Showing posts with label Arts and Crafts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Arts and Crafts. Show all posts

Saturday, March 14, 2015

Spring ideas



Spring alphabet cards (for memory/matching games). You can also ask the child to pick a magnetic letter and find the matching spring card or match lower case/upper case letter cards.
 Spring lacing. Print a spring picture, color it and poke holes for lacing.
 Roll and cover the sum (for older children) or roll and cover the number (for younger kids).
 Count and line the correct amount of spring foam stickers.

More spring number and letter cards.
 Recognize and cover the correct lower case letter.
 Tracing.
 Find the match.
 Spring memory cards.

Roll the die and place the right amount of foam stickers in the basket.

Flower collage


Valentine's special hearts

 ... with foam stickers and crayons
... many hearrts of different sizes and color glued together...

Winter crafts

 Our version of a special snowman I saw on Pinterest...
 Small pieces of paper ripped by the child to make a snowman...
 Q-tips snowflake, saw it on Pinterest, this is our version!
 Put a paper snowflake on a big page and ask the child to paint all around it. Lift it up and there it is!
Cut out a snowflake and ask the child to paint it and decorate it with glitter.

Valentine's ideas



Draw many hearts on colorful cardboard paper and write a number on one side and the corresponding amount of dots on the other side. Cut the hearts in half and spread the pieces around the room. Ask the child to find the matches.
Choose some nice and colorful paper, give the child a pair of scissors or help the child cut out a heart. They can decorate it with glitter, picture from magazines, pieces of paper they cut or ripped with their hands, stickers or anything you have at home, even buttons work, then glue the heart on a wooden stick. You can use red gems to fill a heart-shaped muffin tray and of course bake heart shaped cookies and decorate them with your kids :)

Monday, January 12, 2015

Foam clothes



Foam mittens

I cut out some foam mittens. My children hung them on the stairs.
Foam mittens can also be decorated. Ask the child to roll a die and decorate the mittens with the corresponding amount of, say, beads, plastic snowflakes, or anything else you might have at home.

Playdoh snowman



Winter crafts



I found the idea on Pinterest and my kids enjoyed making them.
For the snowman craft, we used toilet paper roll and covered it with a Christmas napkin, the same one we used for the scarf. We painted the snowman by using a pom pom.

Halloween craft and Math






Count the ghosts

Friday, September 26, 2014

DIY ABC Dice and more




Homemade dice are so much fun and versatile!


Great for toddlers:roll the colors or shapes die and find the matching color/shape.
Great tool for reinforcing letter recognition: roll the upper case ABC die and ask the child to find the corresponding lower case letter.
Great as writing practice: roll any of the home made dice you have and ask the child to write down what comes up and see who comes out more often. Who will win first prize?
Also great for coins recognition and sorting.
Also good for numbers: roll the numbers die and ask the child to pick the corresponding amount of figurines, pawns, or any other item and write down the number.