Cute Homemade Wrapping Paper

Here is a really simple craft you can do to make some fun homemade wrapping paper.

Here’s what you’ll need: large piece of paper, paint, and we used a shower sponge for painting, but you can use anything you want to use.

Squirt some paint onto a plate.

Dip the shower sponge into the paint and start stamping.

Add some more paint until the whole paper is covered.

Wrap up a present and add a bow.

Sprucing Things Up

Last week we had to go out of town for a few days and so I didn’t do my usual activities with Hailey.  And since my posts are usually about the things I did during the previous week, that means I don’t really have anything to post about this week.

I do have one activity we did to make some homemade wrapping paper that I’ll share, but other than that I won’t be posting much here this week.  I do plan on adding some pages to Our Crafts ~N~ Things though.  I am going to add a Frequently Asked Questions page because surprisingly- people ask me a lot of questions.  I always think it’s kind of funny that people think I might actually know something.  Anyhoo- I’m also going to work on a page about our daily schedule as well as some pictures of where we do our work.  So, while I won’t be posting my usual posts this week I’m going to be busy sprucing things up around here.

If you have any questions or anything you would like to see me add, please feel free to leave me a comment to let me know or send me an email.

Week One In Review

I have joined the Tot School group over at 1+1+1=1 where every week everyone does a post about what they did in Tot School during the week before.  Since I technically post about what we do every day, this is just going to be a review of what I already posted about earlier this week.  If you want more details about any of the activities I am sharing you can just click on the links I will provide to see the details.

So, what did we do last week?

Our letter of the week was A and we did several projects- you can see all of them by clicking here.

We made this letter A by dipping an Apple into red paint and stamping it onto the A.

We made this fun Ant.

We also played a hide the letter A game where I hid felt letter A’s all over our living room for Hailey to find.  And we made a letter A book and played letter A games on the Star Fall website.

Our theme for the week was All About Me- so we traced Hailey’s body and then decorated and labeled it.  You can see my All About Me post here.

Our number was the number one.  Hailey sponge painted the number one.  Once it was dry I put it onto a different colored piece of construction paper, wrote the word “one” on it and we added one sticker.

Our shape was the circle and I gave Hailey a variety of circle shaped items to stamp into the paint and onto her paper.

We made a red discovery bottle for our color using red food coloring, water and glitter.

Hailey also made a collage of all red items on red paper.

If you want to see more details about our number, shape and color the post for that is here.

We are doing the story of creation for our Bible theme this month so last week we did the first two days.  Here Hailey is making day one (God created day and night) by gluing white construction paper onto the top and black construction paper onto the bottom of a piece of card stock.

Here Hailey is working on day 2 (God created sky and water) by gluing blue tissue paper onto the bottom and cotton onto the top of a piece of card stock.

You can see my whole post about creation here.

So, there you have a brief review of our first official week of Tot School.  Stop by 1+1+1=1 to see what the other moms have been up to while trying to keep their tots busy.

The Story of Creation

Our theme for our Bible story this month is the story of creation.  We have read the story and Hailey is working on this memory verse: God created all things.  John 1:3.

We are also creating a picture for each day in the 7 days of creation.  Here are the two days we did this week:

For Day 1- I gave Hailey half of a sheet of white construction paper and half of a sheet of black construction paper.  She glued those onto a piece of card-stock to represent day and night.

The finished picture- God created day and night.  (I also added a little piece of paper later that said Day 1.)

And here is day 2:

Here’s what you’ll need: card-stock, blue tissue paper, cotton balls, glue, paper that says “Day 2,” and paper that says “God created sky and water.”

Glue the tissue paper on to the bottom to represent water and cotton balls on the top to represent clouds.

The finished picture- God created sky and water.