- HANDMADE CHIMES: Create handmade chimes.
Get different lengths of pipe. Using the piano, figure out what note it is
when struck with a knife or large nail. Play simple songs with the chimes.
- DRIED FLOWER BOOKMARK: Get a piece of clear contact paper and
cut to size of a bookmark or place mat. Place dried flowers on the sticky side
of the contact paper and place another piece of contact paper on top. Sticky
sides together with flowers in between.
- CRAFT CLEAN OUT: I just went to my storage
room and found all of my old and/or incomplete crafts. I had enough supplies
to keep the children busy for months. It didn't cost a thing and my storage
room is clean!
- MUSIC APPRECIATION: Have a music appreciation class. Listen to
different types of music: classical, jazz, rock and roll.. see if they can
name them. Learn the names and sounds of different instruments.
- MUSIC LEADING LESSON: Learn to lead music.
Teach them the time signatures and have them practice leading.
- CRAFTS: Check out the Familyfun.com website.
They have many simple and inexpensive craft ideas.
- CUTER MANGERS: We made little mangers made
from a 2x4 block of wood, spanish moss for hay, and a baby Jesus wrapped
in a white felt square. It was a 3/4" wood ball painted flesh colored and
sleeping eyes. We hot glued it into the blanket wrapped like you would wrap
a real baby. We had a wooden star glued to a curled piece of wire that is
shining over the baby. The wire is glued to the end of the wooden block under
the "hay". The girls loved them.
- CROCHET: Learn how to crochet a small baby blanket
- SING: Learn a song and perform it together (for Church, community
performance, Primary activity, etc.)
- QUILTING: Tie a quilt (try small ones for
dolls or babies)
- COIN PURSE: Make coin purses out of material and learn how to
sew on Velcro, buttons, snaps, or a zipper. For the purse body, try animal
head, rainbow, unicorn, cloud design, or big flower shapes and decorate them.
- DANCE: Learn a new kind of dance and practice it together.
- SACHET: Make sachets filled with potpourri
to put in your drawers and make your clothes smell great.
- CHRISTMAS CRAFT WORKSHOP: We do Arts and Crafts in December,
and since it is a busy month, we just meet one time, on a Saturday, and have
a Christmas craft workshop. We teach the girls three or four crafts and have
a snack together. They decorate paper bags to bring their crafts home in.
- TALENT SHOW: Give the children an opportunity
to play an instrument, show a piece of art work, do a magic trick, recite
a poem, or what ever they want. Tell the parable of the Talents and encourage
them to find and cultivate their talents.
- PICTURE MIX UP FUN: Take pictures of each girl with the same
background and same distance from the camera. Get duplicate copies and cut
them up by cutting off the heads and cutting the bodies in half at the waist.
Have the girls create their own unique people with the different pieces. It
is a blast. They could make a page for their scrapbooks with the mixed up pictures
of their friends.
- HEATING PAD FOR MOM: Make a heating pad
that is great for a sore neck. Get a cotton (not synthetic) tube sock and
fill it with rice. Sew it closed. Put it in the microwave for 1-2 minutes.
Wrap it around your neck and shoulders. It feels great! This is a good mothers
day gift idea. You could use any cotton cloth and sew it into any shape and
decorate it in any way. You could also add some oil to make it smell good.
It can even be put in the freezer and used for a cold pack. .
- POEM FOR THE HEATING PAD: This little pillow filled with rice
is such a comforting device. Microwave for 2-3 minutes on high and kiss those
aches and pains goodbye. Apply it to a troubled spot the heat will ease the
pain a lot. Warm those little toes so cold you'll find this nice to have, to
hold. Or freeze it for awhile and fix that boo-boo in style. Instead of a compress
made of ice, use this little pillow filled with rice.
- MAGNETIC BOARDS:. Find a cookie sheet at
the dollar store. If it has a hole on on handle then it will make it easy
to hang on the wall. Get ribbon or stickers or anything that you want to
decorate it with. Hot glue a border around it. The girls can make magnets
or you can give them magnets for their recognition nights. They can hang
the board on their wall and use it to hang pictures and art work.
- TERRA COTTA POT PAINTING: My partner had the girls decorate terra
cotta pots by sponging them with paint. Then they planted flowers in the pots.
She talked about some gardening tips. The flower pots are going to be used
as centerpieces for tables at our upcoming "Garden Party" Mother-Daughter Awards
Night.
- NATURE BAG: We talked about the creation
and then went on a short nature walk (there is a park across the street from
our church building). The girls collected flowers, leaves, acorns, etc. in
paper lunch bags. Then we went back to the church and put the things they
had collected inside a folded sheet of wax paper. We ironed around the edge
to melt the wax and to seal the things inside. Then they took decorative
scissors and went around the three edges. They look really pretty and we
are going to use them as decorations for our upcoming "Garden Party" Mother-Daughter
Award night. The girls loved it, and the things looked really pretty all
mixed up inside the semi-clear wax paper packets. In retrospect, I would
use double sided scotch tape to seal the packets, however, as some of the
packets started to come apart where they were ironed together.
- FLOWER PENS : This is a great gift for mother or a fun
mother daughter activity. Buy some inexpensive silk flowers and cut each stem
from the bunch so that you have one flower for each wire stem. Get some green
floral tape (at any craft store). Get a bunch of inexpensive ball point pens.
Using the floral tape, tape the flower stem to the pen so that the pen is the
stem and the flower is on top. When you have made a bunch of these, arrange
them in a clay pot filled with black beans. The beans will hold the pens in
place and will look like dirt. It makes a darling flower arrangement by the
phone and it is very useful when you need a pen. Any age child can learn to
use floral tape, just remember to stretch it as you wrap it around the pen
or it won't stick.
- TEMPLE ETCHING: Glass etch temple on a
mirror, plastic canvas.
- ART HISTORY: Check out a book from the library with pictures
of famous paintings. Look at the paintings and learn the names of the painters
and the different styles of painting. Let the girls try to paint something
in their own unique style.
- ART SHOW: Have each girl bring something
that they have made to show the group. Discuss all of the different types
of creative arts and why it is important to do something creative. Challenge
them to go home and try something that they have never done before. IE: Sewing,
knitting, crochet, painting, pottery, singing, dancing, acting, drawing,
crafts, latch hook, creative writing, needlepoint,piano, any musical instrument,
leather work, etc… Tell them (and their mothers) that they will share their
new talent at the next recognition night.
- DARLING SNOWMAN CRAFT:- Fill a tube sock a third of the way full
with rice and put a rubber band around the sock just above the rice, add more
rice to form the middle section of the snowman, (but make it a bit smaller
than the bottom section), close with rubber band, add more rice for the head
portion (smaller than the middle) and close with rubber band, fold remaining
part of sock over to form a hat. Glue on face and tie a scarf around neck and
you are done! I wish I had a picture but it looks darling and anyone can do
it.
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