Our second craft project of the day was starfish. I cut cardstock into starfish shapes, got some colored sequins, and broke out some more of that leftover colored sand.
I watered down glue a bit so the girls could paint the starfish with it. Then they sprinkled colored sand on them.
They dabbed on more glue and stuck sequins on.
And now we have a pile of sandy, sparkly starfish. These came out pretty cute!
My plan for yesterday’s craft project had to be postponed, so we did two today! The first one was heavily inspired by this fishing game, but at the last minute I discovered that none of the large collection of eyelets I’ve amassed are magnetic, and I inexplicably have no paper clips in the entire house. But I did have googly eyes. (I have my priorities straight, obviously.)
First, the girls painted the fish with our well-used set of watercolor paints.
Then they glued on googly eyes. (This was Anna’s favorite part. I need to come up with a project that will use a lot of googly eyes for her.)
We did our second project to give these a chance to dry, and then I punched holes in the tops of all the fish and Carolyn and I strung them on thread. We tied the strands to a stick we found outside, and, voilá: a giant fish mobile!
This week, the theme is “On the Beach”. What else is on the beach but lots and lots of sand? We had a lot of colored sand left over from a birthday party a couple of years ago, so I broke that out:
…and let the kids go to town making layered sand bottles.
Honestly, I made one too!
And then we took all of the spilled sand that had accumulated on the cookie sheets (I have lots of old cookie sheets that I keep around for just this type of thing – I promise I don’t bake actual cookies on these sheets!) and sprinkled it on glue we drizzled on construction paper.
