 Hey guys, I would say how are you today because I normally do but I Think the answer is going to be same no matter who you are where you are. We're all stressed out, right? Kids are home from school for a good bit and in between e-learning and Not being able to hang out there with their friends are probably driving you crazy This video is made for kids. It's attended for kids It's safe for kids. I will let you know that You kids out there that are watching before you Do this that you're doing it with your parents permission That you're not using any tools or supplies or materials. You're not supposed to without their permission That includes Markers crayons scissors, whatever it is. Make sure you have mom and dad's permission. Okay? So for those that don't know I For the parents out there that are watching with their kids. I was a daycare provider In-home daycare provider for a long time From about 1995 to about 2003 or so. I actually try to figure out the exact dates for you all but yeah It was so long ago. I have no idea So in the description below I've pulled from my old backup files of my daycare website Yes, I did have a website even back in the day I pulled some Craft ideas and homemade Supplies if you will Recipes and I put them into a PDF document and I will link the Document in the description below should YouTube allow me to With these made for kids videos, I have no idea But I will link the Document in the description below if I can and if I can't you can go to my Facebook group a Life of art and self-expression and they link to the document will be over there for all to use and share and print and reprint and Do whatever you want with In the meantime, we're going to work on some quick little ideas of some things that you all can make at home and You're going to need This is with simple tools I try to pull out simple things kid-friendly things things that you're probably not going to Not have at your house Trying to like knock knock knock everything off of my table on tables a disaster anyway as it usually is anyway So I've got Crayola markers. I've got some different kind of crayons these are actually the kind that you get when you go out to a restaurant and Your kids get the activity kit A Fun fact, I may be a grown-up, but I like the activity kids So anyway, I have some different kind of crayons. I have these I have some Crayola twistables. I've got some Crayola markers. These are the metallic ones use what you have You may have different things in me. I've got a few Crayola Are they Crayola? Yeah Crayola mini colored pencils. I've got some regular pencils. This is one from Ikea You know the free one I've got a plain old pen Now I have a water brush and a paint brush. You all may not have that so get a q-tip if you have like a q-tip maybe a little bit of water Popsicle stick maybe a couple of little sponges again ask mom and or dad What they have that you can use and Do this with their permission and mom and dad? Probably some of this depending on the age of your child should be done with supervision. All right I have some masking tape, but any tape and I've got some newspaper and I've got some colored paper Okay, so the first thing we're going to do is take these these are just scraps of white paper Any paper will do you could do paper with the lines on it binder paper that would work I'm going to take a pen you definitely could do this with a pencil And I'm going to just draw some shapes. So these are some that I've done already. I did eyeballs noses lips Things that could be used for eyebrows circles flowers Dots Arrows you get the idea, right? Okay, so I'll show you real easy stuff And don't say to me or yourself Well, mine doesn't look like that. It doesn't matter just draw and it could be Messy it could be Neater, maybe you're a better artist than I am and you can do really fabulous stuff. Cool. Do that So I just want you to draw simple shapes, you know, maybe circles with your pen or your pencil You can draw an arrow You notice none of these are hard, right? You can draw an eyeball You do kind of a Shape like that and then do These two sort of half moons in the middle and do a circle And put this like line above For the eyelid. This is the pupil This is the iris the colored part of the eyeball This part the is the white part of the eyeball, which is called the sclera. Okay And you have that pink part, right? Which is usually like right here If you're going to do eyeball and you're going to want to do two of them because you're going to want to put a face Then you have to do another one. They don't have to be exact What is it the beauty gurus say when they're doing like their eyebrows sisters not twins? So just kind of close for you parents out there. This video is not monetized. It's not going to be This is to help you all out in this stressful time that we're having Give the kids something safe to watch on tv something to do Okay eyebrows Do a nose so You do this kind of funny shape like this and then do This and then do another one on the other side and let's do some lips And don't draw your shapes too close together Those lips are probably a little too close to that arrow, but