The Stoufer Family: Be Creative with Crafts

Sunday, July 5, 2009

Be Creative with Crafts

This weeks theme for story time is "Be Creative with Crafts". During the morning session Miss Shannon read a few books about "crafts". After wards, there were 4 stations that Marc rotated through. His first station was hat making. The "workers" made a hat out of newspapers......

and then he got to decorate it with stickers.

This is the finished product.

His second station was face painting, but he didn't want his face painted, so he had his hand painted instead.

Here is the finished product.

Marc's next station was "mirror" painting. This is where he paints only one side of the paper and then folds it over and presses down. That transfers some of the paint to the other side, to create a Mirror image.

After the mirror painting, there was a station where the kids did "creative movement" with scarves and a parachute.

After he did those stations we came home and had lunch and played a little while....and then went back for more fun. :) When we got to the afternoon session, which is designed for the older kids, there were 7 different stations. The only ones that were a duplicate from the morning session were the hat, face painting, and mirror painting. The other 4 were new, so he had fun with those.
The first one was marble painting. For those of you that don't know what that is, you tape a piece of paper ina pan, dip marbles in paint, and roll them around in the pan to make a design.

There was a station to make bead bracelets. He enjoyed stringing them. Look at the look of concentration on his face.

Here is his finished product.

Next he went to a station to make a tissue paper collage. There was aluminum foil taper onto cardboard. He had to spread water-downed glue all over the foil and then place tissue paper on it however he wanted. Whenhis design was done, he had to spread more glue on top to make sure it stayed in place.

Here is his finished product.

His final station was making a butterfly out of a coffee filter. One of the workers helped him fold it correctly and then he had to put drops of water (with paintbrushes) on the wings. They had paint that was kind of like water colors (a little thicker) and he had to put "dots" of color. Since the coffee filter was wet, the colors spread over the wings.