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Monster Craft | Valentine Craft: Easy Love Monster Mini Valentine Greeting Card + Links To FREE Resources

Make your own easy, cute and special "love monster" greeting card with the kids. In this activity we will transform and customized some printable small "monster theme" valentine cards that is use to hand out small valentine treats to friends or classmates into a mini valentine greeting card with fun zig zag, wavy or scallop borders all around them.  I wanted to try a different way of creating greeting cards from the usual format that is normally done and thought we'd use these cards. Get creative by gluing or drawing additional hearts and details on the card or monsters. Store card in an envelope made using any plain valentine colored paper or valentine pattern paper. GET CREATIVE WITH A MINI VALENTINE GREETING CARD + LINKS TO FREE PRINTABLES! Lauren made some "mini valentine greeting card" as part of our "monster theme" valentine activity and she gave the cards to me and her grandparents on Valentine's day. Grandma and Grandpa were happy...

Paper House Collage / House Craft

10-5-2016 -- In this post, I will be sharing a "house" craft idea. This was a craft project that Lauren did in Brightly Beaming Resources' (Step 3: Sound of the Week) homeschool curriculum for the short "ou" sound as in "house". This is the most fun part of the curriculum, making the art projects. Lauren will do a "house" craft, I thought about doing a house collage made by cutting different colors of construction papers in uneven and slanted shapes for the roofs, chimneys, windows, walls and doors to form different kinds of houses.


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* heavy weight paper (for background) * construction papers * dry glue stick * scissors * ruler * crayons * coloring markers

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READY FOR KID BEFORE STARTING ACTIVITY ALONG WITH OTHER MATERIALS: 
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* cut house parts (roofs, windows, doors, chimneys)


 * cut background pieces (trees, clouds, etc.)

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* House Parts: Create roofs, walls, windows, doors and chimneys on different colors of construction papers in any color of choice in slant and uneven patterns using a ruler. You may try different shapes aside from circle or square in creating windows. 

* Background Pieces: Create any background view of your choice aside from what is shown. Draw background pieces such trees, cloud, etc. on a construction paper in different shapes of choice.

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* cut house parts patterns

* cut background pieces

* glue background pieces and house on paper

* draw/color details on houses

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STEPS IN DOING THIS HOUSE CRAFT:
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1. First, let child draw details on background pieces then glue the pieces on a heavy weight paper in any color of choice.


2. Next, let child alternately draw details of their choice on the house parts using coloring markers and color the drawings using crayons. 


3. Next, let child glue and put together the houses on paper. Then let child glue other additional background pieces such as trees, clouds or maybe flowers, birds, etc. on top or sides of houses. Let child draw additional details on the pieces using coloring markers.


4. And there you go, the "paper house collage" craft is DONE. 


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