Tp roll turkey

Trace your little ones hand print a few times, on a few

different colors of construction paper. Cut out and

Glue onto the back of a tp roll tube. Then trace and cut out a footprint on a

brown piece of paper. Have your little one add eyes, beak and gobbler.

Glue onto the front of the tp roll tube.

Very cute and stands up! 

Coffee filter Poppy flowers for Veteran's Day

 

Happy Veterans Day!

We talked about what Veteran's day is, then we made poppies!

Take 2 coffee filters and paint both sides red. Once dry, line up, fold in half, then in half again.

Holding the folded point, trim the corners off the top. Open up and turn so petals alternate. Poke a hold through the middle with a pipe cleaner. Twist in place. Glue a black pom pom in the middle.

There ya go!

Pumpkin Pie Playdough using REAL canned pumpkin!

 

Pumpkin pie play dough using REAL pumpkin!

 

Ingredients:

 

-        1 cup of canned pumpkin pie filling or pumpkin purée

    1/2 cup of water

    2 tablespoons of oil

    1 teaspoon of vanilla extract

    1 teaspoon of cinnamon

    1 teaspoon of cloves

    1 teaspoon of nutmeg

    1/2 teaspoon of ginger

   if you don't have the cloves, nutmeg and ginger, you could also sub pumpkin pie spice

    orange gel food coloring

    2 1/4 cups of plain flour

    1/2 cup of salt

    2 tablespoons of cream of tartar

 

Directions:

 

Add first set of ingredients to a large pot and heat on the stove, stirring regularly, until just bubbling.  Remove from heat and add in dry ingredients.  Stir until combined and dump mixture out on the counter.  Allow to cool for 5 or 10 minutes.  Knead dough until soft and fully cooled (it may feel sticky in the beginning, but don't add flour – the stickiness will go away once the dough is cool).  Store in an airtight bag or container in the fridge when not in use.

Handprint turkey and Indian for Thanksgiving

 

Today we made handprint turkeys and Indians!

Love teaching her about the holidays. She just turned 3 on Halloween,

and she is very interested in EVERYTHING!! LOL. 

Turkey craft 1

Easy and cute fall craft! Decorate a coffee filter using dot markers, then trace your

child's foot, cut out, add eyes, beak and gobbler! :) Top picture belongs to my 6 yr old niece, middle

belongs to my 3 year old and bottom to my 15 year old. :)  

Birthday cupcake play dough

 

birthday cake playdough

 

 1 cup flour

1 cup water

1/4 cup salt

2 tsp. cream of tartar

1 Tbls. vegetable oil

food coloring (I used 4 drops)

a few drops of vanilla extract

glitter

Just dump all the ingredients into your pot and give them a good stir.

Knead when cool.

 

I gave her gems, birthday candles, and cupcake wrappers to make it even more fun!

Birthday Bath! (Can't believe she's already 3!!)

 

I wanted to really stress to K how special her birthday is, so to

continue the fun, I made her this birthday bath! I had everything on hand, so it didn't

cost anything extra! First, I added pink food dye to the water. Then I hung up the sign from her

birthday party last year and painted a 3 on the wall. I added some washable kids paint to

shaving cream so that she could make a cake in the pan I saved for play. In the bath, I added a few toys from the dollar store to balloons before I blew them up. I also added a drop of blue food dye to a couple balloons before filling with water for color mixing.

Fire Safety Week Ideas for kids

It's Fire Safety Week!

Teaching fire safety is very important.

Here are a few things we've done.

 

 

Handprint firefighter! made by my 2 yr old.

 

showed her how fire needs oxygen to burn.

 

handprint flames. also a great lesson in color mixing!

 

firefighter hat made from a paper plate!

 

fire safety bath! talked about stop, drop and roll.

dyed the water red, gave her the hat she got at our local fire dept.

open house. Painted flames and gave her a squirt bottle to "put them out".

This bath was fun!

 

Using a squirt bottle to put out the flames... this is also great for

fine motor and little hand muscles!

 

Visited our local fire dept. open house!

Apple Theme Ideas

Apple theme ideas!

First we cut a tree top out of green paper and used her finger to paint little apples. :)

 

 

Great tip for apple prints - cut a notch in the apple to make

it easier for tiny tots to hold onto!

 

Don't forget to show them the star in the center.(pic below.)

(Apple must be cut horizontally to show the star.)

 

Handprint apples! Paint only the palm red, add stem and leaf with

finger prints!

 

Apple printing on the patio!

 

Awesome book for apple week!

 

10 apples up on top!

Book Giveaway!

I am really excited about this giveaway, so I wanted to share! Head over to Pearl's OysterBed to enter to win a copy of "Wives of the Bible" by Jolene Engle!