Play room art work on a budget!

This fantastic idea for art work to brighten up a play area was spied at a provider's home during a visit.

Simply glue wax crayons to a pre prepared painting canvas (both available cheaply at a local dollar store). A hot glue gun is the best way to secure them.

Using a blow dryer, gently heat the wax crayons until they start to melt. Use the air from the blow dryer to direct the melting wax.

Simple, easy and effective!

What an amazing chalk table!

Just love this idea, so simple and would be easy to fit in a corner of any day homes play area for creative, free drawing! Would also be great outdoors!
Simply take one of these small Ikea tables, that are inexpensive, and paint on chalk board paint!

The picture shows a bin for chalks also that has been cut out of centre but a bin just placed in the centre would work fine!

Then let the kids be creative!

Earth Day

April 22nd 2013 is Earth Day!

How about trying out this fun and easy baking activity with the children, based on the recipe for rice crispie treats!


Basically, just your basic rice krispie squares recipe with food coloring added.

1/4 cup margarine

40 regular marshmallows

1/2 tsp. vanilla

6 cups rice krispies

green and blue food coloring

Melt margarine and marshmallows over medium heat in a large pot, stir in vanilla and rice rispies.  

 

Divide into two bowls

 

Add green food coloring to one bowl and blue food coloring to the second.

 

Stir

 

Allow the children to take a scoop from the blue bowl and a scoop from the green bowl and mash them together in a ball (the earth).

 

Set the balls aside until completely cool.

It may not look like it but it really is spring!

One minute it's beautiful and sunny and the next we are covered in snow!

Yes, it's definitely spring in Alberta!

Even though it may not look like it, spring is officially here and what better way to kick off spring time activities than adding some colour to your day homes with these bright daffodil hand print pictures. (Even if your bulbs are still frozen in the ground!)

 

 

Perfect for  Mother's Day or Spring!

You will need:
Paper
Yellow, orange and green paint
Black pen

Instructions:
Keeping your fingers together, print 4 yellow handprints, with their fingers overlapping. These are your petals.
Print an orange handprint with spread fingers, overlapping the palm with the fingers of the yellow prints.
Add a green stem with the side of your hand.
When the paint is dry, use a black pen to draw on the lines of the petals.