Cupcakes and Commentary

Are there still leaves outside?? There should be some. I combined this craft with past finger painting and our adventure in finding leaves outside. It combines painting, tracing, and deciphering different leaf sizes. And cutting paper. Materials Needed: Leaves Construction Paper Crayon Safety Scissors The first thing you need to do is go outside and [...]

May I introduce, our pumpkin family… And Super A’s current favorite items to hide behind when playing hide and seek… This Halloween cat was in Super A’s pumpkin last year, however just recently he took an interest in the cat… and named him “Shoes-Boots-Piece of Tape”. So now let’s move on to a few simple [...]

I realized that I never posted this wreath that I made! I got the idea for it, from the Small Words Blog here and the Cowboy Phraseology blog here (have you been to these blogs? You should go! They are filled with great ideas). It looks tasking, but it is actually quite simple (and I [...]

So due to my procrastinatory nature, I spent most of the summer working on these two canvases for my sweet nephews. But finally…finished! The lighting is not great, but I got tired of trying to find good lighting on a rainy, cloudy day. And now a craft. Sesame Street is all new this week (finally!) [...]

I really like the books in Jane Yolen and Mark Teague’s series. Super A particularly likes “How do Dinosaurs Say Goodnight?” However, our activity is based on the book “How do Dinosaurs Count to Ten? Right now Super A counts to ten like this “1, 2, 3, 6, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14″ So [...]

Our local library branch does a great story time (if you want to know the branch I’m talking about e-mail me!). One of my favorite things about their story time is they always read at least two stories and the kids get to do a small craft based on one of the stories. Super A [...]

Super A is slightly obsessed with the moon lately. We have to go check for it every night. Unfortunately it’s been cloudy the past few nights, so we haven’t been able to see it (to Super A’s BIG TIME disappointment). Trying to capture this interest I decided to do a little project with Super A [...]

This summer I have been working with Super A on the alphabet. Granted I realize that he is a little young to start writing his ABC’s, but not to young to start being able to recognize, working on the phonetics, and sing the song! Throughout the summer we would spend a few mornings a week [...]

So here’s what we did for ten hours over two nights this weekend… New paint. Finally. I can stop being the woman crawling the pale yellow walls of our house (have you read that short story? I think it was meant to terrify those of us who spend a majority of our time at home). [...]

A month and a half ago a cold day turned into a finger painting project. I occasionally take the art projects of our mini cupcake and turn them into part of the decor of his room and bathroom. For this particular project I had a spot above his towel rack in the bathroom in mind [...]