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Wed
28 ^th

Gingerbread Men Crafts

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“Run, run as fast as you can. You can’t catch me. I’m the Gingerbread Man.”

I know it is early & we have not even had Halloween yet, but always around this time of year my mind starts wandering to gingerbread. Why, you might ask? Because every year, I start getting ready to construct my annual holiday gingerbread house. Since it is usually a time consuming project, I typically start in the beginning of November.

Here is a gingerbread version of our old house from a few Christmases ago.

This year has been hectic with moving out of our house & waiting for the construction on our new home to finish. With all of this going on, a gingerbread house is not in the cards, but that can’t stop us from making some gingerbread crafts.

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We are staying with relatives during our construction. We just so happen to be sharing a roof with a little girl, a little younger than Mai, who also enjoys crafts as much as we do. Last night the three of us worked on a couple simple crafts together.

Build a gingerbread man

This was a quick & easy craft for both children. The skill level will be different depending on age. I did this craft with a 2 & 3 year old.

What you will need:

Construction paper (brown & white)

Googly eyes

Buttons

Pom poms

Glue sticks or school glue

Magic marker

Draw & cut out a few gingerbread man shapes.

Cut wavy lines out of white construction paper for the icing for the arms & legs. Put those, googly eyes, buttons & pom poms on a plate to be used for decoration.

Give your child or children some glue & let them go…

Here was Mai’s original craft. She then decided that she wanted to draw in a tutu, ballet shoes and some hair as well.

Our other tiny crafter did a great job on hers as well.

And of course, mommy did one as well. I stole the rosy cheek idea from my daughter.

They both did great on their crafts, but before we picked up we squeezed in one more.

Footprint Gingerbread Men

I painted both children’s cute little tootsies in brown paint & pressed them onto a piece of paper one at a time.

I dipped a finger into the same paint & formed the arms on either side of each foot. With white paint, I added the icing to the arms & across the bottom of the feet.

We finished them off by drawing in the face, bow & buttons using magic marker. This will make a lovely holiday keepsake & a great memory for the kids of this time that they are sharing together.

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Tue
29 ^th

Haunted House Crafts

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I love doing crafts with my daughter. It is always fun to see what she can do. One of my favorite crafts to do with her is shape crafts. I love to watch what she will construct and listen to her tell the stories about what she just made. Last night we took some of those shapes & used them to form haunted houses. Here’s how…

Cut out a bunch of shapes as shown. You will need two shapes for your house base & tower, two triangles for your roofs & two rectangles for chimneys. Cut small squares & rectangles out of yellow paper for the windows.

Glue your house base in place.

Glue on your roof. Draw a cross in the middle of your yellow squares to form the windows & then glue them in place as well.

Glue your tower next to your house & add the chimneys.

Cut out a circle to form a moon & glue it in place. Add googly eyes to finish off your haunted houses.

These houses came out so cute that it inspired one more haunted house craft.

Footprint Haunted House

Paint your child’s foot in all black. Stamp it onto a piece of paper & let it dry.

Paint a door & windows in with yellow.

Use white paint to add details to your house.

Paint in a roof or draw one in with marker.

Paint or draw in bats, a tree & extra details to finish off your haunted little foot.

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Tue
22 ^nd

Artist Inspired Footprint Art

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Thu
03 ^rd

Footprint Animals From A-Z Featuring L, M & N

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We are now more than halfway done with our footprint animal crafts from A – Z. It has been a fun project for Mai & I. She gets a kick out of seeing me turn her little feet into artwork & has learned about a few new animals. Last night our crafts covered the letters L, M & N. Our first one was L & while we tossed around a few different animals that began with L, we went with a lion. Here’s how.

Footprint Lion Craft

Paint your child’s foot mostly in yellow. Paint a lighter shade of yellow or white in a T-shape as shown. Press the foot onto a piece of paper.

Paint the lion’s mane around the heel & a pair of ears on top. Paint in the tail.

