Welcome to Read.Explore.Learn.! This meme was designed to be a place for you to share the learning opportunities, crafts, field trips, and other activities you have done this week that tie-in to children’s books. I look forward to seeing the ways you have learned with and explored books.
My Book Tie-Ins of the Week:
There is just something wonderful about Curious George! We love him at our house. We loved Happy Valentine’s Day George too.
Curious George decides to celebrate Valentine’s in a big way for those he carries for and they with him. There is crazy cooking. There is wild decorating. There is card making with a small mess.
What did we do?
Craft- Flower Arrangement
How did I make it?
Materials:
- Detergent bottle top
- Decorations
- Green Pipe cleaners
- Buttons
- Hearts cut out of tag board with holes punched at the narrow end
- Styrofoam ball
Directions:
1. Decorate the outside of the detergent bottle cap.
2. Pull a pipe cleaner up through the top of a button so that it extends about three inches
3. Beneath the button push 5 hearts onto the pipe cleaner.
4. Pull the top end of the pipe cleaner back through one of the remaining holes in the bottom.
5. Fan out the hearts into petals around the button.
6. Twist the end of the pipe cleaner you pulled through around the long end of the pipe cleaner.
7. Twist the end tight enough to hold the heart in places.
8. Push the flower into the styrofoam ball.
9. Place the styrofoam fall into the detergent lid.
Those flowers are cute!!!
Cute craft. Curious George is so timeless 🙂
How pretty! Will have to make these with my kiddos =)
Cute flowers! We love Curious George, too.
We love Curious George! The flowers are very cute!
I found your blog through I heart crafty things, and am SO excited! I linked up today and am your newest follow…I can’t wait to see all your great ideas!
I love this! I will be doing this this weekend with my little guy! How adorable!
This is so cute! Would be perfect for a Mother’s or Grandparent’s Day gift too. Pinning this and can’t wait to try it with my kids. 🙂
How cute!!!! What a great idea! 🙂
My son loves Curious George and flowers – going to look for the book. 🙂
The flower vase is too cute! I heart upcycled crafts and that’s a wonderful way to upcycle the detergent lid
This is a FABULOUS idea! I’m going to start incorporating book theme activities and art projects into our kids show! I don’t know why I didn’t think of it before, I used to always do stuff like this with my kids!
My daughter LOVES Curious George!! And your vase and flower is just too cute 🙂 I don’t have anything as of today to post.. but I do have a Valentine’s Day book that we will be reading this weekend 🙂 Will definitely come back.
~MiaB
We love Curious George in our house. When Bean turned 2, I made a ton of decorations and turned our house into a jungle overnight. When she woke up she was in pure delight! Her party was from 10-12noon and I will still never forget the look of awe on her face. Curious George knows how to bring the imagination on BIG!
I love this craft idea – the flowers look so pretty! I might teach daughter how to make them.
So cute! This looks like a lot of fun to make!
I love the flowers – I’m going to pin for some spring inspiration to do with J and T
I love this idea for how to make flowers! Very pretty!
I love Curious George. Always have and always will. Love the bouquet of flowers. SO cute.
🙂 Love it! I love reclycing stuff so I will defintely recycle my detergent lids 🙂
Stopping over from Mom Loop! Love Curious George! I don’t think we’ve read that one.
Happy Friday!
Jen
Even though my kids are adults now, I still have all our Curious George books. They loved them too much for me to part with them. What a great book and craft idea! I stumbled your post and pinned it to my Kids’ Valentine’s Day Activities Pinterest board at http://pinterest.com/debchitwood/kids-valentine-s-day-activities/
You have to love Curious George! We have several books, but haven’t found that one yet!
What a cute idea! And a good way to use a few different random things- a laundry detergent cap? Also- will link up a reading post- Thanks!