Toilet paper tube bird feeders

I'm sure you've seen this "craft" many times. Today we made little bird feeders out of toilet paper rolls.

We talked about what birds eat this morning. It's been raining on and off for a few days so we have seen the worms on the sidewalk, and the kids already knew birds ate bird food. We started making our little bird feeders by having the kids spread peanut butter on toilet paper tubes.

When they were finished they looked like this.

After wiping hands, the kids rolled their tubes in a plate full of bird seed.

This afternoon we will hang them from a tree branch and watch to see if any birds eat from them. We also dumped the extra bird seed that was on the plate into the yard. The kids keep looking out the window to see if the birds are eating the seeds yet.

Update: The rain has stopped so we were able to hang out bird feeders.

Peacocks

This morning we talked about peacocks. We looked at some pictures online too. Then, we made coffee-filter peacocks that I found on Like Mama ~ Like Daughter.

The kids used 3 colors of purple and blue to make fingerprint dots on coffee filters.

When they were (mostly) dry I glued them to paper with a glue stick. While they were drying I had cut out the body of the peacock. The kids helped glue the bodies on, and the eyes and beaks too. 

Handprint ducks

This morning we made handprint ducks. I did change things from what Crafty Morning had done.

First, we painted handprints (minus thumbs). 

Then, I painted in the head, beak and feet. The kids put an eye on each duck.

I don't have cool, puffy feathers like they used on the link I posted to. I cut pieces off bigger craft feathers and we glued those on to each duck.

Robin footprint art

The theme this week is "birds." We started our projects with a simple footprint art piece that looks like a Robin.

First, I helped the kids paint a foot brown.  Then, I added in the red with paint.

Last, when that was dry I used markers to create legs, a beak and an eye.

Fairy garden rocks

In preparation for getting our fairy garden ready, I had the kids paint rocks today. I asked them to paint designs or spots, but they just crazy painted. 

Each kid got to paint 3 rocks, that we will place in the garden once it has been weeded and replanted. 

Fairy coloring pages

Yesterday we were supposed to make fairy gardens for the garden, but the glue gun is missing. We were also busy doing a final sort through toys deciding what to keep and what to put in an upcoming rummage sale. I still intend to help the kids make fairy houses in the next week or two.

Today the kids were supposed to color Fairy Coloring Pages from Itsy Bitsy Fun, but Lucian refused, and the girls did a quick coloring and went back to playing.

They did have much more interest in today's fairy book, Alice the Fairy. This is one of my favorite books for kids. I even took baby pictures of Sutton laying on open pages of the book with wings on her back. If you haven't read this one, I highly recommend it!

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Tooth fairy puzzle

Our project today was a tooth fairy puzzle that I downloaded for free from 3 Dinosaurs. I cut all the strips out and the kids glued them in place. Our daycare friend needed lots of help (she just turned two), but Lucian and Sutton did theirs on their own.