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Not sure what happened to my photos with the entry and this was the only way I could figure getting the photos back up without re-entering!
Sycamore Spike Wreath
Spring is here! Look around a Sycamore tree and you will probably find plenty of spiky balls on the ground. Once green seed pods, they are now textural crafting fun!
Items you will need:
8-9 sycamore spike balls
acrylic or tempura paint
Elmer's glue
water
small cup for paint - a kid-sized yogurt cup like Yoplait worked perfectly
craft stick for stirring
paper towels or newspaper
wax paper
thick chenille stem, 12 inch long
quick-dry tacky glue
wire cutters
ribbon
tweezers
1. Collect the balls. Look for balls similar in size and with long stems. Set them out on a paper towel and allow to thoroughly air dry.
These balls use a lot of paint, so you can mix together 2 parts paint to 1 part elmer's glue. Thin with water until you get it just thin enough that it will drip off of the ball. May have to experiment a bit. If it is too thick, it will use a lot of paint and create more of a blob. It it is too thin it won't coat the ball well.
Holding the stem, submerge the spike in the paint mixture. Allow the excess to drip off.
Place the balls on a paper towel or newspaper. A pool of paint will work its way out of all the holes and crevices of the ball. DO NOT let them dry on the paper towel.
When you feel that most of the excess paint has made its way off the balls, transfer them to wax paper. Allow to dry.
Twist the ends of the chenille stem together to make a circle.
Apply a good amount of quick-dry tacky glue to the chenille. Don't be shy with the glue - once dried this gives your wreath its stability.
Wiggle the spikes down into the chenille. If you plan on keeping the stems on the balls, sunshine-style, pay attention to their direction. Allow the wreath to dry on wax paper. If you used a lot of glue and it looks as if it will dry permanently to the wax paper, carefully move the wreath to new wax paper. Let dry completely.
Trim off the stems, if desired. Carefully thread a ribbon through, avoiding the spikes - may need to grab with some tweezers. Tie in a bow, hang and enjoy your spring decoration from nature!
Spring Flower Pot
What you need:
Straws (any color)
Cup cake holders (any color)
1 Paper cup
Green and Yellow construction paper
Glue stick
Tape (invisible)
Piece of foam
Scissors
Markers, glitter or stickers (to decorate the pot)
Step 1. Cut out small yellow and green circles out of construction paper.
Step 2. Make little holes in the center of all the cupcake holders and yellow and green circles you cut out. (one flower needs one cup cake holder, one green circle and one yellow circle)
Step 3. Take a straw and cut out the upper corner in to small stripes (see the picture) slip one yellow circle all the way to the top of the straw and then a cupcake holder and lastly, a green circle. Glue them together to secure the flower.
Step 4. Cut out some leaves out of green construction paper. Paste straws on the leaves using tape. (see the picture) Cut the bottom end of the straws to make a sharp edge (flowers and leaves) It will help you to stick those to the foam
Step 5. Cut out a piece of construction paper to cover the paper cup and glue it around the cup. (can decorate the cup with glitter or markers) Put a piece of foam in the cup and stick your flowers and leaves.
Step 6. Enjoy your beautiful flower pot!!!!!!!!!!
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“Hand”-some Flower Bouquet
Tools: Scissors
Supplies: Construction Paper, Green Flexible Straws or Green Pipe Cleaners, Ribbon, Pencil, Tape or Glue
Step 1. With a pencil, trace child’s, or children’s hands, on construction paper. Use construction paper colors that make good flowers.
Step 2. Cut out “pairs” of hands, at least six or seven pairs for a full bouquet.
Step 3. Place a pair of hands on either side of a green flexible straw or pipe cleaner.
Step 4. Tie a piece of ribbon around the base of the hands and pull tight to make them stay on the straw or pipe cleaner. Curl the ends of the ribbon with scissors for more interest.
Step 5. Fold a piece of green construction paper into a cone and tape or glue it together. Stick the flowers in the cone, or use a small vase, instead.
Step 6. Give to a grandparent or other loved one of the child. It will be much appreciated. A great Mother’s Day gift, too!
(Sorry for the double post... I had trouble getting the picture on the first one... )
Paper Flowers
Sorry, I wasnt sure how to post pictures.
