Day 100!!! 'Nough Said

There is part of me that just wants to post the picture of this and not even write anything, but this is Day 100!!! 100 crafts in 100 days!!!!  We are ALMOST 1/3 of the way through the year and we are still going strong!

It is hard to find crafts with the "100" theme.  I finally searched "100th day of school" on Pinterest, and I hit a jack pot!  I decided to do this 1-0-0 paper plate theme.  I used hot glue to stick the #s together, then i put dabs of glue everywhere to keep the pasta stuck to the plates.

If you are wondering- to keep with the 100 theme, each girl got 100 pieces of dyed pasta for their plates, and they used them all! Now if you sit here and count, I can't promise you that there are 100 pieces of pasta on each plate, because come on, we are talking about a 2 and 4 year old.  Who knows where they put the pasta.. I mean, Penny tried to eat a piece today! lol

On a side note: My hits to this blog have SKYROCKETED lately. I've gone from about 8-10 a day to almost 30 a day.  My +1s have gone from 1 or 2 to 3 or 4, and I can see I'm getting a lot of hits from overseas.  I'd love to know who everyone is if you are a regular.  I don't like feeling like i'm talking to myself all this time :)  Feel free to leave a note, let me know who you are and where you live, and most importantly, if you have any craft ideas, make sure to let me know!

Day 12- Warm Weather

I was so excited about today's craft.  I thought it was something that Penny and Iris would be able to do this craft easily, and most importantly for today, it would be QUICK.  My dad was here today to help us finish up some wood working projects before we sell the house, and I was elbow deep painting the back room.  So, today's craft needed to be quick and low mess.   I had everything laid out to start, and our freshly dyed stringing pasta was in a bucket.

My idea of "quick" turned into RECORD speed.  We finished lunch, the girls each got about 8 beads on their necklaces and Mike and my dad headed outside- in 60* weather mind you, in JANUARY!- and that was it.  The girls were instantly done and went running out the door.
Better luck tomorrow I guess!

I just loved this picture, flash went crazy and turned everything neon.

Day 10- 355 more to go!

I can't say that I am disappointed at the way the Macaroni Art turned out today, we had fun, it turned out nice.  But I am missing my camera :(  So no pictures of today's projects, yet.
Mike and I stayed up late last night dying pasta.  I looked up a few "recipes" online before I did this.  Most Pinterest suggestions stated "pasta, enough rubbing alcohol to make the noodles wet, and some food coloring"  Well, I am a little more technical than that, I need to have EXACT directions before I try something for the first time.  I finally found a blog that suggested 1 tablespoon of rubbing alcohol and 4-5 drops of food coloring.  We tried red and purple first and blue, and they turned out more like Easter egg pink, a grey color, and tealish green... honestly, good Easter colors haha.  Obviously, we needed more food coloring, the Orange, Yellow, and Green look awesome, I think I put about 10 drops of coloring in each of those bags.
I was hoping to string it as bracelets/necklaces today, but the macaroni noodles were just too small, and WAY too curvy (I guess that is what I get for buying store brand haha).  So, we glued it on paper instead.  Iris was infatuated with my pattern, she kept telling me tonight that she wished I could teach her how to do what I did.  It really isn't all that fancy, but it is flattering, and I guess to an almost 4 year old, very impressive.  Penny had a lot of fun with them, she kept telling me she couldn't eat them... probably better, all that Yellow whatever # would probably give her massive ADHD lol.  Bowties and spirals don't adhere well with glue stick-- you know, since i haven't had a chance to buy more white glue since I used the last of ours on the horrible slime failure.  (Btw, that slime managed to leak out of the bag I had it in and onto the stove... and DRIED, what a mess!  ugh!!!  It has sense been thrown in the trash.)  So, I brought out the glue gun again (which Penny calls Blue instead of Glue and it is very cute, though can be slightly confusing depending on the project), and stealthily glued Penny's noodles onto her page in the same order in which she laid them down.  No freaking out, it was a success in my book!
Because my stringing idea didn't work with the pasta I bought this past week, today, Penny and I went to the grocery store and bought every type of Pasta that we could that had a hole in it.  Ditalini, Rigatoni,  Ziti, and Wagon Wheels.  I plan on doing some more pasta dying in the very near future, hopefully with neon colors, and a LOT more red and blue!  But, for now, on to the next project.  Time to round up all of our toilet paper and paper towel rolls!

Day 9- Tissue paper, not just for gift wrapping

So, with the end of the holiday season, it leaves us with copious amounts of tissue paper, what better way to utilize the excess than by making a craft out of it??  Well, today's craft was Tissue Paper Wreaths.  How simple can we get???  Cut some squares of Tissue paper- I even took the short cut and used my paper cutter (again, thank you to my very thoughtful hubby!) and cut 4 inch squares.  I then used a Pyrex bowl and traced a wreath shape using the top and bottom of the bowl.  Finally, I handed the kids a glue stick and a stack of tissue paper.  I showed them both how to "fold" it around their fingers before sticking it to the wreath, but as you can see, Penny didn't quite get that part, but Iris did really well.

On a side note, I finally learned to "knit" basically, I can now cast on and off, and make a basic knit stitch.  YAY!  Hopefully, I will continue to improve :)
And, for a sneak preview of tomorrow's craft:  I have to thank Mike for staying up late to help me dye all this pasta.  The orange is my favorite color, it turned out sooo bright!

My goal was to make enough pasta to get us through numerous crafts!  My next plan is to get some rice and dye it too!  I am forever going to be multi colored!  Oh well, I bet by the end of this year, I will be very versed in the art of food coloring!