Mama Loves: Wine Corks

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I'd seen an idea on Pinterest awhile back to make some wall art with wine corks.

We have a fair number of corks around here.

Instead of attempting this while the girls were sleeping, I thought maybe they'd enjoy the sensory experience of the corks, while I attempted to make art.

Hadley loves to work quietly on puzzles, or other activities, so I shouldn't have been surprised that she quickly caught on to me finding corks to stand on end to make a heart.

She would search through the bag. To find just the right cork for me. Then she'd balance it on its end, and add it to our project.

We did this together:

To be honest, I didn't want the red or yellow one in there, but Hadley found those, and she was so excited to include them, so there they are.

I wasn't quite ready to bust out the glue while the girls were awake. So, while they were sleeping, I glued the corks on a board to be hung on our wall.

Hadley is so proud of our project!

My point in this post, is not to tell you about our project. It's to tell you how awesome corks are! While our girls were throwing corks all over our living room enjoying the sensory experience of a bag full or corks, I came up with a few other useful/educational things for us to do with corks that I thought you might be interested in.

I got out the shapes from our shape-sorter, and had the girls attempt to make circles, squares and triangles with the corks:

Even if your littles aren't yet ready for making shapes, standing the corks up helps with hand/eye coodination:

To get more advanced, your kids can make letters or words out of the corks:

If you don't drink enough wine for these projects, restaurants or wine bars often save corks, and will be happy for you to take them off their hands, just ask! I might be able to spare a few too.

Can't wait to see what you're loving!!

Also sharing this here.

And here.