stART - Bear Snores On

One of our favorite authors is Karma Wilson. Bekah just loves her books! Bekah loves having Bear Snores On read to her, so when I saw this book and craft at Army Angels I made a mental note to do it soon.

I had cut 2 circles for the head, 2 ovals for the body, 2 shapes for the arms, and 2 for the legs. Then, Bekah set to work on the bears face. She added googly eyes, small circles for the ears, and drew a face on him.

I stapled around the two ovals and the two circles until they were just about closed all the way around. I was going to use cotton balls to stuff him, but realized we had a big bag of shredded papers to use (go recycling!). So, we stuffed his body and his head. She loved this part!

Then we enjoyed reading The Bear Snores On.
I'm linking to stART at a Mommy's Adventures as well as Kids Get Crafty at Red Ted Art.

Brown Bear, Brown Bear - stART Project

This week we used the book, Brown Bear, Brown Bear by Bill Martin Jr. and Eric Carle as our stART project. I had seen this idea over at The Ramblings of a Crazy Woman for a coffee brown bear. It looked so easy to put together and Bekah loves the book Brown Bear, Brown Bear, so we set to work.

I printed off a bear coloring sheet from here and Bekah drizzled glue on him. I guess she wanted a polka dotted bear, because she really wanted just dots of glue. I should have had the glue with a paint brush, it would have worked so much better, but she didn't want to use a paint brush.

She then sprinkled her bear with the coffee.....mmmm....it smelled so good!

We let him dry and enjoyed our coffee brown bear. Don't you love the dots on his face and front legs! So funny!

You can see what others are doing at A Mommy's Adventures.