Craft Day

Today I am off work with the kids in between summer camp being over and school starting. Max had his friend Elijah over for the day so I got creative and we did 4 craft projects. I looked up two online and then just kept going with two of my own I came up with. It was a fun day. First we made a rotocopter. It is a flying paper toy that spins in circles when it falls to the ground. The kids colored the paper template and then I cut and folded it and put a paper clip on the bottom. It reminded me of the helpcopter seeds that fall in our backyard. We made two per each kid (Max, Elijah and Sam), one plain and one with a feather on each of its arms to be scientific and experiment to see which one did better. The plain ones did better in a shorter fall, but if held up higher, standing on a chair, the ones with feathers on it did better.

We also made hot air balloons with cups we decorated then tied a balloon to the top of the cup. The third project was making door hangers for thier bedroom doors with cut out cardboard shapes they colored/decorated and then we wrote their names on it with glue and glitter. Pipe cleaners were strung through a hole punched to make a hanger.

The fourth and last project was making our spiritual eye patches. This was fun. I happened to have some clear green plastic paper (I can't remember the official name of the stuff). We cut out a circle and punched two holes on the sides of it then strung two pipe cleaners through and wove them together and around the kid's heads to make it like a pirate patch they could see through with a green tint. It was so they could see the world through their regular eyes and then through their spiritual eyes with the help of God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit. Ok, Ok, I am very corny, but the kids don't seem to mind. It was fun.

Anyway, it was a nice day with the kids. Try out these projects and have some fun yourself!