While I was reading a few blogs one evening, I found a fun craft that Leaf could easily do. It is hard to find art projects that both boys can enjoy at their own level. This one is perfect. It does take some prep work on my part, but it was worth it. The blog I saw, did this as a Cinco de Mayo craft, but you could do it for any holiday, season, or gift.
I choose a leaf, for Leaf to do. It was a simple shape, and it was big enough for him to be successful. I also found some outlines of bugs, vehicles, and flowers online (if you look up coloring pages or black line master, you will come up with more than you can ever want). I traced and cut out the shapes on construction and scrapbook paper.
We had plenty of scrap tissue paper left over from making flowers for Nathan’s birthday (I save everything…I knew we would find something to do with the scraps). Leaf helped me tear the tissue paper into small pieces.
He had fun doing this, who doesn’t? It is fun to rip paper!
Next, I cut clear contact paper to the same size as the paper they were working on, and let them get to work. The only part that should be sticky is the cut out, so the kids put tissue paper all over. When they are done, you add another piece of clear contact paper to hold all the tissue paper in place.
We messed up on Everest’s rocket. I put the sticky part on the white side of scrapbook paper. That meant he had to work on the side with the clouds. It turned out fine, but you can see all his work, instead of just the rocket. He chose to do his rocket in red because rockets make fire. He enjoyed this enough that he wanted to make one for Nathan’s office. He decided on another rocket. He made it very colorful and then wrote his name on it. I forgot to take a picture before Nathan took it to work.
Everest took his rocket in to preschool for sharing. As soon as he got home, he asked me to hang it up by Leaf’s.
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