Showing posts with label crafts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label crafts. Show all posts
Happy Sunday!  I'm finishing up my last unit for my PreK Sunday School Bundle and it feels. so. good!  I'm so excited to be ending this project on Joseph!



One of the crafts we will be doing with this unit is making our own colorful coats.  So, of course, I had to try it out with my little one first!  Here's how we made our paper bag Joseph coats!

STEP 1: Cut It Up!

Cut a large hole in the bottom of a large paper sack.  This will be the hole for the head so it needs to be big enough for your kid's head to fit.  If your kiddo has a big head like mine... just keep cutting! :)

Then, on the sides, cut arm holes (about 5 inches in diameter).  Be sure and cut them close to the bottom of the bag where the head hole is.

Last, cut strips of construction paper lengthwise in 1-2" strips.  If you have regular construction paper, you will most likely need to do horizontal stripes like shown in my pictures.  If you have the longer construction paper, you can do vertical stripes with that size!

Now you are ready for kiddos! :)

STEP 2: Glue the Strips

Using a glue bottle, add a strips one at a time horizontally or vertically (however your strip size works out for you)!

Make sure you glue strips of paper to both sides!  We didn't glue strips on the sides...

Step 3: Wear the Coat

Isn't he just the cutest model?  Okay, maybe I'm biased, but Cooper loves his colorful coat and loves to pretend play in it now!
Find this full Bible unit on Joseph and forgiveness here and 2 years of Sunday School units here.
Looking for an adorable teacher appreciation gift that's cheap too?  I made these for our Sunday School teachers at church and they were a huge hit!  I posted this image on Instagram and had lots of people asking how I made it and about the tags.

So, I decided to put together a quick how to blog post on it with a link to the gift tags as a FREEBIE in my store!
{affiliate links are included in this post which means I get a little pocket change to feed my chocolate addiction! :)}

Materials

I got most of my materials from Wal-Mart, but have included links to where you can find them online also.  The succulent plants I used can be difficult to find in our area.  I bought them at our WM Supercenter for $2.50, but I also looked at two other Wal-Marts and couldn't find them before I finally found them at the third store! :)

Steps

1.  Cut 6 inch squares of craft paper...one for each plant.

2.  Put the plant in the middle of the craft paper square.  Pull up one corner at a time and fold the extra around the pot as you go.  



Fold them all in the same direction.  The craft paper should stick above the plant an inch or two.  

TIP: It's not necessary, but is helpful if you use hot glue or double-sided tape to tack each fold down as you go.  It can be a handful to hold all of the folds down during the next step.

3.  Find the "prettiest" side to use as the front.  When I fold mine, there is a part where to folds point toward each other to make a "V" shape.  I like to use this as the front of my plant pot because I just like the way it looks! **NOTE:  I used double stick tape and it sticks but comes loose a little.  Don't worry about this, it will all be fine when you tie it up.  We just need it to stick a little to make it easier to deal with!**

4.  Tie up the plant with twine string, putting the bow in the front.  I really wanted to use striped twine string.  I usually have black and white striped string on hand and planned to use that...
...but I was out (keeping it real!) and Wal-Mart was out of it too!! #sadface  Plus, I didn't figure all of that out until it was too late to order it online.  #doublesadface  So, I settled for just plain twine string and it still turned out great.



5.  Print the labels and cut them out with a 2" circle cutter.  I had to settle for cutting these by hand because my circle cutter was too dull to cut the paper.  I had to trash it and order a new one! :(  If you look super close, you will see the imperfections...these won't be there if you use the circle cutters...and it will save you a TON of time! ;)  Back the white labels on construction paper and cut out with the 2.5" circle cutter.

6.  Tape the labels to the toothpick on the back with washi tape just to make the backside look a little cuter! :)  Then, stick the toothpicks all the way in the plant

Since I had most of the materials around my house, my all in cost was $2.50 per plant!  Super cheap and super cute! #winning

The school I was at last year hosted a Mother's Day Tea each year.  You can read about how we celebrated here.

One of my favorite new crafts I made for our moms were these adorable cupcake liner flowers.

Fair warning:  This is not a craft that will get done in 5 minutes.  It's more like do with a small group of 6 at your table.  I had my first graders working independently on their mom portraits and interview pages while I pulled back a group at a time.  It took the better part of the afternoon to finish 25 cupcake liner flowers, but the payoff was STUNNING!

