A ideia deste registo foi obtida através do Facebook, pela colega Lígia. Desde logo pensei que as nossas mamãs iriam adorar ser "capa de jornal"!
A prendinha deste ano foi um útil "guarda-jóias"... Carimbamos garrafas, folhas, flores, colamos feltro, missangas de madeira, fita de organza...
My Kids Make “String Flowers” and yours can too! Find out how to make your own:
This idea came from a project we did for Valentine’s Day, called “Heart Strings”.
First, make a batch of corn starch glue. To do so, mix 1/4 cup cornstarch with 1 cup water in a small pan. Heat the mixture {and whisk well} until it is smooth. If it looks too thick, add more water. {Save any leftovers in the fridge for future use}.
Cut long pieces of yarn {1 foot}
Place flower shaped cookie cutters over pieces of parchment paper on your table or work surface.
Once the glue has cooled to the touch, pour it into small bowls for your kids to use.
Your kids will dip the pieces of yarn into the glue. {Have them remove any excess glue by running their fingers along the yarn.}
Place the glue covered yarn into a flower shaped cookie cutter. Then repeat until the cookie cutter is filled with yarn. Remove the cookie cutter, and start on a new flower.
Leave the flowers to dry overnight {or place on a parchment paper lined baking sheet. Bake at “warm” until dried, about 1hr.}
After the flowers had dried, we created the stems by using green pipe cleaners.
“String Flowers” are cute for Springtime gifts {who wouldn’t want these?}:
Or, for bringing Springtime color to your home:
Have you ever come home from vacation with a collection of shells you don’t know what to do with? Maybe you live at the beach like we do and somehow find yourself coming home with them in your pockets even when you try not to. It’s easy to do. They are so pretty and beg to be collected. However it can sometimes be challenging to know what to do with them once you get them home. We say gift them as art!
We decided to kick it up a notch with our shells this month and gave them a light color wash with acrylic paint. It’s not that they aren’t beautiful already in their natural state it was just something fun to do to while away an otherwise long boring summer afternoon.
If you are looking for a way to keep your kids occupied, this is it. My daughter spent hours daintily painting shell after shell. By the end of the afternoon we had quite a collection!
We also had some really pretty butcher paper that I intend to recycle into greeting cards later (but that’s another post). If you do this, save your paper! It makes great wrapping paper.
After all the shells were painted we let them dry for a day. Then we took our whole collection of painted and unpainted shells on a play date and let our friends have fun with them too. I set out the shells, some paint mixed with water and some white glue to paint with too. Most of the kids made collages, some made flowers and some wanted to paint more shells! I told you it was a kid-captivator! Funny how that works.
I wasn’t quite done with this craft yet. I wanted to see the shell art framed.
We found some cheap thrift store frames and painted them black.
Inside-out shirts make great painting smocks too when you don’t want to completely ruin your clothes.
With some more watered-down acrylic paint, I gently painted some sheets of watercolor paper cut to fit the frames. Then I broke out the glue-gun (unlike the kids I didn’t really like the sticky white glue much) and had a go at making my own collage. The kids made beach scenes and flowers but I had a chicken in mind.
With a pearl for an eye, he came together. A few strokes of black for his legs and he was done! Then I popped him and some others into their frames and voila! ART!
Now to find somebody to gift these to….
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