Cardboard and Cork Valentine Hanging Craft

We decided to make a colorful Valentine using cardboard and wine corks as our main materials. Cut up the wine cork and made circles and rectangle shapes. Cut out cardboard and painted the heart shapes bright colors. Strung them up in any combination and offered them to the parents! Very Springy. 

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Tin Foil Paintings

Using cardboard as a canvas the children  crisscrossed the boards with yarn. Once the yarn was in place, we brushed the board with white glue. Working rapidly we quickly placed the foil on the board pressed it down and rubbed it with a bit of felt. Instead of permanent ink pens we decided to use acrylic paint, we found acrylic paint to be a nice alternative.. We were very pleased with the results! Credit:http://hollysartcorner.blogspot.pt

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Cloth-Cork Christmas Card Craft

For our Christmas cards we decided to use scraps of cloth and cork sheet. First we glued the cloth to cereal box card. We cut out tree shapes and glued to card stock. We punched out snowflakes from recycled copy paper and glued them to our card stock. We used old cork sheet to cut out the trunks. For a festive touch we used glitter glue for the garland. 

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Popsicle Stick Snow Flake Ornament

Couple of years ago bought some craft popsicle sticks on sale. This year the kids decided to make snowflakes and the sticks came in handy. The kids glued them together, painted them white and glittered them all up! Happy Holidays to all!

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Pine Cone Christmas Tree Craft

This is out take on the popular pine cone Christmas tree. We painted our tree  green. Glued bits and pieces we had and sprinkled it with glitter. We made a tree stand by wrapping a piece of felt around a recycled cat food tin! Our parents loved them.

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Chestnut Autumn Craft

For Autumn it seemed appropriate to make something with chestnuts.We reused ice-cream cups we had washed and saved in the Summer. With fabric scarps we made up our chestnut dolls in very fashionable gowns! We painted on lips, added googly eyes and yarn hair. 
Some children made dolls of themselves!

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Tree Silhouettes Circles

We decided to make something spooky and different for Halloween. My group voted on making tree silhouettes against a full moon. The children really enjoyed the using different hues of the same color. Gave us a chance to use all the paints we had left from last year!
Original idea credit is as follows: http://mrstsfirstgradeclass-jill.blogspot

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