stART ~ To Be Like the Sun

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 the weather has been BEAUTIFUL and we have been busy tending to our garden and planting some more seeds.  I found To Be Like the Sun, by Susan Marie Swanson at the library and knew it would be perfect for when we planted our sunflower seeds.  I love that this book tells about the lifecycle of a Sunflower Seed written in a lyrical free verse.  The illustrations gave us so much to talk about and after reading this book we were ready to plant our own Sunflower seeds and make our sunflower paintings too!

For our Sunflower Painting we used empty plastic Snapple bottles.  The bottoms were perfect for making a flower print.  Both Emily and Juliette were able to dip the bottom of the bottle into the thin layer of paint and make the prints on the paper.  Emily went over each one to make a fuller flower. Next, the girls used a pencil eraser dipped in brown paint to add the sunflower seeds to the middle of their flowers .

Finally once the paint was dry Emily used a marker to make the stems and leaves for her flowers.

Juliette’s Sunflowers

Emily’s Sunflowers

stART ~ If You Give a Pig a Party

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. Click on the button above for more details about participating in stART.

This week we enjoyed reading If You Give A Pig A Party, by Laura Numeroff. This is another really cute book from the “If You Give A…” series by Laura Numeroff. The story line is simple but so cute about all the funny things that happens if you through a party for a pig. It kept Emily engaged in the story and is also wonderful for teaching cause and effect. We have even started telling our own stories similar to this using Emily in them. (If you give Emily a pickle, she will think of barbecues in the summer and want to go play outside…) She thinks it is very funny to be apart of her own little story!!

This book was a very appropriate pick for the week since Emily’s 3rd Birthday is on Saturday (I still can not believe she is going to be 3 it feels like yesterday that she was born!!) For our stART project we thought it would be fun to make a party hat to go along with this story. I saw a neat stamping idea in Martha Stewart's Magazine that I wanted to try out so we used it for this project.

Emily’s Birthday Hat

Emily picked, (now this will not be a surprise for many of you) GREEN for the color of her hat. So I cut out a party hat shape, gave her some paint with glue mixed into it and a rolled up piece of corrugated cardboard for her to print with.

I rolled up a piece of corrugated cardboard and taped it so it would stay together. Then Emily dipped it into green paint that I mixed with glue.

Emily glued on a green pom pom at the top.

She sprinkled it with glitter and since their was glue in the paint it stuck very nicely!!

She loved adding sequins and mini pom poms, which was great fine motor skills practice.

Finally Emily added a felt 3 that my mom cut out for her with our new die cuts (so exciting!!!) since every birthday hat should say how old you will be :)

Emily’s finished birthday hat!!

Friday Art Group

Color Wheel Project ~ Blue and Blue Duplo Prints

This week we added the blue piece to our color wheels for the Color Wheel Project.

The girls colored one of the pieces of the circle with blue markers, and then glued on blue pipe cleaners, tissue paper, foam, construction paper, ribbon, stickers, cut up straws and sequins. 

Coloring with blue markers.  They are all doing really well staying in the one piece.

Gluing on the collage materials.

Juliette enjoyed watching from her high chair. This week we had 3 siblings watching us work.  It will be fun to see how the babies join in soon. 

Next, the girls made Duplo prints with blue paint.  I loved how each one came out so different!

   

After we cleaned up the girls had snack and free play.

 

Juliette is starting to join right in, I LOVE it!!!!

Open Ended Art ~ Green and Red

This weeks Open Ended Art theme was Green and Red.  Daddy thought it would be fun to make some wrapping paper for our Play Group Secret Santa Gift so Emily had a great time painting with Red and Green Paint.  We also gave her a gingerbread cookie cutter to use to paint with.

 

I love how Juliette was so interested in Emily’s painting!  She loved watching her work.

Emily got the chair to help her reach all the way to the top

She decided to use the cookie cutter to make prints over her painting.

I love the way it looked!

Then she decided to do some more on the back of the easel!  She made two prints on top of each other and said they were hugging.  Kids say the cutest things :0)

Open Ended Art ~ Yellow Prints

Emily's Yellow Prints

This weeks Open Ended Art theme is Yellow Prints. Emily printed with the letters from her foam ABC puzzle that I got at the Dollar Tree!

Emily dipping the letters in the paint.

Printing with the letters