Archive for the ‘Farm Animals’ Category
Handprint Horses
Mar
Continuing with our horse theme this week, Hailey made some handprint horses.
I traced Hailey’s hand and then added a little smiley face and hooves.
Hailey wanted to add some spots to her horses.
Hailey glued the horses onto the paper.
Then added some popsicle sticks to make a fence.
Hailey added some yarn for a tail and a mane.
The finished handprint horses.
Horse Craft
Mar
A couple of weeks ago Hailey came up with a bunch of topics that she wants to learn about. The first one she picked is horses and ponies. So, this week she is learning all about horses and ponies. We started out by getting all sorts of books at the library. I had a hard time coming up with art activities to do for horses… so here’s the first thing we did:
Hailey painted this page from DLTK.
Then she painted a toilet paper roll brown.
The completed horse from the side so you can see his tail.
Another view of the horse.
Then since horses eat grass- we planted some grass.
Hailey in our shed getting some dirt for our grass.
Adding just a little bit of grass seed 🙂
Day one of our grass growing experiment.
Hailey loves mazes- so I found some horse mazes for her to do.
Duck Pond
Aug
The theme I am using with Hailey right now is songs. One of her favorite songs is Five Little Ducks. So we have done a couple of activities about ducks. The other day we made Five Little Duck pieces for our felt board and then we did some duck stamping. Our last project in sticking with the duck theme was to make a duck pond.
Here’s what you’ll need: green, blue, yellow and orange construction paper, glue, scissors and a black marker.
Leave the green construction paper a full piece of paper. Cut the blue construction paper to look like a body of water. The cut 4 small dome shapes and 4 small circles from the yellow paper. Cut 4 very small triangles from the orange paper . For older children I would let them do the cutting but since this was a toddler project I did all of the cutting.
Glue the blue onto the green paper. Then glue the shapes together to create the ducks. After the duck pond has dried, add a black dot for the eyes on the ducks.
The finished duck pond.
Duck Stamping
Jul
Yesterday I showed you the felt board activity that we did to go along with The 5 Little Ducks song. Today I’m sharing another duck craft we did. I saw this over at one of my new favorite sites- No Time for Flashcards (if you haven’t been to this site yet you just have to check it out).
Here’s what you’ll need- paper, a duck and a stamp pad. (As a side note- my stamp pads are for kids and are non-toxic. But they were missing the all important word “washable.” So you might want to make sure you get washable stamp pads. I’m just sayin’)
Give the items to your child and let the creativity flow. Hailey is working on figuring out exactly how it is working.
Having fun stamping the paper.
While I turned my head for about 2 seconds, Hailey picked up the stamp pad and stamped her face.
The finished duck stamping piece of art.
