"To eat is a necessity, but to eat intelligently is an art." - La Rochefoucauld

Tuesday, January 11, 2011





Winter Time Blues!

Anyone else feeling cooped up?? Today we decided to do a fun craft to kill the mid-afternoon slump. These little puppets were such a hit. I piled up some old Highlights magazines, family pictures, and some ratty paper back books that were missing pages (and were basically headed toward the recycle bin) and we cut out funny faces/characters and made our own puppets. All you need is faces/characters, construction paper, kabob sticks and tape. You could also color pages from coloring books and use those shapes for your puppets. Great fine motor activity too! :)

4 comments:

Amy said...

That is a total teacher idea- awesome!! It looks like fun :) Poor little Ben's eye :(

Learning As I Go Blog said...

I swear I don't beat my children!! Isn't his eye so sad? Third injury to that eye....just heartbreaking! :(

Kelly O'Donnell said...

Hey--I had a brainstorm that using a straw instead of kabob skewer might be safer as well as easier to procure in the average kitchen! I'm going to try this--too cute!

Learning As I Go Blog said...

Great idea...way less dangerous! :)