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Spring Counting Book

Crafty Lady — Sat, 23 May 2009 03:51:54 +0000

For the last day of our spring theme we made a cute spring counting book. Rather than show all of the materials in one large group I am going to show you how we made each page of the book. This is something I found in a Mailbox magazine and printed out but you could easily make this yourself.

First Hailey cut the pages apart. She did an excellent job cutting and staying pretty close to the black line!

For the first page- Hailey colored the word blue and then added a little blue square of construction paper to represent the sky. We also glued each page onto a piece of construction paper for durability and to make it easier to staple everything together at the end to make it into a book.

Hailey colored the word yellow and then added two circles of tissue paper for the suns.

After Hailey did some coloring I gave her three pieces of orange felt to make the kites.

Hailey colored everything brown and then added the wiggle eyes.

Hailey glued on some little cotton balls for the bunnies tails.

We added purple pom poms to this page for the flowers after Hailey colored everything purple.

This was Hailey’s favorite page- she put her finger onto a red stamp pad (a “washable” stamp pad). The she stamped her finger onto the paper. I added some lines and dots to make it look like ladybugs.

Hailey glued on 8 pieces of green yarn for this page.

Once everything was dry I added a title page (“It Must Be Spring Time!”) and stapled everything together to make it into a book. It turned out really cute- and it was a fun to tie our spring theme together with colors and counting.

I Will Plant…

Crafty Lady — Thu, 21 May 2009 16:31:56 +0000

For our next spring project we made a picture of what Hailey wanted to plant in her garden.

Here’s what you’ll need: paper to draw what you want to plant in your garden (mine is from one of my Mailbox magazines, but you could easily make your own), glue, colored pencils, seeds.

Color the picture.

Open the seeds- Hailey decided she wanted to plant cucumber seeds “like Larry” (from the Veggie Tales).

Put some glue on the paper and add your seeds.

Hailey’s completed picture with some cucumber seeds and her picture of her garden.

Spring Tree

Crafty Lady — Thu, 21 May 2009 03:34:34 +0000

Our theme this week is Spring, so today we talked about what trees look like during the winter and what they look like during the spring. Then we made a pretty spring tree.

Here’s what you’ll need: blue construction paper, brown piece of construction paper cut into a tree shape, green construction paper cut to look like grass, glue, chalk, cotton and fake flowers (or tissue paper).

Glue the tree and grass onto the paper. Talk about how the tree looks empty and bare during the winter.

I drew a circle with the chalk for the sun and then Hailey colored it in.

We added some cotton balls for clouds and then the flowers on the tree.

The finished spring tree.

Let's Start Planting

Crafty Lady — Wed, 20 May 2009 03:04:08 +0000

Today we started our spring theme. We started out by making a book about how to plant seeds and then we planted some seeds.

Here’s what you’ll need: 8 planter shaped pieces of paper, glue, colored pencils and directions for planting seeds.

Color the directions for planting the seeds.

Glue the directions onto the planter shaped construction paper.

Our completed book- “How to Plant a Seed.”

After we finished our book we planted some grass.

Hailey scooped some dirt into a cup.

Then she added some grass seed to the cup. We are going to watch the seeds and take pictures of the process.