Support Your Team!

When I bought these beads I was trying to decide what to make with them , and inspiration struck today. We are going up to cheer for Canada and the USA at the Olympics and decided to make some jewelry for the occasion. Beading was not easy and my son only did a bit, I wasn’t expecting him to do any this is an activity for 5 and up although as you can see younger kids can help! For a great activity for younger ones scroll down!

1. Gather your materials. You will need some pipe cleaners ( in the country’s colors you are supporting), and some alphabet beads.
2. Start by searching for the letters. I didn’t ask my son to come help since my plan was for this to be an older child activity, but he came and helped!
3. Spell out your message.
4. Thread on!  I threaded all the of the beads on and separated the pipe cleaners to make it fancy For the USA one I threaded the USA on a single pipe cleaner and the hearts on both.
5. Wrap the ends to make your bracelet.

Uppercase Lowercase Match!

Games don’t have to be complicated to be fun. This alphabet game is super simple but easy make and fun to play.  The beads are uppercase letters so to make it more challenging for my son who knows his letters, I used lowercase letters in the tin. You could use uppercase letters for beginners or even spell simple sight words for more advanced learners.

1. Gather your materials. You will need alphabet letter beads, a muffin tin, some paper, a marker , tape and scissors or a circular paper punch.
2. Write out the letters on the paper.
3. Punch them out.
4. Tape into the tin.
5. Call your sorting superstar to the table! And have fun, it is a game after all!

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t Torch

The Olympics are a big deal in our house. My grandma was a Canadian Olympian, I lived in Calgary in 1988 when they hosted the Winter Games and grew up in Vancouver where the Olympics are going on as we speak. We are heading up to Vancouver later this week and getting very excited. For today’s letter of the week I had to do something with an Olympic theme.

1. Gather your materials. You will need a black piece of paper, a white piece of paper and some red and yellow tissue paper ( or regular paper too) , glue, scissors and markers ( the Olympic colors- red, green, black, blue and yellow).
2. Start by writing an upper or lowercase t.
3. I drew the Olympic Rings to add to the torch , this is totally optional.
4. Have your child decorate the torch with the markers. I absolutely LOVE how my son decorated it, I don’t know why I do so much but this craft is not getting recycled, I think it’s so pretty.
5. Cut out the Olympic rings – I drew lines to guide him( and then I still helped him as well) .
6. Cut out the t and glue it to the black paper, add glue for the Olympic rings.
7. Add the Olympic rings.
8. Cut the tissue paper to make flames. Let the kids go nuts, irregular cuts make awesome flames.
9. Add glue.
10. Add the flames and let dry.

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Book

Tacky and the Winter Games by Helen Lester is wonderful, hilarious and really explains the winter games  in a fun way. Of course these winter games a little different than the ones you may be watching on TV, the skis are made of fish and the medals are a little more honest than our bronze, silver and gold- my favorite being “Not Bad” for the third place.  The process of leading up to competition is very similar though the eating healthy, physical training and even an opening ceremonies of competitors from various lands.  Kids will pick up on the similarities quickly but also the ways that Tacky never really follows the crowd, he is an odd bird after all. Like in all the Tacky books Tacky stands out from the others, and just when we think he’s messed up for good, he finds redemption! Very cute book and perfect for this activity.

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Olympic Rings

We love the Olympics in our house and are gearing up to go cheer for 2 countries in Vancouver later this month. I meant to make this craft with paint but we were out of black and green and since there was a nice furnace repair man in my garage I couldn’t run out. So we decided to cover the rolls with tissue paper instead. As it turned out my son liked cutting and sorting the paper more than anything so it was perfect! This was a long craft with little guys I would skip the crayons, tissue paper and glue  and simply paint.

1. Gather your materials. You will need red, black, blue, green and yellow paint or crayons and tissue paper. A wrapping paper roll or 5 toilet paper rolls, glue, scissors, and some clothes pins.
2. Start by cutting the roll into 5 if you are using a wrapping paper roll.
3. Have your child color with roll with a crayons. If you are painting the rolls paint now. I used the crayons so that my son had a visual aid when it was time to glue the paper on to reinforce that we are only using one color for each roll. 
4. While they are coloring cut up some of the tissue paper, leave some for your child to cut as well if they are able to use scissors.
5. Have your child cut and sort some too. This was my far my son’s favorite part. Normally he loves glue and he was like ” I’ll cut and sort more mama, you do the glue today!”
6. Time to add glue- add lots!
7. Add paper.
8. Repeat for each ring.
9. Stack and glue rings together.
10. Secure with the clothes pins. 
11. Let dry.

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