Alphabet Book : h

This piece of art Mummy got the ideas from a book cover from the internet. It is a hand print art, a crab shape. All of us having fun doing it.

You'll Need:

• Drawing paper
• Water Colours
• Pink colour construction paper
• Wiggle eyes or circle shape white paper

To Make:

1. Using kids favourite water colours, mixing, and paint it on both hands. The children were laughing all the way during we doing it. Issac and Annabelle said it is so tickle when the brushes their palm with the water colours.
2. Have kids just print their both hands onto the drawing paper. It make the body of the crab.
3. Wash their hands clean, dry it, and prepare for our chelae or claw on top of the crab’s head. Cut out a half round shape from the pink colour construction paper, and trim it with zig zag shape. Glue it on both side.
4. Glue the wiggle eyes on both chelae. We just glued with circle shape and draw the eyes with black marker pen.

h is for horse

The following is the lower case ‘h’. This round is horse.

What You’ll Need:

• Light and dark brown foam
• a wiggly eye
• pen & pencil
• glue/tape
• scissors

How to Make the ‘h’ for horse:

1. Cut out a lowercase ‘h’ from a piece of a dark brown foam sheet. To make the letters go along with the uppercase letters we’ve done in the past, this letter was cut from a piece of foam that was about 4” x 4”.
2. Cut out two small ears and a head for the horse out of the excess dark brown foam.
3. Cut out a tail and a mane from the light brown foam sheet.
4. Glue/tape on the head, ears, tail and mane.
5. Add the wiggly eye and read the book again with your little one and try to do some of the things along with the horses!

We just played along with our fun crafts. And, it is really easy to see whose artwork  and who’s? ^^

Alphabet Book : H

This is the water colour session again and with some cutting and pasting works.

You'll Need:

• Drawing paper
• Water Colours
• Colour papers

To Make:

1. Draw out the party hat shape in triangle shape.
2. Let the children water colouring it.
3. Cut out the various sizes of star shapes using the colour papers, and paste it on the party hat.

Issac even paste the stars in an clown face order. Big eyes, big nose, moustache and a smiles on orange colour party hat with a star on top; Annabelle’s too a star on top of the yellow colour party hat.

H is for House

Even we are sick at home…our art craft still going on. I guessed this is the only ‘fun’ that we had during our activities at home…ha-ha…

What You'll Need:

• White and blue foam sheet/construction paper
• Scissors
• Pencil {to outline/trace letter} 
• Fake flowers
• Marker
• Glue

How to make the 'H' House:

1. Trace and cut an uppercase 'H' out of the blue foam sheet or construction paper.
2. Using the white foam, cut out two rectangles for windows, a larger rectangle for a door, a triangle for the roof, and a thin rectangle for a window box.
3. You can add window panes to the windows by either cutting them out with really fine scissors ~ or you can draw them on with a marker. :)
4. Glue on the roof, windows, door and window box.
5. Add some flowers to your window box if you decide to add one. Well, Issac just using his colour markers to add on the flowers with assorted colours – red, pink, yellow and orange. He quite of like it very much.
6. Put a doorknob on your door.

Annabelle was so naughty that she went on and scribbled all over the House…:S. Issac just laughed and said. “Mummy, Belle’s house is on fire! Very funny, very funny, ha-ha, ha-ha…”

Resource: http://totallytots.blogspot.com

Alphabet Book : g

Mummy really sometimes run out of ideas for the letter, and mummy will browse through the internet and searching for some fun making art projects for kids. And, and next will be ‘g’ for ginger bread man.

You'll Need:

• Drawing paper
• Oil pastels / Colour papers
• Pencil
• Ribbons for the ginger bread man

To Make:

1. Draw out the ginger bread man on the drawing paper.
2. Have kids just colour it using the oil pastels only. Because we had our few lessons earlier using the water colours, so Mummy thinking of just change our colour media. Started with the ginger bread man itself and then the background of the drawing paper.

Oil pastels for such a big piece of drawing paper probably works for Issac but somehow it doesn’t work for Annabelle. Issac is ‘big’ enough to handle the oil pastels very well, but for Annabelle, it is too boring for her just to colour it. The outcome really not a ‘good artwork’.

1. Thus, Mummy just cut out the ginger bread man using a few pieces of the colour papers, and ask her to glue it on the drawing paper. Then, she is only getting interested in what she is doing.
2. As for the scarf for the ginger bread man, Mummy just took out the linen on the small decorative basket which i got it on the other day when i visited the bank, fold it and use the double sided tape to tape in around the neck area. And finally done.

