These are not original ideas. We did make them. But the inspiration/patterns came from Pinterest.
Scroll down to "Paper Plate and Straw Praying Mantis" - We made 10.
Middle made 20 bees for her door/wall.
Here is the inspiration bee picture (scroll down to bees buzzing on blue background).
The directions are Marble Paint Bee, under insect section.
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| Middle's own name tag |
Each year middle mails a class picture and a note to each child from her class - here are copies of this year's version.
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| This is middle's door. We found the flower idea on Pinterest too. We found the strips of construction paper already cut, when we cleaned out the art shelves under the stairs (post coming soon). |
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| This is on the floor, taken from part way up the stairway. It was hard to figure out how to get them all in a picture. |
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| This is youngest's door. We only put three Praying Mantises on the door. The other 7 are for the kids to take home at the end of the week. We have serious doubts they will hang together on the door. We decided it was easier to mend 3 than 10. And there are 7 kids, so their bugs will stay nice. |
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| We did not make the Praying Mantis names tags, one of the directors did, but we loved them. |
