by jessicaperkins | Oct 21, 2010 | activity, autumn, carving, craft, faces, fall, halloween, pumpkin
Oh the many faces you can create with a pumpkin…if only you don’t carve it! Because we picked our pumpkin from the farm so early this year, I decided we shouldn’t carve it if we wanted it to stay good until Halloween. Then I remembered I bought this...
by jessicaperkins | Oct 6, 2010 | art, craft, fine motor, flower, project
I a similar idea on one of my favorite blogs : Little Hands Big Work . I found this big shaker at the dollar store and used pipe cleaners and flower buttons to coordinate. It turned out to be a great “arrangement” – using fine motor skills to both...
by jessicaperkins | Sep 28, 2010 | art, coloring, craft, fine motor, project, rainbow, scratch art
I found these at the craft store on Clearance for under $2.00. In grade school I remember having to ever so gingerly scratch the surface without getting any oil from my hands onto the black “paper” and make each stroke count because we weren’t...
by jessicaperkins | Jun 18, 2010 | colors, craft, homemade, learning, puppets, sesame, stick, street, tool
We made these cute little Sesame Street Popsicle Stick Puppets to help with our colors. They are easy to bring with us and “match” things around the house, park, and store. I just copied pages from a coloring book to make the heads, colored them their...
by jessicaperkins | Feb 22, 2010 | chunky, coloring, craft, crayons, hearts, make, play, toys, valentines
I have had this project in queue for quite some time now. Maybe I am a little obsessive compulsive, but I hate having so many broken crayon nubs around. And don’t get me started on all those crayons that Layla has decided to peel the paper away from –...
by jessicaperkins | Jun 7, 2009 | craft, Fiddle Fab, lovey, mission, project, shop, spoolnloops
I have been working on a new project for the shop – another Fiddle Fab type lovey – but the super duper deluxe version. It is quilted, has ribbons within the quilt, interactive squares within it’s body, texture squares, and ribbons around the...
