Easy Kid Mask

Every year we have such a awesome time at Cuyamaca College's Annual Spring Garden Festival. There is also sooo many activities and I typically don't get to share all the fun we had outside my circle, but I'm gonna change that and hopefully give you another quick activity that can keep the little ones in your life occupied.

So simple & fun for the little ones and plenty of room for variation. 

The MUST HAVES: Paper Plate, Scissors/Exacto, and Glue. OPTIONS: Your choice string or popsicle sticks. Crayon, markers, or paint? Maybe some glitter or just like this one, feathers.

For the version that Riley made we had just the paperplate that had the eye holes precut out, popsicle stick, glue, crayons and feathers. So mom step get the paper plate and cut out 2 eye holes, whatever is easier and with your favorite cutting tool.

Let your child decorate with whatever colorful method you choose. For this less messy version it was just crayons.

Glue on top for feathers, glitter, whatever you decided.

For this version we glued a popsicle stick to the back bottom instead of a string method. If you are interested, how you can do that is add 2 holes on the sides of the plate an tie 2 pieces of string (1 tow each side). Place mask on face and tie behind head. My daughter's head is not big enough to try that but it's your call.

As you see, the mask brought a smile to the kiddo's face. ;)

Fluffy Bunny with Movable Ears

Fun little project in time for Easter. Best thing is most, if not all the pieces you probably have already.

What you need:
2 Paper Plates, Bag of Cotton Balls, Pencil, Sharpie, Pink Crayon/Marker/Highlighter, Glue, 2 Brads, and Scissors.
Here's some optional items: If you want your brads to disappear paintbrush, white paint and pink puff ball for nose, though pink marker/highlighter on cotton ball could work. You can always use googly eyes to, but we didn't want to on this project.

Pencil a rough pointed oval shape on one paper plate.

Cut. This is where I tried to smooth it out, as you saw my lines weren't to pretty. Pieces don't have to be perfect or even just roughly similar. These will be your ears. 

Don't throw out the middle piece if you are like us an chose to paint the tops of your brads. The middle piece works a as a good palette for your drop of white paint. I just let her old the brads by he base and paint the top with as much white as she wanted. We let them dry by laying them on the same piece of paper plate.

Let your kid go crazy with the pink on the flat part of the paper plate you had cut.

Decide where you will be attaching ears to top of plate, mark it or go ahead an pierce it. I just used one end of my scissors. I didn't want my hole punch to create a gap to big for the brad. You want the brad to just slip through. Pierce the paper plates very carefully however you chose to do this. Now for the ears, you want the bumpy edges to serve for the fluffy area and the flat to be the pink inside a bunny's ear.  Arrange plate pieces so it's rough next to rough with flat pointing out. Poke holes at base, the pointed part.

Place the base of ears behind the top of bunny's head. Try to line up your holes. Slide in your brads. Open and spread brad to secure position.

Now the fun really begins. Get out that glue and pink ball of whatever you chose. Glue it on. TIP- Let your child glue on the nose before you attempt to draw the face, it makes it easier.

I did the mouth teeth part. Just think lower case w (rounded version) with 2 rectangles coming out. I also showed her how I do the whiskers by counting "1, 2, 3" as I started my point then worked the marker outward on our scrap paper. She then went nose outward and counted as she went. Next she drew her eyes  and you can have a shape conversation there.

This is up to you and your kid, either glue 1 cotton ball at a time or do what we did and just squirt glue all along the bumpy edge of the plate, but not over the brads. Give yourself a tiny gap around the brads so they can spin as bunny's ear moves. Once our glue was down she picked whatever and however many cotton balls as she liked. Sometimes she felt like ripping, but as you can most were big solid cotton balls.

Let dry & "TA-DA, DONE!"

Your kid will have lots of fun changing the bunny ears. It's also kind of cute that each place of the ear changes the personality on your child's bunny.

Happy Easter Everyone!