Valentines Craft for the Kiddos

Good ol' fashioned painting with the cookie cutters. This is a simple craft that all kids enjoy! The younger kids love to spread the paint all around the paper and the older kids get more into making pictures and so forth with the cutters. We took out all the Valentine cookie cutters I had and I put some paint on Styrofoam plates and we dipped and painted!

 

They made perfect little Valentine pictures!

Happy Valentine's Crafting!

Turkey - Fall Craft For Your Kids

This is a fun craft to do with your kids. With all the colorful leaves that are out right now, this turkey makes for a great craft.

Cut a turkey body (peanut shape) out of brown paper. Collect some colorful leaves. Glue the turkey's body to another piece of paper and then glue the "feathers" (colorful leaves) all around the turkey's body! We added googly eyes, a beak and some feet. They turned out really cute!!!

Cute, Easy, Fall Craft For Kids!!!!!

This was a great little acorn craft we did today. I cut an acorn shape out of some thin cardboard. Then, I had the kids crumple up little pieces of brown packaging paper (stuff left over from a package that came in the mail). They glued the crumpled paper onto the top of the acorn and then painted the bottom half brown. We taped a stem on the top and viola..... an acorn!

Fun Recycling Apple Project for Kids

Have you ever received a box in the mail that is full of brown packaging paper? Well, here is a great little project to do with your kids that uses some of that paper!

I cut two pieces about the same size.

The kids crumpled up one of the pieces and we put it in the middle of the other one.

We gathered the flat paper around the crumpled ball and tied it with a rubber band.

The kids painted the "apple" red.

 



Add a green felt leaf with their name and you have a cute handmade apple!

Summer Family Activity Jar

Along with my "Boredom Jar", I decided to come up with a "Summer Family Activity Jar". This jar is going to be filled with slips of paper that have activities we can do as a family this summer.

Here are some ideas I have come up with so far:

• Bake a sweet treat
• Rent a movie or game
• Weed the garden
• Star Gazing Night
• Make homemade Popsicles
• Catch fireflies
• Make a healthy smoothie
• Walk to local ice cream shop for a cool treat
• Have a picnic
• Go for a walk
• Bike ride
• Design a family flag
• Write a menu for tomorrow's dinner
• Visit Farmer's Market
• Explore local park trails
• Try a local restaurant
• Visit the library
• Boce ball
• Plan a play date with friends
• Go for a treasure walk
• Pick up trash in neighborhood
• Movie and popcorn night
• Campfire night
• SMORES
• Sleep on three seasons porch
• Make fresh lemonade
• Visit a new park
• Go rock hunting - search for unusual rocks
• Splash pad

This is all I have right now. I will keep thinking and writing down activities for the summer. I would love to hear what your favorite family activities are!!