Dragons Love Tacos and Mother/Grandmother's Day questionaire

You can't talk about dragons with preschoolers without reading Dragons Love Tacos by Adam Rubin. It's a very cute book, and gave us a different kind of project to create - tacos! See the link below to get your own copy of this cute children's book. The idea for this project came from Glued to My Crafts.

After reading the book the kids painted the bottom side of small paper plates brown. They used a LOT of paint, so they had to dry quite a while before we could continue.

After they dried we glued tissue paper squares and green crumpled paper inside one half. Lastly, I folded them in half, and stapled them shut. Tacos!

Before we read this and made our tacos, my kids answered questions to fill out a questionnaire about me for Mother's Day and about their Grandma too.  Some of their answers were very funny! We will give my mom the ones they did about her on Mother's Day. I found them on Who Arted?

Dragon puppets

Today's dragon puppet project almost didn't happen. Periodically my printer refuses to work just to remind me its in control. After a long battle, I finally got our templates printed and the kids did their coloring. I found this project on Create In The Chaos.

The kids colored their dragon parts, then I cut them out and glued them to brown paper bags. After lunch they were dry enough to play with.

Do-A-Dot Dragons

The theme we are working this week is dragons. Today we did several worksheets from the Gifts of Curiosity Knights and Dragons pack. This download is free, and has a variety of sheets.

Fingerprint dandelions

Today's craft was a fast one because we were expecting a visit from some of my former daycare kids. We made these easy  fingerprint dandelions from Crafty Morning.

First, I cut half sheets of a dark blue paper, so the white paint would show up well. Then, I used my own fingerprint for the brown since the kids have such tiny fingers. I used the smallest brush I had to make simple stems and let them dry. 

When they were dry the kids took turns making finger "dots" with the white paint to create a dandelion look. 

Tissue paper flowers

The kids made the cutest craft today. I found a template for a flower to place tissue paper squares in on Mess For Less.

The kids used glue sticks to put glue where the circles in the worksheets were. Then they crumpled up tissue paper squares. You could cut your own, but I bought pre-cut squares from Oriental Trading Company.

I guided them to use green on the leaves, and then let choose their own colors for the flowers.

The girls picked purple and Lucian orange. 

Fingerprint hyacinths

I've seen many different versions of fingerprint hyacinths over the years, but never pinned one. This is how ours turned out.

On half sheets of paper I made lines (stems) with the corner of a sponge. Next time I may just use a marker. Lucian and I experimented with sponges to create the leaves.

When we had enough made for everyone we lightly swirled blue and purple paint together. Then the kids took turns dipping two fingers at a time in the swirled paint and placed them on either side of the stem.

Hand and footprint flowers

This weeks theme is flowers. This morning we made some really sweet hand and footprint flowers. I found the idea on Learning As We Grow.

First, we painted each child's feet green and stamped them on their paper. Next we stamped their hands on the paper in two different colors.

My kids wanted to make flowers for their dad and grandma, so they actually did an extra set each. 

Lastly, once all their hands and feet were clean I added green stems and some blades of grass with the edge of a painting sponge.