loved the cute and fun way of introducing the importance of recycling!

CRAFT TIME:

The craft was very simple and went directly with the spirit of the book itself. We made wands using only items we could find in our craft boxes. We ended up using some paper straws for the handle, each girl picked out some paper and I cut their favorite shape, we had left over ribbons, stickers, glitter, etc from other projects that we used to decorate.




Monday, March 2, 2015

STORY & ACTIVITY TIME : Chicka Chicka BOOM BOOM

This one was fun to do!

"Chicka Chicka Boom Boom" is a favorite in our house.

Such a simple craft idea too that cost next to nothing!

Supplies:
- alphabet stickers (we got ours from the dollar section at target)
- paper towel roll
- green scrapbook/construction paper
- scotch tape
- markers

(since my minis are still little, I started the craft by cutting palm leaves for the top of the tree, my oldest (3 at the time) helped me place the palm leaves at the top of the tree)

After reading the book we went back through page by page and used our alphabet stickers to stick all over our "palm tree". It was that simple!