by jessicaperkins | Oct 30, 2011 | art, coloring, craft, fall, glue, halloween, Language, poem, preschool, project, seasonal, totschool
A Haunted Halloween Project. Buga and I made this Haunted House project (Thanks, Mom!) as one of our Art projects. There were two sections to color – the top of the house and the bottom. Buga REALLY wanted us to color the house, together – which I try not...
by jessicaperkins | Oct 28, 2011 | activity, art, autumn, candy, fall, favor, gift, halloween, preschool, project, totschool
While in the bathroom at my parent’s house, I noticed a ton of empty toilet paper tubes…..and inspiration struck! I know, an interesting beginning to a craft story….Anyway, I remember seeing / making “poppers” – goody favors inside...
by jessicaperkins | Oct 14, 2011 | activity, art, face, fall, halloween, preschool, pumpkin, totschool
A Simple Activity that gave me some extra time in the kitchen to get dinner finished.Halloween themed and fun.I found foam pumpkins in the Dollar spot at Target.I also found face stickers.Put them together and you get a study of faces…What makes a face? What...
by jessicaperkins | Oct 11, 2011 | art, autumn, fall, leaf, project, tot school, totschool
We made these in the Summer, but Fish…and I thought they would make a beautiful addition to our autumn decorations. I was right. They are so beautiful. We just used clear contact paper and covered it with tissue squares; added a piece of contact paper on top;...
by jessicaperkins | Sep 25, 2011 | art, foam, playdough, project, texture, tot school, totschool
We played with this stuff in the project room at the Please Touch Museum and had to buy some before we left. A whole new texture to playdough – it’s supposed to never dry out. Buga has been enjoying this new textural medium immensely. It’s kind of...
by jessicaperkins | Sep 6, 2011 | art, artwork, butterflies, butterfly, home school, homeschool, project, tot school, totschool
With the transformation of our butterflies we wanted to do an art project to celebrate. These coffee filter butterflies turned out to be a great example of process art…and totally whimsically cute finished. Buga loved spraying the spray bottle and watching the...
