Artsy Fartsy Thursday

Turns out today was full of arts and crafts. I love it when that happens! If you know me or follow the blog, you know that I try new crafts with Annabelle all the time. She seems to really enjoy them and I do too so it's a win, win. Anyway, we went to the YMCA today and came home with an apple construction paper craft (25% Annabelle participation, 75% Mom). Played with finger paints in the bath this afternoon (100% Annabelle). Then colored a monkey puzzle (I did all the coloring but Annabelle did try to put the pieces together for me!).

Monkey puzzle, apple craft

Finger painting in the tub

Taste test: fail

This is the face she made just after she dumped all the paint out. Kinda devious huh?!

A's Quiet Book

I finally finished it! After several months time and numerous trips to the crafts store my Quiet Book project for Annabelle is finally complete. Yea! A few pages are from patterns I found on the web but there are some that are all my design. Here are some pics of the finished product.

Cover!

Left side: match bees to flowers. Back of bees have shapes that match the flower petals. Right: Put spots on the ladybug. The spots are Velcro. When you are done unzip the ladybug and store spots inside.

Mail page- mailbox opens and flag moves. Envelopes open and there are letters inside

Train with finger puppets- elephant, lion and monkey

Left: owl in a tree come out of the hole. Right: flowers unbutton and sun is Velcro.

Breakfast page. Left - make a bacon egg and cheese sandwich on the plate. The banana is Velcro. Right is the Sbucks page. 1 is a tea cup with removable (snap) tea bag. 2 is coffee lift the flap to find two coffee beans. 3 is a frappacino cup with pull down flap. There are three removable strawberries.

I Spy page with ID card. (This one will not be used till shes older.) 

Left: Dress the monkey with bows, dresses, skirt and shirts (velcro). Right: match the cupcakes.

She's A Painter!

I let A paint today... and yes it was messy, yes she ate the paint, yes it was so much fun! I can't wait to do it again!

First thing is first, I made the paint with flour, water and food coloring just in case she decided to taste the medium. Second, I pretty much taped everything to the ground so she couldn't get her fingers under and rip up the "canvas." I also put a trash bag under the paper so everything would be easy to clean up after we were all done. A had a good time but she really did more finger painting than using her brushes. She also dumped all the paint on the ground about 15 minutes into the fun. I don't care- it was fun seeing her play with colors and brushes. I have no problems with her getting dirty! Pics below.