stART ~ Beach Bugs

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 Beach Bugs, by David A. Carter.  This is a really cute pop up book that shows many of the fun things that you can do while at the beach.  Emily and Juliette’s favorite page is the one with all of the fireflies that actually light up.

To go along with this book Emily made her own sand castle out of sand paper.  I cut out some different castle shapes and gave them to Emily to glue on however she wanted.  Then I also provided crayons, buttons, glue and actual sand to decorate the castles with.

Emily decided that she wanted to cut the door in half and glue the sides so that it could open up.  I was so proud of her for coming up with that all on her own.  I love to see her using her creativity!!

Emily was very excited to be able to use one of her Ariel stickers to add to the picture too.

   Emily’s Finished Sand Paper Castle

stART ~ A House for Hermit Crab

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 so that everyone can see all the other great projects that everyone shares too! The linky will be open all week.

I added a stART 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 we read A House for Hermit Crab, by Eric Carle.  I remember reading this story with the first graders as we prepared them for the new adventures that second grade would bring.  Emily enjoyed seeing all of the different see creatures that helped make the hermit crabs shell special.

After reading this book I knew Emily would love to to decorate her own hermit crab and shell so I gave her this template for the hermit crab and shell, markers, glue, sequins and tissue paper and let her go to work.  She knew exactly what she wanted to do and only wanted my help in opening the glue bottle!  

After Emily finished decorating her hermit crab and shell I cut it out and glued it onto a piece of blue construction paper and sand paper.

stART ~ On Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish

 

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 so that everyone can see all the other great projects that everyone shares too! The linky will be open all week.

I added a stART 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 we read One fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish, by Dr. Seuss.  Emily LOVES when we read Dr. Seuss.  We also have the board book version of this book for babies, which we also read with Juliette.  Both girls love moving the little fish beads on the top of the board book.  Emily pointed out all the different colored fish and helped Juliette count them.

I had some really cute foam fish that went really well with this book and when I saw the idea for finger painting on sandpaper at The Shafer Family I knew I had the perfect project.  I actually did the finger painting with our art group and it went over very well, with the exception of on little girl that didn’t want to try it, but loved doing it at home :0)

Sandpaper Oceans

I gave each child white paint and two shades of blue paint  to finger paint with on a sheet of sandpaper (I got the sandpaper at the dollar tree 12 sheets for $1.00!!!)

After the paint dried we glued Emily glued the fish onto the sandpaper.  As she was gluing them she told me that they were all following in a line.  I love when she tells me stories about her art project! Emily’s Finished Sandpaper Ocean