When my husband and I decided to move from our beloved Houston to Parker, Colorado, to help plant a church, I wasn't sure when or if I would be able to keep up with The Yellow Table, But now we are all unpacked and settled in to our new home! Our basement has the perfect set-up to continue with Crafty Fridays and I'm so excited to get started with my favorite season: fall! Football, apples, pumpkins, Halloween, pie! And now that we're in Colorado... we'll actually get to experience a real season, lol.
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I can remember in 5th grade wanting to design my own Valentines for the class party because I didn't like any at the grocery store. That trend never stopped, haha! So here we are a few days out from the kids' parties and I came up with two cute designs. For Adele, I made cards to go with Ring Pops and for Elliot, I made cards to go with squeeze pouches. I attached them with washi tape, but a staple or regular tape would work just fine. The Ring Pop cards could truthfully go with play jewelry or candy necklaces too. Scroll below the photo to download these cards free for your use!
I'm so excited to offer this Spring Art Mini-Camp! Your children will explore different art methods and create several craft projects. Day one's theme will be rainbows and clouds. Day two's theme will be bugs and gardening. Day two will also end with a short art exhibition for your little artist to show off their work.
The age for this camp is 4-10 years old. I know that may seem like quite a range, but the crafts will be open-ended in that every child can complete their projects using his or her own imagination and ability. Please follow this link to sign up and pay for your children. For families with 3+ children, please enter ONE2THREE at checkout for $10 off when you sign up three children! If you prefer to pay with cash, please email me at [email protected] to reserve your spot. It's snowing in Houston, y'all. Well, sort of. It's really just these teeny tiny ice pellets falling, but it was enough to shut down the city. I thought I'd share three snow day crafts with you. WINTER SKY CRAFT This is a good one for any age because it's simple enough for little ones, but is cool enough for older children. All you do is scribble with a blue marker on a white piece of construction paper. Then rub the paper with an ice cube. The result is above. This is pretty enough to be a stand-alone craft or could be fun as a background to draw on top of once it dries NEWSPAPER BIRCH TREES Adele and I did this one a couple of years ago on a day just like today. We cut a newspaper into strips and made trees out of them for the perfect winter scene. Then Adele just used white paint and a paintbrush for the snow. I added in the little cardinal after something I saw on Pinterest. HOT CHOCOLATE CUPS We did this one just this morning with the neighborhood kids! It's a fun one to pull out during cold days because it combines to thing I love: crafts and sugar, lol. I bought a pack of white disposal coffee cups with lids from Walmart. Here is a listing on Amazon, but if my memory serves me correctly, I got them cheaper at Walmart. All you do is grab some crayons and decorate your cup the way you want it. I recommend crayons because I think markers might leave a marks on your hands while drinking. Once you're done with your creation, pour some hot chocolate in and enjoy!
I hope you enjoyed these three simple craft ideas for a cold day stuck inside. Let me know if you try any or if you have any other ideas you'd like to share! Over the last few years, I have fallen in love with the library again. I used to go a lot as a kid, but then as I grew up, I would just buy books I wanted to read. Then one day as a new stay-at-home mom I thought, why not try out the local library? I'm glad we did. I know so many of my memories of my kids' preschool years will center on storytime and checking out books. I'm so sad that our usual library is closed because of flood damage from Hurricane Harvey, but rest assured we have still been visiting another one in our area. I thought I would share some of the books that my daughter and I have loved reading together. Many of these have inspired crafts we've done and conversations that we've had. This is not an exhaustive list! I just might have to do a Part 2 one day! Lady Pancake and Sir French Toast by Josh Funk You might notice a theme coming up... I love silly, quirky books. Don't get me wrong, I think there's a time and place for books that teach lessons or tell a beautiful story, but I love seeing my daughter's face when her imagination is stretched! This is one of those books! It's funny. My daughter gets a kick out of the characters and she laughs every time. There's actually a sequel to this book too that I haven't been able to catch yet, but it's on my list! Mostly Monsterly by Tammi Sauer This is my daughter's favorite book. She even has it memorized! This book tells the story of Bernadette, a monster that doesn't quite fit the monster stereotypes. The story is sweet and silly. The illustrations are just fun. This is a book we had to own! When buying picture books, I always check the used books on Amazon Prime first. I can almost always find a "like new" book for half the price, and you never know what you might get your hands on... our copy of Mostly Monsterly has the illustrator's autograph! Swatch:The Girl Who Loved Color by Julia Denos This book is a true visual treat. The colors are big and the main character Swatch is full of spunk. Swatch is a color tamer who learns that maybe some things are better left wild. I love the creative use of vocabulary to describe the colors in the book: Rumble-Tumble Pink, Yellowest Yellow, etc. Again, I love imagination stretchers! After reading this book, you can't help but grab a paintbrush. It's really such a beautiful book that encourages the reader to unleash their creative side. Birdie's Big Girl Dress by Sujean Rim To be fair, my daughter loves ALL of the Birdie Books! If you aren't familiar with them, these books follow a stylish little girl named Birdie as she hits "big girl" milestones. We see her get big girl shoes and big girl hair. There's one where she goes to kindergarten, which we read to my daughter the night before her first day of school. I decided to list Big Girl Dress because of the creative aspect to it. Birdie struggles to find the perfect birthday dress, but manages to piece together a very special outfit. It's cute book and I love the collage-type illustrations Rim uses. Madeline by Ludwig Bemelmans I'm ending my list with a classic. To me Madeline is the quintessential children's book. "In an old house in Paris that was covered with vines lived twelve little girls in two straight lines..." I just will always love that opening. My daughter also loves it and requests it as her bedtime story often. As far as the creative aspect of it, I think it opens modern-day readers to a different time and place. The school uniforms, the Parisien scenery, the rhythm of the story, it just all adds up perfectly. This is a great read to go with crafts centered on France or symmetry! I'm excited to offer a Winter Mini Art Camp for four- to seven-year-olds. The projects at this camp will be more advanced than what we do at Crafty Fridays and will encourage a lot more independence. I don't want to give too much away, but they will definitely be flexing their imaginations. Day two will end with a special art exhibition to show off their work! Please use the form below to sign up. I will accept payment upon arrival or you can pay at PayPal.Me/melindahwood/20, I can't think of a holiday that produces big imaginations quite like Halloween. I can remember as a little girl making puppets of spooky families. There were witches, Frankensteins and ghosts. I'd play with those paper cut-outs all month, ha! As an adult, Halloween has become one of my most favorite holidays. We go a little crazy in this house, so you can imagine how excited I was to plan a scary fun Crafty Friday. Inspired by my daughter's favorite book "Mostly Monsterly," we made some super cute monster masks after we read the story. These were created by kids ranging from two to four years old. I cut the ovals out of cereal boxes and they painted them colors of their choice and were given free rein over the other materials. I was a little bummed that the vampire teeth wouldn't stay on with regular glue, so I did have to go back over those with hot glue. (Hot glue is my hero.) To finish it off we added an oversized popsicle stick wrapped with a pipe cleaner for the handle. The kids loved them and I think they turned out super cute!
Book of the Month: Mostly Monsterly by Tammi Sauer Materials Used: Cereal boxes cut into ovals Washable Paint Tissue Paper Googly Eyes Vampire Teeth Pom Poms Elmer's Glue / Hot Glue (Adults Only) Large Popsicle Sticks Pipe Cleaners |
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