Laura Numeroff

Here are some of the crafts that I made with the afternoon class around children's book author Laura Numeroff.  She is know best for her If you Give a Mouse a Cookie collection.

We mostly centered around Give a Pig a Party.  Everyone needs balloons at their party, even a pig.  The also children helped give the pig a party dress, which is a large coffee filter decorated with watercolors.

Our balloons are aluminum foil, painted on with Biocolor.

We also made cupcakes for our party, because who doesn't love a cupcake?  The kids had so much fun making these, but warning they take at least 3 days to dry!  The puffy paint is made with equal parts glue and shaving cream.

 

As you can see our poor pig lost all but one of her balloons!  Packaging tape doesn't stick to the semi-gloss paint on our walls.  But she has lots of cupcakes, so she's good.