I'd like to start making more handprint art projects! We made a flower tree with handprints at Stay 'n Play last spring. I'll post a picture soon!
Yesterday, we decided to make a Chicka Chicka Boom Boom Number Tree. I traced around Cameron's hands and cut out his hands out of green paper. You can always let your child try to trace and cut out their hands depending on age and how much they like cutting. We were going to use paint but it would have taken too long to dry and I had his attention for only so long!! (:
Cameron cut out his own trunk of the tree. I drew the lines and he cut it out.
We glued our trunk and leaves on the tree.
Cameron got to put "coconuts" on his tree. These are just round stickers. You could cut out construction coconuts and glue them on too. Gluing the tree trunk and leaves were enough for Cam! You can see that he put his leaves wherever he wanted on his tree. His project, he can do what he wants! (: I am a firm believer that the children should make their project the way that they want, even if I have to tie my hands behind my back because I'd like it my way. Sometimes it's hard not to fix or turn or correct the project so it looks the "right" way but if this is truly the child's art project let them do it their own way.
I could have punched out numbers but decided to go the sticker route again. I found some different number stickers and he told me the number and then put it on his tree.
Here's our finished tree! He did a GREAT job!! (:
Cameron really enjoys them!! I'm really happy we got them. We even used them at church to make crosses. They are starch-based packing peanuts. You just wet them and they stick together. You can build anything. It showed that you could make a hat so I think we'll try that next. 
After it was assembled and glued, this is how it looked on the magnetic board (aka cookie sheet). 
Here's the finished project! I had the magnetic letters and numbers so here it is finished. What we did was: I lined up the alphabet in order because Cameron doesn't know all of his letters yet. If you had a child that knew his letters than you could just mix them all up. I would read a page of the book and he would put the letters or 123 on the board. Here's from the first pages. It goes like this, "A told B and B told C, I'll meet you at the top of the coconut tree." It is really cute and Cameron had fun trying to get all the letters on the top. Sorry, I can't figure out how to turn my picture. 
Here's the Chicka Chicka 1 2 3. We only used 1-10 though. Maybe the older he gets, we'll try higher. 
Here's the recipe we used. It works AWESOME!
We used red and blue food coloring. It was hard for Cameron to squirt an exact number of squirts in! He wanted to squirt it ALL in! It turned out great and he was so impressed how the red and blue turned purple! This was fun! 
I let Cameron paint it. He picked the colors out. He is so into pink (its his favorite color right now). I would probably be a little worried about that if he was my first boy but I remember that Anthony use to like to wear Kait's Jane dress (from Tarzan and Jane), white gloves and the parisal and he's turned out GREAT!! It's something that he's just roll his eyes at me when I tell the story when he gets older. I LOVE teenagers!!!!!!! 
He started out using a paintbrush but asked if he could fingerpaint the rest. I know it's messy but its fun!!
Here's our birdfeeder done. I hope the bright colors don't keep the birds away!
We also made multigrain cheerios birdfeeders. We used multigrain cheerios (obviously) and a pipe cleaner! This was great fine motor for Cameron but in the beginning he would string one and eat one, string one and eat one. Here's how they ended up looking like and by the next morning all the cheerios were gone. Hmmm, I hope it was the birds that ate them and not something else!!
We bought tulle from Joann Fabrics. We were suppose to make this for Christmas but I never got around to finishing it so she got it for her birthday. You can make this any color you want. We made Bella's pink and yellow. I used two strips of pink for one yellow.
I folded the tulle in half and cut it 3 inches by 14 inches using my rotary cutter. I don't know how many I cut because I used as many that would make it look full.
Make sure you keep the knot part towards the bottom so it lays nicely. I was going to wrap a pink ribbon around the top part but it looked fine without. I wish I had a picture of Bella wearing it. My mom says she wears it everyday, all day! 