Having Fun at Home

Alphabet Pancakes

2012-02-23T00:22:00.000-06:00

We took our ketchup bottle pancake squirter from the other days' snowflake pancakes and made alphabet pancakes. I'm not sure why, but the girls were actually more excited about these than the snowflakes. (Maybe they're reading nerds like their parents??)

Snowy Evening Watercolor Resist

2012-02-21T11:46:00.000-06:00

For our homeschool co-op the other day we read Robert Frost's classic poem, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening. For our activity we did these watercolor resist paintings using masking tape. I found the tutorial on Art Projects for Kids' site and added a cardinal (scanned from the book). The kids painted him red and glued him in one of the trees.

It was a pretty involved painting for preschoolers (probably better suited to older children), but the results are really striking.

Coloring Page: Feeding the Chickens

2012-02-18T00:24:00.002-06:00

This one makes me think of our back yard!

Simple Valentines Day Hat

2012-02-16T14:42:00.000-06:00

We made these super easy heart hats for a Valentines Day get-together on Tuesday. I cut the hearts out of scrapbook paper (a little sturdier than construction paper) and the girls decorated.

If you cut them the right size and your paper is sturdy, they will fit very well, but I didn't have all the kids in front of me to check head sizes; so some slipped down and became necklaces :-)

Thanks, Kathy for the directions on this!