The Family Fun Zone from Prima Princessa's Tutuzone - Have some back to school fun with these super cool glitter bookworm bookmarks and more back to school crafts and back to school activities for preschool and elementary school age children. These are all great crafts for girls and boys as well.
Glitter BOOKWORM BOOKMARKS
Easy Kids Crafts - These cool back to school crafts also make cute teacher gifts. Cut the construction paper out in a long rectangle and then shape into a worm. Draw two eyes at the bottom and then decorate with glitter glue and markers.
Wooden Popsicle sticks decorated with googly eyes, glitter glue and markers markers are another fun way to make glitter bookworm bookmarks make great bookmarks.
Kids love back to school shopping. We don't only purchase what is on the list from the teacher, but we also like to get a few special things for home. A package of manila folders are great fun for decorating and playing school at home. Kids can play hours with these special folders filling them up with all sorts of papers and decorating the covers with stickers and markers. A fresh pack of these make a great play date activity.
MEMORY COMPOSITION BOOK
Craft ideas for kids - Looking for more fun back to school activities and crafts for girls? Kids love composition books. They are sure to use them at school but why not have special one for at home. We do a Composition Memory Book for each new school year.
A composition books is great to have for reviewing things learned at school, keeping a list of books read, writing creative stories and pasting in special momentos. Kids love to flip through their memory composition book throughout the school year and over the summer. Looking at past books is a great way to get them back in the mood to start up school again in the fall. This is a wonderful preschool activity and elementary school activity.
BOOKMARK PRINTABLES - Bookmark COLORING PAGES from Crayola website- Crafts for Girls, Preschool Activities & Elementary School Activities
Let's Do Lunch - Great Gifts For Girls for Back To School Fun
TIPS FOR HEALTHY SNACKS FOR KIDS at School
1. Less is more. Too many packages in a lunch box with too many choices gets confusing. Additionally, kids don't often have that long for lunch or snack so having to choose and open up too many snacks wastes time they could be refueling.
2. Make sure to wash, dry and refrigerate fruit and veggies the night before. This give fruit a better chance of staying crisp and not getting slimy. Carrots, celery, blueberries, apples, clementines, honeydew melon, nectarines all hold up well.
3. Make sure to read ingredients on snack food. Just because the packaging is designed to look healthy does not mean it is not loaded up with tons of sugar and additives. Granola bars often can feature sugar as the main ingredient. Try healthy cereals instead and send them in a little single serving size tupperware.
4. Nalgene brand water bottles are great because they are BPA free. They often are sold with attached lids so kids can't lose the lid.
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The Family Fun Zone from Prima Princessa's Tutuzone - Learn how to make a LOLLIPOP FAIRY and and fairy dust plus lots more fairy fun including fairy coloring pages for kids and fairy dress up ideas! You will love doing these fun fairy preschool activities at home with your child. They are great crafts for girls!
This little lollipop fairy is super easy. Kids really love these because it uses lollipops which makes it even more magical.
Directions:
1. Take a lollipop and draw a simple face with a permanent marker as well as simple hair.
2. Cut out 4 circles of tissue paper the same size. You can certainly mixt the colors if you so choose. Fold in half and cut a little notch. This notch will end up in the middle of the circles.
3. Stick lollipop throught the hole. Then wrap a pipe-cleaner around the top of the tissue a few times to hold it on. Shape extra pipe-cleaner into arms.
4. Squeeze another pipecleaner under first pipecleaner in the back and shape into wings.
5. Lastly make a little cirle out of another pipe-cleaner for the crown and cut a small peice for the wand which you just fold over a little bit at the top to give a ball feel.
This is a great preschool activity but you can easily please older children. They will bet more involved with the construction of the fairy and you can pull out more decorative items for them.
Edible Fairy Wands - Kid Recipe
This recipe is super easy and super fun preschool activity for kids. Mom melts a bag of chocolate chips and a bag of of white chocolate chips in either the microwave or on the stove top. Make sure to ahve out several bowls of sprinkle, mini-chocolate chips, and other types of small candy. Make sure chocolate is not too hot. Kids dip ther long pretzels into the chocolate and then into the little bowls of candy decorations. Leave to wand on wax or parchement paper to cool.
Fun Butterfly Fairy Facepainting
This is an adorable video featuring a little girl getting a butterfly fairy face painting. Looks like lots of fun!
