Henna Hands Craft

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January 26, 2016 By Jennifer 4 Comments

We learned about India in our homeschool.

We made a Henna Hands paper craft.

I found this fun henna hands arts project and we used that as inspiration.

We learned about henna art.

I gathered paper, metallic pens and Sharpies, and our art trays.

We listened to fun Bollywood music and later watched Monsoon Wedding.

First, we traced our hands with pencil on white paper.

We went over the outlines with metallic Sharpie.

We used the art pens to draw henna-like designs.

We cut out our hands and mounted them on colored paper.

Our completed Henna Hands!

Tori loved learning about India and completing this craft for the geography fair!

We love learning about other cultures.

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Fall Leaf Crafts

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November 19, 2014 By Jennifer Leave a Comment

You know you’re a homeschooler when you save interesting packing material with plans for crafting later.

We’ve loved the changing leaves on our nature walks.

We decided to do some fall leaf crafts.

We got these sheets of semi-shredded paper and I thought it would be a fun textured paint craft.

I helped Alex cut out pieces for a tree.

We used little sponges to create splotches for leaves.

Kate used clips on her sponges for more delicate stamping.

The trees turned out well, kinda like Impressionist paintings. And the kids had fun!

We also painted leaves against paper for neat silouettes.

And used pencil shavings and glue on a printed tree outline.

I’ve really been making an effort to do arts and crafts with the kids and they’re enjoying the creative time!

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Halloween Crafts

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October 17, 2014 By Jennifer 10 Comments

Y’all, I really stepped out on a limb and did crafts with my kids. They beg me and I put them off because I really don’t like the mess or glitter or glue or any of that.

I am selfish and their disappointed faces haunt me.

So I said YES!

The kids loved our fall craft time!

Alex made a cute paper jack o’lantern.

I used a ruler to draw orange lines for Alex to cut out and then we stapled the strips at the top and bottom. He cut out the black shapes on his own to make the face.

They all made little pipe cleaner spiders.

We used up lots of empty cardboard tubes making monsters and robots.

And I remembered doing something ages ago in school and gave them white chalk and black paper and they had loads of fun!

I had happy kids.

We were together, making crafts, and enjoying ourselves.

And there wasn’t much mess.

It was about relationships.

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Chinese New Year Dragon Puppets

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January 29, 2014 By Jennifer 2 Comments

So thrilled about how these Dragon Puppets turned out for Chinese New Year!

What you need:

Paper bag
Construction paper for head
Construction paper for eyes and nostrils
Streamers for the tail
Glitter and Sequins (optional)

What to do:

Fold sheet of construction paper in half and glue to top of paper bag (where it folds up) to make the head of the puppet
Attach streamers under the back of construction paper head for the tail
Cut out eyes and nostrils in desired shapes – semi-circles for eyes and teardrops for nostrils
Draw lines for mouth and nose with dark marker
Glue eyes and nostrils
Draw on eyeballs in dragon shape
Draw on eyebrows and facial expression (optional)
Glue on glitter and/or sequins to make pretty patterns (optional)

(I think it would be fun to attach an accordion tongue with a strip of red construction paper so it pops out of the fold…)

Kate preferred to make hers look like a lizard. She’s special like that. My crazy third child who dances to her own tune.

Tori asked me to draw cool eyebrows on her dragon. Love her. She always follows directions to a T and is so careful.

Alex used TONS of glue stick. Then he asked me draw his dragon face and I really like how it turned out and his compliments made my day. Then he pretended to fly around with it. Of course. He’s a boy. What do you think?

We’re preparing to celebrate Chinese New Year with lots of red and gold, horse pictures and crafts, yummy food…and I searched my files and found pictures of the Chinese New Year celebration we attended when we lived in Hawaii.

And I get a clean house out of it after I told the kids that tradition. Score!

We cleaned out the library of all the Chinese New Year storybooks. Liz really likes having Big Sister Storytime. Karen Katz is a favorite author. Love her illustrations!

Our plans:

Read more books about Chinese New Year…

Eat Chinese Food: We’ll explore flavors, colors, shapes, and the aesthetic beauty of Cantonese cooking. My kids love Chinese food and we like to try new recipes and techniques. Our Asian turkey wraps are always a hit! I need to break out my bamboo steamer and try to make some steamed dumplings…

Learn more of the Chinese language with Mango Homeschool

I will try my hardest not to watch Mulan. Seriously.

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Christmas Crafts

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December 20, 2013 By Jennifer Leave a Comment

We got crafty this week.

We made scented gingerbread paper crafts, decorated paper Christmas trees, and did an elf hunt.

We like to slow down for the holiday, but the kids still love learning.

I use this time to make learning fun.

The kids are enjoying some fun Christmas themed school time this week.

I got the reindeer idea and Very Hungry Reindeer printables here, but it doesn’t look available anymore.

Counting ornaments and matching with the correct number on the stars. I got these over at Musings of Me, but I can’t find the direct link anymore. They’re super cute!

Matching capital letters with lowercase letters in puzzles. I’m pretty sure these puzzles are from 1+1+1=1 somewhere. He loves the letter mazes too!

The whole family enjoys the history behind The Twelve Days of Christmas and these are fun printables for preschoolers.

We love all the holiday Jan Brett books too. Bubba really got into the Gingerbread stories and these fun printables.

Throw some baby Jesus clipart on a page and it’s “Christmas math”! It’s amazing how excited the girls were to do these.

We love fun free Christmas printable activities!

I printed gingerbread boy outlines on brown paper. (I Googled for the outlines.)

I had the kids paint white glue on the gingerbread kids.

And then decorate the gingerbread men with beads, sequins, etc.

And then sprinkle on spices.

Lots of spices.

He who controls the spice controls the universe.

The finished “cookies.”

Sister 2:

Bubba:

Sister 1:

and that wasn’t enough!

I printed Christmas tree outlines and the kids used glitter glue and sequins to decorate those.

I was pretty impressed with the tracing the outline with glitter glue.

Sister 2 tends to go crazy with glitter and glue.

Even big girl got in on the action.

Then we hunted elves. We hid the cards and the littles found them. Bubba circled the numbered elves on his page as he found them. Sisters had to practice writing where they found the cards. Download Elf Hunt printables here.

Elf hats help.

Merry Christmas!

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