My Daughter the Art Teacher - Using Scraps, Stickers, Paper, Glue Sticks, Colored Tape and Crayons

My daughter wanted to teach me how to do an art project the other day.  We sat down at the craft table together and I followed her directions. First we started with a piece of construction paper and scraps from scrapbook paper.  She showed me how to cut, then paste, the scraps onto the paper in a specific way.  Next we choose Disney Princess stickers from leftover sheets and she showed me where to stick them on the scrapbook paper. Then she took a long piece of green tape to place across the bottom of the picture and I did the same.  We also each chose two pieces of paper from the Disney Princess mini notepads left over from a party and again my daughter showed me how to paste them onto our works of art. Finally we each drew little pictures with crayons, happy faces and butterflies.  While she took her bath I showed her little brother how to make the same pictures and helped him create one.  Our finished works are below.  Overall having my daughter teach me how to do a project instead of creating one for her to do worked out great.  She used creativity, motor skills, verbal skills and we used materials already at our disposal.  Excellent activity!

The Finished Works

My Daughter's Work of Art

My Work of Art

My Son's Work of Art

My Little Pony Pop plus Play-Doh Creations

My daughter combined two of her favorite toys the other day - My Little Pony and Play-Doh.  She has various My Little Pony Pop figurines you snap together and can customize.  She took the ones she has and decided to make manes and tails for them out of play-doh.  Very creative and cute!

Multi-Materials Craft - Use Scraps from Previous Projects!

I've saved pieces from different craft projects we have worked on together.  One day, my daughter got out a bunch of them and started creating a picture.  This is such an easy project and great way to use up scraps.  Just give your child a variety of materials such as tissue paper, poms, buttons, crayons, paper etc. and glue or tape and voila! The possibilities are endless!  

Creatology Easter Foam Flower Pots with Bunnies

Another Easter craft we completed were these cute customizable foam flower pots.  I helped my daughter create the foam pot part, then she chose what to put together and place them in the pots (with my help).  We gave a few to our neighbors who hosted an Easter egg hunt in their backyard! 

Creatology Easter Foam Structure - Egg Shaped House

For Christmas we had great success building a couple Creatology foam structures for decoration.  We tried this Easter egg shaped house and we were less successful!  The house itself had trouble staying in the slots.  My daughter did have a lot of fun decorating it though!

Tissue Paper Plastic Easter Eggs Craft

Having attended an Easter egg hunt this year already, we had plenty plastic Easter eggs to play with around the house.  My daughter came up with an idea to decorate some with paper.  We had tissue paper left over from a craft box so I suggested that instead.  My daughter used a combination of glue sticks, colored tape and sticks to stick the different squares of tissue paper on the eggs.  It turned out to a be a fun, cute activity.  We still have a lot of plastic eggs left over to play with but now we have some colorful decorative ones as well!

Creatology - Bunny & Chick Easter Craft

Easter will soon be upon us, so this past weekend it was time for Easter crafts!  I bought a few Creatology craft kits last year for this year and while the other two crafts are currently a work in progress, my daughter and son made these adorable bunnies and chicks.  Now that my son is three, he can work on these types of crafts more often with my daughter and me. I liked this kit except the pieces we had to glue on.  I much prefer kits with pieces that are all stickers.  For the chicks, my son helped stick on the eyes and beak.  I put the glue on the wings and feet and with help, he placed them on his chicks.  For the bunnies, my daughter stuck on the eyes, nose, pink part of the feet, pink parts of the ears and drew smiles.  I helped stick on the toes (so tiny) and glue the feet on. The pomps for the tummies are very cute but aren't big enough to stay in the holes, so I used scotch tape on the back to keep them in place.  We sent one of each animal to the grandparents and a couple family friends for Easter.