Chilly Autumn Indoor Holiday Fun (Part I)

First day back at school today, so I thought I would share some of the fun we had over the holidays. With Daddy working, it was a stay-at-home holiday, and with mostly chilly weather it was also a stay-indoors holiday!


The boys value art that is "useful" (I use the word rather loosely) and can be played with afterwards. Hanging it on the fridge or the wall is so last season!


Keeping that in mind, and practicing restraint from taking over, here's what we got up to.

Flying Aliens

What we used: 

• Styrofoam balls
• Ear-buds (cut into halves)
• Skewer sticks (to hold balls while painting)
• String
• Acrylic Paint
• Glitter
• Craft eyes

After snipping the ear-buds to various lengths (with safety scissors of course) chubby little fingers jammed, poked and prodded them into the Styrofoam balls - note: cutting is FUN, and we ended the day with enough halved ear-buds to warrant coming up with another arty use for them, any ideas?

Then the messy fun begins!

I only put out the primary colours, plus black and white to add learning and uniqueness to their choices of paint, and what fun they had "inventing" their colours!

My ears soaked up their voices as they created fantastical stories about these little monster creations, ranging from fallen stars to spiders hidden in space rockets!

Once painted and before they dried we sprinkled them with glitter, just for fun.

Next we, pulled out the skewer stick, threaded in the string, stuck on the eyes and spooks-your-uncle!

These guys now hang in the doorways of their bedrooms . . . the gift that keeps giving giggles, because of course its still hilarious when our heads are pounced on by monsters as we enter their rooms!