It’s cold out there. Take some photos and enjoy looking through them, all warm and toasty, in front of your computer.
Okay, I admit it. These were taken on a porch. But beauty is everywhere to be found. Even from a front porch.
Archive for the ‘Creativity’ Category
Jan
31
2010
Burrrr
Dec
10
2009
As easy a holiday craft as you could ask for
This project was super easy. And passed my “Mommy has 15 minutes and your brother is sleeping” Criteria. It would have worked with Griffin as well- there just would have been more clean up.
So the process is this. Let the little person trace thier hand and your hand. Let them (or assist) in the cutting out of the hands. Folding the paper so that you have mutliple copies while cutting saves tons of time. While Dunes, 3yrs, was working on her end I cut out a big letter O from a cardboard pizza box. Any old box would work. Cheap serrated knifes make this part easy. Apply glue. Okay, let the preschooler do this. They love it. Then we alternated hands: my hand in white, hers in red. The color choice was, of course, dictated by what was left over in the spare paper pile.
Then to continue the tracing of hands theme, I traced her hand with a closed fist over a folded brown piece of paper. Then, like magic, when unfolded, it became the bow.
Ta-da! Holiday wreath. It looks like I am actively parenting even though I am frantically running around behind the scenes processing everyone’s holiday card and print orders. As you can see from the above photo she was super proud of herself. She still wont look at my camera and there was no one else that she was directing that smile at- just definitely not in my direction. Wreath now hangs on our front door.
Nov
04
2009
leaf project failure and or fiber
We have been spending a lot of time with the kids outdoors the last few days when it hasn’t been raining. There are so few days left in RI to get outside without loosing the feelings in our extremities.
I found this project posted on a blog I really enjoy about a DIY craft for a Leaf Alphabet based on an idea from Martha Stewart’s site found here:
So I thought to myself- I can absolutely get my kids to sit and create these… Dunedin is totally into letters right now and Griffin, well, he likes to eat leaves… (He’s just adding fiber to his diet, right?) Sigh.
There is this little voice I sometimes hear in my head when it comes to parenting or crafting ideas and she was giggling “What are you thinking?” more than once during our attempt at leaf collection. So I have no stunning photos of our leaf project where the kids could show off their knowledge of the animal kingdom by making echidnas and narwhals out of leaves.
That little voice is snickering at the last sentence.
Instead we shifted gears and played a very successful matching game while walking though the woods. One of us would find a leaf and we would all have to match the tree it came from. Or Griffin would eat them. Which ever came first.
But fun was had by all in the end.
Oct
23
2009
Wikki Sticks- wicked cool crafty thing for kids
I can’t believe how long this gift from my sister and her husband entertained my kids for. I think it was over an hour. I am not sure though, I actually went through my mail while they were working with it. It is something like a flexible sticky pipe cleaner (if you remember the craft projects as a kid). I think it is basically a string covered with wax. Dunedin made flower after flower after flower. Thought I would pass the idea along. If your kids like to manipulate things and like stickers, you may want to check it out. ( Sidenote: Also fun to pull them out of the carpet)
They were both VERY impressed with mommy’s spider.
And griffin was thrilled to be able to mash them up and stick them on paper. (it was D’s smiley face but he embellished)
