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My kids love to get mail!! I am always dividing up the junk mail so they can each get their own letters!  The other day in continuing our paper plate craft series we made a Paper Plate Mailbox.  The kids loved it because we then wrote letters to eachother and delivered them.  You could add to this writing their names on it.  We hung them on the kids doors.

Supplies

• Stapler
• Two Paper plates
• Scissors
• Crayons/Markers
• Hole Puncher
• Sting/rope/ribbon

Steps

1. Cut one plate in half
2. Decorate plates with crayons, markers, stickers etc
3. Staple half plate to bigger plate on bottom
4. Punch hole in top of bigger plate
5. Tie Rope through hole to hang on door

Write Cards to eachother.  Kids can practice signing their name.  If you write their names on the mailbox you can help them learn which ones theirs by looking at their name.

It’s Spring!! Hurray!! I already hear all the birds starting to sing and I love it!!  In honor of the warmer Spring weather we made a Bird house for our Fine Feathered Friends!!

While doing this craft, you might want to ready one of the following books with your child, depending on their age…Backyard Birdwatching for kids or Are you my mother?  The Backyard Birdwatching book is fun because you can ready about the birds and how you can attract them to your back yard and your bird house. Are you my mother? is a great book about a young bird looking for his mother.
This craft is so much fun and you can enjoy it all spring and summer!

Supplies

• Wood, Paintable bird house- I found mine at the dollar store!! But craft stores like Michaels or Target carry them too!
• Washable Paint
• Paint Brushes
• Clear Polyurethane

Steps

1. Get creative-Paint the birdhouse however you like!
2. Let it dry
3. Then (parents you will want to do this NOT your kids) once dry put a coat of polyurethane on it.
4. Let it dry
5. Then find a nice place outside to put it!

Enjoy your birdhouse!! I’d love to hear about your experience making this craft and to see pictures too!!

This is a a fun and easy Toddler Craft.  I read the book The Very Hungry Caterpillar before I create this craft with the kids and then we make the Hungry Caterpillar.  If you don’t have The Very Hungry Caterpillar and you have 1-4 year old I highly recommend you get it!!  It’s a great story by Eric Carle ( I love all his books!!) with big colorful pictures.  It tells the tale of a a Very Hungry Caterpillar who eats one apple on Monday, two pears on tuesday and so on until he becomes a beautiful butterfly!  Not only is it a great story but helps reinforce counting and the days of the week!

As you read the story you can count the objects together that the Caterpillar eats.  At the end of the story you can ask your child to retell the story in their own words, or ask what happened after the caterpillar ate all the food?  Discuss the story a little and then you can make your own hungry caterpillar together!!

Caterpillar Craft

Supplies

• Inside of a paper towel roll cut to about 3 inches, or a toilet paper roll inside
• Pipe Cleaners
• Fuzzy Balls
• Googly eyes
• Scissors
• Glue

Steps

1. Cut little holes in the top of the cardboard roll (2 right next to eachother for antenaes)
2. Cut pipe cleaner to 3 inches long-2 pieces
3. Place pipe cleaner in hole and bend bottom into the inside of the roll so it doesn’t come out
4. Curve top to make it look like an antenna  (do this in other hole-so you have 2 antennae)
5. Glue Googly eyes in front of antennae
6. Glue on Fuzzy balls all around top and sides of roll

Enjoy your Caterpillar!!  If you do this craft come share your pictures!!

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Have a great weekend!!

I always love to create a craft and tie it in to a book!  My daughter actually brought this craft home from school one day and inspired me to pull out our copy of The Mitten by Jan Brett and read it with her.  The Mitten is a great story (You may have seen some of Jan Brett’s other stories like The Hat which is also great).   The story is about a little boy Nikki who convinces his Baba (grandmother) to make him white mittens.  She is hesitant because she is worried he will lose his mitten in the snow.  His first day out with it sure enough he loses it.  The story details the adventures of the mitten and how it ends up back with him.

I thought I would share this craft which is so simple and ties in so nicely with the story.

Supplies

• Construction paper
• Scissors
• Paint

Steps

1. Cut out Mitten Shape
2. Paint (whatever color your child likes)
3. Add fun things like glitter, foam pieces etc. (optional)

Enjoy!!