Posts Tagged With: crafts

ENDANGERED SPECIES WEEK- MANATEE BOOKMARK

Posted on May 15, 2013 by Ellie and Edmond ©

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!

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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.

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  • Color your popsicle stick with the blue marker.

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  • Place one manatee down, then the popsicle stick, then the other manatee on top- glue this together.

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  • Add face details to your manatee.

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SAVE THE RHINO DAY- ART CONTEST!

Posted on May 1, 2013 by Ellie and Edmond ©

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!

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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!

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EARTH DAY!!!!

Posted on April 22, 2013 by Ellie and Edmond ©

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 :(....

We didn’t see the beavers :(….

 

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Part of the trail we worked on!

Part of the trail we worked on!

Plants we transplanted!

Plants we transplanted! 

 

Here we are at the registration table!

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!!!

Posted on April 17, 2013 by Ellie and Edmond ©

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!

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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.

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  • We dotted eyes and a mouth.
  • Then we filled in the body with dots. 

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  • 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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DRAW A PICTURE OF A BIRD DAY!

Posted on April 8, 2013 by Ellie and Edmond ©

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!

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MARCH CRAFT- BEAR WEEK!!

Posted on March 20, 2013 by Ellie and Edmond ©

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

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Instructions:

1. Get a large piece of clay and make into an oval for the bear’s body

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2. Then roll out to pieces to about a 1 ½” logs for legs & attach to the body.

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3. Then roll out 1” logs for the arms & attach to the body.

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4. Roll out a round ball for the head and attach to the body.

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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.

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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!)

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Coloring Sheets!

Posted on March 14, 2013 by Ellie and Edmond ©

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!

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Make Your Own Ellie & Edmond Valentines!

Posted on February 10, 2013 by Ellie and Edmond ©

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!

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JANUARY CRAFT- SOCK SNAKE!!

Posted on February 6, 2013 by Ellie and Edmond ©

FEBURARY CRAFT

SOCK SNAKE!!!

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Materials:

  • Stuffing
  • Knee Sock (used is fine)
  • Red, white & black felt
  • Hot glue
  • Scissors

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Instructions:

1.     Cut out tongue from red felt & the two eyes from the black & white felt.

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2.     Stuff sock head for snake.

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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.)

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6.     Last hot glue the snake on the bottom of the head and the eyes on the top.

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Remember if you make a snake share your photos with us! We want to see your creativity! 

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JANUARY CRAFT!

Posted on January 17, 2013 by Ellie and Edmond ©

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!

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