• EHO Craft: Shower Curtain Painting.
• Family Tree - Create your own beautiful family tree with individual leaves for each member of your family.
• Wild Kingdom - Collect leaves, twigs, acorns, pine needles, bark, rocks, and other materials. Use tacky glue and some other crafty ingredients to make your own woodland creatures.
• Nature Crowns - This easy-to-make accessory gives little naturalists a hands-free place to store leaves, twigs, and other small finds.
• Make a GALEX Galaxy Montage - Make a colorful work of galactic art using coffee filters, markers, and construction paper.
• Build a Newtonian Physics Machine! - If you build it carefully, this crazy contraption demonstrates one of the basic laws of nature.
• Make a Galactic Mobile - Make your own collection of beautiful galaxies. Suspend them on a mobile so they turn and sparkle in the wind.
• Fall Foliage Friends - Use your imagination (and some paper, glue, and a pen or pencil) to turn ordinary backyard leaves into a whimsical menagerie.
• Shrunken Apple Puppet - There are so many ways to use apples that you might even say they have nine lives--as does this shrunken-apple kitty puppet that's just as much fun to make as to play with.
• Scarecrow Plant Poke - You'll have fun making this silly scarecrow to poke into a favorite plant for fall.
• Wooden Wind Chimes - Pony beads and wooden clothespins make a set of wind chimes that's pretty to look at and listen to. You may want to paint your clothespins with acrylic paint and seal for an even prettier wind chime.
  

Shower Curtain Painting

This is a great idea for the kid's bathroom as a final project for a unit study.

You will need:

• A clear shower curtain
• Water proof fabric paint markers
• Extras: stencils, pictures to trace, masking tape

What to do:

• You'll need a large area of hard floor or a large table. Lay the shower curtain out.
• Use your markers to create a picture or design following the theme you've selected.
• You may make an outline of your "painting" with black marker, then color the different parts.
• You can also use stencils to trace shapes or images on the curtain.
• If you want to trace a picture, tape the picture to the back of the curtain so that you can see the picture through the curtain.
• You can keep areas from getting painted by covering them with masking tape. Once your paint is dry, you remove the tape.
• Once the curtain is completely dry, it is ready to hang in your bathroom.

Examples: If we were studying the solar system, we might want to paint pictures of the nine planets and the sun. You could make shower curtains for holidays like Christmas or Easter.