Paper Craft: Spring Pop-up Nameplate
Step 1: Pick your name and count the letters. If you are using a name with 7 letters or less, you can fold the 11" side in half. If you are using a name with more than 7 letters, you would be better off using the 8" side folded in half (see examples at bottom of post).
Step 2: In the middle of the folded edge, make a 1" cut and then another about .3" away. This will hold the middle letter of your name. You can approximate the distance between letters based on how many letters in your name (or you can measure... I'm an approximator!)
Step 3: Cut a grass or leaf pattern at the top and/or bottom of the paper. Set aside.
Step 4: Cut out rectangles approximately 2"x1.75"... one for every letter in the name. Freestyle cut out letters. They will match visually because of the size contraint. (If you need the letters to match exactly, you can make or buy alphabet patterns. Sewing stores sell them in packages of varying sizes...) Set aside.
Step 5: Pick up the folded paper with the parallel cuts. Push the parallel cuts through the other side and fold to press crisp edges.
Step 6: Glue letters to the cut throughs so that they are legible from the front.
Step 7: Make embellishments based on your favorite aspect of Spring.
Step 8: Glue embellishments to nameplate. Set aside to dry.
Step 9: Fold blue paper in the same manner you did for step one (if you did 8" side, fold same way).
Step 10: Glue nameplate into blue folded paper.
Step 11: Embellish further, or stop and admire your new Spring Pop-up Nameplate
Grace's take on it:
HERE ARE SOME OTHER EXAMPLES:
Liv's take on it:
My take on it (with a little help from little helpers!):
These are on our mantle. They are very cheery! Happy Spring!
FASHIONABLE CHICKEN FINGERS
lily's egg dye-ing date with her best friend lily (yes, lily's bestie is named lily) was cancelled today so she was jonesing to make some easter crafts...but ones that she could PLAY with. so we made some fabulous n' fashionable finger puppets.
(that's sasha, not lily)
need:
felt
glue gun
fabric hot glue
embellishments - ribbons, feathers, rhinestones
googlie eyes
marker
scissors
1. have your child draw a big fat finger shape onto a piece of felt.
2. put another piece of felt behind that one and help her cut out the two pieces of felt at the same time (you need grown up scissors for this)
3. cut out wings for your puppet. they can be any shape. we made them a little long. oops.
4. put hot glue on around the inside edge of one of the pieces of felt, stick the wings inside and then press the other piece on top of it. voila finger puppet!
5. glue on googlie eyes (or you can make eyes from felt)
6. cut out a little diamond shape, put a little hot glue in the center of it and squeeze it together to make a beak. hot glue it onto your puppet. cheep.
7. make hair for your puppet. lily wanted her chick to have braids so i cut a 1" x 4" piece of felt into three strips and braided them together. glue hair on.
8. dress your chicken if you don't want her to be a nudie.
9. embellish to your hearts content!
bock bock!
GREAT! I'll be trying this one! Nice!
Edible Easter Chicks
Supplies: Sheet of foil or waxpaper
Cookies (your fav. variety we used Nilla Waffers (Chloe's Fav)
Vanilla Icing
Yellow Food Coloring
Coconut Flakes
Mini Chocolate Chips
Candy corn
How to: In a bowl, mix the icing, coconut flakes, and a few drops of yellow food coloring. Once all the flakes are yellow take a cookie and ice it with the yellow coconut mix.
Add mini chocolate chips for eyes and a small piece of candy corn for the beak! Now you have a cute edible easter chick!
Edible Spring Flowers
Supplies: Craft sticks or popscicle sticks
Hard candy (round)
Oven and oven mit
Little ones hands for help
Cookie sheet covered in foil
How to: Heat oven to 250 degrees F.
Take your craft stick and put it in on the foil. Use six hard candies (we used Life Savers but you can use any candy for this) for the petals. You can use all the same colors or different ones for a variety.
Take a seventh candy for the center of the flower in a different color than the rest.
Start about 1/4 of the way down on your craft stick and put the candy that will be your center piece. Then arrange all the rest of the candies around the center piece like a flower. (help little ones make sure all the edges of the candies are touching or they won't melt together well).
Once your flowers are arrange on the foil put in the oven for ten min. Keep a close eye so they do not melt too much. After ten min. pull them out and let them cool for about 5 or 10 min. then peal off the foil. Now you have your very own homemade flower suckers!
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