Fairy Dust - Great Craft for Girls
This is a great preschool activity because it stimulates the imagination as well as helps develop fine motor skills. Have your child decorate the front (and back if they so choose) of a piece of construction paper first with markers and second with lots of glitter and if you have them sequins are a fun touch. Once it is dry you will cut the paper into about 6 long strips. Then let your child cut these strips up into little strips. Place your fairy dust in a paper lunch box that has also been decorated. (Tip: do this outside on top of old newspaper as glitter tends to get everywhere. Use waded up old newspaper bags to spread the glue. For less mess use glitter glue instead of loose glitter)
Fairy Wands - Easy Kids Craft
There are lots of ways to make a fairy wand. These are 2 of my favorites. They are both wonderful preschool activities. The wand made out of a stick is fun for older children.
For the first wand roll up starting from the corner going diagonal a piece of construction paper. Let your child tape it into place. Kids love to tape. Then either cut out a circle, star or heart shape for your child or let her do it. Decorate this shape and then tape onto the wand. Lastly, have your child select some ribbon. I just use whatever I have in my wrapping paper drawer. Tape this onto the wand and it is done! Kids love the ribbons on these fancy fairy wands.
This next wand is great for kids a bit older, ages 5-9. Go out in your backyard or to the park in search of special fairy sticks. Once you get back home paint your stick and watch it transform into a fairy wand.
Fairy Wings and Fairy Costumes
There are few things as fun for little girls as fairy wings and fairy costumes. There are so many great fairy wings and fairy costumes you can find on-line or at your local toy-store. These are some great ones we found.
Your daughter will enjoy dressing up in her fairy costumes and dancing along to "Prima Princessa Presents Sleeping Beauty" which is full of lovely ballerina fairies.
Fairies love bells. If you go outside ringing your bells you will make the fairies very happy. They love to dance to jingle bells!
Easy Kids Crafts - How to Draw a Fairy
As you can see this is a very simple fairy to draw making it a geat preschool acticity. It use the basic shapes - a circle and triangle. The trick is to draw the wand first before your draw the wings.
Easy Kids Crafts - Pipe Cleaner Fairy
I love this pipe cleaner fairy from The Craft Club. It is easy to make you just need to make a trip to the craft store for the bead, yarn, pipe-cleaners, stiff fabric and flower parts. The instructions are photographic making it super easy to follow.
Fairy Coloring Pages for Kids - Great Crafts for Girls
Gorgeous fairies - coloring pages for kids from Coloring Castle
Ballerina Fairy - free ballerina fairy coloring pages for kids from Prima Princessa
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For Mom: This fun t-shirt from Banana Republic is great for transitioning from summer to fall. This tee can be dressed up or down.
Pair with white jeans and sandals for the last days of summer and switch over to darker jeans as September rolls into town. For night add a long necklace.
The ruffle at the bottom is a very flattering for all figures. Ruffles continue to be one of the important fashion trends going strong right now. This shirt embraces that trend but does not get too cutesie which is nice. Fashion trends this fall include sophisticated neutrals of which this shirts steely green color embrace.
For Daughter: The fashion trends of ruffles and neutrals feature in little girls clothing for this fall as well. This is on the best priced little girl dresses I hae seen priced at $24.95 at Childrens Place online. This is a great transtion piece as well. The grey gives it a fall feel, but the sleeveless style and light wieght fabric make it comfortable for kids to wear on warm September days.
From Prima Princessa's Tutuzone: All sorts of banana inspired family fun and preschool activities are featured in this post including banana bread, banana songs, banana phone craft, banana printable coloring pages! What inspired this banana mania? My son just got home from sleep-away camp where he met a camper from a different state who told him that his mom loved baking my banana bread recipe! Since my banana bread recipe seems to be making its way around the country I guess it is time to post it for more people to enjoy.
Make a Banana Phone - Fun Preschool Activity
It is easy to make a banana phone. Take an old paper towel roll and cut off a 3 inch piece. Draw the numbers of the phone on the roll. Decorate if you so choose and then slide onto the banana. There you have it your banana phone. This is a super easy preschool activity that does no cost alot of money and teaches kids about recyling as well as their numbers. Now that you have your banana phone it is time to listen to some banana music.
Banana Music - Fun Preschool Activity
My kids have always gotten a big kick out of singing along to the song "Banana Phone". I have the SING ALONG WITH PUTUMAYO CD which is full of amazing sing-along songs including "Banana Phone" sung by country singer Rhonda Vincent. The original version is by the wonderful children's singer Raffi. We love to listen to this song while singing into our banana phones! It's great for road trips or play days at home.
I found this cute video on YouTube of the Banana Phone song.
Banana Bread Recipe - Fun Preschool activity
When the kids are done singing into their banana phones it is time to get ready to mash up all those bananas for banana bread.I like to have as many ingredients as possible pre-measured and place in bowls. That way it is easy for little kids to mix everything together. I find it easier to just melt my butter in a pan as opposed mashing it into the batter. Kids love to mash bananas. Mashing bananas is a great preschool activity. Place the bananas in a sturdy metal bowl or big pot. Give them a potato masher and let your child mash away. Make sure to use bananas that are very ripe so they are easy to mash. I never bother with the mixer for this recipe as I prefer my bread dense. Using the mixer will give the bread a more cake type feel. Both are fab!
