A Bunch of Bishops: Guest Post by Rachel @ I Heart Crafty Things!!!!

I am SUPER excited to introduce you all to my friend Rachel!
Rachel & I struck up a friendship last year and I just adore her!

She is real, genuine, sweet, talented, and the BEST wife & mom!

Here she is...

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Hi! This is Rachel from I Heart Crafty Things. Janiene is my best bloggy friend (and wish she was my neighbor) so I'm sooooo excited to be here at A Bunch of Bishops today!

I am a Wife and Mommy to three who LOVES doing arts and crafts with my kids. I might possibly have a small obsession with using googly eyes (ok, HUGE obsession!) and I'm pretty sure my level of animation when reading stories to my children is a little over the top, but hey, I like to keep it fun around my house! Over at I Heart Crafty Things you will find children's crafts coupled with books and can read a weekly recap about my favorite Mommy moments.

Today I'm going to share an oldie that we did last Spring but it's definitely a goodie! One of my most favorite children's books is The Giant Jam Sandwich by John Vernon Lord. It is such a fun story to read!

One summer day, a gigantic swarm of wasps invades the town of Itching Down. The townspeople devise an ingenious plan to rid themselves of this horrific nuisance by trapping them in a giant jam sandwich.

After reading the story my children and I talked about how if we were to make a giant jam sandwich, what would we want to trap inside of it. After the kids came up with all sorts of clever critters they'd like to trap, we decided to make our very own giant jam sandwich.

This is so easy to make and the kids had a blast!

Materials you Will Need:

- 2 sheets of white or cream card stock paper for the bread slices.

- 1 sheet of white copy paper
- red acrylic paint and paint brush
- crayons
- scissors
-glue stick
-black marker

-stapler

Directions:
1. Cut the top of your two card stock sheets in the shape of a loaf of bread (like the top of a heart).

2. Have your child paint one of the sheets with the red paint.

3. While the paint is drying, have your child draw and color on the white copy paper small pictures of the critters/animals (whatever they come up with) that they want to trap in their jam sandwich. Then have them cut the pictures out.

4. Take the other sheet of the card stock paper and use a black marker to write the following on it: In my giant jam sandwich, I caught.... __________________ (and fill in the blank of whatever they dictate to you that they caught in their sandwich).

5. When the red paint is completely dry, paste the little pictures onto the jam sandwich slice.

6. Take the two card stock sheets and place them together (facing each other). Then help your child staple the edge in three spots to seal it together (like a book).