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Miss Dawn's Notebook
Fun for the Holidays
Valentine's Day - Heart-Stamped
Lunch Bags Heart Sandwiches Hearts From the
Hands Valentine Placemats
Easter - Belly Bunny
Chicks in a
Basket Easter Baskets Easter Bunny
Ears Easter Parade Bonnet Egg Carton
Mini Easter Baskets Eggshell
Mosaic Paper Plate Bunny Paper Plate
Masks
Fall -
Fall Place
Mats
Thanksgiving
- Turkey Toothpick
Holder
Christmas - coming soon
Materials: brown paper bags, potatoes, paint
Decorate your children's brown paper lunch bags for the occasion.
Use potatoes cut in half and carved into the shape of hearts. Dip in
paint and press onto paper bags. Use red, white and pink paints for
that festive touch.
Materials: heart cookie cutters, sandwich fixins
Use large heart shaped cookie cutters to cut heart shapes into
bread. Spread with your favorite spread (raspberry, strawberry jam)
and serve a special lunch
Materials: finger paints
What kids don't love finger painting. Make a special batch of
red, white and pink paint up for Valentines and let the kids go
crazy creating special holiday pictures
Materials: old valentines ,glue, cardboard or construction paper,
contact paper
Gather up Valentines cards from past years. Glue onto light
cardboard or construction paper the size of a placemat in decorative
fashion. Cover this collage with clear contact paper to seal the
placemat. Be sure to have your child date and sign it. These make
great gifts for grandparents.
Easter
Materials: large styrofoam ball, plastic or unbreakable jar with
a screw on lid, construction paper, (white, pink, and either black,
blue, brown, or green), cotton balls, toothpicks, ribbon, glue
A grown-up should cut the bottom of the styrofoam ball just
enough so it will sit flat on the table. Then have the kids draw and
cut out black, blue, brown, or green eyes, (if you want them to
match your child's eyes), white bunny ears with pink ear insides
(both ears should be cut so the bottom of the ear is cut straight
across), and a pink nose.
Glue a cotton ball in the center of the styrofoam ball (nose)
then glue the small pink nose to the center of the cotton ball. Glue
the eyes on to the styrofoam ball. While the glue is drying take the
white bunny ears and the slightly smaller (should be same shape)
pink ear insides. Lay the white ears down and glue a tooth pick (or
two for more stability) to the front side of the white ear with half
of the toothpick/s on the ear and half hanging off the bottom of the
ear. Then take and glue the back side of the pink ear on top of the
toothpick and white ear. Do this for each ear.
Next glue the styrofoam ball to the top of the jar lid which can
be decorated with a paper doily, markers or whatever you may have.
Screw the lid on and whichever way the bunny faces, on the other
side glue a cottonball at the bottom of the jar (tail). When the
ears dry stick the toothpick, that is hanging out from the bottom of
the ears, into the top of the styrofoam ball. You can tie a ribbon
around the edge of the jar lid. Fill your bunny with jelly beans, or
M&M's or a treat like raisin's or dried fruit. After Easter hold
crayons, marbles, pencils, etc.
Materials: egg carton, cotton balls, yellow food dye, shredded
paper or easter grass, bits of orange paper, marker
Dip one
large cotton ball in yellow dye diluted with water. Let dry. Cut egg
carton so you have one section. Place a bit of shredded paper (color
optional) in bottom of section. When yellow cotton ball is dry draw
eyes on top. Cut out very small triangle of orange paper and glue on
yellow cotton ball to make chick’s beak. Sit chick in carton section
to make the chick in the basket.
Materials: pint milk or juice carton, cotton balls, pink yarn,
something to make eyes and nose (buttons, gumdrops or other candy or
whatever you like)
Close the top of the empty carton. Position the carton on its
side with the top closed edge vertical. Then on the side which is
facing up, cut along the two long edges and the bottom edge. Hold
flap up slightly and cut it to form two rabbit ears pointing away
from the pointed end of carton. Cover the entire outer part of the
carton with cotton balls including the ears. Use a small piece of
yarn to make outline of pink for the inner ear. Use buttons or
whatever you chose to make eyes and nose on the pointed end of the
carton. Place extra cotton balls for tail. Fill carton with Easter
grass and candy.
Materials: construction paper (pink, white and/or brown), glue
Cut out bunny ears with the white and pink paper (pink should be
slightly smaller) or use two tones of brown for a chocolate bunny.
Glue the pink on white to make ears. (or brown). Make a 2-inch band
long enough to go around your child's head. Staple ears in place on
band.
Materials: paper plate, construction paper, crayons or markers,
glue, yarn
Children can decorate the paper plate any way they wish. Glue on
pieces of pastel paper, color flowers on plate, use your
imagination. Tie yarn to each side of plate so it can be tied under
child's chin.
Materialas: individual egg buckets (from egg carton), ribbon,
easter grass, jelly beans, etc.
Paint egg buckets and decorate with glitter, stickers, etc. Punch
holes in sides of bucket and tie on ribbon. Put in easter grass and
treats.
Kristin Decatur
Materials: colored eggshells, construction paper, crayon, pen or
marker, glue
On a piece of paper have child draw a simple design
(e.g. flower, balloon, kite, egg). Spread glue in design area.
Sprinkle bits of broken eggshells onto glue. Allow to dry then hang
and enjoy.
Materials: large paper plate, small paper plate, glue, pink
construction paper, cotton ball, crayons or markers
Using paper plates, glue small one to top of large one to form
head and body. Cut out bunny ears from pink paper. Glue or staple to
head. Draw eyes and nose on face of plate with crayons or markers.
Glue a cotton ball on the back for a tail.
Materials: paper plates, hole punch, construction paper and
cotton balls or yellow feathers, string,
Cut eye holes out of paper plate. Use hole punch to make holes on
sides of plate and tie string through. For bunny mask, cut bunny
ears out of construction paper and staple to plate, then cover plate
with cotton balls. For chick mask, cover plate with yellow feathers.
Fall Place Mats
Materials: bristol board or other firm lightweight card stock,
fall leaves (dried by pressing in a telephone book for a week or so
to remove excess moisture), white glue, clear contact paper
Cut cardboard to size you want place mats to be. Arrange some
leaves in a pleasing pattern. Lightly glue in place. Cover the
leaves (when glue is dry) with clear contact paper. Trim contact
paper to size of place mat. Apply a second piece of contact paper to
the back side if you wish your place mat to be waterproof. If you
are fortunate enough to have access to a laminator at reasonable
cost, a great alternative! Other ways to decorate: arrange leaves as
above but create drawings incorporating the leaves ( a person with a
leaf body, an airplane with leaf for plane, an insect with a leaf
body, etc.). Use sponges (dipped in tempera paints) to decorate
place mat. Cut sponges into leaf shapes or purchase ready made ones.
Trim the edges of place mat with a pair of specialty scissors for a
fancy edge. Kids can sign their name and date to their art work for
a lasting memory.
Materials: 1 1/2' terracotta pot, ice cream stick, tacky glue,
tiny wiggly eyes, feathers (brown, orange, black), fun foam, (black
for a top hat, brown for head,red for gobble)
Draw a top hat & cut out, cut out all shapes glue together to
look like a turkey head, then glue to ice cream stick, glue stick
inside of the terracotta pot, in the back inside of the pot, glue
feathers. glue eyes onto turkey head.
coming soon
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