Mad Hatter Tea Party

Supplies:
Paper plates
String
Odds and Ends from your craft collection
Cheese and Crackers
Hot dogs
Juice
Apples and Peanut Butter
Sugar cubes or marshmallows (optional)

Directions:
Start out the party by decorating Mad Hatter Hats! Then, set the perfect Wonderland table. Use a table cloth and mismatched place settings. Prepare some tasty finger foods and make the tea! Sit down and enjoy a very happy unbirthday!

Hats:
Have your children decorate a paper plate with any glitzy craft supplied you have. (Feathers, glitter, beads, ribbon, leaves, flowers, yarn, or tissue paper). Punch a hole on either side of the plate and tie a ribbon through. Tie the hat onto the child’s head.

Finger foods:
Cheese and Crackers
Apples and peanut butter
Hot dog pieces on tooth picks

Tea:
Simply warm up some juice (orange, apple, Kool-Aid, grape) on the stove or in the microwave. Allow children to add a spoonful of sugar to each cup of “tea”.

Pirates Treasure Hunt

Supplies:
Shoe box or jewelry box
Glitter and glue to decorate the treasure chest
Five pieces of bright colored paper for clue
Crayons or Markers
Chocolate Coins
Popcorn
Root Beer in a bottle

Directions:
First, you need to make your pirate ship! While the children are coloring place 4 clues around the house. Make the clues easy to identify by using bright colored paper. Even children as young as 2 can play this game by using pictures instead of words on the clues. (e.g. Leave a picture of a bathtub. The next clue should be in the bathtub.) Give the first clue to the children and send them on their quest. The final clue will lead to the treasure! Decorate a shoe box with gold paint and sparkles or use a jewelry box to make your treasure chest. The treasure can be any special surprise! I suggest chocolate coins, root beer in the bottle, and pirate’s booty (popcorn). The kids will LOVE it!

Jungle Safari Lion King Mini Golf

Supplies:
Golf clubs (or sponge and yardstick)
Golf ball or rubber ball
Masking tape
Glue
Scissors
Markers
Shoe box
Cardboard
Coffee can


• Use your own clubs, or masking tape a new sponge to a yardstick
• Build your course (see ideas below) using the coffee can for the final hole.
• Take turns playing your way through your course.
• Save your obstacles for the next rainy day.


Golf Course Ideas:
• For a tunnel, cut out the bottom of an empty oatmeal box, and place the box on its side.

• To make a house, turn a shoe box upside down and cut out an entrance from one end, and the exit from the other end.

• Fold a piece of cardboard in half and set it up like a tent for the ball to go through.

• Place two or three frisbees on the floor to form a curved fairway for the ball to go through.

• Make a ramp by scoring (run one point of the scissors in a straight line without cutting all the way through) a piece of cardboard twice. Bend slightly at each score mark to create a upside, flat, and downside to your ramp. Put some books under the center section for support.


• For a straight fairway, use two rows of building blocks.
• Make a sand trap from a hula hoop.
• For a pipe use paper and tape it.
• Put a chair or stool in the center of the room for the ball to go under.

Set up stuffed animals around the course and sip on some “Jungle” juice when you’re done with your game! (Jungle Juice: ½ apple juice, ½ Sprite)

"Cars" Car

Supplies:

Empty cardboard boxes
Utility knife or box cutter
Scissors
Masking tape
Glue String or twine
Paper or disposable colored plastic plates
Brads
Permanent markers
Decorating materials

Directions:

Step 1
Open the top flaps of the box. Remove three of them with a utility knife or box cutter. Leave one flap, which will become the windshield. Or leave two flaps--one for the windshield, and one for the back window.

Step 2
Turn the box upside down and draw a circle in the center of the bottom of the box. The circle should be large enough to allow your child to slip his or her feet through and pull the box up to wear around the waist. Reinforce the bottom of the box with masking tape if necessary.

Step 3
Draw and then cut out armholes near the top of the sides if the box is a large one so that your child can wear the car like a shirt. Otherwise, just fashion shoulder straps from string or twine and tie them to holes poked in the upper body of the car.

Step 4
Glue a smaller box to the front of the car for the hood, and another to the back for the trunk. Ask your child to decorate a paper plate for a steering wheel. Attach the steering wheel to the "dashboard" of the interior of the car with a brad, so that it will turn. Cut "flames" from colored cardboard or construction paper and glue them onto the back tires.

Step 5
Use permanent markers or paints to create doors on the car. Add tires, lights and windshield wipers. Tires can be made from paper plates and attached with brads so that they will turn, if you wish. Create a license plate with your child's name on it from a plain piece of paper, and affix it to the trunk of the car. Colored tape is great for racing stripes. Ask your child to finish decorating the car. Boys and girls, start your engines!

Week 49: All things Disney

*Suggested Reading*

*On your trip to the library this week find 5 of your favorite Disney stories!

Items needed this week:
Paper plates
String
Odds and Ends from your craft collection
Cheese and Crackers
Hot dogs
Juice
Apples and Peanut Butter
Sugar cubes or marshmallows (optional)
Shoe box or jewelry box
Glitter and glue to decorate the treasure chest
Five pieces of bright colored paper for clue
Crayons or Markers
Chocolate Coins
Popcorn
Root Beer in a bottle
Golf clubs (or sponge and yardstick)
Golf ball or rubber ball
Masking tape
Glue
Scissors
Markers
Shoe box
Cardboard
Coffee can
Empty cardboard boxes
Utility knife or box cutter
Scissors
Masking tape
Glue String or twine
Paper or disposable colored plastic plates
Brads
Permanent markers
Decorating materials

Preparations to be made:
Turn up the Disney tunes and put on the Disney movies! Mickey Mouse here we come!