We started out our week with a craft from dltk-kids.com. They have quite a few peacock crafts to choose from. I chose to do the paper plate craft because we could use markers, paint, crayons and glue. I try not to choose crafts where all I do is cut out pieces and have them glue them to a specific spot. With this craft they drew the tail lines on with marker:
Then it was time to paint on the "eyes" of the tail. I varied from the pattern here because they called for dark colored thumb prints (blue, purple or green) followed by a lighter colored pinky print. I viewed some photos of peacocks on Google and decided to have the girls paint theirs' this way:
First came the yellow thumbprints
Then the light blue prints using the index finger
And finally, we used the pinky finger to add the dark blue
Tabitha insisted on doing it herself. Miss Independent!
(Though she did need help with the pinky)
I printed out the black and white version of the body parts. I colored Amelia's for her (blue for the body, purple for the beak and orange for the crest, with a little bit of blue and purple at the top). Tabitha colored her's using Amelia's as a pattern. I showed her that the body should be blue and the crest orange. Then she surprised me! I had been busy with something else and when I turned around she had picked the right color and was coloring the beak.
When it was dry we glued it all together. One more time I changed the project a bit from the original. The crest was shown to lay horizontally, I just thought it looked better vertically.
More posts on the letter Pp to come.
The girls' peacocks turned out so cute! Love the idea!
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