I've recently started school, and also have not been feeling that well. Hopefully I'll be back on board next week.
Thank you!
-Heather
Thursday, January 16, 2014
Tuesday, January 7, 2014
It's 2014! Let's play with coffee filters!
Now that the kids are back in school and the boyfriend is back at work, it's time to get back on track!
I don't have much prepared, so here's a simple craft to keep the little ones busy! Coffee filter flowers. That's right, adorable little flowers made with coffee filters!
*****I have no pictures, but will take one of the final product later today and post******
For our flowers we used 3 coffee filters each, and if I wasn't bunching them all together in a big bouquet I probably would have used 4 or more. Take some crayola washable markers (they're the best when it comes to bleeding) and have them make little dots all over the filter.
The middle will be bunched together and not visible, and the dots need to be a decent distance apart to avoid a hot mess when they put water on them. When all the dots are done they'll take a paint brush and dab a little bit of water on each dot to have them bleed and grow.
When they're all dry have your little one pick out a pipe cleaner (we used multiple colors to have a rainbow of stems) and bunch your filters together. Wrap the pipe cleaner around the bottom (the middles of all the filters) and when it's nice and secure, just fluff out the flower petals to see all the colors.
We're putting our bouquet in a care box to my mom when we finish decorating it to help cheer her up since we live so far away. We're also sending her some hugs, which I post about later this week.
Happy Crafting!
-Heather
I don't have much prepared, so here's a simple craft to keep the little ones busy! Coffee filter flowers. That's right, adorable little flowers made with coffee filters!
*****I have no pictures, but will take one of the final product later today and post******
For our flowers we used 3 coffee filters each, and if I wasn't bunching them all together in a big bouquet I probably would have used 4 or more. Take some crayola washable markers (they're the best when it comes to bleeding) and have them make little dots all over the filter.
The middle will be bunched together and not visible, and the dots need to be a decent distance apart to avoid a hot mess when they put water on them. When all the dots are done they'll take a paint brush and dab a little bit of water on each dot to have them bleed and grow.
When they're all dry have your little one pick out a pipe cleaner (we used multiple colors to have a rainbow of stems) and bunch your filters together. Wrap the pipe cleaner around the bottom (the middles of all the filters) and when it's nice and secure, just fluff out the flower petals to see all the colors.
We're putting our bouquet in a care box to my mom when we finish decorating it to help cheer her up since we live so far away. We're also sending her some hugs, which I post about later this week.
Happy Crafting!
-Heather
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