WWW: It’s A Pond’s Life

It was a rainy Sunday yesterday but the atmosphere was so very sunny inside our humble home.  My best friend from way back in college spent the day with us.  She brought her two little princesses with her so Jade and Jakei had “classmates” for this week’s art day.

I was so excited to have them as our guests that I forgot to take pictures.  I was able to take pictures of the toddlers with their finished art work earlier today though.  These pictures aren’t enough to show how much fun my toddlers had with Ate Yarie and Myka but they’d at least give you an idea:

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If you’d like to make a little pond with your own little ones, here are some ideas you might want to try:

The DRAGONFLIES were the easiest to create.  All we did was cut some drinking straw into two for the dragonflies’ bodies. Then we tied two strips of plastic (cutout from plastic sandwich bags) an inch away from one end of the straw. We used double sided-tape to stick faces cutout from cardboard on the straws.  Lastly, we cut away part of one end of the straw to make antennas

The TURTLES were made from the plastic container of the polvoron hubby brought home last week and the cardboard box of the toddlers’ paint set.  I cut out pairs of feet and turtle heads from the cardboard box which the toddlers attached to a circle cutout using tape. We then attached the plastic container, which served as the turtle shell, to the turtle’s body using foam tape.  The toddlers used tempera paint to color the turtle shell.  I forgot about the turtles’ tails though so we have tailless and faceless turtles.

We used old blue plastic folders for the ponds.  We taped our turtles and dragonflies on the ponds and decorated them with swan foam stickers and tiny sparkly dragonflies.  The toddlers are still a bit to young for some complex origami but if your little ones are already able to follow instructions in paper folding, you might want to add ducks and frogs to your pond.

Comments

  1. wow sis galing mo..you just gave me ideas how to enjoy our sem break:)

  2. we enjoyed that day also! the kiddos would like to go back to your house again… thanks for the fun day bez! mwah!