Craft together for Mother’s day

May 7th, 2010

Posted by Melitsa in Education, Homemade, play activities

The MO was interested in mobiles perhaps with all the wind around here. So we decided to make a mobile. Here’s a Mother’s day craft we made together that I get to keep.

Design and draw on your paper.

Use acetate or leading paper, cover the paper.

Outline the shape with leaded paint.

Finish and leave to dry.

Choose your colours and squeeze to fill up.

Allow to dry.

Cut out the shapes and letter with enough space for a punched hole. ( See above photo)

Encourage your preschooler to thread beads onto bead wire. This took team work.

Connect up the three pieces to hang as a mobile.

Inside, outside and windy…………..

Happy Mother’s day!

Melitsa Avila is a former teacher, mother of three boys and military wife who talks about living an intentional play lifestyle using practical and everyday play activities to do with the under 5s. She publishes related ebooks & newsletters. Melitsa is the host and producer of a weekly Early Childhood radio show: Raising Playful Tots bringing parents and carers together with Early childhood practitioners. Thanks for reading!

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http://themadhouse-themadhouse.blogspot.com TheMadHouse

We have some window paint and will be doiong this, it is such a great way of keeping the peices
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http://adventureskids.blogspot.com Catherine

What a lovely idea and a beautiful present for mother’s day.
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http://goexplorenature.com Debi

I love this idea! The possibilities are endless, too! I’d especially love to see my kiddos create butterflies, birds or bugs!

http://www.play-activities.com Melitsa

We had a lot of fun together. Love the idea of different animals. I always buy way extra if I’m buying something so those ideas will come in handy another time. Cheers.
I’m imagining a flying butterfly floating in the wind already.

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