Penguins

This week, we are talking about penguins. We were going to conclude with a trip to the zoo to see the penguins, but they just arrived a month ago, and there is still a large line to visit them! So, that is still up in the air! But, we are still talking about penguins and doing crafts with them!

So today, we were going to make water bottle penguins, but a little someone got into my cotton balls, and we didn't have enough for all the kids to fill their water bottles, so we switched the idea and used baby food jars!

This craft has the kids doing many different things, and takes a bit of time to get everything ready, but it is all worth it! First I cut out the wings, feet, beaks and a strip of paper for the head. Then I found out cotton balls, googly eyes, feathers, glue, tape, and the baby food jars!



The kids started their penguins by putting the cotton balls in the baby food jar.





Then we glued on the feet, and the wings.

To do the head, we took the strip of paper, and made it into a ring. Then we put it over the lid of the baby food jar. Once that was on, we taped down the back of the head, and the jar- so it would stay! And then we decorated the head by gluing on the googly eyes, beak and some feathers out of the top!





And here are our cast of characters!

Turkey time

It is almost Thanksgiving here! We are so excited and talking about Turkeys! We did a craft yesterday with our hand print and foot print to make a turkey, and today we made magnetic turkey card/recipe holders!

To make the hand and foot print turkeys you will need paper, markers, glue and feathers.

First we traced both our hands and then one foot and cut them out. After that we coloured them.

Once they were all coloured we glued them together. Then added a beak and the "gobbler" part of the turkey. And then added our feathers.

Today we made turkeys that can be used to hold art, recipe cards, cards, etc. We also added magnets so they can stick on the fridge.

For this we needed a circle- cut out of finger paint paper. Finger paint, magnet, clothes pin, a brown rectangle, orange for the beak and feet, and the "gobbler" cut out of red paper. You will also need glue.

 First the kid finger painted the circle- which will be the back of the turkey. Try not to use too much paint!

 Then we put our turkey together. Gluing on the beak, "gobbler", and feet.

Then we added glue to the back of the clothes pin- where we had put the magnet earlier (you can put the magnet on at the same time, or before). We then attached the clothes pin to the circle. Make sure the closing part of the clothes pin is facing up- the middle of the circle. 

Then we added more glue to the top of the clothes pin, and put our turkey on that. 

Then you will have your turkey card holder. Make sure they dry REALLY well before sticking them onto the fridge.