Dot two white circles onto the paper for eyes & paint in eyebrows. Let the paint dry.

Draw in the finer facial features with black magic marker.

Our next craft was done similarly.

Footprint Monkey

Paint your child’s foot in mostly brown with a lighter shade of brown in the middle as shown. Press the foot onto a piece of paper.

Paint in the ears & tail and dot 2 white circles on for the eyes & let dry. Use a magic marker to draw in the finer details on the face.

Add tree branches & vines for a final touch.

The narwhal was a new animal for my daughter. She thought that the horn was funny.

Footprint Narwhal

Paint your child’s foot in a gray or blue color & press it into a piece of paper. Paint in a side & rear fin. Dot on a white circle for the eye & paint in the horn. Paint some spots on the top of the narwhal & let the paint dry. Draw in the eye, eyebrow & mouth with a magic marker.

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Fri
14 ^th

B is For Baboon Footprint Craft

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We are into week two of our A-Z footprint crafts. Our choice for the letter “b” is baboon. My daughter made a deal with me regarding our footprint craft. She said that if she let me make a baboon out of her feet, then she would get to paint my feet too. I agreed, of course.

To make our footprint baboon, paint around the outline of your child’s foot with a dark brown. Paint inside of the outline in a lighter shade of brown. Paint the heel in yellow & then paint an upside down “T” with light blue around it as shown.

Press it onto a piece of paper.

Draw in the nose & mouth on the heel.

Dry brush around the outside of the foot using a fanned out brush to make the fur.

Paint in the body in dark brown to finish off your craft.

True to my word, I let Mai paint my feet. She painted it & pressed it onto the paper & set it aside to let it dry. I can’t wait to see what she makes with it.

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Sun
09 ^th

Footprint Armadillo Craft

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I realized something the other day. My little girl is growing too fast. I was sorting through a box of our old crafts & found an old imprint of her foot from when she was only a few weeks old. I went through all of our old footprint crafts & I realized just how much those little feet have been growing. I decided that I wanted to get in as many footprint craft keepsakes as possible. Me, Mai & her little tootsies are going to make footprint crafts from A-Z with maybe a few special requests in between. Mai does ask for specific foot crafts often after all. Last night was our “A”. A is for armadillo.

Armadillo Footprint Craft
Directions:

Paint your child’s foot in gray & let it dry.

Draw in a line to separate the head from the body with a magic marker or paint & draw in lines for the armor.

Draw or paint in ears, a nose & an eye.

Add in speckles on the top of the head & on either end of the lined armor.

Draw or paint in legs & a tail to finish it off.

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Sat
08 ^th

Footprint Volcano Craft

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We took our daughter to see the movie ‘Inside Out’ when it first came out. We loved the movie. It was filled with so much emotion. Tears streamed down my face for a good portion of the movie. The funny thing is my tears began before the movie even started. There was a lovely musical short in the beginning of the movie about a lonely volcano. I became slightly obsessed with the song in the short & have been playing it over & over again.

Mai has even started telling me “I lava you.”

Last night we were singing the song & she insisted that we had to make a volcano craft out of her feet. As I have told you before she really loves the foot crafts. Here is how we made our footprint volcano.

Paint your child’s foot mostly brown with red & yellow at the heel. Press it into a piece of paper & let it dry.

Use red magic markers to draw in the dripping & spattering lava.

Use markers or crayons to form the smoke.

Draw an island around your volcano.

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Wed
29 ^th

Thomas The Train Crafts

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My daughter loves cartoons. She would stay parked in front of the television all day, but I limit her screen time. There are only a few shows that she watches. Her favorite shows are ‘Stella & Sam’ & ‘Julius Jr.’ Since I monitor her television time, it always surprises me when she knows so many characters from other cartoons. Last night she kept talking to me about Percy. I did not know who Percy was. It turned out that Percy was a friend of Thomas the train. “Percy is so cute.” she told me. I was not familiar with Percy, but I know Thomas. I asked my daughter if she wanted to make Thomas & Percy crafts & of course she jumped at it. She chose to make Percy, so I made Thomas. We chose to make paper plate crafts. Here’s how.