we'll make it work Yeah, something like that Once you have your shapes in either again pen or pencil then I want to take you to take your coloring Implements and I want you to start coloring things in so I'm going to grab this light blue colored pencil and I'm you notice I'm coloring with it on the side So I can get a more even coverage of color Okay, then I'm going to take One of my crayons and I have this like green as your blue color And I'm going to go around the outer edges Of the iris the colored part of the eye Now in real humans The outer edge of your iris is darker than the center part If you look in the mirror You'll see that I'm going to take this even darker purpley blue color a little bit of that on here Okay, and then the wax the crayons going to leave if you feel that it leaves a little bit of a waxy finish Right, so I want to really push the crayon into the paper or get rid of some of the excess wax So I'm going to rub over it with a popsicle stick the picture's going to shake a little bit because this makes the table shake And then this will allow me to more easily go over the top of that crayon with other things Which I normally would not be able to do because waxy things don't like to be drawn over the top of I'm going to take this is just this is a mechanical pencil But you could take any pencil and I'm going to just add some shadows to the top of the eyelid where the eyelashes would be To the corners of the eye And I'm going to take one of my markers And a Paint brush that this is one that has water inside of it, but you could definitely do this with a q-tip um, I'm going to put a little bit of this marker On my eye and then I'm going to right away go in with my Brush and look what happens to that crayola marker It dissolves in the water It gives you something really interesting, right? And the idea is just to have fun with this and make some shapes Again, they could be any shape There's no rhyme or reason. There's no rule Do what you think you feel like doing I really like playing with these markers with water because they really Give an interesting sort of watercolor effect right So I am going to color the rest of these I'm going to fast forward through that and we'll be right back Enough to use scissors then this next part is really easy for you But if you're not old enough for that, I do have an alternative um, and I want to say that if you have access to paints again with your parents permission Um, and making sure that you're not making a mess for mom and dad You're again doing it with their permission. You could color these in with paints Watercolor paints or something like that that would be cute So if you have scissors you can just cut these out of this piece of paper if you don't have scissors Then I kind of recommend that you Tear them out now you can use a paint brush, but you can just use a q-tip. I think It's been a while since I did it this way You want to get the paper wet? around drawing Now the wetter you get it the easier the paper is going to tear Only where you want it to tear So can you tell that that's wet there? okay so paper is going to Um, take the easy way and it's going to tear where it's wet and weak And you notice i'm putting my finger over the design. So just in case It decides to tear a different way. It doesn't tear my design and I have something like that, right? So i'm going to do the rest of them I do with my own I was going to say what I do with my q-tip, but it's right in front of me Now if you have a paint brush, you can definitely do this with a paint brush. It's easier With a paint brush than a q-tip, but you can do it with q-tip Maybe you want to be brave and not get the paper wet before you tear them out you can do that too If you want them cut out and you're too little to use scissors or you don't have child safe scissors Um that are for you to use then you might want to have mom or dad cut them out for you They can do that You'll notice I got them all wet and i'm leaving them like soak in there a bit because the longer you let the Water sink into the paper The easier it will be to tear Right, it doesn't have to be perfect. That's good Don't use any paper materials or supplies that aren't um Okayed by mom and dad and I know I'm repeating myself about that but you know Our point is to do something fun and creative and not get in trouble with mom and dad, right? Now the only trouble with doing it with water instead of scissors is some of your Marker if you've used marker might reactivate, but I'm okay with that Now if you are keeping an art journal or a diary Um, you could definitely use these shapes as embellishments in your in your journal It's a good use for them if you're doing scrapbooking Or some other kind of papercraft You might be able to use these and and or this idea Making your own embellishments Especially right now when we can't go outside to go buy stuff, right? Or at least we shouldn't be going outside to go buy stuff because we should be all staying home Okay So now we have our stuff whole pile of it Right, okay. So now we're going to take some colored paper And I have colored cardstock. You might have something else at