Dear Reader,
I can’t really take much credit for this activity, since we printed off someone else’s idea, but it was such a good and entertaining activity, I saw no point in reinventing the wheel. To see this great activity at the source, click here. It comes from Mr. Printables, and I had a pin that sent me on a goose chase to find the original owner, but I’m glad I did (when in doubt, do a reverse image lookup, haha). Anyway, head on over to his (I’m assuming it’s a him, since it’s called Mr… but I actually only know that he had a printable that I liked and nothing more) site and download the printable.
I modified what they had a little based on the supplies we had at our home, so I printed off his pattern, then traced the shapes onto colored cardstock. For the asterisks in the eyes, I just used a marker (that didn’t seem like a fun shape to cut out. Marker was way easier!) Then I “pre-drilled” the holes and handed my kid a lot of 6 brad’s. (Bonus! More pincer grasp practice!)
As you can see, I totally cheated on the cardstock. I printed 1 sheet of plain white paper and glued it to the back of a capri sun box (so that the color doesn’t shine through). Then I used the same white paper to do the background of the teardrops and the eyeballs.
For the record, she wasn’t determined to keep this one on a sad face, that’s just the best picture I got of her holding it, go figure. We made all kinds of faces and talked about how different parts of our face move when we feel differently. Sometimes I’d say make a mad (or happy or worried) face! Then I’d show her on my face and see if she could see what moved.
I really liked this activity, actually.
