Penguin Feet

I found this fun project on my new favorite website. Love all of the cute ideas. We did this one with my friend Sarah and her daughter Kailyn. So much fun!

Valentine's Flowers

Last year I found this activity in the February 2010 Family Fun Magazine and loved them.  This year I decided to take them in the institute nursery that I was in charge of.  It was a little ambitious and next time I think I would just make them in advance and let them color them there.  Today I cut everything out in advance, then let the kids color the hearts (flower petals) and then I taped them together.  It was a little exhausting but they just turn out as such cute Valentines.  The ones I did in nursery were with construction paper and I had a leaf on the back with a name or message on it.

Just cut out three hearts, a 5 petal flower for the middle and a leaf for the back.  Put a hole punch through each.  Crease the hearts in the center and then put a dum dum sucker through each and tape it secured how you want it.  Write a Valentine message on the leaf.

Happy Groundhog's Day

I found this little activity off of http://www.dltk-kids.com/animals/mgroundhog.html.  You use toilet paper rolls, the template is a little smaller than it should be to fit a roll perfect but oh well.

Willard had a lot of fun with it and I combined it with another idea I saw for a pop up groundhog.  Willard loved sinking the groundhog back into his cave then popping him up to see his shadow...thats right, the groundhog saw his shadow at our house...what a surprise, six weeks more of winter! :(