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World Peace Paper Plate Craft

in Arts + Crafts, Toddler Zone on September 21, 2017

โ€œPeace comes from being able to contribute the best that we have, and all that we are, toward creating a world that supports everyone. But it is also securing the space for others to contribute the best that they have and all that they are.โ€

–ย Hafsat Abiola

Today is the International Day of Peace. Maybe it’s because I’m an adult and I pay more attention to world affairs than I used to when I was younger, but it seems like our world is in quite a chaotic state these days. We could all benefit from a little love, kindness, and peace. In honor of this special day, we made a World Peace Paper Plate Craft to hang on our art wall – a reminder to spread peace and love today, and everyday!

World Peace Paper Plate Craft ยฉ Capturing Parenthood

Peace Day was established in 1981, by a unanimous United Nations resolution. It is celebrated each year on September 21st. According to the UN, the purpose of the holiday, is to provide “a globally shared date for all humanity to commit to Peace above all differences, and to contribute to building a Culture of Peace.”

I had been looking for a fun, toddler-friendly Peace Day craft to do with my little nugget, to help her understand the meaning and importance of peace. I stumbled across the idea for Peace Plates over on Grade Onederful (http://www.gradeonederful.com/2012/11/peace-plates.html). Their colorful, water color creations, reminded me a lot of tie-dye T-shirts, which are typically adorned with peace signs. ๐Ÿ™‚ While I absolutely loved the paint-resist paper plate peace sign, I wanted to do something a little bit different for our Peace Day craft…I wanted to focus on world peace. Therefore, we chose to only use two colors on our paper plate – blue and green, to create Earth.


World Peace Paper Plate Craft

Supplies:

World Peace Paper Plate Craft ยฉ Capturing Parenthood

  • White Paper Plate
  • Tape (painter’s tape, masking tape, etc.)
  • Finger Paints (Blue & Green)

Instructions:

World Peace Paper Plate Craft ยฉ Capturing Parenthood

  1. Create the peace sign symbol using tape. Make sure to press the edges of the tape down securely, so that the paint does not bleed underneath.
  2. Hand the pre-taped paper plate, and finger paints, to your little one and let their creativity run wild.
  3. When they’re all finished painting, set the plate aside to dry completely.
  4. Once dry, carefully remove the tape from the plate! Ta Da!

The theme for Peace Day this year is, Together for Peace: Respect, Safety and Dignity for All. We are all one race – the human race, and we all deserve respect and dignity, and the ability to feel safe in our world. I want nothing more than for my daughter to grow up in a peaceful and safe world, where people understand the wealth in love and generosity.

World Peace Paper Plate Craft ยฉ Capturing Parenthood

If you would like to get involved this Peace Day, check out the list of ideas on the U.N. International Day of Peace website (http://internationaldayofpeace.org/get-involved/).

โ€œWorld peace must develop from inner peace. Peace is not just mere absence of violence. Peace is, I think, the manifestation of human compassion.โ€

