An End of Summer Arts and Crafts Project
We have two more weeks of summer before the kids head back to school and – MAN! – am I counting down the days! My kids are restless, annoying, short-tempered, and B-O-R-E-D. So, this past weekend when I found this pack of 10 blank notebooks for $3, I threw them in my cart for a fun, end of school art project for them to do.
This morning, we went through all the pictures on my phone that we had taken all summer long. The kids picked out 30 each of their favorite moments and I sent them to the Walgreens up the street from my house for their one-hour printing. While we waited for them to finish printing, we ran up the street to Michael’s. I had a 50% off coupon for stickers, so I let the kids go crazy in the scrapbooking sticker aisle. Each of them picked out three packs of stickers. With my coupon, it was all $10.
When we got home with our pictures and stickers, I had the kids sort their pictures into piles of events. For example, there was a page of beach pictures and a page of pictures from our trip to Pensacola. Next, they laid them out on each page of their notebooks and glued them down with glue sticks.
Next, I had them add captions to each page, explaining what our fun summer activity was. And last – and favorite – was to decorate each page with pictures. They had a blast! It took them over an hour, which is solid for a summer art project. And they were able to complete it all on their own while I worked. I just called out next step instructions. Easy, peasy!
It was a super simple craft project that will remind them of our summer!
Hang in there, momma’s! It’s almost over!!!!!!!
2 Comments
Brigitte
2 weeks, I wish! NYC schools go back Sep 5th.
Carlene
Too cute! When I was a nanny, the best time sucker I found for the kids was pieces of paper, markers, tape, dice, and those big foam puzzle-floor tile things people have for babies. I laid the tiles out in a giant squiggly line, told the kids to create a board game. They used the paper to assign prompts on the various tiles, like “You stepped in a puddle! Go back three spaces!” or “You got all As! Move in front of the winning player” Endlessly rewardable, made them use literacy skills, communicating, cooperation, I didn’t have to supervise, and their reward at the end was that we would play it together!