Monday, May 23, 2011

Funday Monday: It takes a village...


Funday Monday Idea #6: Design your own paper bag village

Emmett was in charge of Family Night and he wanted to make a paper bag village.  He found the idea in a Family Fun Craft book.  I tried to find it on their site but couldn't.  But it's a pretty simple...you color lunch sacks (or a big paper sack cute down a bit like my fancy shmancy hotel up above) to look like buildings.  Then you take another bag, stuff with crumpled newspaper and then put your "building" sack around it.  Easy, right?

We had a great time designing our village.  The kids loved choosing a store or place to create...


 We have a toy store...


A grocery store topped by some colorful apartments...


A school...


A fire station, bakery (according to Zoe) and a book store...


A sporting goods store from my handsome cowboy (with a little help from Molly)...


And even a movie theatre.  Let's check out what's playing....


Oh, wow. Look at that! My books have been made into movies?!  Score!  heh heh.

The kids have big plans for this village.  Lego men will be visiting soon.  And after a bit, when they're tired of their town and have squeezed all the play out of it, they're planning on unleashing Molly-zilla on it.

I have got to see that.   


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1 comment:

  1. love this idea! such a great kids craft.

    new follower!
    kathryn
    www.thedragonsfairytail.blogspot.com

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