Scholastic Events are a Favourite for Niagara Moms and Tots!

At our Scholastic Baby Basics and our Scholastic Tales for Tots events in August we read "Read Me A Book" by Barbara Reid. Scholastic Canada provides us with age appropriate books each month to read at both of our Scholastic events that are held in Chapters. If you were one of our first 100 guests at our momstown 6th birthday party and received a grab bag, this was one of the many treats inside. Scholastic Canada generously provided us with copies of these books to add into our grab bags, to give away at our Dora coloring table, and to read at both Scholastic events this month!

 

 

 

At our Scholastic Baby Basics event, we began by reading our book. Then we raffled off 2 copies for our moms and babies. Here are our winners!

 

 

 

With our theme being birds this month, we followed our book with some bird foot print crafts. Our mommies could choose to make peacocks or robins or both!

 

 

 

 

It's so much fun to watch the babies foot prints get larger every month with each new footprint craft we do!

 

 

 

At our Scholastic Tales for Tots event, after reading our book we raffled off 2 more copies for our moms and toddlers. Here are our winners!

 

 

 

At this event, we made owls out of construction paper and used egg cartons for the eyes. Our toddler group loves the glue, I'm sure we had some everywhere. 

 

 

 

 

Look at our colorful group of owls!

 

We definitely want to say a big thank you to Scholastic Canada for your continued support! Scholastic Baby Basics and Scholastic Tales for Tots are two of our 20+ monthly events that are included in your membership fee of only $45 per year.  Your membership will also include a one year subscription to Today's Parent! 

 

If you and your children would like to come out to meet some new friends, please register here for a FREE 4 week trial membership!   http://niagara.momstown.ca/user/register

Art & Play: Homemade Bird Feeders

Our theme for August is birds.

Today for our Art & Play event, we made bird feeders for our feathered friends!

We used: 

• a pine cone
• some peanut butter (oatmeal can be used as a peanut free option)
• a popsicle stick to spread the peanut butter
• bird seed, and
• a string or ribbon to hang our feeders

First we attached a ribbon to our pinecones. We began covering our pinecones with peanut butter. This was a lot of fun! At one point the kids decided that it would be faster to use their hands instead of the popsicle stick to cover the pinecones. This became quite messy, but no one seemed to notice. Once our pinecones were completely covered in peanut butter, we rolled them in some bird seed. We were definitely surprised how heavy the pinecones were after they were finished. They held a lot of peanut butter.

We will be hanging our bird feeders on our fence. These would work great if they were hanging on a branch, or shed, or even on a gazebo. We can't wait to see the birds eat our creations.

 

 

  

 

After our craft we took out some paint and really got creative!

 In keeping with our theme, we painted with feathers. We also used some pipe cleaners that were made into the shape of bird feet. These made some neat bird prints across our paper.

 

 

 

 When our arts & crafts were completed, the kids definitely wanted to have some play time together! They headed over to our trampoline to work off some energy!

 

 

 

Art & Play is one of our 20+ monthly events and is included in your membership fee of only $45 per year.  Your membership also includes a one year subscription to Today's Parent!  To get in on the fun this summer register here for a FREE 4 week trial membership!  

http://niagara.momstown.ca/user/register