Paint Chip Craft - Flowers

There are so many cute craft ideas out there using paint chips.  You know the color swatch in the paint department at your local home improvement store?  Heck, I have even seen them at Walmart!

We had to run into Home Depot the other day and they have paint chips that aren't your typical square or rectangle shape.  They are a fun shape that resembles a flower petal.

So as we were leaving I grabbed a variety of colors and some of the wooden sticks (paint stirs)

 Simple list of supples:

green paint or green marker for the "stem"

glue

paint chips

paint stirs

 They first painted the "stems" green

 Just a little glue was needed to keep the "petals" in place. The paint helped them stick as well.

 How fun are these flowers?  

Cardboard Box Car

We went to Costco Saturday morning and came with this really awesome, sturdy box.

I wish I could take credit for coming up with the idea first.  But, it was actually Snowflake.

While my husband was bringing in the groceries. 

 Snowflake emptied the groceries out of this box and sat in it.

Then it hit me how perfect it would be for a pretend car!

 This was a two-day project.

Day #1

First day we paint, painted and painted. 

 When the box was covered with paint.  We stamped

 The girls and the floor were a mess when we were done.

But, totally worth it!

I put it on the deck to dry.

Day #2

I think my hubby was feeling left out so he volunteered to 

put the "wheels. steering wheel and lights" on.

 We used a fastener for the wheel.  I didn't think it was going to stay on, but now 5 days later the steering wheel is still going strong!

 The wheels were hot glued on.

 Cupcake liners for the head lights.  Cute right?  Hubby's idea :)

 They are having a blast taking trips to the "beach".  

Simple Sun Catchers from Melted Beads

Sun Catchers

using plastic craft beads & a muffin tin

I was so happy to see this activity on pintrest.  We have so many beads and rarely use them.  I thought it would be a cute gift for the girls to make for our family.

We didn't have any clear beads.  But, if you have them you should use them as well.

 Fill each muffin tin or mold of your choice with a layer of beads.

 I put the oven on at 400 degrees and "baked" them for about 40 minutes.

I checked them every ten minutes after the first 20 minutes.  

 I let them cool on our patio table and we went for ice cream, it is summer after all.

 They slid right out of the muffin pan.  There wasn't even a residue left in the pan.  Awesome!

 I can't wait to hang these up in the windows.

Junebug was so fascinated by them and they weren't even hung up yet!

inspired by Artful Parent

The Very Hungry Caterpillar - Egg Carton Craft & Worksheet

Now that we are finished with the Letter of the Week, we are going to do a theme each week.

Our theme this week is around The Very Hungry Caterpillar book.
I was really excited to find two copies of the book at Garage Sales in our neighborhood this weekend.

Day 1:
Today we did an egg carton craft & a worksheet.

Supplies needed for the craft:
The Very Hungry Caterpillar Book - We used it as a reference for the colors.
paint - red, green, yellow & blue
paint brushes
egg carton
pipe cleaner

 I used the lid of the egg carton for the paint.

We made two caterpillars.  One will become a butterfly on Friday! 

Part 2 - The Very Hungry Caterpillar Worksheet

click here to print from Teachers Love

 This worksheet is two parts.

Part one your child colors the pictures of everything the caterpillar eats.

 Next, I cut the pictures out for Junebug.

Then we read the book again and she glued the the food on the correct days of the week. 

Salad Spinner Art

I have been saving this activity for a rainy day.  Well, today was that day.  Snowflake went down for her afternoon nap and the spinning began!

Supplies needed:
salad spinner (I didn't want to use our everyday one, so I got one from Ikea for around $4)
tempura paint
cardstock or paper plates
scissors
glitter (optional)

1-Cut the paper to fit in the spinner

~I cut different shapes.  Hearts, flower type shapes, squares, etc. 

2-add the paint

3- Add glitter (optional)

4- spin, spin, spin

5- lay out to dry or hang them up to dry.

 I had a piece of poster board collecting dust so we put all the spin art on there to dry. 

We made a lot. 

I plan to use these as cards for Birthday's, etc. from the girls.