I didn’t know what to do for a craft today and since we have been busy getting our house ready to put up for sale I was just going to skip an activity for today.  But then I saw this really cute (and very easy) heart fish over at Totally Tots (which if you are not reading yet, you have to start!) and just had to do it.

Here’s what you’ll need: background piece of paper, 1 large heart, 3 medium sized hearts, 1 small heart, 1 teeny-tiny heart, glue and something to decorate your fish with (we used sequins).

Glue your fish together.  The large heart is for the body of the fish, the 3 mediums are for a tail and fins, the small one is for his mouth and the teeny tiny one is for an eye.

Add some decorations to the fish.

The finished fish.

We have been talking about winter animals for our craft time, so I thought it would be fun to make a penguin.

Here’s what you’ll need- construction paper- black, orange, white and blue, glue, wiggle eyes, scissors and some items to decorate your penguin.

Cut out a black body for your penguin, then white for his stomach. Cut two arms out of the black paper, two legs and a beak out of the orange paper.  I cut up some blue and purple paper for decorating.

 Hailey decorated the tummy of the penguin using stickers and the blue and purple pieces of paper.

Then Hailey put her penguin together on a piece of blue construction paper, for sturdiness.  She also added pom poms to the penguins tummy.

Here is the finished penguin.

One of my favorite books for winter time is “The Mitten” by Jan Brett.  So, we did this activity to go along with the book.

Here’s what you’ll need: 2 pieces of construction paper, some paint and something to paint with, contact paper and not pictured- scissors and a stapler.

You’ll also need the animals from the story.  I printed these animals back when I used to get the Mailbox Etc magazine.  But you can find some very similar printable animals here.

Paint the construction paper.

Cut out two mitten shapes.  You’ll need the contact paper in a minute… so it shouldn’t really been in this picture.

Staple the two pieces of mitten together.  Be sure to leave the bottom of the mitten open.  Then cover with contact paper to make it last longer.

Get “The Mitten” by Jan Brett, the mitten and your animals.

Read the story together and put the animals into the mitten as you come to that part of the story.

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.