Super Fun Sun

Hunter has been sick again this week so we haven’t done any activities for the last couple days. He’s finally feeling a bit better so we got back to work today 🙂 We are having a lot of fun with our space theme and today we made an awesome sunshine that I found on Pinterest.

Here is what you’ll need: newspaper, black construction paper, cardstock, saran wrap, tape, paint, scissors and glue (not in the picture).

Cut out a circle on the cardstock and put red, yellow and orange paint on the circle.

Then cover it with saran wrap and tape the saran wrap to the newspaper.

 Next, let your child squash and push the paint around.  Hunter loved how it felt and played with it for a long time (with no mess!).

Then put some of the paint on your newspaper and use a q-tip to add a little more paint to make the rays.

 The completed sunshines.  I love how these turned out!!

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Name Rocket Ship

Our new theme is space… first up we did this super easy and cute name rocket ship.  Guess where I found the idea?  Pinterest of course 🙂

You’ll need: glue, glitter glue, sharpie, star stickers, black paper, some other colors of construction paper cut into squares and one triangle.

Hailey put out her pieces into the pattern she wanted and then wrote her name on the squares.

After your rocket ship is glued on, add some star stickers.

Use the glitter glue to make some flames coming out of the rocket ship.

Hunter’s finished rocket ship.

Hailey’s completed rocket ship.

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Vase and Flowers

Here is cute Earth Day project, that I saw on Pinterest, using recycled materials.

You’ll need a water bottle, cardboard, bottle tops, pipe cleaner, glue, paint and some tissue paper to for leaves.

Hailey painted the water bottle.  We used acrylic paint which will stay on the plastic very well.

Hunter made one of the flowers…

He didn’t really want to give up his bottle tops and when he got down to having 2 left he kept saying, “no, no, no, no!” when I showed him where to put the pieces.

Hailey made the other flowers

She used pipe cleaner for stems and then added tissue paper for the leaves.
I used a hot glue gun to glue the water bottle to the cardboard.

 The finished vase and flowers.

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Paper Mache Earth

Since Earth Day is coming up, we made our own earth out of paper mache.

Here is what you’ll need: balloon, newspaper, tissue paper (blue and green), brushes, and the paper mache glue.  There are a lot of different recipes for the glue, but I used 1 part flour, 2 parts water, and some white glue.  I didn’t measure the glue, I just added some in.

Dip the newspaper strips into the glue and put them on the balloon until it’s covered.  We then brushed the glue on top of the newspaper to make sure it stuck really well.

Then add green and blue tissue paper to represent water and land.

When it was all done I hung it up from our chandelier to dry.  It took a couple of days to dry.  Once it all nice and dry we popped the balloon.

Our completed paper mache earth 🙂