From this lessons, even thought we are learning the same subject but a method for a younger child might not a good one or suitable for your another toddler.

Any how, both kids finally have fun with their two own version of ginger bread man for today.

g is for goose

It’s lower case time for ‘g’ this week – goose.

What You’ll Need:

• white and yellow foam
• white feathers
• wiggly eye
• scissors
• tape/glue

How to Make the ‘g’ for goose:

1. Cut out a lowercase ‘g’ from a piece of a white foam sheet.
2. Cut a beak out of the yellow foam.
3. Glue/tape the beak onto the letter ‘g’ and add on the feather and the wiggly eye.

There were some modifications on the goose’s white feathers. Mummy had changed it to use the small white round cotton ball in stead of the white feathers. The children just pulled around the small wool to make it looks like a feather for that.

And, as always, just using the black marker to draw the eyes.

Both were having fun, and it is a fast track art craft for the night.

Resource: http://totallytots.blogspot.com

Alphabet Book : G

This is ‘G’ week. So Mummy prepared some water colour again for the ‘Grape’ – a few circles, and two leaves. And, here we go…

You'll Need:

• Drawing paper
• Water Colours
• Pencil
• Fifty Cent – tool to draw the circles of grapes.

To Make:

1. Draw out some circles shape on the drawing paper for grapes.
2. Draw out leaves and stem for the grapes.
3. Have kids just colour it. Started with the purple colour first, as Mummy mixing the red colour and blue colour to become purple, let the kids see the changing of the colour as well when they try this.
4. Green colour leaves will be the mixing colours between blue and yellow.

 Both were enjoying the water colouring very much!!!

G is for Goat

Here come the ‘G’ for the week – Goat. and the rest of G and g for the next week too.

What You'll Need:

• White and brown foam sheet/construction paper
• Scissors
• Pencil {to outline/trace letter} 
• Googly eye
• Crayon {if you want to color your goat}
• Glue

How to make the 'G' Goat:

1. Trace and cut an uppercase 'G' out of the foam sheet or construction paper.
2. Using the extra white foam, cut out two small triangles for horns.
3. Cut out a ‘beard’ and ears from the brown foam {you can choose the colour for the goat’s beard}.
4. Fringe the goat’s beard with the scissors so it looks more like hair.
5. Color your letter G with a brown crayon to give your goat a little colour {if you want too!}.
6. Glue the ears, beard, eye and horns onto your letter G to make your goat.

Mummy do not have the brown foam sheet or construction paper, so as usual as previously use the exercise book cover to replace it.  As usual the followings is the source that Mummy got for the craft and art we are doing here.

Resource: http://totallytots.blogspot.com

Alphabet Book : f

This is the fun art which Mummy learned the ideas from Mummy Lee Siang on Facebook. Both kids are happy with the water colours ‘project’ again!

 You'll Need:  

• Drawing paper
• Water Colours
• 2 no of Flat Sponges
• Paint Brushes
• Colour Palette
• Straws
• Markers

To Make:

1. Draw out a big fish shape on a sponge and another triangle shape of fish in another flat sponge. Mummy manage to draw another small fish on it.
2. Cut the two sponge fish out, put it aside.
3. We choose the black colour and orange colour for the fish, blue and green colour for the water and plants. Pour the colours into the colour palette separately.
4. Dip the sponge in the colour and then help the kid to press it onto the drawing paper.
5.  Let kids make whatever design they want.
6. Use the straw to make some bubbles design for the blue colour water.
7. Use the paint brush to draw some water plants.
8. Put the paper aside to let water colours to be dried.

 

f is for fish

A fish for the day. Quite a small fish, it is a lowercase letter ‘f’. Both having fun gluing the tiny scales: yellow, green and pink construction papers and the tin foil too.

What You’ll Need:

• blue and a variety of coloured craft foams
• tinfoil
• wiggly eye
• glue/tape
• scissors

How to Make the ‘f’ for fish:

1. Cut out a lowercase ‘f’ from a piece of light blue foam sheet.
2. Cut out scales for the fish.
3. Cover several of the scales with tinfoil, just like Rainbow Fish’s glittery scales.
4. Cut out some fins and lips for your fish.
5. Glue/tape the head of the fish, the tail and the flipper fin onto the lowercase ‘f’.
6. Glue on the wiggly eye and lips.
7. Glue on all of the pretty scales for your fish.

Resource: http://totallytots.blogspot.com

Alphabet Book : F

Since we had our last very enjoyable water colouring session, thus Mummy intend to do it again our our Alphabet Book for the letter uppercase ‘F’. Well, it is just a simple one – Fire.

