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Valentine's Day Paper Plate Wreath

It is always fun to get the house in a festive mood for a holiday.  This easy preschooler craft is perfect to spread some Valentine's Day cheer.  You only need a few simple things to make this paper plate heart wreath and it is also a great opportunity to learn about two shapes - circles and hearts.

 

Materials:

Large paper plate
Glue stick or white glue
White, pink, red and/or purple construction paper
Scissors

 

paper plate Valentine's Day wreath

 

 

How to Assemble Your Paper Plate Heart Wreath

1.  Cut out a large hole in the middle of the paper plate.

2.  Fold a piece of construction paper over 4 times and cut half of a heart at the fold so that you will end up with 8 hearts.  Repeat this for as many colours as you would like to use.

3.  Glue the hearts on to the paper plate, covering most of the white background.

4.  Let it dry for 10 minutes and then hang it up and enjoy!

 

paper plate heart wreath, valentine's day

 

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Posted by momstown team on 02/11/2013 - 15:03
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6 Fun Family Crafts and Activities for Family Day

Family Day is around the corner and we are thankful for this day to celebrate our families and spend quality time together!

 

This February set some time aside this Family day to do some fun crafts and activities to bring your family even closer together.  How often do you have everyone at the table to create a family masterpiece?

 

1.  Go to a "Make your Own" Pottery store and make a family plate with handprints or names.

handprint pottery

 

2.  Trace the hands of everyone in your family to make a poster, family tree, hand flowers or mural for your house.

 family day craft ideas

 

3.  Play "My Favourites" with your kids.  Write out questions and go around the table asking and answering questions about your family's favourite colours, animals, foods, movies, books.  You'll be surprised at what you learn about each other!  After you have the answers, older kids can create a Family word search with everyone's names and favourite things! Or print off a family word search and help kids recognize the words.

 

4. Plan and prepare and family dinner together!  Everyone gets to choose a dish or a course and every pitches in to help make it (if you plan ahead, you can also all shop for ingredients too)!  Be sure to check out our family-friendly meals and ideas for cooking with kids when you are looking for suggestions!

 family day ideas

 

 5.  Family Dance Party!  Take turns showing off your best dance moves and teaching them to the other family members.  Let each person pick their favourite song and put on a performance.  This is a great way to stay active together and have some laughs.  Create a memorable moment by teaching your kids how to slow dance- they can even watch mommy and daddy!

 

6.  Get outside and have fun; take a hike, make a snowman together, or hit the tobaggan hills!  Need some new ideas?  Here are some fun ways to have family time in the snow!

 

 

Happy Family Day!

 

Posted by Mom of Boys on 02/03/2013 - 14:49
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L is for Ladybug- Craft, Song and Party Ideas

Moms and kids love our Chapters Alphabet Craft mornings!  This month, we are learning about the letter L.  This "Ladybug" craft was one of our cutest!  Did you know that we have all 26 upper case letter crafts and lower case letter crafts on our site?  Here are other "L" crafts too!

 

 l is for ladybug alphabet craft

 

Materials:

Red and Black construction paper

Googly eyes

Black bingo dabbers

Glue

 

Instructions:

1.  Precut the red "L" and 2 black semi-circles (cut a circle in half) for the kids.

2.  Glue the Red L onto the full black sheet of construction paper.

3.  Glue on black wings to look like the ladybug is flying.

4.  Gets kids to add on the eyes.

5.  Use Bingo dabbers (found at the dollar or party story) to make the dots on the Ladybug.

 

Do your kids love Ladybugs?

1.  Plan a Ladybug Party

2.  Read some fabulous bug books

3.  Teach numbers with Ladybugs

4.  Make the ultimate bug catcher

5.  Check this Ladybug board on Pinterest

6.  Sing this silly Ladybug song;

Sung to:"Twinkle Twinkle Little Star"

 Lady Bug, Lady Bug
 she landed on my nose
 I went “kerchoo!” and
 off she flew!
 Her body is round with
 big black dots,
 My mommy told me
 they're called spots.
 Lady Bug, Lady Bug
 she looks really neat
 With her bright red wings,
 And tiny black feet!

