Glittering Muffins » Entries tagged with "crafts"
Papier mâché hen challenge
A few months back Molly Moo published a picture of a very cool papier mâché Hen that she had made at her papier mâché course. This precipitated a Hen Craft Challenge which Alex & I agreed to take part in, and of course Nico helped a little and also requested his own so we have three hens for you. We printed our pattern on cardstock and I assembled them. We used basic flour/water glue for our hens … Read entire article »
Kid painted chairs
(Jan. 23, 2012) I bought little wood chairs a long time ago (pre Nico) at a thrift shop, I knew I’d have kids and wanted good old solid wood furniture. So now years later, Nico was using them in their used white paint. One day, I asked him if he wanted to paint them, he was very excited, so I promised to sand them a bit (just to rough them up) and we’d paint them. … Read entire article »
German metal foil star Christmas ornaments
Today we have a very special post for you – a guest post by my mom from Germany, Marina. She used to make a lot of Christmas ornaments herself and today she is sharing how to do some Metal foil star ornaments! To start, here is what you will need: ruler protractor pencil scissors aluminum/metal foil in different colours, gold, silver, red with gold, blue with gold, green with gold (as in one side gold, the other side the other colour). … Read entire article »
Filed under: Christmas, Crafts, English, Holiday Crafts, Home
DIY cone advent calendar
Last year, pre-blog era (explains lack of pics), we needed a specific calendar size for Nico since we were putting letters we made in them, so we made it. Since you need to do this 24 times I didn’t want it to be hard or long to do, had to be doable in an hour max with the two of us (Alex and I). So I got the different rolls of Christmas paper we accumulated … Read entire article »
Filed under: Christmas, Crafts, English, Holiday Crafts, Home
DIY Monster race board game
Trying to get into the Halloween mood here, also trying to keep it fun and not scary for Nico. So I thought I would make a little game for him based on a game he owns, “Allez les escargots” (“Snail’s Pace Race”). It’s easy to play, even for a just turned 3 yo, and fun for older kids too, heck we like it, lol. Six colored snails, 2 colored dice, roll them and whatever color … Read entire article »
DIY themed word sight cork board
I got this farm fabric in the States that I knew Nico would love, since he loves everything farm for the last year. I only got a yard (asked for a meter, force of habit, but the girl said nope, jokingly and offered me a yard instead), it was a little pricey but I knew I could do a few things with that. I didn’t want to just go cushions so my mother suggested a cork … Read entire article »
Australia – Dot art paper plate turtle
This month “Around the World in 12 Dishes” Is going down under. Food wise all was good but craft wise I was totally uninspired, so I asked the group of mommy bloggers I’m part of and they came up with TONS of ideas. One that stuck with me was the Aboriginal dot art, because Nico loves to paint. Obviously at almost 3, I didn’t expect him to produce the same kind of art but we … Read entire article »
Filed under: Around the World in 12 Dishes, Challenges, Crafts, English, Everyday, Glitter, Home
Painted puzzle piece shadow box (with a painting twist)
Since the button shadow box had gone over well with Nico 4 months prior and now that I knew what to put in it, I needed to do one more. Here he’s shaking his colors, I gave him color choices. Then I poured out and asked him to paint the side with no images so it would stick better. I had bought a 500 piece puzzle at the thrift store for 50 cents, so we had … Read entire article »
Button shadow box (with a glitter twist)
Back in the pre-blog days, I was looking for something quick to set up for Nico who wanted to do something. So I grabbed a wooden shadow box, the button bags (already separated per color), little bowls and glue. Nico also saw some wooden lady bugs and we agreed on 3. At the time he didn’t use acrylic paint yet just his Crayola TaDoodles (paint ball with brush) (he was 24 months), so I didn’t … Read entire article »
United Kingdom – postbox bank
I wondered what craft I should make to represent the UK and started looking for UK landmark photos to get an idea. I thought about a phone booth, all those little windows would be very time consuming and difficult for a kid to do. I remembered those red postboxes and I got thinking, this would be fairly easy to make but on a smaller scale what would be the use? You can’t really put a … Read entire article »
Filed under: Around the World in 12 Dishes, Challenges, Crafts, English, Everyday, Home
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