The snow has hit us in New England. My little girl has had 3 snow days in the past two weeks.. And we have already had us a ton of snowy fun. One of my daughter’s favorites snowy day activities is making snow angels. There are snow angels all around our yard. Those adorable little angel prints inspired today’s fun snow angel craft.
We bought the movie Trolls last week. Since we bought it, we have watched it three or four times. My daughter loves those adorable Trolls, but our favorite character is by far the cloud. His part is a small one, but it is memorable. She loves him so much, that a Cloud Guy craft was a must.
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The “Cloud Guy” looked like a simple enough character to make, so I wanted to make one with my daughter.
This weekend we took our daughter to her first Red Sox game.
Having watched the games with her father since the day that she was born, she was excited to go to Fenway. On the drive there, she clapped & cheered as she saw signs with the Red Sox logo on them.
In the park, she had equal enthusiasm as she saw the popcorn & lemonade & witnessed her first live home run.
It was an exciting day for all of us & we might have created a Sox fan for life. To celebrate our trip to the ball park, we made a quick & easy baseball craft.
Cupcake Liner Baseball
All you will need for this is a white cupcake liner, a red & black marker and light brown & green construction paper.
Directions:
Spread out your liner slightly, but do not flatten.
Draw two curved lines on either end of the liner in black marker.
Draw the stitches over the black lines with the red marker. Mai drew in her lines & I did mine.
Draw & cut a bat out of the brown construction paper.
Glue the bat to a green piece of construction paper. Glue the liner baseball to the paper as well, only apply the glue to the outside edges & glue it so that the liner is still puffed out in the center.
Mai added a ball player & a background to her craft.
We finished our baseball craft, but we weren’t quite finished with “our day at the ball park” inspired crafts. We still had one more in us.
Mai ate a lot of junk at the game. It is all part of the experience after all.
I had asked Mai what her favorite part of going to the game was. She told me that it was the cotton candy.
After she told me this, I wanted us to make a cotton candy craft using cotton balls, so we squeezed in one more craft.
Cotton Ball Cotton Candy Craft
All you will need for this craft is a piece of construction paper for your base, a piece of white construction paper (scrap will work good because you only need a small piece), pastel colored paint, glue, a magic marker & cotton balls.
Directions:
Cut a long skinny triangle out of white construction paper. Draw diagonal lines on it with a magic marker.
Place your paint on a palette. Draw in the cotton candy shape over the cone to give a guideline to your child for where to place the cotton balls. You can either dip the cotton balls in the paint & then glue them into place over your cone or you may glue them first & then dab them with a paint brush later.
This is a simple craft for your child that is a great exercise in fine motor skills. That & it is cute.
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There is something about poodles. They are so grand and elegant. My daughter has a cute poodle purse that hangs on the door knob in her room. I was looking at it today while we were playing in her bedroom and I felt an overwhelming need to make a poodle.
What you will need:
2 toilet paper rolls
Mini cotton balls
3 cake pop sticks
Construction paper or foam
Acrylic paint
Markers
Glue gun (For adult use)
Directions:
Paint two toilet paper tubes in white or any other color that you would want your poodle to be. Cut one tube for the body & cut a smaller section for the neck. Cut them at a slant on one end.
Poke 4 holes into the larger tube where you would like your legs to be.
Cut 2 cake pop sticks in half & poke all 4 stick pieces into the holes.
Cut a head out of construction paper & draw in the face.
Cut out the ears.
Glue the neck to the top of the body with the slant on top & facing away from the body. Glue the head over the neck hole opening.
Glue cotton balls over the ear pieces & then glue the pieces to the side of the head.
Fill the openings on either end of the body with cotton balls & glue more balls around the edge. Make sure to keep the center of the body bare. Add another half piece of cake pop stick to the rear. Glue a couple of cotton balls around the tip to form the tail.
Stretch out a cotton ball as shown & glue around the bottom of a leg & repeat with the other 3 legs.
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My daughter loves crafts that allow her to play with glue. We have bottles of glue in our house & she just loves getting her paws on them whenever she gets a chance. Tonight I thought we could make little bunny bottoms. It would give her a chance to use some glue & play with fluffy cotton, which I thought she would love.
What you will need:
Paper bowl
Cotton balls
Glue
Construction paper
Directions:
Glue cotton balls all around the bowl.
After you have covered the bowl, add extra cotton to the middle to form the bunny tail.
Cut out two ovals for the foot paws.
Cut out a pink oval & 3 circles for each foot & then glue them into place to form the bunny paws.
Cut out ears & glue them under the bowl in place.
Glue the feet into place & let dry.
To be honest, Mai did not take to this craft. When I told her that we were making bunny bums, she laughed. She grabbed her bowl & grabbed her glue. She added one cotton ball to the middle of the bowl & said “I done, mama.” That looks great too, baby.
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I just never get sick of my daughter’s cute little piggies. There is just something so cute about baby feet. With time racing by, she is quickly becoming less of a baby & more of a little girl. Mommy needs to preserve all these baby moments while I can. With Easter nearing, I thought it time for our first Easter craft.
What you will need:
Poster board
Plain white paper
Paint
Paint brush
Markers
Cotton Balls
Glue
Paper plate
Directions:
Spread paint on a paper plate.
Dip your child’s feet in the paint.
Press the paint covered foot on a piece of paper. Repeat with the other foot & let dry. Cut out the feet prints.
Sketch out your bunny around the baby’s feet, using the feet as bunny feet
Draw some egg shapes on a piece of paper & have your child paint on it.
Cut out the eggs & set aside.
Glue the eggs to the chest where the hands would be holding them.
Cut out two oval shapes as hands & glue them down over the eggs to make it appear as if they are holding them. Draw lines on the paws.
Paint/color your bunny’s ears, eyes, nose & tummy. Outline the mouth & whiskers.
Squeeze glue on to the parts that you want fluffy, like the bunny ears.
Spread cotton balls out across the glue.
My daughter loves gluing. This is a part that you can do together.
We chose to cut our bunny shape out & hang it on the refrigerator with magnets.
We also made a smaller one with floppy ears. This looks a little more like a floppy earred dog than a bunny, but I still think it came out pretty cute.
My daughter got a real kick out of making the paint foot prints. We made several set of foot prints because she thought it was so funny. We hung our craft on the refrigerator. Before bed this evening Mai ran up to it & said “Goodnight Bunny”. She is so cute.
