Crepe Paper Spiders

I have been meaning to share this craft with you for a little while but life and sickness has got in the way of a lot of things , unfortunately! These Crepe Paper Spiders were the last creations we made for our Insect theme and the kids thought they were pretty cool!!

Easy as again, simply chop some black crepe paper into little squares, and get the kids to cover the whole back of a paper plate with glue and then the squares.

Finish with some googly eyes and staple on 8 long lanky pipe cleaner legs, bent into shape.

As part of our theme, we have also been reading ;

A Very Hungry Caterpiller

Bugs, Bugs, Bugs

 and have watched;

A Bugs Life

Ants

Why not try it at home?

We have had a short break from scheduled Craft in the last week or so (but still did some at Playgroup and some free painting sessions at home), but will start with our new theme of "Under The Sea" in the next few days! I can't wait!! All the ideas are buzzing through my head!

Woolly Buzzing Bees

These Woolly Buzzing Bees kept the kids nice and entertained while the weather was woolly outside over the weekend. Going along with our "insect" theme, these were perfect.

All you need is;

A toilet roll

Yellow Wool

Black Wool

Googly eyes

Baking paper

Craft glue

All you need it do is;

Run a small line of glue along the roll and secure the end of your Yellow wool.

Wrap it around and around to your hearts content.

Then wrap some black wool around a few times to create some black bee stripes.

Glue the pre cut Baking Paper wings onto the top and then the googly eyes.

Bzzz bzzz bzzz

* This craft was quite quick to complete and all the equipment we had on hand, however Stella was the only child that had enough co- ordination to complete the wrapping by herself and she is 4.
This activity may be for older children, or ones with more co ordination!! haha

Paper Plate Lady Bugs

You may have noticed we have been crafting a lot lately? Boredom busters for crazy 2 year olds!!

We put to use the paper plates we painted the other day, and set to creating a few lady bugs.

You will need equipment as follows;

Painted plates

Black card stock

Some circles cut out of black card

A few antenna cut out of black card

A stapler

Craft glue

A few boggley eyes!

Firstly cut out a semi circle shape from the black card. I traced around a bowl and then cut them out.

Staple to the top of the plate, and staple the antennae to the black card. This is the lady bugs head

Glue the black circles wherever you please. Then glue the boggley eyes to the black head at the top.

Ta-da!!!

An alternative to the black circles could also be,  a pack of black dot stickers, painted black spots or even a potato stamped spot.

This craft session seriously only took 15 minutes , including the clean up, as I had everything prepared and ready to go!

We are going to make a few more 'insect' related crafts, as that is our theme at the moment , then we are moving on to an "Ocean" theme as Stella has just completed this at kindy last term.

Happy crafting!

Buzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Our house been buzzing for the last week, yes with some exciting things happening, but more from the sound of my sewing machine buzzing along in prep for the markets!! (And maybe some major vibrating from the earth works happeing at the end of our street, but that another story all together!!

Max and Lacey are becoming so much more interactive with each other, which is beautiful to watch. They smile at each other all the time, they look at each other through the bars on their cots and they hold hands at the first opportunity. I have even noticed that when they fall asleep,they are in similar sleeping positions, as weird and wonderful as they are sometimes when rolling around in a cot, fighting tiredness!! And to the pleasure of their mother, they even pose well for photos, but I have to admit, more times than not they are grabbing at each others face and causing trouble for the other!!

I can't wait to see their bond grow !!

More craft has been happening, here are the photos of the sun that we made last week for "S" week and then this week has been Red week. Complete with some red little girls, just like our yellow ones (for a banner) and a ladybug plate. The colourful plate below was made by Stella for Mr Ian. An old friend of her great grandads that she sees when visiting Grandma and Grandad on Mondays!! She loves the old guys and they love her!! So cute!!

And over a week ago, and not long after her brother, Lacey decided to start sitting too. Not to be outdone by her big brother by 2 mins!! She has the best posture, and looks gorgeous when sittting. They now can sit opposite each other, smile, play and interact. Not to mention steal toys off each other!! Stella loves it too, she sits with them, passes toys, steals toys and giggles. Actually there is giggles all round!!

I'm off to get ready for work, of a different and more hairy kind at the salon, after just recovering from THE worst headache . I even called DH home from work, not worth having it for the whole night when a little sleep can cure it , lucky I am off to the chiro tomorrow!!

Happy Thursday!!