Well…. as the Alphabet progress… we do need rely a little on magical and fantasy beings. Afterall, not all the letters of the alphabet are the easiest for “animal crafts”. SO. Today, we have a unicorn. Again we went online first and looked at unicorns. Red Ted decided that we needed lots of “clouds too”. […]
Handprint Alphabet – T for….Turtle
Now… we were very tempted to make a Handprint Tiger (Red Ted LOVES tigers)… but we recently went to the Zoo and we saw some (yes yes, some tigers but also) TURTLES. The kids thought they were adorable. And Pip Squeak seems to have a “turtle” thing. So a Handprint Turtle we made. It was […]
Handprint Alphabet – S for… Snail
Well…. when ever we say “what starts with Ssssss”, the kids shout SNAKE SNAKE SSSSSSSSNAKE (How do you do a Handprint Snake, without it looking very boring?)! I was rather concerned that I would get snake shouts when I asked about our next Handprint Alphabet letter. So I quickly suggested SNAIL! Red Ted, said “Yes […]
Handprint Alphabet – R for… Raccoon!
I rather liked R for Raccoon as our next Handpring craft.. as Raccoons are sooo cute! A really simple “full handprint” with some embellishments in black and white foam afterwards! Mmmmh… another one that Pip Squeak didn’t finish (she was more than happy to do some handprinting. So not much more to show than the above! I […]
Handprint Alphabet – Q is for… Quail
Q of course is going to be one the tricky Handprint Alphabet crafts… not many things start with Q, let alone an animal. In German we would have had Qualle (Jellyfish), but that is German, so no good for this alphabet series. There is a Quokka (an Australia marsupial) and then a host of random […]