Hi there!

My name is Julia Mickiewicz, I’m from Poland and I’m an au pair in Salinas, CA. 

I want to share with you some of my crafts with the very creative little boy that I’m taking care here in CA.

What to do ?
This is a question that you ask yourself a lot when you are taking care of kids. When trying to choose the activities you have to think about their age, level of energy, time and of course, your budget. I would like to share with all of you my ideas of activities which I did with a 5 year old boy. I totally love making crafts and most of the kids do too.
1. Water guns canvas art:
All you need to have is a canvas, paints, empty bottles, nail and a hammer. To make water guns use bottles and by making whole in the top with the nail. Then fill up the bottle with mixed water and paint. Put the canvas in the place which can get dirty and start your FUN!

2. Jellyfish in a bottle
You need a transparent plastic grocery bag, a plastic water bottles, thread, food coloring, scissors. First you need to flatten the bag and cut off the handle and the bottom part, you also need to cud along both sides of the bag. From the center, fold it like a tiny balloon to make the head of our jellyfish. Trip to make random long and short tentacles. Fill up the bottle with water add few drops of blue food coloring (as an extra we used glitter). At the end put your jelly fish inside. That’s all! I don’t have a picture but you can find it in the internet as well. 

3. Paper plates animals
All you need is: 
paper plates, 
colorful paper
markers, 
glue
, plastic eyes , cotton balls if you want to make a sheep.  
I printed out some ideas from google image and this is what we did!

4. My host kid loves space! So we made a spaceship! Sometimes you just have to think about your kids interests and find something that would get their attention. 
We used a huge cardboard, some yawn (to make wires in the spaceship), paint, ziplock bags to keep food for the space trips, paper and markers to make computer on board and some window to have better view of the stars and constellations.

5. Toilet paper rolls animals: 
All you need to do is collect paper rolls for a while 😉  some colorful paper, markers, plastic eyes, whatever you can think of to make your animal even more beautiful!

More coming soon!

Thank you, Julia!