Christmas Crafts

Since it’s almost Easter I thought it would be the perfect time to finally post about some of the crafts we did at Christmas time hahaha.  One day I’ll be all caught up with my posting, but today is not that day.

One of the projects we did was with oil pastels on black paper.  I found step by step directions for an Oil Pastel Christmas Tree in a Snowstorm.  I followed the directions and showed Hailey and Hunter what to do, step by step.

Of course, Harper wanted to be a part of our crafts too.

These pictures are the ones that Hailey, Hunter, and I did.  I love how they turned out!!

Our next project was a really cute Reindeer Portrait from ARTventurous.  First we drew the reindeer with a black oil pastel.

Then we painted them.

Hunter painted his reindeer too.

Harper painted herself, the table, and her reindeer.

Our completed reindeer.

This Jesus in the Manger is the project I had my preschool class do at Christmas time at our homeschool co-op.  This is the picture that Hunter made.  They turned out so cute!!

Fall Tree Craft

We made these really easy fall trees, and they turned out cute. I love easy and cute art projects!

I gave Hunter a piece of brown, already cut out, to use as a tree trunk.  Then I put some fall colored paint onto a paper plate and gave him a shower pouf to stamp some leaves on the tree.

Harper made one too- her very first painting.

Hailey also made one, but she painted her own tree trunk.

The completed fall trees.

Weekly Wrap Up

Since we are several days into October, I thought it was time I finished up our activities from our summer learning fun.  Our last theme for the summer was Jack and Beanstalk.  Of course, we read Jack and Beanstalk every day, and several times some days.  Both boys really liked the story.

Hunter and Anthony colored some bags of gold.

They practiced their cutting.

Then they matched up the pictures they had cut out and glued them.

They worked on a “which one is different” page.

Anthony cut out some numbers and then glued them onto the square that had that number of beans.

They worked on a q-tip painting of the letter B for beans and J for Jack.

I made a little beanstalk and Anthony thought it was fun to have his superheros climb up the beanstalk.

We put beans and a wet paper towel into a ziploc bag, then hung them up on a window.  It was fun to watch the beans sprout.

We made this little picture- some beans on the bottom, green tissue paper for the beanstalk and some clouds.

(Printables from 1+1+1=1)

Jack and the Beanstalk was such a fun little unit! We had a great time!!

Weekly Wrap Up

We did a super fun unit during the summer about frogs!  It was so interesting to learn about the frog life cycle.

Hailey helped me out by reading books about frogs to Anthony and Hunter.

 They were all very interested in the books about frogs and listened so well to all of the information.

 We used these fun little toys to talk about the life cycle- eggs, tadpole, froglet, frog.

 We set up a little aquarium so we could watch our tadpoles grow.

 Hunter added some food.

 Hailey added the tadpoles.

 We made this fun Froggie Fold Up Book.

 The frog book all folded up.

We worked on this Frog Life Cycle printable.

Anthony and Hunter made a Life Cycle of a Frog book.

Hailey, Anthony, and Hunter made these cute little frogs.

We all learned so much and had a lot of fun doing it!