What you will need:

Paper plates

Silver paint

Construction paper in blue, black, red & green.

Magic markers

Glue

Directions:

Paint a paper plate in silver & let it dry.

Cut out the shapes for the bodies, eyes, mouths, lights & smoke stacks. (Here were all the pieces used to form Thomas)

Draw in the eyeballs & any details with magic marker.

I cut out all the pieces for Mai’s Percy as well.

Glue all the pieces together to form your characters.

Draw in nose, mouth & cheeks.

As you can see Mai was very proud of her creation.

Mommy was proud of hers too.

Since we were on a Thomas kick, we had to squeeze in just one more craft.

Footprint Thomas The Train Craft

Paint your child’s feet as shown.

Press onto a piece of paper & let dry.

Paint in the whites of the eyes & the mouth. Paint the train’s body as shown & let dry.

Paint or draw in the details & let dry.

Add a smoke stack & train tracks with crayons to finish off your picture.

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Fri
24 ^th

20 Character Inspired Kid’s Crafts

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A few weeks ago we took our daughter to the movies to see ‘Inside Out’. I cried, my daughter laughed & we all left the movie happy. After the movie, my daughter insisted that we all call her Joy after the main character. She wanted to wear green every day & asked people what they thought of her blue hair. This is a common occurrence in our house. Her character changes from week to week. She has been Hello Kitty, Elsa & other assorted characters and animals. Not only does she enjoy pretending to be them, she loves making crafts that are inspired by them. We have made many crafts over the years & have stumbled across quite a few amazing ones as well. Here are some of our favorites.

Cardboard Tube Olaf Craft by Crafts By Amanda

Lego Baymax Building Instructions from Frugal Fun For Boys

‘Inside Out’ Paper Plate Masks by The Pinterested Parent

‘Finding Nemo’ Nemo & Dory Hand Print Crafts by A Little Pinch Of Perfect

Paper Plate Eeyore Craft by Crafty Morning

Little Einstein’s Felt Hand Puppets by The Pinterested Parent

Popsicle Stick Minions Craft by Glued To My Crafts Blog

Spiderman Super Hero Hand Print Craft by Messy Little Monster

Hello Kitty Paper Plate Mask by The Pinterested Parent

‘Monster’s Inc.’ Inspired Potato Stamps by I Heart Arts N Crafts

Paper Plate Octonauts by 3 Kids And A Gluestick

Egg Carton Kermit Craft by The Pinterested Parent

16 Disney Inspired Footprint Crafts by The Keeper Of The Cheerios

Easy Muppet Craft Rocks by Sandy Toes And Popsicles

Pasta Mike Wazowski from ‘Monster’s Inc.’ by The Pinterested Parent

Handprint Thing 1 Craft by This Girl’s Life Blog

Cardboard Tube Superman Craft by Crafts By Amanda

‘Despicable Me’ Shadow Puppets by The Pinterested Parent

Dusty Crop Hopper & Skipper inspired from ‘Planes’ by Pink Stripey Socks

Styrofoam Peppa Pig Craft by The Pinterested Parent

Who are some of your children’s favorite character’s?

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Wed
15 ^th

Footprint Grasshopper Craft

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What is it about little feet that make them so adorable? I have always loved baby feet. I feel likewise about toddler feet too. That is why footprint crafts are my favorite. I just can’t get enough of them & my daughter loves to make them too. We have quite the collection of footprint art hanging up around our home. Last night we were talking about grasshoppers & crickets, which of course ended with us having to make a grasshopper craft.

Paint your child’s foot in green & press onto a piece of paper. Let it dry. Use paint or magic marker to draw in an eye & antennae onto the heel.

Draw or paint in the legs & details for the body.

We used chalk to highlight the segments.

Draw or paint in a branch or leaves for a final touch.

This will make a great addition to our growing collection of footprint crafts.

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