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Glue Paint and Chalk Pastels

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Sweet Pea is 5 years old.   

 

From: I found this cool idea on Mommy Labs.

Material: 

A bottle of white school glue. One color of Liquid watercolor or food coloring. A chopstick or thin paintbrush handle to stir the glue. Paper or card stock.

Chalk Pastels

Damp cloth for wiping off dirty fingers. (Optional) [...]

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Acorn Cap Jewels

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Sweet Pea is 5 years old.  

 

From: I found these beautiful acorn cap jewels at Homemade Serenity.  

Material:

Acorn Caps.  (Acorn caps by themselves should be fine, but immediately bake whole acorns for 1-2 hours in a 170 degree oven to kill any insects that are hiding inside!) Glue. Colored Markers. Dry rice [...]

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Colored Salt (or “How I Didn’t Make Homemade Glitter”)

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Sweet Pea is 4 years old.

From:  When I saw this “Do-It-Yourself Glitter” recipe all over pinterest (originally from this Sprinkles and Sequins tumbler page) I couldn’t wait to try it.  I thought, “This looks awesome!  Cleaning up salt will be so much easier than real glitter and I won’t have to worry about tiny pieces [...]

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Christmas Tree Counting

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Sweet Pea is 44 months old.

From: I saw this on Carisa’s 1+1+1=1 blog.  She originally got the printables from Musings of Me (which also has some other great Christmas worksheets).  I loved the concept, but I don’t have a color printer and wanted the stars to be easier to cut out, so [...]

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Packing Peanut Collage

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Sweet Pea is 44 months old.

From: I do a lot of my Christmas shopping online and recently have been inundated with boxes full of packing peanuts.  Instead of just throwing them away, I let Sweet Pea make a collage with them.

Material:

Paper. Styrofoam packing peanuts. Washable white glue.  (We like the Crayola [...]

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Gluing Sand to Paper

Sweet Pea is 27 months old.

From: I saw a glue stick next to us while we were drawing in the sand tray and thought, “Hey, why don’t we try gluing the sand onto some paper?”

Material:

Non-toxic sand. A box or jelly roll pan to hold the sand.  It needs to be wide [...]

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Out Like a Lion

I read a tot school idea about crumpling paper and was inspired to have Sweet Pea crumple pieces of yellow tissue paper for a mane and then glue them onto a lion head (a cut-out yellow circle w/ construction paper eyes, mouth and nose).

Her idea of crumpling was not quite as thorough as [...]

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