St Patrick Day Crafts for Preschoolers: Rainbow Mobile

How to be Super Mom will provide you with the best crafts for St Patrick's day. As a mother, I am always looking for easy St Patrick day crafts for preschoolers and this one was amazing, my daughter loved crafting it. We made 10 and we will hang them around the house the night we will be throwing the party. I love celebrating holidays, and even though St Patrick's day is not a popular holiday in my country but I always like to start my own family traditions.



Supplied Needed

• 1x white card board
• 1x red crepe paper
• 1x orange crepe paper
• 1x yellow crepe paper
• 1x green crepe paper
• 1x blue crepe paper
• 1x pink crepe paper
• 1x purple crepe paper
• Rainbow template
• Glue
• Scissors
• Ribbon

Directions

• Use this template to draw a rainbow on the white card board.
• Cut 1x30 cm long crepe strips.
• Glue them to the white rainbow, leaving 10 cm loose from each side.
• Tie a ribbon and hang them in your living room.

How to be Super Mom offers our lovely super moms easy St Patrick day crafts for preschoolers to enjoy. Crafting with your children is very important, and you should try to take 15 minutes out of your daily hectic routine to create something new with your child. This will help blossom his imagination, and allow him to get a better grasp of all the necessary gestures such as holding a pencil, gluing or cutting.
Spending quality time with them is a must if you are willing to have intelligent children with great potentials.
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St Patrick Day Crafts for Preschoolers: Leprechaun Head

Leprechauns are one of the main symbols of St Patrick's day. It goes back to an old Irish legend talking about that little fairy shoemaker, hostile to people, hiding the place where the treasure is. It is said that treasure hunters are always tracking down the shoemaker hammer sound to find this little leprechaun fellow and find out about the place of the treasure. Wish that was right, then our little fairy can make us rich! With a carton plate, few cardboards and a marker you can make a cute easy to make leprechaun with How to be Super Mom.
This is one of the easiest St Patrick day crafts for preschoolers. Give it a try!

Supplies Needed

• 1x carton plate
• 1x green cardboard
• 1x black cardboard 
• 1x yellow cardboard
• Scissors
• Orange marker
• Transparent glue

Directions

• Start by making little cuts all around the plate, about 0.5 mm each.
• Color them with an orange marker.
• Cut out the shape of a hat from the green cardboard, decorate it with a black strap and a yellow belt ring.
• Glue the hat on top of the carton plate.
• Cut out two, 2 cm diameter, black circles for the eyes.
• Draw the mouth with a marker and your leprechaun is ready for decoration.

Children love holidays and funniest part is the crafts and the ornaments they get to prepare. Even if you are not Irish, it is no harm to celebrate this meaningful holiday with your family. I never did, but this year will be the first time I will throw a St Patrick's day party at home and I will prepare plenty of St Patrick day crafts for preschoolers with my beautiful daughters.
Happy holiday super mom!!!

5 Crafts You Can Do Using Broken Crayons

Young children often love to color, but since they are still developing their hand-eye coordination they sometimes end up pressing down too hard on their crayons, accidentally breaking them.  Most parents hate to throw the broken pieces away, and instead end up tossing them into a bucket so the kids can still use them.  However, after a while it may seem like your collection of broken crayons is a little bit too big.  When that’s the case, check out these crafts you can do with them.

