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This is a really easy preschool craft!  A may day basket is a fun activity, because when you are done making it then you can go look for flowers to pick and put in your basket.  Kids love to display their handy work for decorations!  I know my kids proudly put up their baskets in their room, they hung them from their door knobs.  If you preferred to make flowers you could do that too.   You can easily make this into a recycled craft by using an already drawn on piece of construction paper for the basket.

Supplies:

• Construction paper
• Tape, Glue or stapler
• Scissors
• Crayons or foam pieces (if you would like to decorate the outside of the basket)

Steps:

1. Cut one of the pieces of construction paper into a square.
2. Cut a one inch thick piece of paper from another Color
3. If you want to decorate your basket, color or glue on your items on the square paper
4. Loop square piece of paper around to make a cone
5. Staple or tape together to keep it a cone
6. Staple one inch piece of paper to top of cone to form handle
7. Pick or make flowers to place in your basket.

Happy Spring!!  Enjoy!!

This Easter Craft can be a fun decoration for the holiday and springtime.  This is really simple and you probably have all the supplies already in your house.  Always a feature I love!!

Supplies:

• Cardboard
• Hole Puncher
• Glue
• Construction paper, various colors
• Scissors
• Ribbon

Steps:

1. Trace a heart on the cardboard
2. Cut out the cardboard heart
3. Cut out varying size hearts in various colors.
4. Cut out a bunch of the same color and size hearts – these will be for the border
5. Randomly glue various heart sizes in a collage on the cardboard heart
6. Hole punch two holes for the ribbon (one on each side of the cardboard heart)
7. Tie ribbon to holes.
8. After you glue all the varying size hearts to the cardboard heart glue the border hearts around the outside of the cardboard heart.

Enjoy!!

Here is a fun and simple Spring Time Craft to do with your kids.  This could even make a nice Mother’s day present!

Supplies:

• Construction paper -Green and Pink (or what ever color you want the flowers to be)
• Green Oak tag for bottom or a piece of cardboard to glue Construction paper too.
• Glue Stick
• Scissors

Steps:

1. Glue Construction paper to Cardboard
2. Cut one inch Strips for Stems
3. Fold Stems accordian style, keep folded for a few minutes under a book (if you have green oak tag, you can use this for sturdier stems)
4. Cut out flower shape from pink construction paper
5. Cut out green circle for inside flower
6. Glue circle on flower
7. Glue Flower on Stem
8. Glue Stem on base
9. Repeat for however many flowers you want to make!!

Have fun!!  If you need to get some craft supplies or you want a premade craft kit Target.com is a great place to get all kinds of craft supplies.

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!!

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!!