Life as a Mommy

I have been saving bottle caps for awhile now from milk jugs, soda bottles, juice bottles to have for crafts. It's a rainy day here in Pittsburgh so I decided to put some to use. I made some Homemade Stamps!  My son had so much fun and kept singing "dot, dot, dot" while he was stamping. This is a cheap and fun activity for kids of ALL ages!  Here's what you will need: ( pictures of supplies will be included in this post ) - foam stickers - paint ( we used fingerpaint and washable kids' paint ) - bottle caps - paper ( we used construction paper ) TIP! At first I dipped the stamp into the globs of paint.. but that didn't do very well. So I used a paint brush to spread the paint out more, and that worked MUCH better! Hope this tip helps. Here are a few pictures of the stampers! All I did was put the foam stickers on the flat part of the bottle cap! Here are the stamps in action! :) After a bit my son just ...

My son and I did a very easy and fun craft Saturday morning. I will call it the "Shredded Construction Paper Collage" ;)  What you will need: - construction paper - glue - stickers - and anything else you want to add to your collage Below are some pictures of our craft morning!

This was the cutest and easiest craft ever, I think! My son had a blast painting and singing "dot, dot, dot"!  Things you will need: - Construction Paper - Glue - Q-Tips - Paint ( we used Crayola Washable Kids' Paints ) First, I used a piece of brown construction paper and cut out a tree shape. Next, I got a white piece of construction paper and glued the cut out brown tree to the paper. Then I let me son add his red, yellow and orange dots ( leaves ) all over the paper! Such a fun fall activity! This last picture I just gave him a plain piece of paper and paint brush and let him paint whatever he wanted! :)  

This is the perfect activity for a Hot summer day!  All you need is an *ice cube tray, food coloring and water* I bought a cheap ice cube tray from Family Dollar to use for this activity. Filled the tray up with water and started making different colored ice cubes by putting drops of food coloring into certain cubes. Last, I put the tray in the freezer so the ice cubes could freeze. :) After the cubes were frozen I got an aluminum tin and stuck a few pieces of paper in the tin, and let me son choose a few color ice cubes. Below are pictures of my son enjoying ice cube painting! :) His paintings are currently hanging on our refrigerator.