BEARS COLORING SHEETS!
As we get ready to ring in the new year and work on the new format we wanted to give you guys some coloring sheets! First up: a bear and a panda bear!
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BEARS COLORING SHEETS!
NARWHAL ORNAMENT!!
NARWHAL ORNAMENT!
We’re making a clay narwhal ornament to add to your tree!
Materials:
· Sculpey Clay (grey, white or yellow, and red)
· Ribbon (not shown)
· Paper clip or skewer (not shown)
Instructions:
1. First role the grey into a tube shape.
2. Then sculpt the tail.
3. Role two balls for fins. Shape into triangles and attach to the body.
4. Roll a tube of the white or yellow for the tooth.
5. Shape into a point and attach to the head.
6. Role a red ball and then shape into cone for hat. Then attach to head.
7. Take your skewer or paper clip and poke eyes and draw mouth.
8. Poke a hole through your Narwhal.
9. Bake your Narwhal according to package directions.
10. When cool- poke ribbon through hole in body and tie a knot on underside of Narwhal!
WALRUS ORNAMENT
We’re reposting last year’s ornament! Look for the NEW NARWHAL Ornament tomorrow!
Santa Walrus Ornament!
We’re making ornaments this month for craft time and we’re so excited to be making this adorable little felt walrus ornament! Let’s get crafty!
Materials:
- Red, white, cream, gray & brown felt (you only need small scraps)
- Black marker
- scissors
- hot glue (to be used by an adult)
- needle & thread
Instructions:
- Print out pattern (below)
- Cut pattern pieces out
- Cut out felt pieces
- Draw black dots on the eyes & two nostrils on brown mussel
- Glue face, eyes & tusks on walrus
- Glue Santa hat
- Take needle & thread and pull through the hat. Tie a knot in string.
- Hang your walrus!
Pattern:
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HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!
HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!
We want to wish everyone a very Happy Thanksgiving! And if you aren’t celebrating today- Happy Thursday!!
We have a coloring sheet for you to entertain yourself as the food is cooking!
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CREEPY ANIMALS WEEK- CRAFT!
CREEPY ANIMALS WEEK- CRAFT!
We have an excellent connect the dots coloring sheet for you! We have 3 animals who are often talked of during Halloween! As always we love to see your creations! Share them with us on Facebook or Twitter!
Have a safe and Happy Halloween!
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HABITAT WEEK- CRAFT!
HABITAT WEEK- CRAFT!
We’ve had so much fun celebrating some of the world’s amazing habitats! We first thought we might make a habitat for this month’s craft, but then we decided to go smaller and make a clay nudibranch! A what- you ask? A nudibranch or sea slug is one of our favorite animals in the coral reef. Are you ready to make one? Here’s what these crazy, colorful creatures look like!
Materials:
- Clay in any color you like (Air dry or oven bake will work)
Instructions:
- Take one color and make a large tube.
- Next, take your second color and make small cones (as many as you like)
- Then take a piece of the second color and roll a long tube and press it flat.
- Roll two small balls for the eyes.
- If you using clay that has to be dried in the oven- bake according to package directions. Then enjoy your new pal!
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ENDANGERED SPECIES WEEK- MANATEE BOOKMARK
Endangered Species Week- Craft Day
We’re making a manatee bookmark today. These amazing marine mammals are listed as vulnerable and there is much that we can do to help them; like making sure their ocean and river habitats are free of trash. Also making sure if you are boating in their habitat you go slow as not to hurt them. Lastly, help reduce the pollution that goes in our waterways, by using natural cleaning products. Let’s get started on this adorable bookmark that will remind you how neat manatees are!
Materials:
- A popsicle stick
- Gray Felt
- Hot glue (to be used by an adult)
- Black marker and blue marker
Instructions:
- Print pattern (below) and trace on the felt. You’ll need two manatees.
- Cut out your manatees.
- Color your popsicle stick with the blue marker.
- Place one manatee down, then the popsicle stick, then the other manatee on top- glue this together.
- Add face details to your manatee.
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SAVE THE RHINO DAY- ART CONTEST!
SAVE THE RHINO DAY!!
ART CONTEST!!
We’re celebrating rhinos with an art challenge! We want to see your creativity! We have drawn a rhino for you and we want you to color them! You can do a design in your rhino, add a habitat or color a bunch of rhinos and make a collage! Ellie drew a rhino with swirls!
Dig out the markers, crayons, pastels and pencils. Get creative and show us your love of rhinos! This is a contest and we’ll be picking one winner on May 18th. All ages are encouraged to join! The winner will get a donation made in their name to the World Wildlife Fund Rhinos campaign! Are you ready? Let’s get creative to Save the Rhinos!
EARTH DAY!!!!
EARTH DAY!!!
We celebrated Earth Day this year by helping with a trail clean up at our local natural history museum, Fernbank Museum of Natural History. We had a great time, pulled weeds and replanted some local plants that grow fruit that deer and racoons eat!
We didn’t see the beavers :(….
Beaver retention pond
Part of the trail we worked on!
Plants we transplanted!
Here we are at the registration table!
We also made a coloring sheet to celebrate Earth Day! We would love to see your artwork and tell us how you’ll be celebrating this fabulous holiday! We’ll be playing our Backyard Bingo Game (included below with coloring sheet!)
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FROG WEEK CRAFT!!!
FROG WEEK CRAFT!
We are making a wonderful frog piece of art that is so easy; all you have to do is make dots! Anyone can make it fancy! Come celebrate these fancy amphibians and show us your art! You can post pictures on our Facebook or Tweet them to us!
Materials:
- Colorful paints (we used red, orange, green and yellow)*
- Small paint brushes (chopsticks, pencil erasers or toothpicks will work too)
*If you don’t have paints around, markers will work too
Instructions:
- If you need too- sketch your frog first.
- All you are doing is “drawing” a frog with dots! We started with the head and then the eyes and then the body outlines.
- We dotted eyes and a mouth.
- Then we filled in the body with dots.
- You don’t have to do a particular pattern, just be creative! You can make all kinds of colored frogs too!
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