Sunday, April 12, 2015
Saturday, April 4, 2015
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.
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.
Tuesday, March 3, 2015
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!
"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!
Saturday, February 21, 2015
Lenten Cross: Candles for Lent
So, by now we know from my post about a kid friendly advent wreath (found here) that I'm pretty much obsessed with salt dough.
I came across Lenten Crosses on an Online Catholic Bookstore and further google-ing led me to more examples from Catholic Icing's pinterest.
Its like an advent wreath...but for lent.
So, we made up some salt dough (recipe found here) and added a red candle this time, and here is our final result:
(order to light the candles here:)
I came across Lenten Crosses on an Online Catholic Bookstore and further google-ing led me to more examples from Catholic Icing's pinterest.
Its like an advent wreath...but for lent.
So, we made up some salt dough (recipe found here) and added a red candle this time, and here is our final result:
(order to light the candles here:)
Tuesday, February 17, 2015
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