Sous la mer week 5 - lacing fish

For the fifth week of our "sous la mer" theme we made some rainbow fish and practiced our lacing skills by adding some wool decorations too.

Here are our colourful creations:

Happy singing and crafting! :0)

Sous la mer week 4 - shark fin cupcakes

For the fourth week of our "sous la mer" theme, I decided on an edible craft - I'd be hard pushed to say which crafts are most popular with our toddlers but I think fair to say it would be a close run thing between edible crafts and painting crafts! :0)

So, this week's creation is shark fin cupcakes.  These are very simple to create but look really effective - ours are looking a little melty in the photos as the weather has been unseasonably hot in the UK the last week.

To make your own shark fun cupcakes you will need:

Cupcakes (either bake your own or plain store bought ones)

Frosting (again homemade or store bought is fine)

Blue food colouring

Sugarpaste in a colour of your choice for the fins

First stir some blue food colouring through the frosting, you don't want to colour it completely blue as the "sea" looks good with a bit of white foam too

Then roll out your sugarpaste and cut out a shark fin shape

Spread frosting on your cupcake roughly to look like waves and stand the sugarpaste fin in the frosting.

Here are our little ones super yummy cakes:

Happy singing and crafting! :0)

Sous la mer week 3 - paper plate turtles

For our third week "sous la mer" I chose another paper plate craft.  I have to admit that I love paper plates, there are so many things you can turn them into and they are so inexpensive.  Over the last two and a bit years we have created fish, turtles, pea pods, sun mobiles, rocking birds, Easter bunny masks, snails, spiders webs and funny faces to name just a few :0) anyway, this week I decided that we would stick with the paper plates and make some turtles since these feature in one of our songs for the topic.

To make your own turtle, you will need:

A paper plate,

Craft foam,

A variety of collage materials - for example, tissue paper, felt, cupcake cases, ribbon, doilies, foam, shiny paper, etc.

Googly eyes 

Glue

First of all cut out a head, legs vas tusk from the craft foam.

Turn the paper plate upside down so that the shell will be raised up a bit.

Glue the foam parts to the underside of the plate shell.

Cut up small pieces of your chosen collage materials and let your toddler design the shell by gluing them on.

Add googly eyes to the head and voilà one turtle or tortue complete :0)

Here are our fabulous turtles for you:

Happy singing and crafting! :0)

Sous la mer week 2 - paper plate fish

For our second week of our "sous la mer" theme, I decided to bring back a craft that we did in the pre blog days, paper plate fish.  But this time to make it link to our song "les petits poissons" each of our toddlers made two fish a big (gros) and a small (petit).

To make your own you will need:

Paper plate

Scissors

Pva glue

A variety of collage materials

A googly eye 

First, cut a triangle shape out of you paper plate - this will form the mouth of the fish and the section you have cut out can be glued on the other side to make the tail.

Then let your toddler go wild with the collage materials to create scales for the fish.  Glue these on to the plate.

Add a googly eye and your fish is complete! 

A very simple craft suitable for even the youngest toddlers to get involved in :0)

Here are our lovely poisson to give you some inspiration:

Happy singing and crafting! :0)