Valetine's Craft

For Valentine Day this year we were going make heart shaped wreaths that I saw on a friends blog. The tutorial can be found here. The tutorial shows a round wreath, but my friend used a heart shaped wreath which I wanted to use as well. When I went to the craft store to get a heart shaped foam wreath I couldn't find one. I didn't want make a round wreath for Valentine's Day, so I was just about to forgo the whole project when I had an idea. I could make my own design up using the circle folding method found in the tutorial. I bought a large rectangle styrofoam like board and many sheets of colorful felt material. I think the board was meant for flower arrangements, but it worked well for our purpose too. The kids immensely enjoyed this craft, as did I because it was simple, clean,quick, and best of all super cute.



Here is the tutorial for how we made our LOVE board.

Material needed:


1. lots of long strait pins
2. felt material to cut in to circles
3. foam board
4.pencil
5.ruler
6.paper.

The first thing that we did was make letters out of paper to trace on our board. We used a ruler to make block letters , but you can draw your own or make them on the computer and print them off.

Then we place the letters on our board and arranged them the way we wanted and pinned them in place with straight pins.
After pinning the letters in place we traced them on the board with a pencil, or pen.


Then we outlined the letters with the folded felt circles.

After out lining the letters we filled them in.

After you outline and fill in all the letters then you are ready to fill in the rest of the board, and your project will be finished.

Magical Pictures

The Golden Fish by Paul Klee was our inspiration for these magical pictures. Paul Klee used oil paint and watercolors, but we used oil pastels and watercolor paint to get a similar effect. W wanted his to look like the original painting. M and B were more interested in making up thier own.

Caterpillar Coins

Reading Incentive Program

Caterpillar Coins are coming to little raCOONs academy. One way to run the reading program is every 15 minutes read earns 1 Caterpillar Coin. Collect your coins for a given time frame. At which time you will be able to spend the Caterpillar Coins at Carry Caterpillar’s Collectables. This little store is filled with a vast number of different items. Examples of items in store are: dvd’s, puzzles, games, books, fishing tackle, stuffys, jewellery etc.

An other way you could run the program is to earn coins that buy electronic decive time for example Xbox for 30 min, a movie and popcorn, DS for 30 min etc. For this type of program you might not want to save the coins over a long period of time. They could be used as you go. Just have fun with the idea. You can taylor it to fit what your needs are.

You will receive a reading log. When you read for 15 minutes and mom or dad approve the time you can fill in a spot in your reading log. When the log is full you can hand it in to your teacher(mom) and she will reward you with your Caterpillar Coins.

You can draw up you own coins, search on line for printables you like, or print off something like these coins.

Resolutions

At the start of a new year we are making some resolutions. These resolutions include focusing more on other areas of our education other than just math, science, social, and language arts. Although these are the most important areas we feel that it is time to expand our circle of knowledge. We are going to forcus on making our bodies as healthy as possible, and developing our artistic and cultural talents.