Paper plate animals and the last day of winter break

Well, today was Hannah's last day of winter break. After a week and a half, she's ready to go back to school. Yes, she really is. She likes school! I'm so glad because we don't have to fight about it.
She's talking about wanting to home school next year, though. She's so far ahead of her class that she gets bored. We're talking about it and weighing the pros and cons (including my sanity LOL).
So after a late start, we decided to do one last "mommy/daughter" craft day. We started by doing paper plate animals. Yesterday, for my 30-day mom challenge, I asked her one thing she wanted to do with me this month and she said paper bag puppets. I think this is close ;)
She was ecstatic because I let her use some of my acrylic paints instead of her watercolors. The watercolors just weren't working out with our projects.
So here they are! Our sheep, cows and pigs... She had a blast, too.

 Here are the supplies we used -- most of them. We traded out the watercolors for acrylics. 

Items:

• Paper plates
• paint
• paintbrushes
• colored paper
• scissors
• cotton balls
• Elmer's glue (not pictured)
• glue stick (not pictured)
• wiggly eyes (not pictured)
• pipe cleaners (not pictured)

Instructions for pig:

1. Paint a large paper plate pink. Acrylic paints work best for this.
2. Take second paper plate and cut around center. Paint center to match the large plate.
3. After paint dries, glue smaller plate slightly down center in larger plate.
4. Cut out legs and glue to back of plate.
5. Create a curly q tail with pipe cleaner and attach with brad.
6. Decorate face and add wiggly eyes. We actually used buttons to make it funnier.

 Hannah enjoying painting her pig.

 More painting.

Instructions for sheep:

1. Squirt Elmer's glue all over paper plate.
2. Place cotton balls on plate, including edges.
3. Cut out two legs, one face and one ear.
4. Glue onto back of plate, where they can be seen from the front.
5. Put a wiggly eye on face and paint a small mouth.

 Gluing the cotton balls on the sheep.

Instructions for cow:

1. Cut the center of one paper plate and glue to bottom part of larger paper plate.
2. Paint black spots, if desired, and decorate face, including a nose.
3. Cut out two ears and glue onto head.
4. Cut out two legs and glue onto back of plate.

The finished products.

All in all, not a bad way to spend Hannah's final day of vacation.