Little Boy Blue craft

Hey, this is Future Ticia 2020, and I’m updating this post because where I had been hosting the pictures is now changing their rules, and besides it’s a great post about making a fun nursery rhyme craft, and I like the Little Boy Blue nursery rhyme, so why not make sure everyone gets a chance to see this Little Boy Blue nursery rhyme craft? This was part of our ongoing plan of homeschooling preschool and for the boys kindergarten. Now back to 2010 Ticia, I’ll pop back in from time to time with amazingly hilarious commentary.

No, I’m not overselling that.

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I’m so glad to be getting back to creating Nursery Rhyme projects.  You have no idea how happy this makes me.

Supplies needed for the Little Boy Blue craft

printout (will be added to the subscriber page), watercolors, poster paint (I like sets like this to get you started, and then I start buying individual colors), manila paper or whatever you’ll be putting this on (I did an artist sketchbook for our Nursery Rhyme book), glue, scissors, yarn, cotton balls

Side note this was part of our Preschool Farm Unit

Little Boy Blue nursery rhyme craft

At the time I’ve started writing this we haven’t completely finished it…….  We’ll see if that changes after nap.

1.  Paint the pictures from the printout with watercolor.  Okay, so you could just do crayons or some other such, but I wanted to do watercolors that day.  Poor Princess, really is not happy here, is she?  She so needed a nap at that point.

2.  Paint the background you’ll be gluing the pictures on.  I drew an outline of the haystack to paint, and a line to delineate the sky and the grass.

 Wow, poor Princess really is not having a good day here, is she?  She was mad at me because I told her she couldn’t use pink paint.  I’m so mean.

As you can see, Superman really started to get into this.

Eventually, Princess solved her dilemma by deciding she was going to paint her hand instead.

I’ll finish this post when we finish the project……..  And besides my music is done so that’s my cue to clean my hopelessly messy kitchen.

Oops, I meant to schedule this for tomorrow.  This is what happens when you hurriedly hit publish…..  That and I originally forgot to put in the printouts.  Now I’ve done that.

Future Ticia is laughing at past Ticia, but let’s finish off this project.

Finishing up the Little Boy Blue lesson

First, you cut out your pictures.  It is absolutely necessary that you cut it out in large blocks.  Or so I learned from my kids.

Now use LARGE amounts of glue to get everything on the paper.  Then complain when Mom says you have to put on the words.

Cut yarn, actually this time I used embroidery floss, and think I will from now on for projects I want specific colors.  Then it’s 20 cents for a skein, and it doesn’t take up as much space.

I just love the studious look on her face.  Actually, I think that’s because she’s trying to figure out how to put back together the paper that tore from too much glue.  But, we’ll pretend it’s because she’s being serious.

Now shred a bunch of cotton balls and glue them on the sheep.  This and cutting the yarn for the haystack was the favorite part of today’s part of the project.  Hmmmmm, that might have been a little bit of a convoluted sentence.

And here are the finished projects:

The smaller one is mine, the bigger one is Batman’s for whatever reason I can’t find pictures of Superman and Princess’ finished projects.

And is it just me, or do I look like a chipmunk in this picture?  Superman loves to take pictures with my camera, and this is one of the more normal ones.  Really, he takes unusual pictures.

Okay, I no longer have a kid napping in my room, PRINCESS GOT HER CASTS OFF!  So, I’m off to take a bath.

I’ll post about the cast taking off process later today once I’ve uploaded the pictures.  It was really interesting to see.

More great early learning fun

• How to make fake snow
• Neighborhood Nature Walk for preschoolers
• Where is the baby plant in the peanut?
• Farm picture booklist
• Farm animal toy sort