Soda Pop Walk

Our local elementary school is having a fund raiser tonight.  Part of that involves a soda pop walk.  Have you ever heard of that before?  Me either.  Apparently it is akin to a cake walk.  Cake was sort of out of the question--because our school has a strict policy about homemade treats.  So they opted for soda pop.  The kids were asked to decorate a 2-liter bottle of pop to have as prizes for the "walk".  And really that was all the instruction we were given. 

OK.  So now that you are all up to speed.  Want to see what we came up with?  In honor of the two up-coming holidays...

This lucky leprechaun started out life as a bottle of Sprite.  

We added a few embellishments, made a few snips with our 

scissors, applied glue generously, and...lo and behold his true identity was discovered!

This little guy has a heart of pink lemonade!  You may recognize his britches from here.  The soda pop bottle fit perfectly!   We wrapped the bottle in brown craft paper, added a face and some ears.  My daughter thought he needed a bowtie.  And I wholeheartedly agreed!

This bottle of Fanta orange shouted "spring" to my kindergartner.  She thought a spring scene was definitely the way to go.  She created this almost entirely on her own.  I punched out the flowers and helped her glue her scene onto the bottle.  I thought it turned out so cute.  I love the flowers and the little bunnies.  Those must be baby bunnies.  Not all of them have caught on to the art of hopping yet.  I guess we all must fall sometimes.

Who knew that a bottle of pop could be such a fun canvas for creating!

[The Gratitude Project] Fine Art

 I'm a sucker for hand print (and foot print) art!

The beak just kills me.  So cute.

My daughter brought this home today from her kindergarten Thanksgiving feast.

[The Gratitude Project] Fun and Games

 First things first.  Here's the FUN:

Today's post is brought to you by my six year old daughter.  She is feeling grateful.  From left to right, she is grateful for trees, ice cream cones, rainbows, colors, (a particular friend), (another particular friend), family, flowers, and leaves.

Now for the GAMES":

Here is a Thanksgiving game to enjoy with the kids.  It's a lot like this one.  To download and print out your game cards, click here.  All you need to play are some game cards, a pencil, and a die.  You might want some crayons to color your masterpieces when you are done.

Family Popsicle Stick Puppets

 

We are just finishing up preschool for the year.  Just one more week.  Our last unit is focusing on families and belonging.  Today for our art project, we made family stick puppets.  Are they adorable or what?  I designed and printed out a bunch of these blank puppets and had the children make a puppet for each member of their family.  They were really engrossed in this project.  My daughter was all about the details.  She drew each person with accuracy.  Down to the exact clothes they were wearing today.

 

Each child had their own artistic style.  It was so fun to see their personalities shine through.

I thought we would just focus on immediate families, but they wanted to add in grandmas and grandpas and aunts and uncles.

We just used crayons to add all of the details to our puppets.

 But depending on the ages of your children, you could cut out paper or fabric clothes or use other craft supplies (yarn, googly eyes, whatever).   Make it as simple or as complex as you like.  After each puppet was lovingly created, we added a popsicle stick to the back.

Popsicle stick puppets.  An oldie but a goodie.

I'm linking up with:

Homeschool Creations 
Toys in the Dryer

Easter Eggs

We are finally getting ready to decorate our Easter eggs this morning.  My daughter can't wait.  She loves a blank canvas!  I thought I'd share a few cool egg ideas I've found lately.  Just in case you need some inspiration!

I adore these floral modpodge eggs by Brown Paper Packages!

Or how about these origami paper wrapped eggs from One Dog Woof?  She has a really cool cutting and pasting technique that I am anxious to try!

These doodle eggs and water color eggs by Alisa Burke are completely amazing.  She is so talented!

Lil Luna creates these super fun subway art eggs using cut vinyl or stickers.  Don't you just want to raid your sticker stash and get to work?

And last but not least, these Lichtenstein eggs by Art Club Blog brought a huge smile to my face!

Now go boil some eggs and channel your inner artist!  Happy Easter everyone!