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! :)