DRAW A PICTURE OF A BIRD DAY!
Today is normally Mammal Monday, but we wanted to celebrate this super fun holiday! We want to see your art! Ellie got us started with a great coloring sheet of her favorite bird- the Blue Footed Booby- just print, click and color. If you are feeling creative- draw and color your own bird! It doesn’t have to be fancy, just get creative! Please share pictures of your artwork with us on our Facebook page or Tweet us your picture!
MARCH CRAFT!
CLAY BEAR!
Materials:
1. Air drying clay –Brown & Black (we only have brown because our local craft store was out of black)
2. Sharpie marker
Instructions:
1. Get a large piece of clay and make into an oval for the bear’s body
2. Then roll out to pieces to about a 1 ½” logs for legs & attach to the body.
3. Then roll out 1” logs for the arms & attach to the body.
4. Roll out a round ball for the head and attach to the body.
5. Next roll out balls for ears.
6. Finally if you have black, roll out two small balls for the eyes and a slightly larger one for the nose. If you don’t have it, roll those out of brown and color with the marker.
If you want to add paws- you can do so with black clay or draw them on with a marker.
We sure hope you make yourself a bear pal and remember we love to see your artwork- so show us on our Facebook page or Tweet us a picture! (You can buy black & white clay & make a Panda Bear too!)
We’ve had a request to gather all of our coloring sheets in one post to make them easier to access. You wish is our command :)! If you color any, please share your artwork on our Facebook page! We hope you enjoy them! Ellie will be adding more in posts and when she does, we’ll add them to this post too!
MAKE YOUR OWN ELLIE AND EDMOND ORIGINAL VALENTINES!
Valentine’s Day is soon approaching and Ellie has been hard at work making some great Valentines that you can print, color and share with your friends and family!
All you have to do is click on the link and print them out! There’s a frog, an owl and a moose! Glue them to a blank card or construction paper, color them and add your own pizazz! (Edmond loves to add glitter to his handmade cards!) As always please share your artwork with us! We love to see your creativity!
FEBURARY CRAFT
SOCK SNAKE!!!
Materials:
Instructions:
1. Cut out tongue from red felt & the two eyes from the black & white felt.
2. Stuff sock head for snake.
3. Fold a bit of the sock on each side just below the stuffing and then hot glue it in place to make the neck of the snake.
4. Finish stuffing the whole body.
5. Fold the opening of the sock closed and hot glue it closed. (If you want to you can sew this closed.)
6. Last hot glue the snake on the bottom of the head and the eyes on the top.
Remember if you make a snake share your photos with us! We want to see your creativity!
JANUARY CRAFT
We’re starting off our monthly craft feature with a penguin coloring sheet. It is an original Ellie drawing! We know penguins are black and white, but we want to see them in color and glitter :)!
Download and print this penguin trio and then show us your best stuff! As always we love it when you share your artwork with us on Facebook or Twitter!
December Craft
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:
Instructions:
Pattern:
NOVEMBER CRAFT!
FINGERPRINT ART!
Get your ink pads, sketch pads and fingers (or hooves or paws) ready for this month’s craft.
We’re making fingerprint fall scenes!
Materials:
Instructions:
1) Draw out a tree (or whatever base makes you happy)
2) Cover your tree in fall colored leaf finger prints (this is the fun part)
3) Add finger prints for animals and use your markers to add faces, feathers & tails.
Remember, we want to see your creations! Post them here or on our Facebook or Tweet us!
October Craft!!
BAT MASK!
It’s almost Halloween and we thought a bat masks would be perfect! We have come up with a bat mask design! We have instructions for both the paper mask and a felt version!
Materials: (We showing the felt version here)
Instructions for Paper Mask:
1. Print out the pattern for your mask on cardstock
2. Cut out your mask and color.
3. Punch holes in each side of the mask.
4. Attach ribbon to each side and tie it your face J!
Instructions for Felt Mask:
1. Print out Pattern and trace it on the felt.
2. Cut out the mask. When done, cut out eye holes by folding bat wing in half & cutting an oval.
3. Decorate your mask with glitter, etc… if you want to dress it up!
4. Punch holes in the sides of mask. Tie or glue ribbon to the holes.
5. Wear your mask!
SEPTEMBER CRAFT/ACTIVITY!!
We’re celebrating Back to School this week and we’re featuring some super smart animals, including chimpanzees! Chimps are known to take sticks and use them to fish out termites or ants for a nice protein rich snack! So we thought it would be fun to make a craft so you can pretend to be a chimpanzee! Are you ready?
Materials:
Instructions:
1. Paint your bottle with two coats of paint. You will have wait for the first coat to dry completely before starting the second one. (The bottle is your ant mound)
2. While the paint dries color your dowel with the marker.
3.Then cut your strip of magnet in to small pieces that will fit on the back your buttons and one piece to put on the end of your dowel
4. Glue the magnet pieces to the backs of the buttons and to the end of the dowel.
5. Once the second coat of paint has dried (this make take a while), have an adult take the craft knife and cut 3 holes in the bottle.
Now you are ready to practice using your stick tool to get ants! Just drop your buttons in and start fishing for button ants!
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