No Bake Clay Ornaments

We used lids that we'd been saving - the ones from Play-doh worked really well - and no bake clay from Crayola to create some ornaments.  It was as simple as pressing clay into the lids and then decorating with whatever we could find in the collage bin.  The clay dried and hardened in about 24 hours and we were able to add ribbons for hanging.  Ella was so proud of how these turned out!

Handprint Angel

Handprints for the body and wings - grapefruit print for the head (although we should have used an orange because the head seems big) - details filled in with paint - and glitter added to wings.

ornaments

We used some cereal boxes from the recycle bin and some fabric scraps to create ornaments for the tree.  I cut shapes and let Ella spread glue over them and attach scraps.  She applied a second coat of glue over the fabric and then added buttons and/or glitter.  They turned out so cute!  Can't wait to put them on the tree!

Turkey Time

Leaf Print Banner

My dad brought us some fall leaves from his recent trip to Michigan.  We painted some of them with liquid watercolors and made prints on a piece of cotton fabric.  Attached the fabric to a stick we found on a walk in the park with a few stitches & used yarn for hanging.  I like the way it looked in my tree but Ella wanted to take it home!  I'll have to make myself one I guess . . .

I like to call them fairy houses . . .

The big girl has been helping the little girl build fairy houses all over the backyard.  Well . . . I call them fairy houses.  They call them butterfly houses, and bird houses (they actually moved the parrot in for a short time), and lizard houses.  Big showed little how to catch lizards today.  They imported a few to the latest little stick house & I'll have to admit - the lizards seemed pretty happy there.

alphabet book

We made a book based on Brown Bear, Brown Bear What Do You See? last month.  It was so interesting to see the great things she came up with to illustrate each letter.