Learning Crafts - Peninsula and Islands

The other day we visited Newport Peninsula and Balboa island which sparked a fun conversation about the differences between a peninsula and an island.  It was a fun chat and it ended up with a craft because it would be so much fun to build a peninsula and an island!

The green is simply green homemade play-doh and the blue is just food coloring in water.  The trays are the kind that you would bring dinner to somebody in and the toys are from our miscellaneous toy bin.  One green play-doh piece is attached to the side of the tin to make the peninsula and the other green play-doh is the island.  

Enjoy!

Crafting - Puffy Paint

Today we had some time to kill....so why not make some home made puffy paint!  It was a lot of fun and the kids had a blast seeing what their creations would look like when they turned "puffy"!

Materials:

• Thick paper for painting on (it's a heavy paint)
• Yogurt cups for the paint
• Paint brushes
• Self-rising flour
• Salt
• Water
• Food Coloring

How To:

• Mix equal parts of salt and self-rising flour (for example: 1 tablespoon of self-rising flour + 1 tablespoon of salt)
• Add food coloring (a few drops)
• Add water until you have a paste that is just thin enough to paint with
• And PAINT!  btw - you can paint on thin paper or more of a card stock.  The card stock seemed to work better but plain white paper worked too.
• Once all the painting fun is done - microwave the masterpiece for 10-30 seconds and ta-da!  You have a puffy paint picture!

This is my daughter's picture of her two cats!