Construction paper animals

My daughter decided to take the initiative and do some crafts on her own since she loves cutting and gluing.  Here are three animals she made:  beaver, elephant, and bat!  So cute and I just love her imagination!

Fingerpainting

My daughter loves doing arts and crafts!  We don't use fingerpaints that much anymore, but found some in the craft box and decided to use them up.  Here is her latest finger painting! 

What to do with those small cereal boxes

My daughter loves these small cereal boxes, because she gets to choose from a different cereal everyday.  We decided to use them to make a city on a piece of cardboard.

She wanted to keep the tops open so she could put her littlest pet shop toys in them.  We found a butterfly in our craft box and glued it to the top of one building. 

Instead of using construction paper to cover the boxes you could use paint or cut out doors in the front of them.   Another idea is using cotton balls to make a wintery scene!

We also used the construction paper to make a street and flowers.  Super cute and my daughter loves it!

Pie Pins/ Girl Scout Swaps

I made these cute little pins (also called swaps) with my daughter and her girl scout troop this past weekend.

This is what you will need:
Bottle caps
Brooch pins (you can buy these at Michaels)
brown felt or construction paper
small beads
glue
glue gun

Step 1:  Using the glue gun, glue the brooch pin to the back of a bottle cap.

Step 2:  Fill the inside of the bottle cap with glue.

Step 3:  Put the beads on top of the glue and let dry for a few minutes.

Step 4:  Glue the pieces of construction paper or felt on top to make the top of the pie.  I like using felt more, but I was out of the light brown color so I used construction paper.

Paper Fortune Tellers

As I looked around on the internet for some easy paper crafts, I came across paper fortune tellers.  Pictured above is the finished product.  I remember doing these as a child and had forgotten all about them.  A fun and easy craft to do with your child.  You may even be able to use this project to help with sight words.  Check out this website to make your own paper fortune teller.

low carb egg muffins

So this is the easiest low carb recipe ever!  This is what I used:

5 or 6 eggs
prosciutto cubes
diced onions
salt
pepper
milk
muffin pan (I used a mini muffin pan)

1.  put a few prosciutto cubes along with a pinch of onions in the mini muffin pan.
2.  preheat oven to 350 degrees.
3.  whisk the eggs with milk and pour a little bit into each muffin.  Do not fill to the top, just a little below to the rim.
4.  Cook for 5-10 minutes in the oven.  I don't have an exact time, because I wasn't paying attention.  I just kept a watch on the oven while I cleaned the kitchen/unloaded the dishwasher.
5.  Use a spoon to take the eggs out and then sprinkle with some salt and pepper.

You don't have to use the prosciutto or onions like I did with my recipe.  Try diced tomatoes or bell peppers.  This is such a quick and easy recipe.  This is what we had a long with toast for our Easter morning breakfast.

cotton ball sheep

My daughter wanted to do an art project with cotton balls the other day so we made this cute little sheep.

Materials needed:
cotton balls
bowl of glue (to dip cotton balls in)
paper/construction paper
scissors

1.  cut out the body, legs, tail, head, and eye.
2.  glue the body parts to the body.
3.  glue the cotton balls to the body.

If you have a little googly eye you can use that for the eye instead.  This is really cute.