– Dalai Lama XIV

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...
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We placed yellow construction paper in the background...and added witches, ghosts, skeletons, a mummy, and a Frankenstein! ๐Ÿ˜
This step made our haunted houses really come to life...and we just can't thank Kaitlyn @artwithmrs.e enough for sharing this awesome lesson and drawing guide! THE ABSOLUTE BEST! โค๏ธโค๏ธโค๏ธ
...
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...
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We left it alone and planted a couple of other cucumber plants nearby. ๐Ÿฅ’
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...
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...
It was so much fun to watch the pumpkin plant grow! ๐Ÿคฉ We had to cut down the wire on one side of our garden bed to let the vines out...and they ended up growing 6-10 feet long in both directions! ๐Ÿ˜ณ It was crazy!
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โ€ฆ
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โ€ฆ
We popped it out onto a tray, grabbed a shaker of salt, a bottle of warm water (colored red for added effect), and some tongs.
And then it was time to Free the Frankensteins (our daughter coined the phrase)! ๐Ÿ˜‰
โ€ฆ
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...
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โ€ฆ
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...
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...
We looked through the self-portrait drawing guide to get different ideas for our eyes, nose, mouth, and hair. ๐Ÿ‘€๐Ÿ‘ƒ๐Ÿ‘„
...
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She was used to drawing pictures of herself with her long, blonde locks...and her new hairstyle proved rather difficult. But she persevered, and ended up with a self-portrait that she was truly proud of! ๐Ÿฅฐ
...
When we were finished drawing our likenesses, we decided to cut them out and create a special background to glue them onto. I went with random black and white designs...and our nugget decided to draw various things that she loves (her family, winter, candy, books, dolphins...and more)! โค๏ธ
...
It was such a fun project...and I can't wait to see what our self-portraits look like at the end of our school year! ๐Ÿ˜ƒ
...
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We had a blast creating haunted houses for homeschool art this month! ๐Ÿงก
...
We followed Kaitlyn's extremely helpful Haunted House Drawing Guide (you can find it over on her Teachers Pay Teachers account) and completed the project over the course of 3 lessons.
...
During our first lesson, we sketched our houses in pencil, and added some eerie exterior landscaping. ๐Ÿชฆ๐Ÿฆ‡
We popped in a few spooky characters (ghosts, spiders, pumpkins, and a vampire). ๐Ÿ‘ป๐Ÿ•ท๐ŸŽƒ๐Ÿง›
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...
During our next lesson, we used a coloring technique that we learned from Kristian @friendsartlab โค๏ธ We colored our pictures with oil pastels...and then painted over the top of the oil pastels with baby oil...it causes the oil pastels to bleed and blend together! ๐Ÿคฉ
...
During our final lesson...we added more spooky characters to the inside of our house...that can peek out behind the doors and windows. ๐Ÿ’€๐Ÿง™โ€โ™€๏ธ๐Ÿ‘ป
To do this...I used an X-acto knife and carefully cut around the outside edges of the doors/windows (leaving the hinge sides intact so that they could fold open and closed).
We placed yellow construction paper in the background...and added witches, ghosts, skeletons, a mummy, and a Frankenstein! ๐Ÿ˜
This step made our haunted houses really come to life...and we just can't thank Kaitlyn @artwithmrs.e enough for sharing this awesome lesson and drawing guide! THE ABSOLUTE BEST! โค๏ธโค๏ธโค๏ธ
...
It was very evident how much our daughter loved this project...as we worked through each step...but the thing that solidified just how much she enjoyed it was - one weekend morning I walked downstairs to find her and her dad sitting at the table - and she was very excitedly teaching him how to draw his own haunted house - while she drew a few more herself (scroll to the last picture in the carousel)! ๐Ÿฅฐ
...
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That's right...first-time pumpkin-growers over here...and it was all actually a bit of a surprise. ๐Ÿ˜ƒ
...
You see, when we went to prep our garden beds this spring, we noticed a plant that had already started growing. We assumed it was a cucumber plant, since it was in the same place we had cucumbers last year.
We left it alone and planted a couple of other cucumber plants nearby. ๐Ÿฅ’
At first, the leaves on our mystery plant looked very similar to the leaves on our other cucumber plants.
But a couple of weeks later the plant had grown A LOT bigger. It was now obvious that it was not a cucumber plant. But what was it? ๐Ÿคทโ€โ™€๏ธ
...
And that's when it suddenly dawned on these exhausted parents, that our daughter had spontaneously tossed seeds from her pumpkin (last Halloween), into the garden bed. ๐Ÿคฆโ€โ™€๏ธ The mystery was finally solved...and by the looks of the large golden flowers that were emerging all over the vines...we figured we might have a few pumpkins come fall! ๐Ÿ™Œ๐ŸŽƒ๐Ÿ™Œ
...
It was so much fun to watch the pumpkin plant grow! ๐Ÿคฉ We had to cut down the wire on one side of our garden bed to let the vines out...and they ended up growing 6-10 feet long in both directions! ๐Ÿ˜ณ It was crazy!
They put out the most gorgeous flowers...that the bees absolutely loved! ๐Ÿงก And soon enough, we spotted a few round gourds growing at the base of some of the flowers. They grew quickly...and then turned a beautiful shade of orange! ๐Ÿ˜
