Happy Chapeau Animals {Mom As Well As Tot Arts And Crafts Time}

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It is Virtual Book Club Summer Camp Animal Adventures Week! Each army camp post volition characteristic animal-themed activities as well as children's books. If you're non nonetheless subscribed to our weekly army camp emails, go here to sign up. It is non likewise belatedly to start!

Mom as well as Tot Craft Time is a brusque flow of the 24-hour interval when my toddler (soon to endure preschooler) as well as I arts and crafts together! We exercise as well as connect at the same time. I beloved it as well as and thus does she. Sometimes my 5-year-old joins inwards too.

This calendar week nosotros are having fun amongst animals! We bring loads as well as loads of play-doh lids inwards our recycling cupboard, as well as thus nosotros decided to role merely about of them to brand lid animals.

My miss is a lover of all animals, as well as thus she was actually excited almost this activity!

Here are the materials nosotros used...

• play-doh lids
• glue
• cardstock
• scissors
• glitter poms (from Craftprojectideas.com)
• googly eyes
• markers

Here's how nosotros made them...

First nosotros brainstormed all of our electrical flow favorite animals. The kids bring been watching Mike the Knight: Knight inwards Training a lot lately (they are a chip obsessed) as well as thus they wanted to brand a frog since the grapheme Evie (Mike's sister) has a pet frog inwards the DVD.

We've also read The Little Mouse, the Red Ripe Strawberry, as well as the Big Hungry Bear by Don as well as Audrey Wood a lot lately... as well as thus nosotros had to brand a mouse... though my boy says it looks to a greater extent than similar a bear.

They also picked a bunny, dog, cat, as well as lizard. My boy as well as I cutting shapes out of cardstock for ears as well as tongues... spell my miss was the official gluer. She specially loved adding the glitter pom noses. I added merely about dark marking details in ane trial nosotros were done.

My boy also spent a dandy bargain of fourth dimension creating intricate ears for his domestic dog that were huge! He hasn't finished his creation yet... but hither is a glimpse.

This projection was unproblematic as well as fun as well as nosotros innovation to add together merely about popsicle sticks amongst masking record as well as thus that nosotros tin plough the lid animals into fiddling animals puppets. It volition endure as well as thus awesome to retell merely about of our favorite creature stories using these lid animals (and whatever others nosotros create).

Here are a few of our other favorite creature books that nosotros are reading this week...

Mouse Paint by Ellen Stoll Walsh

Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! by Mo Willems

Honey... Honey... Lion! Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Story from Africa by January Brett

 

Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? by Eric Carle

Moo Baa La La La by Sandra Boynton

What is your favorite creature book? What lid creature would your kid create?

For to a greater extent than creature crafts as well as activities caput on over to The Educators' Spin On It to come across the cute Mouse Count inspired activities they are doing! Here's a sneak peak.

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