Star decorations

This was a New Years decoration but could be used for anything with any shape. Fun and versatile idea.

What we used:

Star cutouts from a poster board (could use any shape)

Paint

Ribbon

Hole punch

What we did:

After cutting out a TON of stars, I divided them amongst the boys and set them to work with some paint. We got some great looking stars. Some were messy, some were neat, some were just weird...but that's ok. After they were dry I used a star shape hole punch and punched holes in the top and bottom of every star. I tied 3-4 stars together with ribbon and hung curly pieces of ribbon from them. Then I hung them randomly around the house. It's February, they are still up =)

This is one of them-

Painted pumpkins

Who doesn't love painting pumpkins?!?! 

What you need:

Pumpkins

Paint

something to cover the table

 Note to self (anyone else that might this this is a good idea): 1 year olds should not paint pumpkins

 Ok...maybe 3 year olds shouldn't either =)

What we did:

Very easy, be creative. Paint faces, paint designs, just paint!

We did this in the fall, obviously when there are pumpkins around. Just took me awhile to upload!

Painted magnets

Yes, sort of cheating, but a fun craft anyway! I bought a magnet painting kit. The kids thought it was great. It was great for all ages...except Abbie, she's only 1, 1 year olds should not paint....lesson learned when painting pumpkins last fall!

 Pretty messy...but fun! What kid doesn't like to paint?!?!

Honestly this was great for a 6, 4, AND 3 year old. Granted the 3 and 4 yr olds weren't as pretty as the ones above. But I still love them and will hang them proudly on my fridge =)

Macaroni Necklaces

Here's what we used:

Pasta with a hole-we used ziti
poster paint
paint brushes
string
something to cover the table

What we did:

We covered the table with newspaper. The boys painted pieces of pasta and left them on the paper to dry. I do suggest maybe putting them on wax paper, we didn't, the newspaper stuck to the pasta. Maybe wax paper would work better. Once dry, we strung the pasta on the string. Easy! And the boys loved it.
Here's the finished product: