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| Working hard! |
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| It's a grass-making sweat shop, I tells yah! (Not really. No child was harmed or even bored :) |
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| Check out that bug! |
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| Puffy smiles! |
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| Finished product! |
Showing posts with label Kids. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Kids. Show all posts
Wednesday, March 30, 2011
Kidtastic Paper Garden
Babysitting jobs are always pretty exciting for me- perfect opportunity for crafting with kids. My friend Nikki was also gonna be there, so hey, this would be pie, right? Well, getting them on board with my idea of a paper garden was a little difficult- there were forts to be made. But, I just started making flowers and bugs and they came around ;) So here's how it came out:
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
Xmas 2010
Holidays get me into the crafty mood. This last Xmas I made a wreath, a stick tree and ornaments with some crafty kids in my extended family. A goal of mine in 2011 is to do more crafty activities with kids—maybe even in an official volunteer capacity.
The wreath—made with old glass ornaments I picked up on the cheap at thrift stores, a styrofoam ring and xmas greenery candle ring that I cut apart. With a little hot glue and I was good to go. (I used a vintage filter on my camera phone, that's why the coloring is so fun, ha ha.)
The stick tree was really a black stick tree from Halloween decorations in the fall. I repainted it a soft blue-green and decorated it with antique pastel glass ornaments and glass birds. I anchored it in an old glass jar with rocks in the bottom and some battery powered lights. I think it turned out pretty swell.
Crafty kids: We made ornaments for the tree out of flat styrofoam cutouts. I had scrapbooking papers that they traced and glued to the forms. Then they added shaped confetti, glitter glue (bad idea for travel!) and fuzzy pipe cleaner hooks.
The wreath—made with old glass ornaments I picked up on the cheap at thrift stores, a styrofoam ring and xmas greenery candle ring that I cut apart. With a little hot glue and I was good to go. (I used a vintage filter on my camera phone, that's why the coloring is so fun, ha ha.)
The stick tree was really a black stick tree from Halloween decorations in the fall. I repainted it a soft blue-green and decorated it with antique pastel glass ornaments and glass birds. I anchored it in an old glass jar with rocks in the bottom and some battery powered lights. I think it turned out pretty swell.
I have to share an older creation that I made with my dad. It's a welded metal tree made from scraps my dad had laying around his shop-ex: a bottle opener as one branch. I've got the images here of it all dolled-up. I hope to make some smaller versions in March with him in his new shop. I've already sold a couple of medium-sized trees through my etsy shop: melagerie.etsy.com.
Crafty kids: We made ornaments for the tree out of flat styrofoam cutouts. I had scrapbooking papers that they traced and glued to the forms. Then they added shaped confetti, glitter glue (bad idea for travel!) and fuzzy pipe cleaner hooks.
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