Posts Tagged ‘Kids Crafts’
When I suggested this idea to my son for the Tinker Lab Paper Bag Challenge he bolted to the playroom to start finding supplies. One problem his sister was napping and I’d worked hard to get her to sleep, I wasn’t about to wake her with the sounds of exploding bags. So we waited until this weekend and to say it was worth the wait is a total understatement. Our Love Bomb was fun to do and the end product was even cuter than I thought it would be.
- Gather your materials. You will need some paper bags, scrap construction paper, a canvas or heavy paper,contact paper, white glue, scissors and/ or a hole punch.
- Start by cutting your scrap paper into small pieces.
We used scissors and a hole punch.
- Pop them in the bags. We made 3 bags with a handful of confetti in each.
- Make a heart with contact paper.
- Pop the heart on the canvas. spread glue all over the canvas. Make sure there is lots along the edge of the contact paper. Forgive the photos, my camera dove to the floor on Friday and my new one hasn’t arrived yet. Thank you apple for my iPhone camera!
- Time for some confetti explosions, you might want to do this outside.
- Blow it up
- Smack it as hard as you can. It took us a few tries and we practiced earlier.
- Bam! Some of the confetti will fly out but you still have to give it a little shake to get it all.
- After all have been popped, gently push the confetti that are on the heart to the edge. Let dry for only a few minutes then peel off the heart.
- Let dry over night.
Pretty cool right? We had so much fun, just hearing the giggles that emanated from my son was enough to do this again and again!
Check out the other creative uses for paper bags at Tinker Lab.
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Before we all show off the brilliant and creative blog posts we have to share this week I want to share a few things.
1. I am in love with these wooden dolls from Curly Birds. It makes me wish my daughter was just a little older to help me make some or that my son would make them with me without turning them into Clone Troopers. I pinned it and will make them in the future.
2. Have you seen some of my collaborative boards on Pinterest? Check out my Reading and Writing Readiness Board . Together with other early education bloggers I pin great activities that help children with reading and writing at all stages.
3. Our reader survey has had great response but we want to hear from all of you. So far based on your comments we’ve made all posts printer friendly, fixed the broken links, and are slowly re-recording all the old songs that we lost. All suggestions and comments are taken to heart and we are so thankful for you taking the time to help us be better.Take our survey here .
Okay to the good stuff !
Chinese New Year is almost here and today we made a Chinese dragon to celebrate the year of the dragon. When I suggested we make a dragon today my son said ” Okay but it has to be huge!” My request was that it was a project that we could all do together. I also wanted a longer project since we are stuck at home in the snow and needed a long project to break up the at home day.
- Gather your materials. You will need some craft ( butcher block) paper, red, yellow and green construction paper , green paint, a rolling pin, cutting board, potato masher ( optional), scissors, glue, bubble wrap and a googly eye. Oh and painters tape to hold it down while you create.
- Start by taping the paper down and draw a dragon. I free handed the dragon and while perfect it’s not , I am trying to model effort not perfection for my kids and we are focusing on making something fun, not something perfect.
- Using the construction paper make triangles for spikes on the dragon’s back and head, long strips of red and orange for fire . If your child is cutting make some long strips with guided lines or blank strips thin enough for them to hold and cut easily. My daughter isn’t cutting yet but she still enjoyed ripping so I made sure some of our construction paper was in strips the right size for her to rip and even made little rip to get her started. Set these aside for later.
- Wrap bubble wrap around your rolling pin and grab a potato masher – both will give a reptilian like print when your child uses them to paint.
- Spread the paint on a cutting board .
- Roll and paint.
- They were both into it. I moved my daughter’s booster around to different parts of the dragon and my son moved around the table painting and printing.
- She loved the rolling pin.
- Let dry – I popped this up in my bathroom to dry while we played , went out in the snow and had lunch.
- Rip
- Cut
- Add glue
- Add the spikes!
- He had fun with the fire .
- Let dry and cut out.
- Hang up and celebrate the year of the dragon!
Books About Chinese New Year
D is for Dancing Dragon: A China Alphabet
My First Chinese New Year
Bringing in the New Year
It’s been a great week here playing vet clinic, making a huge messy fish and I can’t wait to post our special activity for Martin Luther King Day so please come back tomorrow to see it. Now I want to see what you did, what did your kids learn this week and what post are you most eager to show our readers? Link it up and check out the other brilliant early learning and kids’ crafts ideas that are shared.
Oh and don’t forget about our reader survey ! The survey helps us to know how to keep No Time For Flash Cards growing to meet our readers needs.
Have a great week !
Craft ideas, homeschool lessons, art projects, and so much more. Link & Learn is like a weekly cheat sheet of all the early learning and kid crafts blog posts from the week. If you need something fun to do with your kids we can help! If you want to link up we make that easy too. All you have to do is share your best post from the week. It doesn’t even have to be about learning and play, if you think our readers will enjoy it, link up!
Last week I fell in love with this 4 seasons activity from Sun Hats & Wellie Boots as well as Fizzing Sidewalk Paint from Kids Activities Blog. I have more of my favorites from last week pinned on my Pinterest boards – follow me to see them all.
Have a great week !
