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Crafts for Toddlers are always fun and this bunny rabbit is sure to be a hit in your house. What I love about this craft is that they can create most of it themselves. Add a popsicle stick to it to make it a puppet. Then you can create a few rabbits or other animals and have a little show!
Supplies:
- Googly eyes
- Glue
- Markers
- Construction paper
- Cotton balls
- Plate
- Stapler
- Scissors
Steps:
- Draw a mouth and eyes with the marker
- Glue Googly eyes over the eyes
- Glue cotton balls in a circle around plate and for nose
- Cut a circle out of pink construction paper, glue to nose cottonball
- Cut ears out of white construction paper. Staple to rabbits head
Have fun!!
photo credit: Photocapy
This is one craft that your kids will surely love and enjoy. This will develop their creativity and resourcefulness. As they grow taller and stronger, they are attracted to moving objects. They are also becoming more aware of their mobility. Making a pull-along mini-cart would satisfy their curiosity and active desire to be in control of things. Moreover, this craft can be a learning activity in which the children can identify colors and shapes.
What you will need:
- Drinking/plastic cup
- Colored cardboard
- Two pieces of pencils
- Modeling clay
- String
- Pair of scissors
How to do it:
- Place your drinking/plastic cup on the colored cardboard and trace the base with a pencil to make four wheels.
- Cut the four wheels out of the cardboard.
- Push the two pencils through the two wheels respectively. Be careful in handling the pointed tip to avoid piercing or hurting yourself.
- Attach the pencil on each wheel and seal it with modeling clay to prevent it from loosening.
- Make a small rectangular box with an open top using your colored cardboard. You can use a different color this time to make the body of the mini-cart distinct from the wheels.
- Make four holes on the sides of the box, two on each side.
- Push the pencils with wheels through the holes.
- Attach the remaining two wheels on the two pencils, respectively and fixing it with modeling clay.
- Tie a string on one end of the box, just long enough for your kid to pull it along.
- Now that you have a pull-along mini-cart, ask your child to give it a name to make it more meaningful for him.
photo credit: thebittenword.com
Kids will have fun making animals out of ordinary materials which can be found at home. An example of this is the Potato Porcupine which your kids can easily do with your assistance.
The materials are commonly found in the kitchen, or bought in stores or groceries near you. They are not very expensive, so you can make several of this if you like. You can use different sizes of potato if you want to create, maybe, a family of porcupine. Each porcupine requires one potato only.
Materials needed:
- Small potato (uncooked)
- Craft sticks (or you can use popsicle sticks used for ice cream)
- Two wiggle eyes
- Toothpicks
- Glue
- Black marker
How to make it:
- Use a small uncooked potato for this project. Do not peel.
- Break the craft sticks into half, making sure that they are equal in length.
- Push two half sticks into the bottom of the potato for legs, and another two at the sides for arms.
- Glue the two wiggle eyes on the front of the potato. Draw a nose and a mouth using the black marker to complete the face of your porcupine.
- Stick the toothpicks around the potato to serve as pins of your porcupine.
I am once again on my quest to find a sitter for the mornings and have been utilizing sitter city which I have had great success with. The thing I love about sitter city is that there are so many qualified sitters on there, and they have the profile’s on each person. The profile’s are really helpful because I find they give you a sense about each person.
So now I am in the process of setting up interviews and meeting the potential sitters. I do hope we can find someone really good. It’s so important to find someone your comfortable with, that’s good with the kids and reliable.
What have you been tackling?
This week I tackled the radiator! I wish I had taken a before picture! It was really getting rusty and gross looking and it wasn’t even that old. I guess that’s what happens when you have a boy and the radiator is next to the toilet! So I sanded it and spray painted it with rustoleum paint. It came out really great and looks brand new, so I am really excited!!
Check out the after picture!
What have you tackled?
