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January 2006 Activities!
As you begin the new year cherish your family memories from the past year!
Directions:
- Have each of your children draw and color pictures of their favorite family activities from the past year (vacations, parties, games, etc.)
- Have your child write a few sentences at the bottom of each page to describe their drawings. If they are to young to write, ask them to describe the drawing to you, so you can write a description for them.
- Add your own drawings and descriptions
- Use a sheet of colored paper or a file folder as a cover and have your kids decorate it with photographs, more drawings, stickers or magazine clippings.
- Punch holes in all the papers with a hole puncher and tie them together with yarn or ribbon
Celebrate the season without bundling up!
Supplies Needed:
- 2 white paper plates
- Construction paper (black, red) or wrapping paper
- An orange pipe cleaner (for the nose)
- A short length of yarn or ribbon
- Hole punch
- Marker or crayons
- Scissors
- Glue
- Optional: googly eyes, large buttons
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On one of the paper plates, cut off the outer rim, making a smaller plate.
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Punch a hole near the rim on both plates.
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Tie the two plates together, using the yarn (or ribbon).
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On black construction paper, draw and then cut out a top hat and two boots. On colored construction paper (or gift wrap paper), draw and then cut out two mittens.
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Glue the hat, boots and mittens on the snowman.
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Either glue on googly eyes or draw eyes. Draw a mouth. For the nose, cut a short length from an orange pipe cleaner. Stick the pipe cleaner through the plate to secure it (if the plate is too tough, make a tiny hole with the tip of the scissors).
For the buttons, you can cut out shapes from construction paper, use round stickers, glue on real buttons, or simply draw them.
You now have a cute snowman decoration!
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Project found at Enchanted Learning
This is a project you, your children, and the birds will enjoy!
Supplies Needed:
- A large, open pine cone
- Vegetable shortening, lard or suet
- Oats or corn meal
- Bird seed
- A few feet of string
Food mixture:
Mix 1/2 cup Vegetable shortening, lard or suet with 2 1/2 cups cornmeal or uncooked oats until well blended. Optional: add dried fruit (chopped up), chopped nuts, seeds (especially sunflower and millet), and/or suet, which are high-energy bird foods.
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Tie a few feet of string to a pine cone.
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Cover the pine cone with the food mixture.
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Roll the pinecone in birdseed and then suspend it from a tree branch outside.
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Project found at Enchanted Learning
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