The Krafty Mommy

Another popular school holiday activity / hack is the sharpie shoes. So we thought we'd give it a go too.

After our handprint peacocks...Anya wanted to do more hands and even feet prints....so I searched around and found some great ideas...and we did a few of them... All you need for this fun activity ... Watercolors Paper Some brushes/ sponges Some markers And super-keen and krafty toddlers :p We made a crab by printing one foot as the crab's body..and then 2 handprints on top on each side to make the clasps. Then just used a brush to join the handprints to the footprint..and some legs at the side...and 2 tentacles at the top... Once it dried we added 2 googgly eyes...Done!  If you have not seen the peacocks we did the other day..the post can be found here ...didn't they look absolutely adorable!  We also made Footprint Butterflies for both kids...these r my absolute favorite...must make keepsake for those cute lil feet... And finally (for now) we made our Family of Jellyfish ! So we all pitched in to make th...

My princess loves painting..so nearly everyday she asks me to do some sort of painting...but mostly I end up refusing because of my lil monster...he wants to eat n throw everything...so I can only imagine the mess he'll create if we paint while he is up...not his fault..he is just curious about new things..that is how a 14 month old should behave... So anyways... I came across a finger paint recipie online...n then there were numerous....so I decided to take it on with n for my kiddos... Here's what we did.... Ingredients.. 1/3rd cup flour 2 cups water 1 teaspoon salt 2 tablespoon sugar Food colorings 1. Mix the water, salt and sugar and heat on a low/medium flame in a pan. 2. Add the flour and keep mixing. Dissolve any lumps. 3. Heat the mixture on medium and keep stirring until the desired consistency is achieved. I kept it a little flowy as my kiddos are especially fond of messy painting. 4. Once desired consistency is achieved, divide the mixture into 3/4...

Yup it croaks..n its made out of a pet bottle...very simple n fun for the little kiddies... What's needed... 1. a PET bottle 2. A green paper 3. Some black paper/ black marker 4. Two pom-poms 5. Scissors 6. Glue 7. A plastic spoon How we made it... 1. Cut a pet bottle so it has the ridges and an open mouth to insert the paper 2. Cut & paste a mouth and nostrils off the black paper or draw with a black marker on the green paper 3. Roll and insert the green sheet on paper inside the bottle 4. Cut the froggy feet from the extra green paper and using the glue paste under the bottle below the mouth 5. Paste the pom-pom's at the top as eyes of the frog 6. Now use the plastic spoon to run over the ridges n make the froggy croak!! Anya totally enjoyed making this one...in fact she saw this on mister maker..n insisted we make it at home too!