Barnacles--Under the Water (part 2)

Do you remember the My Heart to Yours craft?  These are the extra egg casings that were left over. We couldn't use them because of their incomplete shape.  So these were cut down further.  I'm really happy that some of the older kids from our other group helped us, the younger group.  There is no way the younger ones could have handled the Exacto knife to cut slits in the top of the casings so that they could be cut away. Kuddles to them!

Watch out!  Box cutter in use!

"I got the hang on how to push them out!"

Sai got tired of trying to get the centers out and opted to cut more fringes for the anemones.

Let the painting begin!

These "barnacles" were painted with latex paint.

Supplies:

1. egg cartons

2. scissors

3. Exacto knife or box cutter

4. latex paint

Directions:

1. cut individual casings out of egg cartons

2. with box cutter, make slits into top of egg casings (makes a starter for scissors)

3. with scissors, cut circular pattern on top of casings

4. paint casings

Duration:
This takes two days: cutting, one day; painting, one day

Note:

I used water-base latex paint because of the variety egg carton material.  It seemed this type of paint would take care of any show-through.

A Fox's Tale

It was all the rage with the older kids that came in the morning, but it drove me crazy.  For days I was asked to play the same song over and over and hear the various choral tones.  Definitely I had to get with it.  Eventually, I was reduced to having the song run for weeks in my already crowded brain. Alas, I resorted to learning the fame dance and howling just like the kids.  And if you live in Seattle, you know that the Seahawks rule and reign ( at least, according to these kids).  Judge for yourselves. Even a favorite of mine, Dancing with the Stars got in on the act.

With such inspiration, I thought the kinder and first graders would love to do their own rendition dance, along with costumes.  Well, although the young set tried their best to master the dance, it just didn't work out.  Thanks to a post on  http://baby-jungle.com/diy-egg-carton-giraffe-mask/, I opted to have the children make a fox mask (which still resembles the giraffe) because, of course, the new dopplers I bought just had to be used.  Sorry there are no pictures with the children wearing the masks.  As these are from last year, I didn't have the view to document the steps. This  was the only picture that wasn't too fuzzy.

Supplies:  

1. egg carton

2. scissors

3. brown and white paint

4. elastic strap

5. construction paper

Directions:

1. separate top of egg carton from bottom

2. cut two ears from bottom of carton

3. on top of carton, draw a pair of eyes

4. cut a u-shape in center for the nose and mouth

5. paint the masks and ears

6. hot glue the ears to front of masks

7. make hole on sides of mask for elastic strap

8. cut additional set of ears for the sides of the mask and hot glue them above holes

For your entertainment, here are the different versions of "What Does the Fox Say".