Day 125: Bath Craft

UGH!!!! @#$%^*&!(!! Yup, that sums up the first craft attempt today.  We were going to make rainbow popcorn.  I even took the girls to the store to get butter since we ran out.  We got home, I started making dinner and could tell i was loosing the girls.  So I told them to both sit down.  I get the oil started on the stove, pour the popcorn in and all of a sudden Penny is FLIPPING, i mean, blood curdling, screaming, crying, in pain sort of melt down.  Well, there went the popcorn!  It only half popped and burnt :-/  Well, there went craft for today because that was the last of the popcorn!

After dinner, once Mike got home, we rushed them up to bed, because the meltdowns were continuing.  But, since I hadn't planned on anything else for craft, I was racking my brain trying to figure out a craft, and it came to me.  Body Paint!  GLITTER body paint!  And do you want to talk about easy and fun... GLITTER BODY PAINT!  2 simple ingredients: Aloe and GLITTER!

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Aftermath/Bath:

Days 115/116

Sorry for the combined post with NO pictures!  Yesterday was one of the longest nights i can remember having!  I ended up driving around for over 3 hours to find a booster seat for Penny for her birthday.  I was so tired by the time I got home at 9:55, that I just didn't have it in me to blog!... the lack of pictures will be explained soon enough!

Lets start with Day 116:

Remember those beads I made last week?  The ones out of the crayola model magic?  Well, they turned out perfectly, so we made bracelets yesterday.  I let the kids use buttons, and beads, and the homemade beads. They sat at the table so nicely, stringing beads onto their craft thread, and they both turned out very nicely.

Iris was so proud of hers, that she wanted to take it to school today to show her teacher.  I allowed her to take it into the van, but made her leave it there, so that it wouldn't get lost.  Well, Penny found it and tore all the homemade beads into little shreds before I realized it.  I was so sad for Iris.  I cleaned up all the traces, and I hope that she just forgets about it, because I know that she will be upset if she finds out Penny broke it. :(

Day 117:

Today, you aren't getting pictures because Iris went CRAZY with glitter glue and every time i touch her craft, i get glitter glue all over me.  So I am going to let it dry first.. like maybe next week :-p

We made Doc McStuffins, Big Books of Boo-Boos today for craft.  It was a lot of fun.  They are REALLY into Doc McStuffins right now, and I've caught them both "writing" in their "big book of boo-boos" and I saw them at Toys R Us today for $7.  I thought that was a little ridiculously, so we came home and made our own.

We used foam for the front and back covers (about 6"x6"), and construction paper cut to the same size, for the pages.  I used a hole punch to poke holes in the covers and the pages so that once they are done, I can string them together and the kids can have a working book.

I put the "Big Book Of Boo-Boos" letters on the back, but they each got to pick their own inside paper color, as well as decorate the front cover.  Again, Iris went OVERBOARD on the glitter glue, i don't know if it will EVER dry at this point :/  Hopefully, pictures will be added to this one before too long!

Day 109: What a day!

Well, let me digress before I even begin.  I have been sitting, GLUED to the computer for the last two hours, afraid to blink because Watertown has been on the brink of closure.  I am so thankful to see that this ordeal can now be laid to rest for a town, state honestly, that hasn't been able to sleep comfortably for 5 days now. My heart is heavy for those whose lost loved ones, and for all those who have been injured by these senseless acts.  I am still more than slightly shocked that this happened in the US again.  I hope that EVERY family has closure, the victims, and the suspects.  Everyone deserves closure in this regard.

But, for craft today, I attempted the glitter jar idea.  I found it online through a friend on facebook.  It is a jar that you fill with water, food color, glitter and glitter glue.  The person that created this glitter jar had this beautiful light pink water with purple/pink glitter sunk to the bottom.  Well, my kids got to them and they are clumps of glitter at the bottom and Iris' is dark red and Penny's is dark dark dark blue.... as are my hands.  I look like a smurf.  Thanks to Penny dropping the blue food coloring INTO the glitter before I added water.  I had to fish the food color out and it was a nightmare.  I hope that I don't look like a smurf for the rest of the weekend :-p

It is way past bedtime, the Watertown thing has had me hooked all night and unable to focus on this.  I will leave you with the recipe to make this.

a small container with lid (WATER TIGHT!)
a few tubes of glitter (SMALL tubes of glitter)
1 tube of glitter glue (i think i would do a larger tube)
warm water
1-2 drops of food coloring

add everything to the jar, cap it, and shake.  It does turn into a very pretty glitter jar, just ours are MUCH too dark, and Penny's leaks like a breached levy!  I will need to switch bottles for her sooner rather than later!

Day 20- Countdown to Birthday!

I saw the idea for today's craft MONTHS ago on Pinterest, and was saving it for a birthday week.  Well, Iris' birthday is the first birthday of the year, so we got to try it with her today.  These could be the EASIEST birthday cupcakes ever!  Someone with NO cooking skills at all could make these in no time at all.

Here is my supply list for today:

2 1/2 inch styrofoam balls

cupcake wrappers

hot glue

glitter glue (more on that later)

pom poms

So, first thing first: glue a styrofoam ball into the cupcake wrapper.  Iris chose fancy swirly ones @ Jo-Ann's today for $2.99.  And I still have 30 left over for REAL cupcakes!

Next, I mixed glitter glue using some basic Elmer's Glue and glitter.  I think ours was too thick, it was a little hard to paint on with paint brushes, but it worked.  I looked up a "recipe" for glitter glue tonight and it says to use Modge-Podge.  Maybe that would be a little easier, thinner, with Modge-Podge.  But, our way worked, it dried well, and you can see the glittery colors on the styrofoam, so i'll call that a success.

Then, we painted the "frosting" on the "cupcakes".  Once that part was done, we topped them with "cherries."  

 My goal is to attach a string/fishing line to them and hanging them from the holiday tree in the girls' room.  I can't figure out the best way to make them into ornaments, so I am still debating on that, but It was fun.  Mike even got to craft with us today and everyone really got to be creative and have fun with the cupcakes!