Winter Wonderland

This week, the girls and (plus our new little friend Charlie!) made lots of fun snowflake related crafts...well, 3 snowflake related crafts, not a lot, but still...fun times!

Our first craft was coffee filter and cupcake liner snowflakes. I saw a similar idea on www.notimeforflashcards.com she used cupcake liners and then glittered them up and made a garland. Super cute. I had it in my head to make a lot and hang them from our playroom ceiling, which is just what we did!
I watered down blue tempura paint and let the girls paint the coffee filters and cupcake liners. We gave little Charlie a dot marker and then dropped a little water on her art to make it more transparent.



We used some medicine droppers too to spot the paint here and there


This was a fun craft for all of us


We let the filters and liners dry while we ate lunch. After lunch, Charlie went down for a nap and we began folding and cutting the snowflakes. Emily helped a lot, but I did most of them. After that it was the part that the girls had been waiting for! The GLITTER!!!



Now we have a beautiful winter wonderland playroom! The girls LOVE it! They walk in and say "Oh! It's Sooooo cold in here! It's snowing!!!"



A couple of days later we made shaving cream snowmen. This was a lot of fun for the girls as well. I mixed equal parts shaving cream and glue and the girls painted it on a blue piece of paper. I had drawn snowman templates on the paper and Emily was able to make hers resemble a snowman...the younger girls just had fun painting! It dried with a nice raised texture and looks a lot like snow! We still need to go back and finish them....add buttons and such.



We took a couple of days and just colored and water painted and got back in the organized craft mode today.
A friend introduced me to a great blog: http://www.frugalfamilyfunblog.com/
I am obsessed with it! LOTS of great ideas and the best part?! The are CHEAP!!!
I really liked this idea:
http://www.frugalfamilyfunblog.com/2009/12/art-so-easy-toddler-can-do-it.html

I didn't have any canvas on hand, so I went exploring in my basement. I found a white cardboard box and thought "Voila!". I cut the bottom off of it, a piece of the side and there I had my 3 squares. Next, I taped out the snowflake shape


The girls were so excited and jumped right in painting their masterpieces




After we covered the whole square, we set them aside to dry. I started getting lunch ready and I heard the girls talk about their tea party. I was so proud when I looked in the playroom and saw what they had decided (on their own!) to use as their table---just the piece of "trash" that I had thrown to the side! LOVE creativity!!!


Yep! It was the box I had cut up! Made me very happy to see them thinking that way!

Anyway-back to the snowflakes---we removed the tape and outlined it in black, and ta-da!!! Our beautiful artwork!

So, that was our week. Lots of fun winter crafts! I am trying to think of what to do next week....stay tuned!