V - Learning the Alphabet (Volcano with removable "lava")

Fold brown construction paper into a pocket V shape and glue or tape to large sheet of paper, drawing the "V" shape

Draw rest of volcano around the "V"

Have child draw with red, orange and yellow marker some "lava" spraying out of the volcano

Cut orange, yellow and red construction paper into "lava/flames" to fit the pocket opening of the volcano

U - Learning the Alphabet - Umbrella Craft

Have child color small white paper plate
Fold paper plate in half, taping the edges together
Cut folded half of paper plate so that it's a jagged long slit, like the edge of an umbrella
Cut a J shape for the handle from a white cardstock or another paper plate, tape inside umbrella
Draw person or animal on cardboard and cut out
Person can be inserted inside pocket of umbrella - this is a craft they can play with afterward!

Valentine's Day Craft - Paper Roll Butterfly or Elephant - Color Mixing/Cutting

 Materials I used:

1 Toilet Paper Roll
2 Q-Tips
Paints of various colors (I used red, blue, and white and we did color mixing)
Googlie eyes
Construction Paper - Red for large hearts, White for small hearts, which we painted, White paper for the "proboscis"

My son loves bugs so this craft was fun to do.

We practiced color mixing by mixing red and blue to get purple and then we painted a toilet paper roll purple

I traced 2 large hearts and 2 small hearts on construction paper

He used child safety scissors to help me cut the hearts out, with me guiding his hand (so they acutally looked like hearts in the end!)

We painted the small hearts purple but left the large hearts red, only dotting with pink paing (we mixed red and white to make pink)

We painted 2 Q-Tips blue for the antennas, which I taped inside the roll once they all dried
We attached googlie eyes and painted on a red smile

Then, since my son is into nature and keeping things "real" I cut a paper strip from white paper and using scissors I had him help me curl it and glued it, with curl facing downward, to form a "proboscis" so the butterfly can drink nectar when he pretend plays with it later.

We have plastic flowers from Michaels that he uses for his bug figures to play with.

*This craft could easily be altered slightly to make an "Elephant" for E day for the alphabet, or for Valentine's Day.  The "proboscis" would become the trunk and you'd leave off the antennas.  

T - Learning the Alphabet

T is for Turtle -

2 small paper plates
Tape
Crayons
4 legs and 1 head and neck cut from green construction paper
"Accordian" the neck and legs and tape inside the bottom paper plate
Tape on top plate
This allows for the head and legs to "hide" if the turtle gets scared, like a real land turtle
Have child color the shell with crayons
Draw on turtle face (I was going to use googlie eyes but then the head wouldn't retract)

S - Learning the Alphabet

S is for Sea Snail

 

http://blogs.familyeducation.com/parenting/moms/allison-mcdonald/color-mixing-snail 

S is for Skeleton

http://www.artistshelpingchildren.org/kidscraftsactivitiesblog/2011/10/how-to-make-q-tip-skeletons/

Skeleton

Using Q-Tips

http://www.artistshelpingchildren.org/kidscraftsactivitiesblog/2011/10/how-to-make-q-tip-skeletons/

R - Learning the Alphabet

R is for Raccoon

 

Print out an "R" on grey paper (I only had white to color it in with pencil), cut it out

Attach it to another color paper

Draw a tail, ears, eyes and nose on grey paper, cut out with your child

Attach to paper and draw on whiskers, extra face markings etc.