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 week we read Lucky Tucker, by Leslie McGuirk. This is a cute book about a dog named Tucker who is not having a very good day, until he rolls around in a four-leaf clover patch that belongs to a leprechaun!
To go along with this book the girls made shamrock collages. I gave them a piece of card stock in the shape of a shamrock and then set out markers, do a dot markers and all sorts of green collage materials like pipe cleaners, wiggly eyes, feathers, stickers straws, velcro, ribbon, pom poms for them to get creative with.
Coloring with the green markers
Emily decided to use the green wiggly eyes to turn it into a Shamrock Person
Juliette took a picture of her Shamrock collage when she was all finished.
The girl’s Shamrock Collages, I love how different they are and how they each used the same materials in their own unique way!
Emily’s Shamrock
(5 years old)
Juliette’s Shamrock
(2.5 years old)
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.
Emily received Pinkalicious, by Elizabeth Kahn for Christmas and both girls have not been able to put it down. They look through the book and retell the story to each other when I am not available to read it to them. So I thought this would be the perfect book for our first stART project of the new year!
First, I cut our a pink cupcake shape from some craft foam. Then I gave the girls glue and our collection of pink collage materials and let them go to work.
Emily chose the markers to start with and Juliette went right for the do-a-dot markers.
To finish them off we sprinkled them with white glitter for a perfect sparkle!
Emily’s Pinkalicious Cupcake
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)
The Turkey Ball, by David Steinberg is one of Emily and Juliette’s favorite books. This is a cute rhyming story about some turkey’s who get all dressed up and spend the night dancing. It is a lot of fun to read this book, which is good since we read if very often :)
For our project we made collage turkeys. 
Next, I gave them all our collage materials and they were able to decorate it however they wanted. I love having a bag of collage material that I can just dump out onto the table. It makes it so much easier than having to look through and collect a little of everything.
Finally they glued on the pieces of the turkey’s body.
Emily’s Turkey
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.
During Art Group the girls made Initial Collages. We had kids from 14 months to 4 1/2 working on this project. They were all able to participate in it, some were just more into it than others.
I cut pieces of poster board into the initials of the girls first names. Then they used markers to color all over them. Finally, they were able to glue on all the different materials. I had different types of fabric, ribbons, felt, tin foil, sandpaper, tulle and tissue paper.
E for Emily
J for Juliette
Emily and Juliette had fun working on these collages!
I am thinking of mounting them on colored paper and framing them in their rooms.
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.
We made some really cute Easter Chicks hatching from their eggs to go along with this book!
I love seeing how each one comes out looking different even though they had all of the same supplies to work with :0)
Emily’s chick
(the black is where the shell is cracking some more)
Juliette’s Chick
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.
This week we enjoyed reading Snail Trail: In Search of a Modern Masterpiece, by Jo Saxton. This is a very simple children’s book that is written in rhyme shows a variety of modern masterpieces. Emily, Juliette and I followed a cute little snail through the book on a hunt for a Modern Masterpiece that is based on him. As we turned the pages we saw a different pieces of art work, until finally at the end there is Matisse’s The Snail. Emily enjoyed looking at different pictures and I liked that I was able to tell her about each one. Although there are no titles or descriptions on each page, at the end of the book their are photo credits which give the artist and name of each piece. I thought this was a fun way to introduce Modern Art to Emily and Juliette and a great opportunity to have her work on some of her own art that was inspired by Matisse. The last page explains how Matisse used cut or torn paper to create the collage and shows a picture of him in his wheelchair working. I asked Emily if she would like to create a collage of her own just like Matisse did. She was all ready to do a project and got right to work.
The last time we talked about Matisse I showed Emily some of his artwork on the internet and then she made pictures that looked very similar (you can see her project here). She did a great job, but this time I wanted it to be her own idea so she was able to do anything she wanted. Armed with a lot of pieces of scrap paper and scissors she went to work.
Emily’s Finished Matisse Inspired Collage
Of course Juliette saw paper and glue and Emily working on a project and she wanted to try it too. So here is Juliette’s Matisse Inspired Collage.
First she added a lot of glue,
Next, I helped her tear some pieces of construction paper to put on the glue.
Of course she needed more glue!
