When it gets this close to Spring, it’s hard to beat those Winter blues with the kids. It’s often too cold to play outside and they’re getting cabin fever… at least that’s the way it is at my house.
So I thought I’d post some sunshine craft ideas to help beat those Winter blues…
Enjoy!
Paper Plate Sun
1. Cut triangle wedges out of the edge of a large paper plate and go all the way around the plate. These will be the sun’s rays.
2. Paint the back side of a paper plate yellow and let dry completely.
3. Glue on wiggle eyes (or draw them) and draw nose and mouth with black marker.
These are cute and they give kids some great cutting practice!
Handprint Sun
Have the child dip their hands in yellow paint and stamp them onto a large piece of paper.
The idea is to stamp the hands so that they form a circle with the fingers facing out and the palms overlapping. Take a look at the picture above for clarification.
Kids seem to love anything where they get to put their hands in paint! This is a great sunshine craft to beat the Winter blues!
Edible Sunshine Craft
I think it’s fun to do edible crafts once in awhile… my kids love this one!
1. Use food coloring to tint cream cheese yellow.
2. Spread the yellow cream cheese on half of an english muffin.
3. Use skinny pretzel sticks to make sun beams.
4. Eat the sun and enjoy!
You could also do this with some kind of yellow jam… we’ve tried orange marmalade before. It’s not as yellow, but a good substitute for children who don’t like cream cheese.
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Thank you so much for the sun ideas – perfect for those rainy days that we are having in SA at the moment! The children loved the English muffin sun (made it with apricot jam as we were learning the letter “a”)
Keep up those wonderful ideas!!
Anouther thing you could also use insted of cream chesse is white cake frosting and mix in yellow food coloring and then spread it on the muffin. The kids really enjoy the frosting.
Chris,
Thanks for the great “sunny” ideas. The Sunsationals (my room) will love them, along with the other toddler rooms, the Butterflies and the Busy Bees.
Lynnette S.
Thank you for the sun ideas