Valentine's Crafts

I love doing crafts with my kids because they have fun doing them. It's valentine's season and I want to make some crafts with them that they are going to give out to their friends and some of our family members. I didn't have to look far though because I got these great ideas from Pinterest and want to share it with my readers. 

Simple and easy. You might want to try them out too.

Source: Pinterest

Source: Pinterest

Source: Pinterest

Easy Easter Craft for Small Toddlers.

We have done lots of Easter crafts this season and my kids had fun doing them. They painted the windows, Easter Eggs, made some Easter cards. When it comes to painting (especially with water colours), I always have problems with little brother (2yrs). He ends up making a lot of messes which gives me extra clean up job. Because of this, I found out a way to make an easy but fun Easter craft with him. We did these crafts while big sister was in Kindergarten and he was so proud.

Here are the things we used:

This is the background picture. All we did was to paste transparent coloured papers, grasses and cotton wools to the pictures.

These are the transparent coloured papers. All we did was to tear them into pieces and glue them on the picture. Little brother likes anything 'tearing'.

Some Easter grasses. I got them for less than 1 Euro, in Müller.

We also used some cotton wools for the cloud and the sheep.

These are what he came up with. Free of messes. I would like to do things like this with him over and over again.

Paint-it-up

The weather is getting better, thank God it's spring again. Today, I told the kids it's time to do some of our indoor activities outside. They decided to do some paintings, I told them to look around and paint whatever they see around them.
This is what they came up with:

THINGS WE USED
1. Water colour paints
2. Paint brushes
3. Some old carton papers

Some of the things we used

This water colour was cheap and I always make sure I buy the one with (Stiftungs Warentest), which means that it does not contain any harmful substance.

I'm teaching my kids to be environmentally friendly. We hardly throw old carton papers away because they are reusable. They come in handy in things like these and lots of other crafts we do.

We made use of their front sides

There are nice gardens of spring flowers downstairs. I wanted them to look and paints some flowers but they decided to be creative in their own ways

Although the sun was shinning, big sister was busy a painting a blue sky, rainbows, rain drops, sun and ?

This is her finished work and she was very proud of it. Younger brother threw his own downstairs before the end of the whole thing.

What do you think of big sisters painting (she is 4yrs)? Send your comments and I will definitely pass it on to her?

THE HEDGEHOG BROTHERS

As a mother, you don't have to be an expert before you start doing some craft with your children. I'm not that good either but at times, ideas of things to do just come from nowhere. Children on their own are so creative and sometimes, I get ideas from them. At times, I have to ask them what they want us to do.
This evening, I decided to make some snacks (Meat-Pie) for the week just before dinner. As always, I was not alone in the kitchen. I had four extra hands to help (or stress) me out. They helped me cut out the patterns and I allowed them to play with the rest of the pie crust while I put the meat-pie in the oven. "Mummy, look I have a hedgehog" called Bryan, showing me the pie crust he moulded into a ball. Just then, I got some ideas on how to make Hedgehog.
I helped them flattened out the ball shaped dough into an irregular oval, then they had to put lots of spaghetti sticks all over the body. We put a pair of googly eyes to make them look more real. At the end, we had two Hedgehog-brothers. They were so happy at the results. This craft was less than 10 minutes. I put them in the oven for about five minutes to dry. I cant wait for them to wake up tomorrow to see the final results.

These are some of the meat-pies (made from whole grain flour).

I had the urge to make a better looking one for the pictures but hey, Why won't I let other people appreciate what these little kids did by themselves.

Another view.