Mix dry together. Mix wet together. Mix all together. Pour into 2 greased loaf pans and bake for 45 minutes - hour.
Banana & Monkey Coloring Pages for Kids - Fun Preschool Activity
Visit these fun webiste below for coloring pages for kids. Lots of bananas plus much more. If your child wants to color online coloring book pages of fruit visit HelloKids.com.
1. There are lots of different types of bananas. Some are even red or purple in addition to yellow.
2. Banana leaves are so big, strong and waterproof that they can be used as plates or tied together to make umbrellas.
3. Monkey's love bananas and so do children.
Bananas on the Boardwalk - Family Fun
The kids are detemined to win on of these stuffed banana guys! This is the Point Pleasant Boardwalk in New Jersey. Great place to go for some family fun.
Winning stuffed bananas makes kids thirsty. We got very healthy banana smoothies on the boardwalk at Baja Burritos. They made them with fruit, ice and milk. Yum!
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For Mom: This women's hip gypsy blouse from Boden online is great for this upcoming fall. It comes in three fabulous colors: red, blue or green. The speckled pattern is super eye-catching and fun.
Pair with skinny or bootcut jeans and ballet flats or as it gets colder tall boots. Gypsy blouses are one of the big fashion trends for fall. Cost $78.00.
For Daughter: This Gypsy fashion trend can be found in little girl clothing too. Check out these adorable blouses for girls at Garnet Hill Kids for $58.oo each.These blouses are roomy and coomfy for kids.
From Prima Princessa's Tututzone: Looking for fun preschool activities this summer? Pom Pom caterpillars are a fast and easy to make kid craft. Kids love caterpillars and will enjoy making their own catepillars. This pom pom craft is a perfect preschool craft as well as engaging for elementary school children. My family has been making these cute pom pom popsicle stick crafts for years. Once they are done, the fun continues as your children will have lots of adorable, fuzzy, new creatures to play with.
This simple kids craft also makes a great birthday party craft as it is easy to do, involved no sharp objects and is relatively low mess. I just set a table up with a few examples and all the materials in the middle. I am always amazed at how creative kids can be with this simple party craft. Once kids are done with this preschool activity the fun continues as they get to play with their new creatures. These little creatures are great crafts for girls and boys as well.
What you will need:
Pom poms – medium to large size are best
Googly eyes
Regular glue
Glitter glue
Pipe cleaners (cut in half)
Directions:
1. You will first put the antennae on the caterpillar. Wrap a pipe cleaner around a popsicle stick a few times about an inch from the end of the popsicle stick. Roll the ends of the pipe cleaner under.
2. Glue on the pom pom creating the body of the caterpillar.
3. Glue on google eyes to the first pom pom
4. Decorate with glitter glue
Age: great preschool thru elementary school
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With a month left of summer and no more camp, I have been trying to find interesting projects to do with my daughter. I was very surprised to discover that one can actually make a tutu at home without any sewing at all. I looked through several sites with no sew tutu making tutorials and these are the 3 best that I found if you are like me and prefer clear visuals as opposed to detailed instructions.
Lastly, Make It Love It has wonderful photos, you barely have to read the instructions.
If you are going to do this with your daughter make sure to take her to the store and let her help pick out the tulle and ribbon as that is part of the fun. My daughter loves to shop ,and fabric stores, filled with all sorts of ribbons, colorful fabrics, buttons, sequins are really fun for kids. I know she will get a kick out of this upcoming trip.
Right now my daughter is very much into playing with her dolls so we plan to make a doll tutu or a tutu for our little dog. Honestly, neither one of us quite has the patience to make an entire tutu and making a tutu for doll involves purchasing much less material which will save us money. Making a doll tutu, also really means we can just wing it. It's so small, no need to stress too much about following the detailed directions.
Make sure to cancheck out the above sites for inspiration, but here is the basic skinny on making a no sew tutu. You get either a long piece of elastic or a ribbon for the waistband. To it you tie on pieces of tulle- well you actually do a little loopedy-loop over the ribbon which you'll have to see the photo to get what I mean. You can put pieces of ribbon in between. That's it!
Age range: No Sew Tutus are a great preschool activity as well as a great activity for elementary school age kids. Preschoolers can help pick out the materials and help with some cutting and some tieing on of the fabric, but just realize mom will be doing the bulk of the work. If you have an elementary school age child, I would suggest making a doll tutu as that way she can really make the whole thing herself.
-Mary Kate
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