Hand Print Leprechauns

I love hand print crafts and when I saw these cute Hand Print Leprechauns on Pinterest, I knew I had to try them with the girls.

I painted their fingers with orange paint  for the beard and their palm with peach  for the face and then added a little orange where their hand met their wrist for the hair.   Then they made their handprint of the middle of a piece of white card stock.

To decorate him, they glued a green square and rectangle on the top for his hat and added a black rectangle and a yellow button for the band.

 

To decorate the border we made shamrock finger prints.  Just dip your finger in some green paint and make three finger prints close to each other.

Emily also used some green heart stickers to make shamrocks too.  Then she used a green marker for the stems and gave him a smiling face with a black marker.

 

Emily’s Handprint Leprechaun

 

Juliette’s Handprint Leprechaun

Juliette enjoyed these so much that she talked about making them all day and told everyone we saw about them!

stART ~ Pooh’s Easter Basket

 

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 read Pooh's Easter Basket.  This is a simple board book that Emily and now Juliette really enjoy.  The different characters from Winnie the Pooh all find different colored Easter Eggs. 

After reading this book we made some cute Handprint Bunny and Easter Egg Pictures.  For this project I made a sample and then gave Emily all the pieces she would need and let her put it together however she wanted.

First I helped Emily trace her hand on a piece of white paper and then cut it out.  To make the rabbits face we folded down the thumb, middle finger and pinky finger.  Then Emily glued the handprint and an oval white piece onto the paper with some green grass.  She enjoyed cutting the fringe to make the grass.

Emily added the face, cotton ball tail, a construction paper sun (which she put together on her own) and then some foam Easter egg stickers.

  Emily’s finished Easter Bunny and Eggs

stART ~ I Ain’t Gonna Paint No More!

 

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 read I Ain't Gonna Paint No More!, by Karen Beaumont.  This is a really cute story about a child that is not allowed to paint anymore because his mom found him painting all over the floors and walls.  So he decides he is going to paint is body instead.  He is just going to paint his head, but can’t resist covering his entire body in color!  I read this book to our Art Group and then after each child was able to paint their hands and then print them onto a piece of paper.  Or they could trace their hand on the paper and paint just the paper.  Off course since painting your hand with paint is so much fun, they all opted for that option!  Emily did decide that she wanted to try both since there was room on her paper.

   

Juliette’s Hand Painting

Emily’s Hand Painting

stART ~ Chicka Chicka 1,2,3

Welcome to stART a story + art! 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 so that everyone can see all the other great projects that everyone shares too! The linky will be open all week.

I added a story + art tab in my navigation bar to make it easier to search for past stART projects. Be sure to check it out!! All the books that we have read and did a stART project for are listed in alphabetical order.

This week while we were at the library looking for books, Emily requested Chicka Chicka Boom Boom.  It was already taken out by someone else, but I found Chicka Chicka 123,  by Mill Martin Jr. instead and Emily said we could give it a try!  This turned out to be a cute book that is the sequel to Chicka Chicka Boom Boom except in this book the Numbers go up an Apple Tree.

For our stART project we made a Handprint Apple Tree and Emily glued on numbers that I made using my Numbers Paper Punch  Set.  

We read the book the day before and that night I gathered up all the supplies and had them ready for Emily.  She was so excited to see everything set up for the project!  I am definitely going to try to do it this way more often.

I traced Emily’s hands onto green foam and cut them out for her.  She tried to but it was harder to cut the foam than paper and she asked me to do if for her.

Emily cut out a trunk for her tree out of brown construction paper.

Then she glued it on to a piece of blue construction  paper. Next, she glued her green foam hands to the top of the tree for the leaves.

Emily loved adding the red, green and yellow dot stickers onto the tree for the apples.

Finally she added on the numbers.  he looked through the pile to pick out the number that she wanted.  She spent a good amount of time filling the tree with numbers.  At one point she even asked me for the book so she could see where she should put them.

Emily’s Chicka Chicka 123 Handprint Apple Tree

I scream, You scream…

…we all scream for ICE CREAM cones!!!

 

Emily has been enjoying the summer and especially getting ices from Ralph’s after dinner.  She also really loves ICE CREAM!!  I thought it would be fun to make our own ice cream cone project and Emily totally agreed.  We had a great time making this project with our art group friends!

We used pink, brown and white construction paper, brown and red paint, and all different colored tissue paper squares.

First, the girls painted the cone shape that I cut out for them brown with a small sponge.

Next, they glued on the ice cream scoops.  I cut out a pink, white and brown circle for each child.

After that, they used their thumb to make a red thumbprint cherry on top. Finally they glued tissue paper sprinkles all over their ice cream scoops, which looked really cute and was also great fine motor skills practice.

Yummy yummy!!! 

We are planning on making some homemade ice cream too, so stay tuned  :0)

stART ~ The Stable Where Jesus Was Born

Welcome to stART! I hope that you will enjoy our story and art project and maybe even share your own too! The linky will be open all week.

**I will not be posting a stART project next week since it will be Christmas Eve and I know we will all be busy getting ready for Christmas here. But, we will be back the following week!

This week we read The Stable Where Jesus Was Born, by Rhonda Gowler Greene. It is a cute cumulative, rhyming story tells the Nativity Story. It was fun to read and had beautiful illustrations.

We made Hand Print, Shape Angels for the Angel that spoke to Mary.

Emily glued the shapes onto the paper. A triangle for the body, circle for the head and oval for the halo.

Next, she made a hand print on each side of the triangle body.

Emily’s Hand Print Shape Angel!

stART ~ Rudolph’s First Christmas

Welcome to stART! I hope that you will enjoy our book and art project and maybe even share your own too!

This week we read Rudolph’s First Christmas, illustrated by Rachel Baines. This is a cute book that shows a baby Rudolph in Santa’s workshop getting ready for his first Christmas. Emily likes the lift flaps that have little surprises underneath them and the cute plush Rudolph that travels through the book.

When we finished reading this story Emily made a paper plate hand print Rudolph. She was so excited about it she kept telling Daddy to look at her Rudolph!!

First Emily painted a paper plate with brown paint.

I traced both of her hands and cut them out for her.

Emily glued on the handprint antlers, wiggly eyes, ears, and a red pom pom nose.

Finally, she drew a smile with a black marker.

Emily’s Paper Plate Handprint Rudolph.

Friday Art Group

Handprint Santa and Salad Spinner Art

Today it was just the two girls but we still had a lot of fun!

They started with play dough free play.  I made new peppermint play dough by adding peppermint extract to the play dough mixture.

These Handprint Santa’s were fun to make.   Emily and E love painting with their hands and fingers!

Santa’s beard is their handprint and they used their fingerprints for his cheeks, nose mouth and trim on his hat.  We added wiggly eyes and a pom pom for the hat.

We glued on this poem:

Look very closely and you will see,

That Santa’s beard was made by me.

Hang this Santa on your wall,

To remember when I was very small!

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In between the projects we sang a cute Santa song.  I made copies of the songs so they could be practiced at home too.

I'm a Little Santa
Sung to: "I'm a Little Teapot"
I'm a little Santa short and fat,
Here is my beard and here is my sack,
On Christmas Eve I hop in my sleigh,
With a "Ho ho ho" I'm on my way.

 

I can’t wait to try these again, my friend and I thought they would make cute ornaments if they were a little smaller and maybe laminated.

I cut circles of paper to fit into the bottom of a salad spinner.  The girls used droppers to drop watered down tempera paint into the salad spinner.

 

Next we added the cover and the girls turned the handle to make it spin.  It was fun to see what happened when we opened the cover!