Little Dragon Glove Puppet

I made this adorable little dragon glove  puppet to add to our Dragon Sensory Tub that we are working on putting together. I made it using an odd glove that I couldn't find a match for (We ALWAYS have mateless gloves, my children lose gloves like the lose socks!!), felt, 2 buttons, and 2 googley eyes. If you don't have any loney mateless gloves, you can always pick up a set in the dollar store. You should be able to find all of the other items needed in  the dollar store if you don't have them lying around in your house.  I got the pattern for his wings and crest off of Spoonful.com. Once I cut my felt pieces out and sewed them on along with buttons. I used my hot glue gun to glue the googey eyes on.

Now he is all ready for play!

This little glove puppet is an awesome little gift for any little dragon lover! This would also be a great, inexpensive party favor for the kids to take home from a dragon party! 

 

 

Mr. Turkey Color Recognition Felt Activity

This fun felt activity focuses on color recognition, it is a lot of fun to make and do with your preschooler. My son enjoys this one even though he is now a pro with colors. It fits the theme of Thanksgiving, but great for year around fun too! 

 

 Mr. Turkey is so sad, he has lost his beautiful colorful feathers. Have your little one help him find all of his feathers so that he can be happy once again!

 

 

Mr. Turkey was so sad.

He lost the feathers he once had.

Now he wants us to help him find all of the feathers of his kind.

We will look both high and low, we will fid them, don't you know.

Here's a red one and a blue.

Look, we've found a green one too.

Here's an orange one and a yellow, soon he'll be a feathered fellow.

Now we've found the purple one, black and white--we're almost done!

If we just look up and down, I know we'll find the feather brown.

Now, Mr. Turkey is so glad!

We found the feathers he once had!

Easy to Make Doc Mc Stuffin's Stethoscopes

We are working on putting together a Community Helpers Sensory Tote and one of the items I decided to make was a stethoscope. I used headbands, ribbon, and felt. I picked up all of the materials from the Dollar Tree-- the headbands were 6 for $1, ribbon was $1 for the roll, and the felt was a pack for $1. I made 6 of these stethoscopes for $3 and still had felt and ribbon leftover! I cut long rectangles of felt, wrapped them around the end of the headbands, and hot glued them into place for the ear pieces. I used about a foot long piece of ribbon for the strap and cut out 2 circles out of felt and glued them together with the tip of the ribbon in between them. I then cut a small band aid out of felt to glue on top. You can even add a small heart on the band aid if you like! The kids are really enjoying these, my son takes it out every time we watch Doc Mc Stuffin's on TV. I will definitely be making more of these for Christmas presents!

Go Away Big Green Monster!!

 

Go Away Big Green Monster is a favorite in our house! I decided to make a felt story to go along with the book. This was pretty easy to make, I used a template of the face that I found on Google. My son is enjoying it :) 

Stone Soup Felt Story

I made this felt story to go along with the book Stone Soup. Stone Soup is an old story that shows the importance of cooperation. The story is about a traveler that goes to a village looking for food and none of the villagers are willing to share their food because the each only have one type of vegetable or food. Using his "magic" stone, he shows them how to work together and make a gigantic pot of soup that will feed the entire village.  I used templates from DTLK that can be found here.

Under the Sea Felt Fish Tank

This was our summer project last year, we just set it up again and are planning to continue to add to  it this summer. We started out with a few felt fish that we made and added a new fish, plant, or sea animal each week. It was a family project, the kids picked out a fish, my husband or I made the fish out of felt and then we learned a little bit about the fish before we added it to out felt tank. So far, we have a shark, angel fish, parrot fish, octopus, clown fish, lobster, sting ray, blue crab, sea turtle, sea horse, whale, and some others. This was a fun and educational project, my kids are looking forward to adding to it again, as am I. This also goes well with our Under the Water tote that I am putting together for July.

The Itsy Bitsy Spider Felt Story

 

 

The itsy bitsy spider
Climbed up the waterspout
Down came the rain
And washed the spider out
Out came the sun
And dried up all the rain
And the itsy bitsy spider
Climbed up the spout again

Lorax Felt Board

 

This little felt Lorax is our newest addition to our felt board! I was overwhelmed at the thought of making it, but it actually was pretty easy to make! I used Google images as a template and got to work. My kids love it! I love the Lorax too, he's so darn cute! Eventually, I think I will make some buildings to go along with it. Who knows, I may even get brave and try one of those little bears!

Thing One Felt Decoration

 

 

I love Thing 1 and Thing 2! Not only are they the Cat in the Hat's right hand men, but they are absolutely adorable. I made this to add to the Cat in the Hat Literacy Basket that I am working on for next month, but this would definitely make a cute and inexpensive decoration for a birthday party or baby shower. All I did was make a template out of a Google image, cut the two pieces out of felt, drew the face on with a permanent marker, and hot glued the face onto the hair. Simple, quick, and cute!

Where The Wild Things Are Felt Board

 

I made this little monster to add to our Where the Wild Things Literacy Basket that I am working on for next month. He was very simple to make. I found a coloring page on Google and I used that as my pattern. You could glue the pieces on to use it as a decoration or prop, or leave the pieces separate and let your kids "put him together." This will be a great addition to our literacy basket and in the future it will be used on our felt board and as a busy bag.

Five Little Cookies in the Bakery Shop

I made a felt story to use on our felt board to go along with upcoming baking activities that I have planned. I found two rhymes/songs that I can use with them, Five Little Cookies in the Bakery Shop and Five Little Cookies. I cut out 5 circles and decorated them with icing (glitter glue), which I color coded to go with the bottom song. 

 

 

Five Little Cookies in the Bakery Shop

Five little cookies in the bakery shop
Five little cookies with sugar on top
Along came a man with a penny in his hand
Click, clock, click, clock, click, clock, click, clock
He took one cookie and away he ran

Four little cookies in the bakery shop
Four little cookies with sugar on top
Along came a man with a penny in his hand
Click, clock, click, clock, click, clock, click, clock
He took one cookie and away he ran

Three little cookies in the bakery shop
Three little cookies with sugar on top
Along came a man with a penny in his hand
Click, clock, click, clock, click, clock, click, clock
He took one cookie and away he ran

Two little cookies in the bakery shop
Two little cookies with sugar on top
Along came a man with a penny in his hand
Click, clock, click, clock, click, clock, click, clock
He took one cookie and away he ran

One little cookie in the bakery shop
One little cookie with sugar on top
Along came a man with a penny in his hand
Click, clock, click, clock, click, clock, click, clock
He took one cookie and away he ran

But we’re not done yet:
No little cookies in the bakery shop.
No little cookies with sugar on top.
Along came a man with a penny in his hand.
Click, clock, click, clock, click, clock, click, clock
He took one look
And away he ran

I color coordinated the icing to go along with this one:

Five Little Cookies

Five little cookies with frosting galore,
Mommy ate the white one, then there were four.

Four little cookies, two and two you see,
Daddy ate the pink one, then there were three.

Three little cookies, but before I knew,
My sister ate the blue one, then there were two.

Two little cookies, oh, what fun!
My brother ate the green one, then there was one.

One little cookie, watch me run!
I ate the red one, then there were none!