Puffy paint ice cream

We are learning about summer this week at Homespun Daycare. 

What better craft to do on a hot Phoenix day 

 than an ice cream craft! I started out by 

making puffy paint. Just add equal parts of shaving cream

and white glue to a bowl and stir. I let each child 

pick a color they would like for the puffy paint. I use Wilton

food color paste.They are such bright colors and take just a 

tiny bit of color no matter what I am coloring.

I had made ahead an ice cream cone and added circles

 for the scoops of ice cream. (I use card stock for this project)

I also made ahead a bowl for ice cream. My kids

 love puffy paint so I knew they would want to make more

 that one ice cream picture. I put a couple blobs of puffy paint 

on their paper and gave them wooded craft spoons to spread the

 paint with. They loved swirling the spoons around in the thick

 paint, and watching the colors mix. They have just as much 

fun seeing the pictures after they have dried.The 

paint dries puffy and feels smooth. Some of the 

kids had such fun I put out sheets of card stock

and they made their own creations with the puffy paint.

Supplies needed

Shaving cream

white glue

bowls for mixing

 plastic or wooden spoons 

food coloring

  pre made ice cream cone pictures

or just card stock paper for painting on.

homespun kids: Swatting fly's!We had a beautiful May here in ph...

homespun kids:
Swatting fly's!
We had a beautiful May here in ph...: Swatting fly's! We had a beautiful May here in phoenix, but June is here and so are the triple digits! So with summer upon us  ...

Swatting fly's!
We had a beautiful May here in phoenix, but June
is here and so are the triple digits! So with summer upon us
 I decided to do a summer theme this week in
preschool. The kids have been complaining
about the fly's outside bugging them.  Unfortunately our Phoenix heat
brings fly's! I decided it  would be fun to swat fly's today at the art table. First
 I Googled "fly templates to print"and made copies of fly's and cut them out.
 Then the kids glued the fly's onto the easel paper. I poured paint onto paper plates
and dipped the flyswatters in the paint and let the kids swat their fly's.
They had such fun swatting fly's! It got a bit messy, they loved swatting  those
fly's hard! Be sure to use a small amount of paint on
the flyswatters. The fly's show up  best with light colors of paint.
Supplies needed
fly pictures or stickers or hand draw fly's on the paper
easel paper or large sheets of paper
paper plates and washable paint
flyswatters ( I found mine at the Dollar Tree)