scratch art paper plate

When my son was scratching the scratch pad that we bought in dollar tree,I came up with a different idea,why not use a washable black paint over a scribbled crayon.Without further adieu,allow me to show you how we did it.We scribbled the plate with crayons.

Then we applied a washable black paint using our pointer finger then we played with it using a q-tip,crayon and a stick but among the three,we love the crayon.The q-tip is good in a big plate.

Then we let it dry.The good thing about this is you can always erase if your child wants to draw again by using your finger and add drops of black paint.



pasta art

Today,we played with colored elbow pasta.I put a spoonful of alcohol and 6 drops of food coloring over a half of cup of pasta.As soon as it dried up,we started doing sculptures.

He said he's going to make roads.
Here's his work (below)

He added more pasta later.I love how he interpret his work,that it is a road.(It's not the product,it's the process)

I also did mine too...



flower

umbrella

fish

heart

star

Then I let him trace the letter A

We did pasta stamping too.I bet it would look much better with other colored ink pad.I only have a black and blue ink pad.

And this is our finished products.

my son's work.I drew the stems

And these are mine below

I'm thinking the above picture is great for a mother's day card.With this one,I used a Sunny D bottle cap so to have a full print of the heart shaped pasta.

This would also make a great greeting card.

What do you think?

styrofoam monoprinting

This is so much fun.You don't have to be a good artist to do this.Here's what to do.
1.Print a cartoon picture that you like or you can even tear a page from a coloring book.
2.Tape down the styrofoam onto the table or floor with the picture on top of the styrofoam and slightly trace it enough for you to see the line.

3.When done,take out the picture.Using a dull pencil,trace again the line in the styrofoam.This should look like the picture below.

5.Then you're ready to paint using your roller paint.

6.Make prints on a cardstock or plain paper (monoprinting).



Easy peasy right?You can even make a greeting card out of this.So cool!

sand art



We loved this art activity.It is great for teaching color mixing and sensorial play too.I was experimenting half a bag of sand with few drops of food coloring and it worked.It'll also work with salt.I will try this again with washable paint diluted with a small amount of water for a richer and vibrant colors and will add glitters too.I don't have the picture to show you the first part we did which is mixing sand with different drops of food coloring.We started putting 4-6 drops of blue then shook the bag and add drops of yellow.

First,we did alphabet tracing but my son insisted to write number 9. :)

Then I drew a duck,traced it with glue and JP sprinkled it with sand.

I then let him draw.I traced it with glue and he sprinkled it with sand.

Here's our finished products (below)

If only I had glitters on hand,it would be so much nicer.We incorporated foam stickers too.

I let him do on his own.He sure was so proud to show it to his daddy. :)





lego graphing my way

I drew different colors of legos with markers on both papers shown below,yes,no printer is needed.

Now comes the fun part

We sure had fun!

Easy to make christmas card

Are you looking for a super simple Christmas card idea to make with your kids for Daddy or for grandma or grandpa?well,I'll share what we had just made...All you need are washable paints,paper/cardstock,scissor,Q-tip,star sticker(if not available,use construction paper.
First you need to draw a christmas tree and cut it to make as a stencil.
Fold a paper in half and put it underneath your christmas tree stencil.Tape the top and the bottom of your paper so to make sure it doesn't move.
With your Q-tip,start painting.
Put some colorful dots for ornaments to look like a colorful christmas balls.

When done,take the stencil out and put the star sticker on top the tree

Now here's another way,try to put the dots for christmas balls first followed by the green paint for the tree.This is the effect

Here's a picture using sponge.(below)

Write "Merry Christmas " at the bottom or at the right side and you're done!

Have fun!

homemade inexpensive continent map

I love to incorporate geography lesson to JP "my way" so what I did was I bought felt sheets and foam boards in dollar tree.printed a map from the internet and I cut each continents.After cutting,I then put a tape in the middle of the paper and taped it onto the felt sheet.This serves as your guide for the shape of the continent,there's no need for you to trace.Then I continued cutting the felt sheet.I cut 2 pairs of each continents for my cards to go along with the map.I glued them in the foam board and the other pair to the cardstock.The last step was I glued the labels.It is so easy.If you're like me who has patience to make it,then you would enjoy.It's a very cheap world map and aside from that,using felt sheet is also a good way to learn about texture.The first time JP touched the map,he said "Mommy,it's soft".I love how my son would say "europe","asia","australia".It is so cute. :)
Here's the picture of my homemade world map which I put in front of our refrigerator.

And here's the continent cards

Now that's neat!