Arts and Crafts {Cotton Ball Craft Series}

I like doing arts and crafts in a series, that way you can pack in much more than just one of two crafts and explore the mediums much better as well.  I found some cute little cotton ball crafts that we will be making over the course of a few weeks.  :)  Cannot wait to start crafting away!

I always find that Mouse is so super excited when we start with a new medium that the first craft never goes according to plan.  She always wants to explore everything on her own before listening to what I actually had in mind.  This time I decided to do things a bit differently in that I gave her all the different mediums that we were going to use for the actual craft to first explore and basically do what she had in mind with it - totally open ended.  She loved this!

I gave her some cotton balls, glue stick, pencil, black sharpie and normal paper.

She really had fun and enjoyed playing with all the different art supplies.  This is her finished open ended cotton ball craft!

When she was done with the open ended version I started introducing the concept of actually doing a set craft with the cotton balls.  I drew around my hand and coloured in the finger tips and thumb to form feet and a face for a little sheep.  I then showed her to glue the balls onto the body of the sheep.

 Very easy and simple craft, but a great start to our cotton ball craft series.

 She insisted on re doing the sheep's face.

Here is the finished sheep cotton ball craft.  Nothing fancy, but now she is excited about creating more fun goodies with cotton balls!

I found the cutest 3 D sheep craft with cotton balls that I will be sharing next week!