Issac did not finish his logs colour but Annabelle managed to complete hers.

You'll Need:

• Drawing paper
• Water Colours – Red & Yellow for the fire, Brown for the logs
• Pencil

To Make:

1. Draw out a large fire shape on the drawing paper.
2. Draw out the rectangular shape as the logs.
3. Have kids just colour it. Started with the yellow colour first, then follow by the red colour, let the mixing colours of both do the miracles.

F is for Fox

We are going through letter ‘F’ this week, thus everything related to the letter F: fish, frog, fire and here we are, the Fox.

What You'll Need:

• Brown foam sheet/construction paper
• Scissors
• Pen {to trace letter}
• Fake fur
• Googly eyes
• small pom pom for nose
• Glue

How to make the 'F' Fox:

1. Trace and cut an uppercase 'F' out of the foam sheet or construction paper.
2. Using the extra foam, cut out two small triangles for ears.
3. Cut out a tail from the fake fur.
4. Glue the ears, tail, eye and nose onto your letter F.

Mummy had modify some art materials here.

We do not have the brown construction paper neither the brown foam sheet, thus we just using the used exercise book brown colour cover as the substitute materials for that.

And, the fake fur too, Mummy just using the shopping paper bags strings, so happened that we have some gold colour in the house, so Mummy just cut it out and become our materials today.

The small pom pom as well, using the hole puncher to punch the tiny small round black nose out from the black colour construction paper.

Resource: http://totallytots.blogspot.com

Alphabet Book : e

Another fun things to do here – another exercise or fun way to use the water colour paint, and make handprints at the same time. Both Issac and Annabelle were so happy and mentioned,” Mummy, my hand is so tickle when the paint brush on my palm and fingers!” They laughed through out the process…

Issac’s elephant will be a bit big because his hand is of course bigger than Annabelle.

You'll Need:

• Gray paint {we had fun mixing black and white together}
• Paintbrushes
• Pink 'ears' for your elephants
• Googley eyes
• Wet wipes {for quick clean-up}

To Make:
{Note: I cut out the pieces ahead of time since we have a short amount of time and a lot to do ~ otherwise I would recommend letting the kids cut out their own pieces as much as possible!}

1. Mix up the paint {if needed}.
2. And have kids colour grass along the bottom of their alphabet sheet.
3. Paint your child's hand with the gray paint, completely covering the fingers and palms.
4. Have your child place their hand on the paper {fingers pointing down toward the grass on the bottom} and gently press hand onto the paper so that the paint transfers.
5. Add an ear and an eye to your elephant and paint a thin tail.

Resource: http://homeschoolcreations.blogspot.com

e is for egg

This week we started with the lower case of the letter ‘e’, and ‘e’ is for egg.

What You’ll Need:

• Yellow, white and orange foam
• a few small yellow feathers
• a wiggly eye
• pen & pencil
• glue/tape
• scissors

How to Make the ‘e’ for egg:

1. Cut out a lowercase ‘e’ from a piece of a yellow foam sheet. To make the letters go along with the uppercase letters we’ve done in the past, this letter was cut from a piece of foam that was about 2” x 4” ~ small, but oh so cute!
2. Cut out an egg shape from white foam sheet {about 2” x 4”}.
3. Cut the egg in half using a zig-zag cut so that it looks like the egg has cracked.
4. Cut a small triangle out of the orange foam sheet to use a beak. Add a line for the beak opening using the pen.
5. Open the egg up {as pictured above} and glue the lowercase ‘e’ on top of the egg shell.
6. Add a the beak, feathers, and the wiggly eye.

Mummy just used the construction papers for this and we do not have the yellow feathers, if we have, sure the kids will be so happy.

Resource: http://totallytots.blogspot.com

Alphabet Book : E

When I took out the water colours, brushes, the white colour palette out, they are jumping and screaming.

Issac helped to set out the table and chair, Annabelle helped took out the old newspapers to put on top of the table.

Due to our house do not have enough small study table, so the kids have to take turn when they do this art.

Issac was so happy when coloured his Earth, he do the green colour as the land first, then follow by the blue sea colour. I was impressed as I saw the round shape is still ‘in shape’!

Belle just standing beside unhappily and waiting her turn.

After Issac completed his works, he took his own work to place beside the TV and let it dry.

Annabelle too, was so happy colouring her earth. I choose a light blue colour for her Earth, she just brush and colour the whole round shape.

That was the time that I think of something else on the land shape on earth.

Cutting out some green construction papers, and let her glued it to her blue earth after it dry.

They were really having fun doing it! Both shown to Daddy after daddy is back from work.

