Springtime Rainbows!

 With the coming of spring we have turned our attention to the science and beauty of... rainbows!

    Our first rainbow craft was a watercolor wind catcher. I prepared rainbow outlines for Rosie and me to fill in with watercolors, then cut out and attach raindrops with strings.

    Only instead of regular watercolors we made our own by adding a few drops of food coloring to little dishes of water! That made creating AND cleanup super easy!

    (Besides, Rosie is pretty much the food coloring Queen!)

Of course, craft time is not quite complete without tea and a snack, so while our tea was brewing (compliments of Rosie) we made an edible rainbow snack!

To make this fun rainbow-y treat, mix a couple drops food coloring in separate dishes of milk. Stir in a pinch of sugar, and paint onto a piece of bread! (We used clean Q-tips instead of paintbrushes)

Once your edible painting is finished, you can toast it lightly or enjoy as is!

Here is Rosie's beautiful Flower Garden with a Blue Sky!

And my Rainbow...

See how toasting brings out the colors?

Now... back to tea & craft time! After our paintings dry we can cut them out and assemble them.

    And here they are! The food-coloring watercolors have a really beautiful effect. I especially love water-based art for things like rainbows because they are made from water in real life.

Next, we tried another project Rosie had had her eye on... 

Edible finger paints!

These are literally just cool whip with food coloring added.

As you can see, we used a muffin tin for a pallet. 

What a fun, sunny day to make crafts outside!

    Painting our fingernails makes it "edible fingernail polish"!

Happy Learning!

<3 ~ Mama & Rosie

Autumn Spice Painting and Flower Prints

 We did a really fun craft the other day- painting with spices!

Spice paints are super easy to make- just mix about a teaspoon of spice with some water and begin painting!

Nutmeg, cinnamon, turmeric, ginger, paprika and cloves are the spices we used, but you could experiment with just about anything!

We painted on a fall leaf coloring page, but you could also paint freehand or whatever you want!

Another fun craft we did was Leaf and Flower Printing.

This was Rowan's idea :)

We collected flowers and leaves from the garden and laid them out on one half of the paper.

Next, you fold the paper in half and start pounding with a hammer!

You may get hungry, so it's important to have some raisins to snack on just in case ;)

The patterns and colors will transfer to both sides of the paper and you will have a symmetrical design!

These would make nice gifts!

Happy Learning!

~Beth

Pumpkin Decorating

 The other day Rosie came home from the store with one of those little decorated pumpkins. She fell in love with its little pink and green eyes and its sparkly witchy hat. She decided she wanted to make one out of the white pumpkin we got at the farm stand.

It was pretty easy, really. First she colored a face on the pumpkin. It's always more fun to do crafts outside if you can.

 

While Rosie was coloring she had me cut a witch's hat out of a paper plate. I cut out a circle, then made a cut towards the center and folded and stapled it to make a cone. After that we colored it pink.

After that it was time to glue on the hat. I had to trim the stem a little to make it fit. Using Elmer's glue, we glued on the hat, with a tuft of pom pom tassels stuck underneath for the hair.

Trying on the hat

And there we had it- another witchy pumpkin!

Are you going to decorate pumpkins this fall too?

Happy Learning!

~Beth