Tag Archive | toddler activities

Table Top Wishing Well

May1

This project was so fun for me and it turned out great, I am definately going to make some more.

What you will need:
-clothespins
-glass baby food jar or similar jar
-glue
-flowers

How to make:
– Remove the springs from 19 clothespins.
– Glue half a clothespin (point side down and right side out) to the outside lip of the baby food jar extending up. Glue another directly across the jar. These will become the support for the roof of the wishing well.
– Cover the outside of the baby food jar with tacky glue. Cover with clothespin halves (point sides up and right sides out). Line up the bottoms with the bottom of the jar.
– Use a rubber band to hold them in place until dry.(I let dry at least an hour to make sure)
– glue five clothespin halves together side-by-side to make one part of the roof.
– Glue five more to together to make the other side.
– Glue the pieces of the roof together and to attach to the wishing well as shown in the photo above.
– Add some silk flowers and decorate to your choosing.

****This project was taken from http://www.makingfriends.com/wishing_well.htm

Pasta Planes

May1


What you will need:
-Variety of uncooked pasta
-Glue
-Acrylic paints
-Paint brushes

How to make:
Glue the manicotti to the center of a lasagna noodle. Next, add a tail wing. Break a fettucine noodle into three equal lengths and glue them to the top of the manicotti. Center and upright rigatoni to the fettucine base. To finish the nose of the plane, glue a pasta shell or elbow macaroni over the open end of the manicotti. Then, fashion a propeller by gluing on two short pieces of fettucine or a single bow tie pasta. Let glue dry. Once construction is complete, paint stripes, numbers or symbols. Your project is complete! Your planes can be used to play or display. You can even tie them to the ceiling using a string.

Finished Project