A Mommy's Adventures: April 2011

Thursday, April 28, 2011

stART ~ The Giving Tree

Welcome to stART! I hope that you will enjoy our story and art project and maybe even share your own too. All I ask is that you link back to A Mommy’s Adventures somewhere in your post by either adding my button or a text link, so that others can see all the other great projects that everyone shares too! The linky will be open all week. Be sure to stop by and visit the different links…every week there are so many different and fun book and craft ideas!

Check out the stART tab in my navigation bar where you can find our past stART projects. All the books that we have read and did a stART project for are listed in alphabetical order.

This week we have been enjoying reading The Giving Tree, by Shel Silverstein. This is a classic story about a tree and a little boy. Emily loves reading this book and was very excited to make her own giving tree.

First I traced her hand and arm onto a piece of blue paper.

Emily and Juliette painted their traced hand and arms with brown paint to make the trunk and branches of the tree.Finally, they glued on green tissue paper for the leaves and heart construction paper punches for the apples.

Juliette’s Giving Tree Emily’s Giving Tree

Thursday, April 21, 2011

stART ~ The Easter Egg

Check out the stART tab in my navigation bar where you can find our past stART projects. All the books that we have read and did a stART project for are listed in alphabetical order.

This week as we continue to get ready to celebrate Easter, we read The Easter Egg, by Jan Brett. This is a beautifully illustrated story about a little bunny that wants to win the Easter Egg decorating contest so that he will be able to help the Easter Rabbit. While trying to think of how he should decorate his egg he discovers a Robin that needs help caring for one of her eggs that fell out of her nest. The bunny helps the Robin and is unable to decorate his own egg, but the Easter Rabbit knows what he did and how he helped the Robin and rewards him. I liked that this book focuses on helping others and was not all about being the winner. Right now Emily is very competitive and this book is a great example of how you do not always have to win and the way you play the game or help others is more important!

To go along with this book we decorated our own paper Easter Eggs with our Art Group. Last year we made Mosaics out of Egg Shells and the whole process was a big hit. This year we used colored Egg Shells to decorate a construction paper eggs. We dyed the egg shells and the crushed them into little pieces. The girls were able to use the crushed egg shells like glitter to decorate their construction paper egg. The bright colors of the egg shells look so pretty and all the children even the little ones really had a great time working on this project!

First they added the glue in what ever design they wanted.

Next, they added the egg shell sprinkles.

They made some beautiful Easter Eggs!!

Juliette’s Egg Emily’s Egg

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Thursday, April 14, 2011

stART ~ Pooh’s Easter Basket

Check out the stART tab in my navigation bar where you can find our past stART projects. All the books that we have read and did a stART project for are listed in alphabetical order.

This week we read Pooh's Easter Basket. This is a simple board book that Emily and now Juliette really enjoy. The different characters from Winnie the Pooh all find different colored Easter Eggs.

After reading this book we made some cute Handprint Bunny and Easter Egg Pictures. For this project I made a sample and then gave Emily all the pieces she would need and let her put it together however she wanted.

First I helped Emily trace her hand on a piece of white paper and then cut it out. To make the rabbits face we folded down the thumb, middle finger and pinky finger. Then Emily glued the handprint and an oval white piece onto the paper with some green grass. She enjoyed cutting the fringe to make the grass.

Emily added the face, cotton ball tail, a construction paper sun (which she put together on her own) and then some foam Easter egg stickers.

Emily’s finished Easter Bunny and Eggs

Thursday, April 7, 2011

stART ~ The Easter Chick

Check out the stART tab in my navigation bar where you can find our past stART projects. All the books that we have read and did a stART project for are listed in alphabetical order.

This week we read The Easter Chick , by Geraldine Elschner. This is a cute story about a little chick that wants to be born on Easter Sunday. All the animals in the barnyard are not really sure when that is since it always falls on a different date each year. The old owl however, helps the mother hen and her chick to know when Easter Sunday is. The story is well written and the illustrations are beautiful.

We made some really cute Easter Chicks hatching from their eggs to go along with this book!

Emily and Juliette decorated a yellow oval piece of construction paper with yellow markers, feathers and tissue paper. Then they added a white half shell and yellow wings. Then they glued on two wiggly eyes and a orange beak. Although I had everything prepared in advance they were able to put their chicks together however they liked.