Painting with Pinecones

We had gone to food trucks and found cool trees that had an insane amount of pinecones. Luckily I always carry a grocery bag with me so we were able to fill up the bag. To begin our fall crafts we decided to start with an easy messy painting project. I baked the pinecones when we got home to get rid of the bugs and open up some of the closed ones, but ever since then they have just been sitting in a bowl waiting to be used for something.

I decided to start our fall activities off with some painting with pinecones, I mean why not! I imagined them being easy to roll but I wasn't quite right. However it was still a lot of fun and of course the little dude wanted to enhance the project and just go straight to painting with his hands! But once he got the hang of painting with the pinecones I think he was really into it and would even do two in each hand at a time!!

Owls

We have started talking about nocturnal animals and started by talking about owls. These projects turned out so cute that I am so proud of them we made more owls then we probably need to!! Sending out some of our owls as presents to the Little Dudes family to show them what a  great artist he is.

We did two types of owls
Paper Plate Owl.
 -I cut out the wings, eyes, beak and legs.
-The Little Dude painted the plates
-I did my own owl and then he glued his owl together in his own special way.
-He says his owl is dancing and that is why the wings are out unlike mine.

Toilet Paper Roll Owl.
-Push in the top of the toilet paper roll
-I covered them in tissue paper, made the eyes and beaks.
-The Little Dude glued on feathers of his choosing and glued on the faces.
- We made a little family of owls and then had to make another one because the dog thought he had found a new toy.

Some Sensory Ideas.

Sensory tubs have always been one of the easiest things to do. Whether you are making it up on the go or planning out one they are always such a big hit! Also can be an easy way to keep the mess confined, which is probably my favorite part!!

Here are some of my recent sensory tubs!

Colored rice and pasta

Paper Scraps! Let your imagination flow!

Coffee and dinosaurs! (MESSSSSSSSSY)

Water and Seashells

All of these tubs were thought of in about 10 seconds. Its such a good way for kids to stay occupied, use their imagination, and just have a bunch of fun. You can seriously throw anything in there and change it up in so many different ways to make every single unique kid out there happy.