Welcome back to a new edition of A Craft A Day!

If you are new to A Craft a Day

A Craft a Day gives you five activities that you can enjoy with your kids, one for each day of the week.  Most of these activities work well for preschoolers, but you may be able to adapt them for your toddler. If you want to learn more about the basics of A Craft A Day you can find them at a Craft a Day: Coming Back Soon.

I will post the crafts on Saturdays so you can use the weekend to get any supplies that you may need.

Are you Supermom?

Now I’m not supermom and I don’t expect you to be either. We don’t always get to each activity, sometimes life is just too busy.

Hopefully you may try one or two of these activities with me and my kids! You don’t have to do every single one. You don’t have to be doing preschool with your child.

I just hope to give you a resource for some great fun with your kids!

The Crafts:

• Apple Smiles – Apple smiles are a fun and easy snack to create with your preschooler.

• Armor of God – For this project we printed out each sheet. I created a head and legs from construction paper. Zane colored the sheets, put a face on the head and helped me cut out the shield. I cut out the rest of the pieces and had him tape them all together. This was tons of fun.
• Apple Science – I cut open an apple and we counted the carpels and seed together. Every apple has 5 carpels and each carpel should have 2 seeds.
• Apple Prints – After counting I put some paint on a plant and let both boys use the apples as stamps. Zane just loved swirling the paint.

• Awesome Apple – I know another color and cut worksheet. But what was fun was we were just teaching Zane about Super Heroes and this happen to be the activity I planned for the day.

Supplies: Apples, Peanut Butter, Mini Marshmallows, Scissors, Crayons or Pens,  Acrylic Paint or Finger Paint, Craft Paper

Be Featured

If you do any of these crafts and happen to take a picture or write a blog post about it please make sure and share your link in the comments. Also don’t forget to link the original crafter! I may feature you and your blog  on the following weeks post!

This week we made a big purchase at Ikea: New Wardrobes. One for me and one for the hubby.

Look at that shoe storage, I’ve never had shoe storage before!

Eek! I’m so excited!

Click the pic for the full view:

Welcome to my home. This is what you see as you walk into my front door. And even though this may look like a mish mash of silly objects everything here has a story behind it.

Even that blank area above my curio has a story. We have just added this bookcase in the entryway so I don’t have everything placed perfectly. I think I want to add a phrase or verse in that blank space.

The curio itself is a little plate shelf we found. It was one of my first do it yourself pieces. I sanded it and painted it with some old left over house paint. It has beautiful curved glass in the corners that I love. I have to get a good hold of it as I open it because the latch sticks a bit, but I don’t get into it to often.

I have bunnies and unicorns and special gifts inside that curio. All my small knick knacks are in there. And even each of those pieces has there own story. I can tell you where I got most of those pieces and who gave them to me. There are gifts from a friend who went to the Ukraine. There are unicorns I have collected from a trip to a big swap meet or the time we drove down to California.

I have to say that my husband laughs every time we see Dodgeball and they enter the woman’s home filled with Unicorns. And I have to say I’m not that bad!

The desk that the curio sits on is all scuffed and worn but I love the look of it. And it is pretty special to our family as my husband’s late father built it himself. The drawers are hard to open and it is filled to the brim with junk, but it is still loved.

We were going to make shelves in the hole where your knees go to put our shoes, but I have too many shoes and we just aren’t good at getting to those  kind of projects.

When my mother moved she offered us any of her furniture that we may want and we of course took bookshelves. My husband collects books and we are avid readers. The bookshelf that houses our shoes is from our living room. I like the shelf with our shoes even though it’s not pretty, it’s practical for us. No more digging for shoes they are there in order and easily put back also.

You an see my purse set on top of the shelf and that is my newest favorite thing at the moment. It is my Miche Bag. It’s the perfect little purse for those like me who love to match there purse with there outfit, but hate moving everything over to the new purse or don’t have the money for a new purse. This purse has changable  shells that attach with magnets.

And lastly you can see that picture that is in the entryway. I think it’s a little ironic to have it in the entryway but everyone likes it there. That is a charcoal drawing I did when I was in college. It is one of my favorite pieces. I was just able to frame it to put it up and it ended up in the entryway.

So that is My Place & how about Yours?

I’d probably feed you:
Some corn chips or a cheese stick.

And offer you this to drink:
Talking Rain, milk or water

I’d undoubtedly ask if you’d read:
Maybe Baby by Matthew Miller

I’d want to play this music for you:
nothing because we don’t have a cd player.

I’d want to tell you about:
The fun and cute new things Zane does.

I’d probably suggest a game of:
Flux, Wii Fit, Wii Play, or Mario Party

I would definitely show off:
Zane’s room and mural if his room was clean and his diaper pail empty.

I might get on the computer and show you:
Yeah, you have to sit on our bed at the moment to get to our computer. And I just have this thing about guests upstairs, let alone in my bedroom.

If it was a long enough visit, we might watch:
Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, The Last Unicorn, or The Hobbit

What would a visit to your house be like?