Painted Pine Cones

These are a nice fall decoration for the door. Simply gather some pine cones on a nature walk,

paint them with a Fall palette of colors. A final touch that the children love is to sprinkle glitter on them. these will be strung together and hung from the entrance way to the school.

This Was a Hoot!

One of the mom's at Art and Soul Preschool sent me this project idea.  I loved it and thought it would be a wonderful project for the kids.  Today, I wore my owl shirt and we read the story The Littlest Owl, by Caroline Pitcher.  We then had art time where we created these little guys.  I can't help it, they just make feel good, there is something about them that has so much personalty.

 We started by wrapping wool around the top of the pine cone

 Next, we added ears, which we made out of sticky sided felt

 We then glued on a nose, which was just a triangle cut from construction paper.

 With assistance and a brief talk on how to use a hot glue gun and cautions about how not to burn yourself, they applied glue to the inside of the acorn caps and then pressed them onto the face of their owls.

We then hot glued the owls to the top of our leaf candle holders from a previous post.  It was a nice way to put both projects together and it gave the owls a perch to sit on.

Making Pine Cone Sheep with Llama Wool

Making Pine Cone Sheep with Llama Wool

This was a delight to make and very easy for a preschooler or their parent.

For Elianna's birthday we had a farm theme, and although it was not a day at Art and Soul Preschool, I wanted to post this project to share.

This project was inspired by a post I found about weaving pine cones on Little Acorn Learning

They weaved yarn and loose wool around a pine cone, and we had recently recieved a huge bag of wool from our friend's neighbors llamas and I thought, why not weave the wool around the pine cone to make sheep.

You will need pine cones

Wool and Pipe Cleaners

Start by wrapping pipe cleaner around the front and back of the pine cone to make legs



After you have your legs, start wrapping the wool around the pine cone pressing it in so that it really sticks

When the sheep looks the way you like, you can use another pipe cleaner to coil around the head to make a face.

Elianna loved her little sheep!

Some left over friends from the party

I Love how different they all are