stART ~ Stellaluna

Welcome to stART!  I hope that you will enjoy our story and art project and maybe even share your own too. All I ask is that you link back to A Mommy’s Adventures somewhere in your post by either adding my button or a text link, so that others can see all the other great projects that everyone shares too! The linky will be open all week.  Be sure to stop by and visit the different links…every week there are so many different and fun book and craft ideas!

Check out the  stART tab in my navigation bar where you can find our past stART projects.  All the books that we have read and did a stART project for are listed in alphabetical order.  I have also included a list of all the blogs that participate in stART.  **This is a work in progress so if you have participated and would like to be added to the list, leave me a comment and let me know :0)

Emily and Juliette enjoyed listening to Stellaluna, by Janell Cannon.  This is a wonderful story about a bat that is separated from its mother after they are attacked by an owl.  Stellaluna lands in a bird’s nest and is then raised with the family of birds.  She begins to act like the birds, eating bugs, sleeping at night and sleeping upright in their nest.  One day when she learns to fly she finds her mother and learns that she can see in the dark and that she is supposed to sleep upside down.  Stellaluna is excited to tell the birds what she has learned, but they soon find out that although they are very similar to each other, they are also very different.  Emily was happy that they were still friends at the end of the story.  I thought this was a great story, and liked the facts that are included throughout the story and on the last to pages as well.

To go along with this book we made toilet paper tube bats.  I folded the tops of the tubes down in opposite directions to make the two points for the ears and point at the bottom for the body.   Emily and Juliette painted their bats and once they were dry glued on there wings and used small red dot stickers for the eyes.

The girls finished bats.

Now it is your turn!! Click below to link up a book you read and the project or activity that you did to go with it.

Going a little Batty

I love going through our bins of holiday decorations and seeing all the things that were packed away last year that I totally forgot that we had and then finding the perfect spot for it this year!  Emily helped me put out most of our harvest/Halloween decorations, but I finished up the rest after she had gone to sleep.  When the girls came down in the morning they both noticed this bat that I had made almost 5 years ago hanging above our mirror in the dining room and were very excited about it.

When I first saw the pattern for this Bat Wall Hanging at Jo-Ann’s Fabric Store I knew I had to make it and actually purchased all of the material right then and there.  Then I came home and spent the next hour sewing away.  I enjoyed this project so much that I didn’t make just one but 2 large ones and then one small one, to make the small one I just left the pattern the size it is and didn’t enlarge it at all.  (I find it amazing the amount of free time I had just a few years ago, yet never really felt like I had enough time to do anything, funny how that works!!)  I was also really excited when I searched for this pattern 5 years later and found it on their website.  Click on the links above for the pattern!!

Emily and Juliette love the little bat, they make it fly around the room.

 

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