1. Marbled crayon shapes- Purchase a silicon ice cube tray at the dollar store or other discount center.  These silicon trays come in a range of shapes, so allow the kids to pick their favorite one.  Once the silicon trays are used for this project you should not use them for ice cubes again.  Have the kids tear off the paper from all of the broken crayons.  The crayons should be broken into 1 inch pieces.  Place the silicon ice cube tray onto a foil lined cookie sheet.  Place the broken bits of crayons into the ice cube tray.  Try not to mix more than 3 colors together in each cube space or the result could end up being a muddy brown mess.  When the tray is full put it into the oven at 300 degrees F for 10 minutes.  If the crayons are not completely melted after 10 minutes, put them back in and check on them every couple of minutes until they’ve melted entirely.  Once melted, remove the sheet from the oven and allow the crayons to cool and harden completely before removing from the ice cube tray.
2. Fall leaves or flowers- Create crayon shavings using a basic pencil sharpener.  Keep the shavings in cupcake papers to avoid mixing up the colors and creating a mess.  You will need a lot of shavings for this project.  Tear off a sheet of waxed paper about 36 inches long.  Fold it in half.  Open it back up and have the kids put piles of crayon shavings all over the waxed paper.  Keeping the piles the same color will allow them to show through in the final project and not mix together.  Fold the waxed paper back over the shavings.  Top the waxed paper with foil and then iron with a warm iron.  Keep checking until the crayons are completely melted.  Allow the waxed paper to cook for a few minutes and then let the kids cut out leaves and flower shapes to use as window art.
3. Dressed up pillar candles- Unwrap all of the broken crayons and put them into a clean, tall, thin metal can – eggnog cans work well for this.  Bring a pot full of water to a boil.  Once boiling, remove the pot from the heat and add the can full of crayons to the water to melt them.  Be patient and do not stir as the colors will blend and turn to a muddy color.  In the meantime, lay out some newspaper.  Next, hold onto the wick of a white pillar candle and dip it into the melted crayons.  When you remove it the pillar will be very colorful.  Hold the pillar over the can to allow any excess to drip off, then set it aside on the newspaper until the wax sets while you dip other candles.
4. Sandy pics- Pick up some sheets of sand paper at the dollar store or use some you have around the house.  Have the kids color pictures on the sandpaper using the broken crayons and tell them to push hard.  Place the finished sandpaper artwork onto foil-lined cookie sheets and place them in the oven at 225 degrees F, allowing the wax to melt into the crevices of the sand paper.  It should only take about 5 minutes so keep an eye on it.
5. Melted crayon artwork- You will need a blank canvas of any size, some broken crayons still in their papers, some hot glue and an embossing gun.  Hot glue good-sized crayon pieces still in their paper to the canvas.  To get the longest area to melt it’s best to glue them to the top quarter of the canvas.  Once the crayons are hot glued on you can turn on an embossing gun and start melting the crayons.  Stand the canvas up and lean it slightly back so that the melted wax stays on the canvas.  As you work you will figure out how best to hold the gun and how to manipulate the melting wax.  The embossing gun doesn’t get hot enough to melt the hot glue so the crayons do not fall off, they just melt and the colors run down the canvas.  Bright colors work best for this, but any colors you like will work.

The next time your child breaks a crayon, don’t sweat it.  Just toss it in the bucket until you have enough crayons to make a crayon craft.

Thank you Paul for sharing :) 

Handmade Name Tag: Black Board

Get your kids to prepare their own name tags for school, this will make a great initiative for them. A truly easy project, and you can from this simple idea make many other name tags that are even more beautiful and more creative than the one I made for you.

Supplies Needed:

Black construction paper

Red construction paper

White pen

1 small coloring pencil

2 small crayons

glue

Laminating film

Directions

Cut a 6*8 cm rectangle from the black construction paper.

Cut a 6*8 cm red rectangle and empty the inside by cutting a 4*7 cm rectangle.

Glue the red rectangle over the black to make the frame.

Using the white pen, write on your black board.

Write your child's name and grade.

Wrap the name tag with laminating film.

Decorate it with the small coloring pencil and crayons.

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Family Fun Craft: Aluminum Robot

Supplies Needed

Square box for the body

2 plastic cups for the feet

1 plastic cup and 1 plastic bowl for the head and neck

2 googly eyes

2 straws for the ears

Aluminum foil

Red construction paper for the mouth

Crayons for the decoration

Scissors

Glue

Directions

Wrap the square box, cups, bowl and straws with aluminum foil. 