You'll Need:

• Drawing paper and some green construction paper
• Water colours
• Pencil
• Glue

To Make:

1. Draw out a large circle shape on the drawing paper as a Earth shape. And some smaller round shape as the land shape on the earth.

2. Have kids coloured the earth with the water colours – blue and green colour.

3. Cut out the round shape as the land shape using the green colour construction paper. {Just in case, your kid can not do it properly and you will need it as the land}

4. Glue it on top of the round Earth.

 

E is for Elephant

Last week we had our little hand print elephant on our Alphabet Book, this week we had our uppercase ‘E’ for that. Mummy noticed that both of the kids would prefer using hands or things that we had done on Alphabet Book, i think it is because the Alphabet Book would give them kind of surprise that what type of materials that we would be using today? Probably a bit of wondering that made them so excited! Anyway, here is what we did for today:

What You'll Need:

• Gray or white foam sheet/construction paper
• Scissors
• Pen {to trace letter}
• Gray paint ~ if you can't find gray paper or foam
• Googly eyes
• Glue

How to make the 'E' Elephant:

1. Trace and cut an uppercase 'E' out of the foam sheet or construction paper. Since our house currently didn't have gray foam or grey construction papers, I used black colour after we had glued it all together.
2. Using the extra foam, cut out an ear and a trunk for the elephant. I used a little sliver of our white foam to also cut out a tusk for him.
3. Glue the elephant's trunk onto the middle section of the letter 'E'.
4. Glue on the ear and paint if needed.
5. Add an eye and tusk to finish!

Resource: http://totallytots.blogspot.com

Alphabet Book : d

This week for the Alphabet Book, we made donut. Mummy was puzzling on some left over craft papers or the drawing blocks backings, how can recycle back for our art craft works. Then, thinking of Issac loves to eat donuts. Here comes for the word for the letter ‘d’ this week. For this craft, we use some recycle materials for it.

You will need:

• The used drawing block cardboard backing
• A piece of paper
• White glue
• Hole Puncher
• Left over colour papers
• Colour Pencils or Crayon

To Make:

1. Cut out large donut shape using the used drawing block cardboard backing.
2. Coloured the donut with colour pencil or crayon.
3. Used white glue to paste it on top of a piece of paper.
4. Use the hole puncher to punch out the colourful colour papers as ‘confetti’. We used yellow, red and orange colour papers.
5. Sprinkle the ‘confetti’ on top of the donut for decoration.

Daddy said the donuts looks like a real one.

d is for daisy

We started out our week with lowercase letter ‘d’ for daisy. Issac knows that this is a flower, I think that he must be learned that through the class in his kindergarten. And he knew that the flower have two colours which is white and yellow. His petals is small oval shape. He added in the stem and leaves itself, the stem is the green colour construction paper.

Belle’s daisy petals is bigger oval shape in size compared to Issac one. Then, as usual she will scribble on her paper.

What You’ll Need:

• Green, yellow, and white foam {or construction paper}
• glue and/or tape
• scissors

How to Make the ‘d’ for daisy:

1. Cut out a lowercase ‘d’ from a piece of green foam sheet. To make the letters go along with the uppercase letters we’ve done in the past, this letter was cut from a piece of foam that was about 4” x 5”.
2. Cut an oval/circle out of the yellow foam to use for the centre of the daisy.
3. Cut out petals for the daisy using the white foam.
4. Glue or tape the yellow centre to the back of the letter ‘d’.
5. Add the flower petals to your daisy and have fun reading the book again!

Resource: http://totallytots.blogspot.com

Alphabet Book : D

Doctor Kit ~ This is the great one as Mummy never think of this before, so the kids were thrilled to see the first aid stuffs. I pulled out whatever supplies I had {that were safe} for the kids to stick in their Doctor Bags.

You'll Need:

• Black, white, and red construction paper
• Scissors
• Glue and tape
• Q-tips, large craft stick, bandaids, a cotton ball, gauze bandage and other 'medical' supplies you might have around {that are safe for preschoolers}

To Make:

1. From the black construction paper, cut out a rectangle for the doctor's bag as well as two handles. Fold the black rectangle in half to make the bag. Glue the handles onto the bag.
2. Cut out two thin rectangles from the red construction paper and glue together to make a 'red cross'.
3. Cut out a white circle and glue your 'red cross' on. Glue the circle and cross onto your bag.
4. Open the bag and glue/tape all of your medical supplies into the bag.
5. Glue your doctor's bag onto your alphabet sheet.

This is really something fun and look alike to the real one.

Resource: http://homeschoolcreations.blogspot.com