52 Projects In 52 Weeks - Year 1


Week 1: Splash Painting At Birthday Party

12/7/2014

Week 2: Box Train

12/14/2014

Week 3: Paper Mache Puppets

12/21/2014

-took 4 messy :) sessions to complete

Week 4: Animal Garden

12/28/2014

-made together with grandmother

-rocks and plants picked from garden

Week 5: Cardboard Box Boat

1/4/2015

-took 3 sessions to complete (1 building and 2 painting)

Week 6: Airport

1/11/2015

Week 7: "The Train Track Number Game"

1/18/2015

Week 8: Valentine's Day Cards

1/24/2015

-sent to relatives to arrive before Feb 14th :)

Week 9: Dinosaur House - All friends welcome!!

2/1/2015

Week 10: Car Track

2/7/2015

-30 ft long car track made of construction paper

 

Week 11: Chinese New Year Card Making

2/14/2015

Week 12: Felt Stories

2/21/2015

-suggestion from kind Librarian

Week 13: Planting Flower Seeds

2/28/2015

-let's see what grows :?

 

-planted together with cousin

Week 14: Tower

3/7/2015

Week 15: Mixed Medium Art

3/14/2015

-dried flowers on painting

Week 16: Cherry Blossom Puzzle 3/21/2015

-surprisingly the painting was made with feet!!!!

Week 17: Autoshow At Home

3/28/2015

-inspired by trip to Vancouver Autoshow

Week 18: Easter Egg Hunt

4/5/2015

-organized for 4 kids to find Easter Eggs in backyard and house in 6 different places

Week 19: Playdough

4/12/2015

-arts and crafts while on vacation at Grandma's house

Week 20: Playdough Part II

4/19/2015

-advanced playdough! while on vacation at Aunt's house

 

Week 21: Making Toys With Drinking Straws

4/24/2015

-making crafts with a different Aunt

-amazing what one can do with straws :)

Week 22: Lego Airplanes

5/3/2015

-borrowed a friends bucket of Lego and this is what we made

Week 23 Mother's Day Card
5/10/2015
- do you see flowers or trees?

Week 24 The Ark

5/17/2015

- boat built with chairs

- pretending :)

Week 25: Shell Painting

5/24/2015

 

Week 26 Desert Making

5/31/2015

-choosing, washing and arranging fruit

Week 27: Tape City

6/7/2015

-easy to make and hours of fun

Week 28 Leaf Printing

6/14/2015

-used collected leafs as template

Week 29 Wind Socks (used at airports)

6/21/2014 

-made together with Grandma

Week 30: Beach Artwork

6/27/2015

-made together with Grandma 

Week 31: Bug Rock Race

7/4/2014

-painted rocks with cousins :)

Week 32: Caterpiller

7/11/2015

-collected rocks from the backyard

-painted with various color and shaped it 

Week 32: Bonus!! Wall Mural

7/12/2015

Week 33: "Happy Robot"

7/18/2015

-robot made with LEGO kit

-works on infrared

-will program it when child is a bit older


 

Week 34: Thank You Card

7/26/2015

-splatter paint Bristol board 

Week 35: Hand Painting with finger paint 8/2/2015

-did you see a tree? 

Week 36: Starry Night

8/8/2015

- the waves and fish craved with popsicle sticks!

 

Week 37: Jericho Beach Sand Castle

8/16/2015

-20 towers, 20 sticks, 20 stones, 40 shells and lots of sand !! 

Week 38:  Collection of art work 8/23/2015

- 1 week of daily art ever morning after waking up :)


Week 39: Nature Study and Bird House

8/30/2015

-visited  bird lovers house to study about birds

-made bird house


 Week 39: Painting with sticks (collected from the yard and parks) 8/30/15


Week 40: Home Robot

9/6/2015

-made robot

-mime acting on how a robot might move

 

 

Week 41: Train

9/12/15

Week 42: Family Band

9/19/2015

-homemade musical instruments

- 2 shakers (acorns and pebbles)

- 2 elastic band guitars

-hanging Christmas tree bells on basket

-water in glasses

-various pots and pans for percussion

-a whole lot of fun (and noise)!!!!

Week 43: Home Store

9/27/2015

-one thing lead to another and the tent turned into a store!

-for sale we have lots of used toys and are accepting all types of gold :)

-lots of pretending and good practice counting!

Week 44: Worlds Smallest Quad Copter

9/4/2015

-made flight training course in living room

-much more difficult to fly than expected.  will keep trying!!!!


Week 45: Tower Building

9/11/2015

-build 4 towers using different building materials

Week 46: Marble Wall Course

10/17/2015

-hours of fun

-thank goodness for green tape and gravity :)

Week 47: Hockey Board Game

10/24/2015

- this is the 3d iteration

- 3 ping pong balls two spoons and lots of fun

- our child now wants to make it into a multiplayer game, next version might be an octagon!

Week 48: "Leaves and Fireworks"

11/01/2015

-step 1: materials and droplet painting

-step 2: body painting with hands and feet

-step 3: collect leaves

-step 4: Volia!!

Week 49: Acorn Run

11/08/15

-back by popular demand

Week 50: Sock Puppets

11/14/2015

-made with Aunt and Friends

 

Week 51 and Week 52 Deleted By Accident.  Back up files to be uploaded at a later date