No Sew Pillowcase Skirts

My nieces (5 and 6 yrs old) designed and created their own skirts this week.

First they sketched what they wanted their skirts to 

look like.

We had fabric scraps left over from the capes we created last week. they ironed fabric adhesive to the back of the scraps, drew their designs from their sketches on the back, and then cut them out and ironed them on.

Next they got to work adding details with fabric markers. 

While they were doing this, I helped cut out the borders they wanted, they ironed them on. 

It was a lot of fun watching their drawings come to life on their skirts, and to see their faces light up throughout the process. 

They are so proud of these. I'm so proud of them!

No Sew Super Hero Capes

Yesterday the four kids and I took a trip to the store. It was rowdy, and a ton of fun! They got to pick out a pillowcase, some fabric and ribbon of their choice. They even got to check out their own items at the self checkout. 

We raced home and got to work.

We cut out fabric letters that I free handed. You could use stencils if you want, but I wanted them to be nice and big! The kids ironed on some adhesive to the back, cut the excess off, and ironed them to their pillowcases.

The best part of this project is that the kids are fully capable of helping create their capes - no sewing required! 

Even "Boogie" got to do some ironing:) 

Wonder woman. 

Wonder Woman, Wonder-Bell and Boogie Man.

These girls are just too adorable in their dresses, ribbon and bow Super Hero capes!

More than just a homemade matching game

This evolved into so much more than I originally planned. At first it was just a matching game with the picture of the animals and their names for my youngest (14 months) to learn her animals.

Then I realized I could be using these for my 3 yr old and 5 yr old who I'm introducing to reading and writing.

So I wrote the animal names on another sheet of paper, put them on popsicle sticks.

The blue base is an empty wrapped diaper box with slots for the popsicle sticks.

Becoming familiar with the words and pictures and how to match/read them.

For some writing/reading practice, 5 yr old wrote the word, and 3 yr old found the animal.

"You wrote dog."

"I know you're writing piiiiiiig!"

Then 3 yr old picked an animal to draw. I gave him verbal direction on how to draw the animal (i.e. a circle for the head, a small circle in the middle, two lines inside the small circle, two circle eyes and triangle ears.) He also was encouraged to write the letter P.

A quick matching game while waiting for 5 yr old to draw her animal.

Matching the words to the picture with word.

Guess what she drew:) 

Charades! I laid the pictures on sticks out....

The words on a sticks were turned upside down to pick from. Once they picked a word, they were encouraged to sound it out. If they were unable to sound out the word, they could look at the picture.

Then they set their word aside and acted out the animal. 

"I know what you are!"

The person guessing the animal would get so excited, run and grab the picture of the animal and show the person acting!

:)