Just a few things my kids did this week for the holiday season. This week, we focused specifically on Hanukkah, and although the crafting options are limited with my 18-24 months, I think we did a pretty good job. First, we created these Star of Davids using tissue paper and fancy foil paper I found and Artists and Crafstman Supply. I gave each child a bunch of blue tissue paper squares to work with and allowed them to arrange the squares however they wanted on the page. I cut the stars out ahead of time, and once the tissue paper part was complete, I framed the work with the pre-cut star shape. They turned out beautifully, and I'm including a latke recipe for the parents inside the card...
...This is definitely not an original idea, but still a wonderful project. I'm pretty sure you can do anything with paper plates or toilet paper rolls, seriously. This is pretty straight-forward: I halved 2 sizes of paper plates and glued the pieces together, then I let my kids decorate their menorah with metallic paint stampers and tissue paper. After they were finished, we used Popsicle sticks and glitter to create candles. I didn't think about this at the time, but you could make the Sham ash (the candle used to light the other candles) a different color.
Also, this is the starting point for our winter wall mural. On the first day, it was just the snowman, all by his lonesome, but my kids made some very lovely evergreens to keep him company...
...As you can tell, I'm on a serious tissue paper kick. I cut out trees for the kids to decorate, and all gave them some shiny star stickers to work with. Some of my younger kids needed a little assistance as their fine motor skills are not quite developed, but they worked very hard and did a great job...
That's all for now. More to come...
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