My Creative Side: February 2009

Sunday, February 15, 2009

3 New Layouts

Here are the three scrapbook pages I have done in the last couple of weeks. It's so fun to be motivated to scrap again!

Heart Books

These are the little valentine books that I came up with for the kids. They didn't end up being as embellished as I had originally planned...but I think for 2 and 4 year olds they were just right.

I used some pictures from last year because I had a whole bunch of duplicates. If I had planned a little further in advance, I could have used recent pictures. But they didn't seem to notice!

Each book has 6 pictures and 6 little notes about what I love about them. Both of their favorite pages are the silly ones where they are wearing diapers on their heads. :)

Painting Project

This started out as a painting with circles project...it turned into different things for each of the kids. I love their creativity!

Maren

Joel

Thursday, February 12, 2009

Valentines

I came up with this simple idea for Joel to make Valentines for his friends in preschool (they will deliver them to each other in class tomorrow - cute!).

Joel folded the paper, put a heart brad in each corner for the girls - and I put in a silver heart eyelet for the boys - and wrote his name on all of them. He also filled the little baggies and stapled the tag on. He is excited to give them to his friends (hopefully he will be well enough to go to school tomorrow...)

Noodle Activity

I found this great idea on Make & Takes (link on the left) for dying your own noodles for crafts. You just put your pasta in a big bag, add a couple of drops of food coloring, and a tablespoon of rubbing alcohol. Mix it all around the let them dry on paper-towel-lined baking sheets. Fun!

Joel loves to help!

I picked noodles with holes in them so the kids could use them for stringing to make necklaces. Maren ended up just gluing them on paper, so for that I could have used any kind of pasta.