Easter Mother's Day Handprint Flowers Craft

Thanks so much to Cari for sending in this great hand print flowers craft with candies. This would be equally great for Easter or Mother's Day.

Materials:

• glass or vase
• plastic grass
• various colored construction paper
• scissors
• paint, brushes
• glue
• green pipe cleaners
• chocolate oil eggs or other candy of choice

Directions:

1. Brush  color paint of your choice on little hands and press onto construction paper.
2. Repeat with different color paint and paper. Allow to dry.
3. Cut out hand prints. You need 2 hand prints for each flower. You can do both hands or print one hand, cut out and trace a matching hand on a different paper and cut out.
4. Spread glue and sandwich a pipe cleaner between a matching pair and allow to dry.
5. Fill a glass or vase with plastic grass and your favorite candy. Insert the hand print flowers and present them to mom.

Step by step tutorial from: Two Sasters

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Easter Candy Carrot Craft(from Circus Peanuts)

Thanks so much to Lisa Davala from Spangler Candy in Bryon, Ohio for sending this in. They're the makers of Circus Peants marshmallow candy and Dum Dum lollipops. You can use Circus Peanuts to make cute Easter carrots to eat alone or decorate on cupcakes, a great and tasty idea.

Materials:

• 1 Bag Spangler® Circus Peanuts
• Green licorice
• Toothpicks

Directions:

1. Unwrap Circus Peanuts and lay them out.
2. Squeeze one end of the Circus Peanut; do so until your marshmallow candy comes to a point.
3. Take toothpick and drag across the top of the circus peanut in a horizontal manner. You can alternate between short lines and longer lines.
4. When you finish making creases in your marshmallows, mimicking the lines of a real carrot, you are ready to insert the licorice 'carrot tops'.
5. There are two types of licorice, pull and peel the will automatically be the size you need, however the more readily available type is standard. For this kind, you can make a slit following one of the lines. Cut along each rivet in order to make skinny slivers of licorice.
6. Take each strip of licorice and cut in half.
7. Next, use a toothpick to poke a hole in the top of the carrot about half an inch deep (opposite the pointed end).
8. You may need to make two holes consecutively in order to fit the licorice. Take two-three pieces of licorice and insert the ends into the hole.
9.  Make sure to push them in as far as you can. You can leave the licorice carrot tops longer, or trim them to your liking.
10.  To keep the 'carrots' fresh, you can put them in an airtight container, or plastic zipper bag

*We recommend placing these in Easter baskets, as snacks on the table, and best yet, on top of carrot cake cupcakes!

Here's the Spangler tutuorial

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Valentine's Day Hand Print Tree Craft

Here's another great Valentine's Day craft idea from Maro Oikonomou from Greece. It's a finger painting craft to make a heart tree. The palm and forearm are the tree and use thumb prints hearts for the leaves.

Materials:

• brown and red paint and brushes
• white paper
• shallow dishes

Directions:

1. Brush child's hand and forearm with brown paint and press onto white paper to make the tree. Wash their hands.
2. Put red paint in shallow dishes and show the kids how to use two thumbprints to make a heart. Put hearts all over your tree. Happy Valentine's Day.

 

 

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Sense of Touch Handprint Craft

Thanks so much to Maro Oikonomou from Greece for sending this in. It's a concept for a "Sense of Touch" lesson. These could be mounted on the wall or placed on a sensory table for children to explore. Looks like these where made by the teacher, but you could also have the kids make them and take them home later.

Materials:

• construction paper
• pencil
• scissors
• glue
• various objects for the sense of touch; yarn, acorns, small blocks, buttons, cotton, etc.

Directions:

1. Trace and cut out many hand prints from various colored construction paper.
2. Glue on various small objects for different senses of touch.
3. Display around the room, or on a sensory table.
4. Students touch and describe the feeling.

Thanks again so much to Maro for this great international idea.

You can see your craft here, just like Mar's.

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