Glue both feet, head and ears in its places.

Make 2 hands with the aluminum foil and stick them into the right place.

Decorate the head with googly eyes and a red triangle for the mouth.

Your kid can draw designs all over the robot's body using crayons or markers.

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5 Best Summer Family Fun Crafts

Have Fun trying those 5 best summer crafts I looked up for you. It's true I create crafts myself but I like appreciating the work of others as well and what's better than sharing their work on my blog.

1- Paper Plate Porthole by Amanda Formaro

Paper Plate Porthole Craft

What you'll need:

• 2 paper plates
• Silver craft paint
• 8 pieces of ring shaped cereal
• Fish-shaped crackers
• Silk plant leaves
• Sea shells
• Sand
• White craft glue
• Blue cellophane
• Wax paper
• Scissors
  

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2- Embossed Foil Sun Craft

What You'll Need:

Heavy duty aluminum foil
Elmer’s® Craft Bond™ Tacky Glue
Elmer’s® 3D™ Washable Paint Pens – glitter colors
Metallic chenille stems
Construction paper
Jute twine
8” diameter STYROFOAM™ Brand Foam: disc
Oil pastel crayon-black
Pins
Pencil
Scissors
Paper towels
Tweezers
Optional: decorative scissors and crimper

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3- Sandscape

Sandscape

What You'll Need:

• Printed Boarder and Background Template*
• Construction paper
• Sandwich-size zip-lock baggie
• Glue
• Sand
• Measuring spoons
• Small macaroni shells
• White paint and brush
• Food coloring

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4- Ocean Flower Pot Craft

Ocean Flower Pot Craft

What You'll Need:

• Small clay pot
• Light blue, light brown, green, red and purple paint
• White glue
• Hot glue gun
• Sand
• Paint brushes
• Dyed pasta shells

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5- Beach Door Hanger Craft

Beach Door Hanger Craft

What You'll Need:

• Wooden rectangle - sold at any craft store
• Unpainted wooden palm tree and crab - sold at any craft store
• White glue that dries clear (elmers will work fine)
• 2 disposable foam paint brushes
• Glitter
• Sand
• Paint - red, white, black, green, blue, brown and tan
• Small seashells
• String and tape
• Regular paint brushes
• Hot glue gun and glue (adults only)

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Family Fun Crafts: Funny Cup Faces

If you're low on supplies then this is the perfect craft for you. Take your child to the back yard and let her pick up some leaves and flowers, get some shells you have saved from your last trip to the beach and you have yourself those funny cups!

Supplies Needed

1. Plastic Cups
2. Flowers and Leaves
3. Sea Shells
4. Googly Eyes or a black marker
5. Red construction paper for the mouth
6. Optional: BBQ Wooden Stick 
7. Glue

Directions

Decorate your cups with these accessories and once you are finished glue a stick so you can use it as a puppet! Enjoy!

Tips

• Crafting allows you to spend some quality time with your kid as long as it will teach him to discipline his gestures and be creative.

• Let your child decorate his cup the way he wants, just help him with the glue if he is under 4 so he won't get very messy.

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Let's craft: Funny Smurfette Paper Puppet

Supplies Needed:

• 8 paper tissues
• 1 blue paper
• wooden stick
• transparent scotch tape
• yellow yarns
• white construction paper
• white crepe paper
• glue
• coloring pencils

Directions

• Make a ball out of the paper tissues
• Cover the tissues with the blue paper and wrap with scotch tape until you get a firm ball
•  Stick the ball on a wooden stick
• Make a cone (for the body) from the white construction paper and glue it under the head
• Cover the construction paper with crepe
• Using the yellow yarns, make the smurfette's hair
• A small cone from the crepe paper will form the smurfette's hat
• Draw on the construction paper 2 eyes and a mouth, colour them, and glue them in place.
• Let your kid decorate the smurfette's dress
• And now you have a funny little smurfette puppet!!!

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