 

Thanks to Paula from momstown KW for this idea!

Posted by momstown team on 01/23/2013 - 18:28
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Easy Stitching Craft for Valentine's Day

Grab your favourite Valentine's Day treat and check out the beautiful hearts filled with love the momstown Hamilton children made for their mom & dads. 

 

easy valentine's day craft

 

 

 

1.  We started out with giant hearts and punched holes around the edges for threading, which is a very fun fine motor skill to practice at this age. And then we coloured and wrote special messages to our favourite valentines.

 

easy stitching craft for Valentine's day


2. Then we threaded two hearts together halfway and filled it with a bit of stuffing so it had a puffy look. Getting a little help from mom is always good.

 

 

3. Once the stuffing is in we finished the threading and tied it off.

 

stitching craft for Valentine's day

 

 

4.  Then we added the final touches of a few special stickers. Concentrating very hard on making sure it's just perfect.


valentine's day craft for kids

 

After craft time we had a valentines treat and then finished with story time about love.

 


Share the love on Valentine's Day!

Posted by momstown team on 01/23/2013 - 12:07
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Cheap and Easy Silly Spoon Craft for Kids

Let's create some silly characters with wooden spoons!

 

This craft is a "pull-out-all-of-your-supplies-and-use-them-up" craft!  The best part is that we all have feather, googly eyes, construction paper, pom poms and a little glitter, if not, your local dollar store has plenty! 

 

We are all about being silly at momstown, and this craft is just a perfect way to giggle and laugh as we make our spoons act in a play,  sing a song or do a dance!

 

silly spoon craft

 

 

Materials:

Wooden spoon from a dollar store

Wood or all purpose kraft glue

feather, googly eyes, paper, pom poms, glitter glue, sequins, rhinestones, markers, stickers, fabric- get as creative as you like!

 

 

Instructions:

1. Clean your new wooden spoon.  Cut down the one of the handles for a baby silly spoon, if you want to make a family of spoons!

2. Add glue where you want to decorate your spoon and be creative when you add the decorations!  Maybe he only has ONE giant eye or even 10 eyes!  Glue eyes, pompom, construction paper, feathers, clothes and sequins to spoon to create facial features.

3. You can cut out construction paper arms or use pipe cleaners.  You can even make clothes out of old pieces of fabric!

4. Give your new spoon friend a name and act out a play or let them dance to your favourite song!

 

photo credit: I love to create

Posted by momstown team on 01/12/2013 - 13:56
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Silly Handprint Monster Craft

How do you beat the winter blahs?  That's easy just get "Silly" with momstown Burlington.  Follow these simple directions and not only will you be left laughing - but you'll have a cute keepsake craft!

 

 silly handprint monsters


 

Materials Needed:

Washable Paint
Sponge or paintbrush
Paper or Canvas
Construction Paper or Cardstock
Black Magic Marker
Optional:  Googly Eyes

 

1.  Using the washable paint, and sponge or paintbrush - help child to paint palm and several fingers (but not all).  Try painting half a finger, whole fingers or just one.  Experiment and see which makes the cutest monster.

 

2.  Press hand onto paper or canvas.  Be sure not to wiggle hand.  Be sure to press whole palm down.

 

silly handprint monsters

 

3.  While paint is drying.  Use construction paper to cut out circles for eyes.  We used white, but you can use other colors - after all they are monsters!  We also cut out a tongue and some teeth.  You could try antennae, warts, moustaches or mouths!

 

4.  Use marker to draw pupil on eye, and detail to monster!  Glue on eyes.  Alternatively use googly eyes - or a combination of both!

 

5.  Check out your cute creation!

 

silly handprint monsters

Posted by momstown team on 01/06/2013 - 23:41
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