Wednesday, January 30, 2013

Artsy Fun Learning

Just a few fun things Graham and Parker have done lately!


Counting with dollar tree/ target dollar bin plastic reusable ice cubes





Spooning marbles into empty water bottles, and then they made up fun marble games too!
They made up a game where they make the marbles go across the tray, and then try to trap one with the bottle while the marbles are moving all over the tray!















Building letters! You can get them HERE!








I made them a jellyfish decoration out of iridescent beading cord, iridescent (cardstock) scrapbook paper, a bowl from the dollar tree, tape, and hot glue gun!  I folded the paper in half and cut it into double sided shapes. It's kind of it's own species of jellyfish. I am calling it the rainbow jellyfish. Then poked a hole into the top center. Then I put the cord through and knotted it underneath. I taped the cord and then taped the shapes closed from the inside. Then I hot glued the other end of the cord to the bowl., which by the way came off the spool curly (bonus!!) The cord was from the section at Michaels where they keep the kids beading materials. Like for friendship bracelets.  The bowl was from a 4 pack, or 6 pack at the dollar tree... (can not remember.) We use these bowls for a lot of things with our learning activities. I had an extra though so, I decided to make them a jellyfish with it!  I think this is a craft you can do with a child ages 3-5 or older. I just wanted to make them something, It was not a pain to make but it would be slightly difficult for a child to do the hot gluing to the bowl part. I glued on the decorative pattern seams on the bowl.








Playing with their fiber optic color changing light. You can get it HERE!





Lemon Meringue Slime



My twins had a lot of fun with this slime tonight!! Parker played with it much longer than Graham though.  Graham is not as into slime as Parker is. I loved the glow and the smell. It seriously smelled like a delicious Lemon Meringue pie!!

I used a 1 liter bottle of tonic water, 4 scoops of insta snow, a package of Dunecraft gobbledy goops, 4 teaspoons of lemon extract, and 1/4 cup of Colorations fluorescent yellow tempera paint. No water!! Just the tonic water! I mixed it all very thoroughly in a big plastic bin from the dollar tree. You have to mix it a lot, and fast to mix the insta snow and gobbledygoop correctly.

Check out the video!!























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AWESOME slime concoctions HERE!!!


Tuesday, January 22, 2013

Fine Motor with tubes and transparent counters

Super fine motor, so easy and simple too!!


All we used was the tube from that a Hexbug Nano comes in and some Transparent counters

My twins love to play with hexbug nano's, they use them in their car table, on the light table, on the overhead projector with magna tiles, and just about with anything! 

The tubes they come in happen to have a removable lid that has a slot in the top. I removed all of the labeling and realized soon enough that our transparent counters fit into them very nicely!! This makes such a GREAT fine motor activity!!  They enjoy it too!




















Transparent counters