Art and Play: Pirates and Princesses

October is the perfect time for dressing up, and momstown Edmonton loves to dress up! At Art and Play this month, all of the kids dressed up as either pirates or princesses. We started off our fun by decorating a cardboard play castle. The kids loved coloring and playing in the castle! Once all of our pirates and princesses arrived and got a chance to play in the castle, we read two fun books--Princess Sleepyhead by Kath Jewitt and Ahoy, Pirate Pete by Nick Sharratt. The kids loved how they got to choose parts of the story in Ahoy, Pirate Pete!

We made a great craft that uses something you likely have sitting around at home already--empty wipes containers! Just what did we make with these wipes containers that seem to multiply in the middle of the night, you ask? Treasure boxes! We spray painted them gold ahead of time to ensure they were dry for decorating. The day of, we had pirate and princess foam stickers, glitter glue, and sticker crystals for the kids to choose from to make their treasure box their own. We even had treasure for them to add to their boxes! A few bead necklaces and some "gold nuggets" (rocks spray painted gold) and we had treasure boxes fit for our princesses and pirates! 

Art and Play isn't complete without a little bit of parachute play, so we pulled out the parachute for some fun! The kids had a blast shaking the parachute, running underneath it, and pretending it was a blanket. Even the moms got in on the fun! 

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