Hallooween Fun

 This is our first attempt at pumpkin carving, as my son got so excited with all the fun fall activities he was going int he school. He wanted a scary pumpkin with spiders. So while he got busy with the Halloween form stickers to make a small decoration frame for the door. Mom got ready to crave small slits to put the scary eyes we picked up from the dollar store. used more foam sticker the nose and pipe cleaners for the mouth. We used a fruit basket and added fake grass from Easter to place the pumpkin. Then we added some more stickers to the pumpkin, check out the spider sticker for eyebrows, now that's imagination for 3 year old.

More Spider and fake rings to add more spooky Halloween fun.

Happy Halloween.

Fall Wreath

My son came home with this unfinished wreath. It's such a nice and simple way to add color to our door. We both went out side for a quick walk around the neighborhood and  picked up these twigs, leaves and wild berries.

Supplies:
Orange paper-plate
Orange pipe cleaner
Glue
Twigs, leaves and wild berries (for decoration)

On the Paper plate, spread glue and add the twigs, leaves or any other decoration. Make a small hole and add pipe cleaner to make a hanger for the wreath. Nice, easy and warms up the doorway.

Cardboard box Alien

Supplies:
Paper box covered in white paper
Orange color paper (cut out small eyes, nose and silly smile)
Glue
Pipe cleaners

I recycled small paper cartoon (snackbox) you can use any
Covered it with white paper ( to give the ghostly look)
Stick the eyes, nose and smile
Finally add pipe cleaners at top and curl them
Aarav calls then silly hair

Super easy and cute, we used these to play puppets and tell silly stories.

Alphabet Mat

I'm a little behind in posting my craft project, blame it on the lazy summer days of Chicago. This activity is a fun tool for keeping little bodies busy and brush up on ABC's.        

                                                                       

 Supplies: 

Bottle caps 26 counts

Labels

marker

Form or cardboard  sheet.

Add labels to bottle caps and write your ABC's .

On the Form or cardboard sheet make a table and jumble the Alphabet.

Your Alphabet Mat is ready

Tips: 

Older kids can helps younger kids in all the steps.

Feel free to decorate your mat.

You can also use colorful labels or stickers

I mixed up the Alphabet order as my little one is old enough to figure it out. The next step will be to use  animals or fruits and vegetable to go on the mat, we have been practicing that too, works like a charm.

Toilet paper roll trees

Its been ages since I last updated my blog, call me lazy...lol. Thought of posting a few simple ideas to keep kids busy which they can handle by themselves or with little help

This one is called paper roll tree  and as you will see in the pictures, its very simple and still guaranteed to charm the kids.

Supplies:

Toilet paper roll (preferably brown ones)
green craft paper (for tree cut outs)
color pens/crayons
sticker (optional)
scissors/glue

How to and tips:
Clean your Toiler paper roll of any left over tissues.
Cut green craft paper into a tree like or cloud like cutout.
Use scissors to make two small slits on paper roll sides for the cutout to fix in.
Decorate the green with color pens /crayons or stickers, I used a frog stickers, you can use other tree animals like monkeys or just ask your kids to make their own. Depends mostly on the age of the kids, I'm working with 3 year old, they just love the coloring part.

Our kids love making branches, leaves, nest and birds, we also sang our favorite  barney song 'There was a hole'http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mINPh9-eTss&feature=related

Enjoy

playing with colors

Some days I just let my little one play with colors be it a empty box , a paper bowl , it sure keeps him occupied and you never know what will be the end product.

papercups/bowl jellyfish

I was thinking what to do with the leftover paper bowls ..when my son decided to pain them. This simple project is so easy and we were done in a jiffy of course thats after he was done painting and repainting the bowls.

supplies:
Paper bowls or cups
paint and brush
glue
party streamer or ribbons

Paint the paper bowls or cups as u like them, preferably pastel colors

Once its dry, add glue to the insides of the bowls/cups

Add streamer or colorful ribbons, both would work great


Tips:
An adult can cut the streamers in thin strips for the kids or let them try it themselves  with a kid safe scissors.
Its a raining day craft, but can work for playdates or birthday parties too
Talk to the kids about Jelly fish or other  sea creatures.

Let the kids explore with colors , my son loves to mix them ..its amazing how much toddlers love to paint.