Craft Time! Paper Plate Bunny

You can read about our other bunny activities and bunny books here and here.

M loves paper plate crafts.  And gluing cotton.  So I knew this would be a winner. :)

Materials: Cotton balls, glue, 2 large green buttons, 2 small pink buttons, pink pipecleaner shaped into bunny mouth, pink pom-pom, pink construction paper with ears drawn as well as 4 to 6 straight lines for whiskers, and scissors (not pictured).

1. Cut out the whiskers.For some reason M thought he was supposed to cut between the black lines instead of along them.  So, while I intended to have 6 whiskers, we ended up with 5 and only used 4.  I actually liked how they looked with the black line down the center.  While he did this I cut out the ears.

2. Glue on the ears, pom-pom nose, and pipecleaner mouth:

 

3. Start pulling the cotton balls apart to make them fluffy, then glue them on around the paper plate: 

4. Glue on the green buttons for eyes:

 

5.Fan fold the whiskers, or if you can’t, then simply scrunch them up, straighten them back out, and glue them on:

 

6. Glue the pink buttons on top of the green buttons:  

7. Fill in the empty spots with more cotton:

 

8. Hang up your bunny and enjoy!

Have a beautiful day! :)

The Art Box – no box week

 

The Art Box actually did come back out this week… because M was asking for it.  Thank goodness!  But he did so much non-box art this week, that I’ll save the rest for another post.

 

M’s Grandpa turned 76 last week and there was a small party for family.  M asked me that morning who was going to be there, then he proceeded to create a piece of art for each one.  And, amazingly enough, he remembered who was to get which one.  Ever since Valentine’s Day he’s really, really, seriously, been into creating little things for other people.  I LOVE it! :)

 

Most of these were drawings with sparkly pens, but there’s a watercolor painting in there too, and some marker drawings too.

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Later in the week, we were still playing the “there’s nothing to do” whining game, and I suggested painting.  Like in the old days before the Art Box kind-of-painting. :)  So I put a large piece of freezer paper down, some fun painting utensils, and a plate with paints neatly arranged… and this is what happened:

And I thought he was past the mixing it all together stage!  Apparently not! :)  He had a ton of fun doing this; I have to make sure we do it more often.

He created this masterpiece:

And this one, which is a row of sheep on a hill, or a caterpillar in grass (see the cotton balls along the top?):

Have some children’s artwork you’d like to share?  Link it up below, and make sure to include a link back here in your blog post! 

Have a beautiful day! :)