Heart-Felt Finger Puppets {Go Red for Women}

Join me and several other bloggers, and Go Red for Women in support of the American Heart Association and women everywhere. Heart disease is the #1 killer of women and deadlier than all types of cancer. Show your support this month by wearing red, teaching your kiddos' about the heart, making heart-related projects...and when is there a better time than February to celebrate your heart!?!

To show our support, my MOPS group wore red to our meeting this morning. Here are a few of us wearing red!

Sweet P also wore red and a shirt with a heart on it. While she slept last night, I whipped up these sweet little googly-eyed finger puppets! (I found them in The Heart Book shared by Love & Lollipops!). Then this morning, I put them on and on the way to MOPS, we chatted about hearts and why we were wearing red. She even said, "Tell me again about why we're wearing red, mama."

I'm also planning to teach her more about our actual hearts and heart functions this week.

 

Today, we’re joining Go Red for Women and the American Heart Association to show our support. Along with Coffee Cups and Crayons, The Educators' Spin On It, B.Inspired Mama, Mama Smiles and Train Up a Child, we're bringing you Go RED Ideas for you and your children this month.

How are you joining in the fight? Show your support and link up your ideas on how you, your family or your community is Going Red for Women this month!

Tissue Paper Art

This craft is featured in The Heart Project. Find out how to get your copy of this gorgeous crafts book, which is raising fund for an important cause {here}.

I've seen many, many ideas using contact paper so last week while Sweet P and I were on a mini-date to Wal-Mart (do I know how to do it up or what? Actually we call just about anything we do with just the 2 of us a "date") we picked some up.

And last Saturday we went to town creating an art project with contact paper and tissue paper. I grabbed a few pieces of tissue paper we had in our gift wrapping area and brought them down for her to tear.

The Craft: Tissue Paper Art

What you need:
Contact paper
Tissue paper (various colors)
Tape (packing tape or scotch)
Construction paper (optional)

Tape the contact paper sticky side up to the table or working area. Tear tissue paper into little pieces (you could also cut them if your child wants to) and stick them all over the contact paper. When finished, place the construction paper on top of one side of the contact paper (on top of the tissue paper). Fold over the other side of the contact paper so it is all stuck together.

The construction paper covers any open areas on the contact paper. Tada! The finished product!

I don't have pictures of the project in action, but I LOVE the final product. The neatest part is that the little pink heart was an accident! When we folded it together and looked at it, I saw the little heart. We're going to frame it and I can't wait to hang it in Sweet P's room!

Collaborative Heart Project Fundraiser

I am currently working on a project, created by Jamie at Hands on as We Grow, who is pulling together a “Heart Project eBook”. This collaborative project, involving more than 50 bloggers, will be a fundraiser with all proceeds going to the American Heart Association.  The Heart Project eBook will be available by making a $5 donation.

Many participating bloggers will also host giveaways in conjunction with the fundraiser to raise awareness.

You can also participate in this great fundraiser by submitting your own heart project by January 25th or by donating to the American Heart Association and receiving a copy of the eBook when it becomes available in February.

For complete details on this event, visit Hands on as We Grow. More information to follow!