...
Needless to say, we are now officially pumpkin-growing people! ๐Ÿ˜‚ My husband can't wait to plant more next year...and he's already looking in to different varieties - hoping to grow some larger jack-o-lantern style ones next season! ๐ŸŽƒ
โ€ฆ
#pumpkins #growingpumpkins #ourpumpkinpatch #homegrownpumpkins #homegrown #homegarden #pumpkingrowing #gardening #fallharvest #happyhalloween #timetocarvesomepumpkins #gardensurprises #gardenfun #capturingparenthood
Free the Frankensteins from the Frozen Rainbow Bra Free the Frankensteins from the Frozen Rainbow Brain! ๐Ÿ˜ฌ๐ŸŒˆ๐Ÿง 
โ€ฆ
Yesterday, we shared how we made this colorful, frozen rainbow brain - full of Frankenstein mini erasersโ€ฆand today we wanted to show you what became of our beautiful brain! ๐Ÿ˜ƒ
โ€ฆ
We popped it out onto a tray, grabbed a shaker of salt, a bottle of warm water (colored red for added effect), and some tongs.
And then it was time to Free the Frankensteins (our daughter coined the phrase)! ๐Ÿ˜‰
โ€ฆ
This spooky activity provides chilly sensory play, motor skills practice, and scientific exploration (salt and warm water speed-up the melting process)! ๐Ÿ™Œ๐Ÿ™Œ๐Ÿ™Œ
As an added bonusโ€ฆyou also get some color-mixing! And the addition of the salt makes it extra sparkly too! ๐Ÿ˜๐Ÿคฉ๐Ÿ˜
โ€ฆ
Eventually, all youโ€™re left with is some mini erasers floating in a pool of colorful waterโ€ฆand a happy kid! โค๏ธโค๏ธโค๏ธ
โ€ฆ
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...
Back in 2019, Lauralee @2art.chambers shared several colorful, air-dry clay pumpkins that her students made...and after rediscovering the saved post, I decided that it would be a perfect October art lesson for us too! ๐Ÿงก
...
We used various colors of air-dry clay, and rolled each color into whatever pumpkin shape we wanted...and then we added our lines/indentations using the side of a credit card. ๐Ÿ’ณ The stems are just small, broken pieces of old crayons (another genius idea from Lauralee). ๐Ÿ– And we topped our stems with pieces of pipe cleaner, to create the little curly cues. ๐Ÿ˜
...
Once we had our pumpkins...we decided to change things up a bit, and grabbed our stash of googly eyes. ๐Ÿ‘€ (Most of) our fall pumpkins then transformed into Halloween jack-o-lanterns! ๐ŸŽƒ
We pressed the googly eyes into the clay, and we used a few small tools (that came with our box of air-dry clay) to add their mouths. ๐Ÿ˜ƒ
...
And now we have a cute and colorful crew of clay pumpkins adorning our mantle! ๐ŸŽƒ๐Ÿงก๐ŸŽƒ
...
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Andrew from @elementaryarts shared a patterned, bl Andrew from @elementaryarts shared a patterned, block letter name project a couple of weeks ago (I'll share the post in stories today), and I immediately added it to our list of art projects to do this year! ๐Ÿ˜
But we decided to switch things up a little bit! Instead of using our names, we each picked a color that we like...wrote the name of the color in block letters on our paper...and created our color patterns using at least two different shades of our chosen color. ๐Ÿ–
...
This colorful project ended up being a lot of fun, and also very relaxing...as we all quietly focused, and zoned in on adding the color patterns around all of our letters. It was actually a bit hypnotizing! ๐Ÿคฉ
...
Needless to say, we are really happy with the way our block letter color project turned out! ๐Ÿ™Œ We even had a special guest who wanted to join in on this art project! โค๏ธ
...
P.S. We also used Andrewโ€™s free TPT handout on how to make block letters! The bundle includes bubble letters, cursive letters, graffiti letters, and more! ๐Ÿ‘
โ€ฆ
#blockletters #blocklettering #colors #color #colorful #artproject #artforkids #kidart #elementaryart #artactivity #artactivities #artactivitiesforkids #colorfun #homeschool #homeschoolart #homeschoolfun #capturingparenthood
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...
I love the idea of doing a self-portrait project at the beginning of the year, and then again at the end of the year...so that we can see how much we've grown and changed.
...
We used Kaitlyn's @artwithmrs.e Simple Self-Portrait Drawing Guide and it was so incredibly helpful (especially for this new homeschool teacher who wouldn't necessarily list drawing as one of her stronger suits). ๐Ÿ˜‰
We actually purchased her entire Guided Drawing Bundle (over on Teachers Pay Teachers) and we highly recommend it! ๐Ÿ™Œ๐Ÿ™Œ๐Ÿ™Œ
...
We looked through the self-portrait drawing guide to get different ideas for our eyes, nose, mouth, and hair. ๐Ÿ‘€๐Ÿ‘ƒ๐Ÿ‘„
...
Now...if you caught our stories earlier this week, you know that our daughter recently made a pretty big change to her hair (that included a partial side-shave and bob-length cut - she also dyed it blue). ๐Ÿ’‡โ€โ™€๏ธ
She was used to drawing pictures of herself with her long, blonde locks...and her new hairstyle proved rather difficult. But she persevered, and ended up with a self-portrait that she was truly proud of! ๐Ÿฅฐ
...
When we were finished drawing our likenesses, we decided to cut them out and create a special background to glue them onto. I went with random black and white designs...and our nugget decided to draw various things that she loves (her family, winter, candy, books, dolphins...and more)! โค๏ธ
...
It was such a fun project...and I can't wait to see what our self-portraits look like at the end of our school year! ๐Ÿ˜ƒ
...
#selfportrait #selfportraits #homeschool #homeschoolart #elementaryart #artactivities #artactivitiesforkids #artforkids #kidart #homeschoolfun #capturingparenthood
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