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Watering Can

Today is the second day of our Earth Day Activities series.  My kids love to help me water the Garden so we are always using watering cans.  There little ones are always running out of water to quickly.  This Watering Can will keep them watering for at least a few minutes before needing more water!  I was inspired to do this for Earth Day after seeing it at Kaboose .

Supplies:

• Plastic Bottle – Well Rinsed- you can use a 1/2 gallon or Gallon Bottle
• Paint, Stickers- What ever you want to decorate your watering cans
• Clear Acrilic spray (for the adults)
• Nail and hammer

Steps:

1. Wash out plastic bottle
2. Peel off any stickers
3. Paint or decorate
4. Let Dry
5. When Dry Spray with (adult) clear acrilyic paint
6. Poke holes in cap with nail and hammer (adult)

Enjoy Watering your garden with your child!!

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.

Here is another of my Fun Activities for Toddlers !  This shaving creme craft will bring lots of joy, giggles and fun!!  My kids love doing this!!  It’s messy-but a fun and easy activity !  It can be done with kids old enough that they won’t eat it!  You know your child and if they will put it in their mouth.  My kids by 2 were fine with this type of activity.  This activity is really good for kids 2-7 (some kids older would like it too!).

Kids love to get their hands messy and feel fun textures!!  They also learn by doing things in different types of mediums!! This is a fun activity that let’s kids practice their letters while enjoying getting to play in shaving creme!!

Supplies:

• Some type of board, cardboard, chalkboard, white board (plastic plate works too!)
• Shaving Creme
• Smock, Apron
• Wipes or paper towels

Steps:

1. Put Smock or Apron on your child
2. Put a little bit of shaving creme on your board
3. Let your child spread it all out- They will love this!!
4. Show them how they can draw a letter in it with their pointer finger
5. Then erase it by wiping your hand over it
6. Let them try
7. They can do letters or draw shapes what ever you want
8. Be there to show them how to draw a letter or shape and they can try it next.  You can also help move their hand as they get the feel for it.

Depending on the age of your child you can help them write words, letters, shapes.  They can make pictures or whatever they want.  At the end you can even have them help you clean up the boards in the sink.  Have fun!!  Keep on the look out for more fun activities for toddlers!!

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!!