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lorihadams
Always doing laundry
Honey, I AM tired...last night I made a GF pizza for dinner and told hubby that as soon as I finished the dishes I was soaking in the tub with some epsom salts, iced coffee (with our goats milk!) and a library book until it was time for me to go milk the goat again. Bless his heart he just said..."okay"
I honestly just did them freehand but googled halloween finger puppets for some inspiration. The pumpkins and ghosts were easy...so was the bat (Maddie picked out the colors on that one) and the spider wasn't too bad either...I did 2 pieces of black felt and glued the 4 pieces of pipe cleaner inside the two making a sandwich and added the pom pom for the head. Frankenstein wasn't too hard....or the mummy, that was just little rectangles glued on to the head shape and then I tucked the google eyes inside the "bandages" and did the mouth inside another one. The witch was more complicated and I used a picture for the model of her dress but the rest was freehand. The vampires were the hardest. I did the dracula one first and my daughter complained that we had to have "a girl vampire too, mommy, I can't play with the boy one" so I did maroon for the hair and glued the widow's peak on top of the head. I freehanded the dress/capes for them but made sure to do the high collar on them. I copied the cat and the skeleton from a picture I saw when I did the google search.
I did a bunch of finger puppets for the kids for xmas last year and copied the designs from a coloring book the kids had. I did sea creatures, aliens, woodland creatures, jungle animals, and bugs and butterflies. I'm very visual...if I can see it then I can usually do it myself or something close to it at least.
I'm thinking of doing a solar system model with space station/astronauts and a princess castle backdrop with characters for them for xmas this year. I try to do things that we can use with stories or poetry and act them out. I have been thinking of doing farm stuff for Old Macdonald had a farm and maybe The Lady that Swallowed a Fly. Felt is very inexpensive and easy to work with. If you want to do larger felt boards you can buy felt by the yard from a fabric store and mount it on a piece of wood or cardboard with a glue gun and the felt will stick to it or you can add velcro to the back of the characters. I like the popsicle stick ones cause they were no-sew and even the littlest ones can use them easily. I sewed the finger puppets on the sewing machine. I tend to stock up on popsicle sticks cause we use them for counting, math problems, fractions, etc. I liked the big tongue depressor sized ones...I'll probably pick up some more the next time I'm at the dollar store.
One of my son's favorite books is a version of The Three Pigs that came with finger puppets of the wolf and all the pigs. They love it! Mine just like to do stuff that is very animated and physical. I also like felt to work with cause it is soft and comes in bright colors and you can buy it by the sheet for like, a quarter so a little bit goes a long way. I have one of those plastic bin rolling cart thingys that I keep whole sheets, scraps, and all my glue sticks, glue gun, beads, sequins,jewels, googley eyes, permanent markers and tubes of fabric paint with the tips for doing detail work like eyes and mouths and pink for rosy cheeks. I also like the puff paints to add dimension to the felt characters....
Can you tell I like to do this kinda stuff?
I honestly just did them freehand but googled halloween finger puppets for some inspiration. The pumpkins and ghosts were easy...so was the bat (Maddie picked out the colors on that one) and the spider wasn't too bad either...I did 2 pieces of black felt and glued the 4 pieces of pipe cleaner inside the two making a sandwich and added the pom pom for the head. Frankenstein wasn't too hard....or the mummy, that was just little rectangles glued on to the head shape and then I tucked the google eyes inside the "bandages" and did the mouth inside another one. The witch was more complicated and I used a picture for the model of her dress but the rest was freehand. The vampires were the hardest. I did the dracula one first and my daughter complained that we had to have "a girl vampire too, mommy, I can't play with the boy one" so I did maroon for the hair and glued the widow's peak on top of the head. I freehanded the dress/capes for them but made sure to do the high collar on them. I copied the cat and the skeleton from a picture I saw when I did the google search.
I did a bunch of finger puppets for the kids for xmas last year and copied the designs from a coloring book the kids had. I did sea creatures, aliens, woodland creatures, jungle animals, and bugs and butterflies. I'm very visual...if I can see it then I can usually do it myself or something close to it at least.
I'm thinking of doing a solar system model with space station/astronauts and a princess castle backdrop with characters for them for xmas this year. I try to do things that we can use with stories or poetry and act them out. I have been thinking of doing farm stuff for Old Macdonald had a farm and maybe The Lady that Swallowed a Fly. Felt is very inexpensive and easy to work with. If you want to do larger felt boards you can buy felt by the yard from a fabric store and mount it on a piece of wood or cardboard with a glue gun and the felt will stick to it or you can add velcro to the back of the characters. I like the popsicle stick ones cause they were no-sew and even the littlest ones can use them easily. I sewed the finger puppets on the sewing machine. I tend to stock up on popsicle sticks cause we use them for counting, math problems, fractions, etc. I liked the big tongue depressor sized ones...I'll probably pick up some more the next time I'm at the dollar store.
One of my son's favorite books is a version of The Three Pigs that came with finger puppets of the wolf and all the pigs. They love it! Mine just like to do stuff that is very animated and physical. I also like felt to work with cause it is soft and comes in bright colors and you can buy it by the sheet for like, a quarter so a little bit goes a long way. I have one of those plastic bin rolling cart thingys that I keep whole sheets, scraps, and all my glue sticks, glue gun, beads, sequins,jewels, googley eyes, permanent markers and tubes of fabric paint with the tips for doing detail work like eyes and mouths and pink for rosy cheeks. I also like the puff paints to add dimension to the felt characters....
Can you tell I like to do this kinda stuff?
I have a 3 month old and I have already decided to homeschool him so I come on here for inspiration. You do so much and it seems that your kids are learning real things that they can use and I love that.
It was gross and long over due. The two new chickens are still bunking with the ducks....stupid birds. Oh well, at least they aren't in the trees.
