Recreate a Scene

I luuuurrrv this one. Oh! Sorry for the lengthy MIA. Life got very busy (and fun) and now I'm back to the usual days of delight and sunshine.

This project works really well for older children, but my five year old enjoyed it too. Choose a scene or photo from a magazine that can easily be manipulated. Zoe chose of photo of a dog with his feet in the air because she wanted it to look like he was holding something. I chose a photo of a couple looking out to sea. Cut out that picture. Glue it to paper. And draw whatever your beautiful brain can think up that fits into that scene. So. Much. Fun. I'm doing another tomorrow!

 

A Brief Hiatus

Due to a ridiculous amount of busyness The Happy Phamily Project will resume posts next week. Sorry! It would be fantastic to see some photos of families doing some projects. Post them in the comments sections if you want! Happy Days!

Crayons and Watercolors

First Letter Cut Outs

Fun with Felt

I love the feltboard. The possibilities with these things are limitless. Prepackaged felt sets costs almost an arm and a leg. So I made our own with a bulletin board I got off Freecycle and felt I got at the fabric store. I just hot glued the felt to the board. You can cut out various activities and objects from the felt and sort them in their own bags. A particular favorite of ours is the Funny Faces felt set. 

Reuse Them Crayons!

Happy Valentine's Day! Ever wonder what to do with the millions of broken crayons you've accumulated? We have quite a few too. I seem to have a knack for breaking one every time I color with my kids. Here's an idea. Make new crayons!

Zoe made some as party favors for her third birthday.

 

Now she is making them as Valentines for her Kindergarten class.

Puurdy.

Sweet Teeth

Before I get any fingers wagged in my direction, yes I know how particularly sugar-laden cupcakes are. I would like to add that this is a sometimes treat, but one that I think is particularly good for the soul. So we made them. And we made them good.

Valentine's cupcakes!!

He sho IS a happy camper!

This is what yer counter looks like when you cook with kids. Often times it is worse.

ARRRMMMMMMMMMMM.

Make a Music Rainbow

 Zoe's been singing Do-Re-Mi from The Sound of Music a lot lately so we decided to try to make our own music scale with glass jars and water.

We added food coloring to pretty it up a bit.

Then it went from a music lesson to a color lesson! We put the jars in order of the rainbow.

And identified the three primary colors.

And did color equations! Yellow + Blue = Green!

Red+Blue= Purple!