Here's a look at how to make them and the lessons I learned to make this even more efficient next time around.
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Materials:

You will need each of these per kid...



Step 1: Fold the Cupcake Liners

Line up all 3 cupcake liners on top of each other.  Fold them in half.

Fold them in half again.

Fold them in half again.  You have now folded the cupcake liners into half 3 times.

Step 2: Cut Scalloped Edges

This is why it's important to get thin liners.  Trust me.  I learned the hard way.  My liners were thicker and so it made it difficult to cut with kid scissors.  I ended up cutting the edges with my adult scissors which made the process take twice as long.  If you use thicker liners, you might just try only using 2 per kid instead of three or three thin liners.  Otherwise, I would suggest these liners.

I just cut 2 scallops to make a heart shape.

Then, unfold the cupcake liners to see the flower shape!

Step 3: Add the Stem

Poke the toothpick through the center of the flower.

Using your fingers, pinch the flower around the toothpick and so that it pushes the flower up (instead of looking flat).  Hold your pinch! :)

Here's a view from the side while you are still pinching the base of the flower to the stem.

And the top view...

While you are still pinching the flower, have your craft partner tear a ~6 inch piece of green washi tape.  Tape over the base of the flower where you pinched and around the toothpick.  This will make sure the flower is taped to the toothpick.

Step 4: Add a Colorful Center

Once the flower is taped to the toothpick, you will wad up a piece of bright paper or tissue paper for the center.  I let my kiddos pick out their piece of paper.  I used my hot glue gun to glue it.  {TIP: Use a generous amount of hot glue in the middle of the flower.  This will help hold the flower to the toothpick even more since the toothpick should be coming out of the top of the flower just a hair!}



For our Mother's Day Tea, we added these to the top of each cupcake to make a colorful display on our food table!  Our moms took them home as souvenirs.  They also work great for boutonnieres or corsages!



Our preschool Sunday School class has been spending the last few weeks learning about God's power through the study of Moses! Here's a look at what we've been learning!

Moses Exploration Stations

The first 15 minutes of our 45 minute class on Sunday mornings is devoted to exploration stations that connect with our big idea.  Our Moses unit is no different!  

Our unit anchor chart doubles as a velcro dot puzzle during stations time!

The top shelf in our library station showcases books about Moses that are easy for our little readers to grab and curl up next to a pillow and read!

Match is always a winner with my preschoolers! :)

Week 1: Baby Moses

Hands down, our favorite part of this week was our Float the Nile game!  It was great comprehension practice for our pre-readers and they loved getting to "float" their baby Moses! :)

Week 2: The Burning Bush

This week, we learned that God is powerful enough to use a burning bush to speak to us!

I wasn't sure how my 3 and 4 year olds would do with the traditional tissue paper craft, but they did so great!  Even my youngest boys were able to do this after I showed them one time!  And they LOVED this and kept begging for more pieces to cover their flames!

Week 3 & 4: The Plagues

We took two weeks to talk about the Plagues of Egypt...even though my SS curriculum guide says just one week.  It's just so much to pack into one week!  The first week, we talked about all of the plagues, but focused in on the frogs!



I totally thought I had frog stickers too and was in a panic when I realized I didn't.  So, at the last minute, I hole punched green construction paper for pretend frogs.  YA'LL... all the giggles!  It was like they had real frogs all over the table or something!  Sometimes our plan B's are just as good or better, right? :)

The second Plague week, we focused the stubbornness of Pharoah and the lengths God's power went to save his people...God will never give up on us!  We matched the pictures to the words.  I did precut the circles for them, just to make it faster.  And we worked on finding the first letter of the words to help us match the pictures!

Week 5: The Red Sea

We had so much fun with our red sea craft!  While I got everything set up, they colored Moses.  Then, I added glue stick glue to the "path" part of the picture and the kids each pinched sand on top.  We poured the extra back in the sand container and had our dry land!

Then, we used puffy paint (equal parts shaving cream and elmer's glue and blue food coloring) to paint the red sea walls on either side of our dry land!

Check out the sea wall on this one!!

Week 6: The 10 Commandments

Our last week of studying Moses, we learned about how God used his power to speak to the Israelites and to write on stone tablets with his finger!

They each chose 2 commandments to trace the words, cut, crinkle up and glue!

All of these crafts and many more activities can be found in my Moses Unit!
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