home You might have construction paper or something like that use what you have It could be plain white paper. It could be Paper from mom and dad's printer Again, use what you have I think i'm going to grab this purple one This is a small piece of paper. I think it's four by six. I'm going to fold it in half I'm going to pick some of my shapes And I think I made these squares yesterday There's one more of them in here somewhere. I know there is Square, square, where are you? There it is. I see it. Ha, okay So I have this I have a piece of newspaper I Cut or tear a piece of your newspaper out. It doesn't matter really what it says If you're looking for just color and texture of that piece of paper and the writing on the paper This one happens to be yellow and purple that goes good with this piece of paper here Cut it so that it fits on the front I'm going to use Elmer's You can use a glue stick to glue it on Center it on the front of your paper Then put your decorations on whichever ones. Maybe you want to put eyeballs a whole bunch of eyeballs on here Actually, that would be interesting if you put Now that I just said that You put a whole bunch of eyeballs on here I did make a whole bunch of eyeballs So you could do something like you do anything. I do think I'm going to put the squares Actually before I put the squares. I'm going to take some of my masking tape I want to put some tape on there. I gotta find the end of the tape and and where are you and Hmm Is there no end? Oh, there it is. Got it Okay, so I'm going to take some of this tape. I want to put some tape on here I like the texture of the tape It's not about because I need to like tape the thing down I just like the texture of the tape. Okay Then I'm going to put my squares Let's do this one first You might need to hold them down a little bit if you're using elmers Until it dries Okay, and I want you to grab another little scrap of paper I'm going to cut this one, but you could again you could tear it or You could tear a word out of a magazine or out of the newspaper that you're using and I'm going to write A word or a message on this little piece of paper So what I'm going to do is I'm going to take the piece of paper and I'm going to look at it and see How big I want it to be That looks good And then I'm going to keep it simple So this is a way for you to practice your writing and your spelling, right? So I'm going to write hello So how do you spell hello? H-e-l-l-o, right? You could write it in cursive if you're practicing cursive do they even still do that in school? I don't know or you could just print it So h Then we're going to use some more glue and put that on now once that's dry You can grab an envelope And write a little note to your friends one of your friends on the inside And write a note to them say, you know, hello, I miss you. What are you doing? How are you? You know getting on I'm you know enjoying making cards and playing with, you know, my xbox whatever it is make write a note to them And sign your name and ask them to write a note back to you and start a pen pal Mail with them while you're home. You can send them Little notes with of course mom and dad's permission because you're going to need to get a stamp from mom and dad So that's a safe way to communicate In an old-fashioned way with your friends send them a note The other thing that you could do with these is there's a lot of people that are sick right now There's a lot of people that are sick in the hospital right now So you could write them a little note About you how you hope they get well soon That you're thinking of them And then you could have maybe mom and dad Mail these to the local hospital. I don't advertise Going over there to drop them off. I think that's a bad idea right now But you could send the notes to a local hospital. You could even call The hospital and ask them where that you have some get well notes for their patients in The hospital and where can you send them to and get a mom and dad can mail the notes for you Um, these are cute little notes. You could also just make a whole bunch of them And when this whole thing is over you have little cards to give your friends for their birthday for Christmas you could do them for any holiday You could make one for mother's day and father's day. Those are going to be coming up soon. Yes So make some fun little drawings Make some fun little cards um mom and dad look at the list that's linked In the description and um pick out some crafts to do at home sit and do some coloring Do some drawing do some practicing. It's a good way to kill the time and do something creative while you're home. Yes All right, that's it for today. Don't forget to like share and subscribe if you can I don't know I don't even know if you can but um Whatever you can do this this video is not monetized So like share subscribe if you can and don't forget the most important thing go out and have a great day Do what you need to right now in this stressful time to do our part and um help How we can which is stay home stay clean and stay healthy and um do something nice for yourself because you deserve it And I'll see you later. Bye guys