Happy Birthday Eric Carle!
We love reading Eric Carle books. Our Favorite is the Bad-Tempered Ladybug. Here is a fun activity and craft set around the book.
I setup a Art Prompt on the dining table with glue stick, scissors, googly eyes, round stickers and some old artwork. You can select some old painting made by your kids. I cut them out into some random shapes following the art strokes.
M straightly went for the round stickers( or Bindi in local language). "Mummy, we will make the lobster"she said when I asked her which character from the book that she would like to make.
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| The Start of something good |
Here is how we started by arranging the pieces and putting lots of round stickers on them.
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| The claws and the eyes in place |
Randomly but everything seemed to come in place as if the random pieces were meant to be a lobster.
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| The tentacles at front |
Here is our colorful spotted lobster. I put together all the pieces using a stapler.
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| The spotted lobster |
We went ahead with making some other creatures too. Here is our not-so-perfect Elephant. Daddy thought it was a dog!
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| The elephant |
We had so much fun making some animals for Eric Carle's Birthday. Eric Carle Style!
These are beautiful. Love them! Pinning
ReplyDeleteThanks Jennifer! We enjoyed making them too.
DeleteI love the elephant! It is beautiful!
ReplyDeleteThanks Deborah. I love this elephant too. Specially the roller painting artwork we used for the body.
DeleteThese are so cute! I love how they can together.
ReplyDeleteThank so much for stopping by and leaving a comment. We totally enjoyed making them
ReplyDeleteWhat a fun idea to celebrate Eric Carle's birthday! I love the characters she made! :)
ReplyDeleteOh they look so gorgeous!!
ReplyDeleteadorable pieces and M picked a difficult creature but it turned out so nice !!
ReplyDeleteI love what your daughter has created. I try to do things like that with mine but it doesn't always end up as I expect. You can read a post I wrote about it, if you like (http://aitanaimama.blogspot.com.es/2013/04/on-creativity-sobre-creativitat.html).
ReplyDeleteAlthough my daughter is younger than yours (she's not yet 4 y.o.), I'd like to ask you something. Do you create with her, I mean do you guide, help, involve yourself in the creation? Or you just stand aside and offer help if asked?
I know that it is the process, not the product, what matters but I'm a bit lost regarding how much I should intervene.
Thanks
Kind regards from Spain
Mansi,
ReplyDeleteThanks you very much for your kind advise. It is very helpful.
Cris