Crafting and kids.
I found this on Pinterest and I’ve just about convinced Kate that she wants to be Little Red Ridding Hood for Halloween. Mom? Mimi? I’m going to need some help here. 🙂
I would love to include the link, but it goes back to a spanish language blog where it is credited to Etsy. I’ll keep poking around on there to see if I can credit the original designer. 🙂
ETA: I found the photographer at least. 🙂
http://yoursparkleboxphotography.blogspot.com/
I bought some bleeding tissue paper (the colors bleed, we’re not doing Dexter crafts over here) awhile ago for Kate to play with and then I forgot about it. Today she really wanted to do a project (not coloring or stickers!) and I found it in the cabinet as I was poking around for something new to craft with. 🙂
First we practiced cutting the tissue paper.
Kate really likes to cut things. I’m *really* hoping that this never translates into her trying to cut her own hair.
Then we put the tissue paper on some water color paper and tried brushing it with water to get the colors to bleed. To say that it was unimpressive would be an understatement.
I figured that maybe we could try some decoupage next so I put some glue into our water. Umm… glue doesn’t dissolve.
Mod Podge to the rescue!
Kate had a lot of fun with this project and we got to talk a little bit about color theory (yellow and blue make green etc.)
Here’s another layout- cookies this time. I went crazy and matted the pictures.
First a progress update. I finished November! And I only have a couple of more layouts left for December. Ask me if I’m working on my Christmas stuff though. Nope. I’m kind of sick of my Christmas paper. 4th of July it is!
This paper is from WR Memory Keepers. I liked that the B sides had tons of little embellies that you could cut apart. Here’s a pic of another B side.
The ones I cut apart were shrunk down even further. Love this! It’s perfect for scrapping on a budget. Plus, let’s be honest. I’m going to make 2 4th of July pages. I don’t need to spend $50 on various packages of embellishments for 2 pages! I mean, I totally could, but I don’t *need* to.
I just cut them apart, inked the edges and layered them to my heart’s content.
I just packed Kate’s lunch for preschool tomorrow. 🙂 It’s in a lunchbots bento box.
I’m sending her with strawberries, turkey, celery bites and a few wheat thins. The celery bites are just celery with some sunbutter. I wasn’t sure how to package them so they would make it until lunch, but in the end I just sandwiched them together and put them in a cup. I’ll report back on how they did next time. 🙂
Kate’s starting at a Montessori preschool tomorrow ::cue panicking:: and we had to decorate a cubby for her. I’ll be honest, it was a little hard for me to step back and let her do it herself because I wanted it to be perfect, but I also thought it was important for her to have ownership over it. The preschool director might have mentioned that too.
Our only parameters were that it had to have her name on it. My initial idea was to embroider some felt letters and glue them on, but since that was pretty much the opposite of letting Kate do it herself I had to scrap that.
Then I had the idea of buying wooden letters and having her paint them. It would still look neat (neat as in clean) but it would allow her to be part of the creative process. Win win.
We got the letters to spell her name (twice since they come in a 2 pack) 2 hears and 2 flowers. The had some other awesome shapes, but they came pre-painted. Lame! We let her lose with some paint and she had a blast. Somehow I seem to have missed taking pictures of the painting. Then Michael helped her glue to shapes down.
Here’s the finished cubby! I just hope the glue holds up.
And here’s Kate’s opinion of me taking so many pictures.
What’s a dad to do when faced with a daughter that wants him to craft with tissue paper and glitter glue?
Glam Batman, that’s what.
I haven’t scrapped since March. Wow. Talk about a dry spell. Never fear though, I’m back! Super behind, but back and committed to working towards getting caught up. Just as a status update, Kate’s books are caught up through the end of October 2011 and I’ve edited/ ordered prints though the end of February 2012. Should I set a goal? Hmm… How about editing/ uploading March and April and finishing scrapping November/ December by the end of August? Now onto the pretty paper and cute pictures!
You’ll have to excuse the fact that it’s a bit overexposed. I was holding the camera above it to get a straight down shot and I couldn’t look through the viewfinder. These pics are from January so they’re not exactly helping me with my goal, but they’re so cute! We thought about getting Kate a toddler camera for Christmas, but honestly they’re expensive and take crappy pictures. We gave her our waterproof camera (which happens to be shock proof as well) instead. Bonus? Free since we already owned it. She loves taking pictures and is getting quite good!
There’s so much adorable paper with cameras, but I could never figure out what to do with it. I was at a crop a few weeks ago when I came across these pictures and I just knew it was a match made in heaven. The “Fun-O-Meter” clenched the deal for me. (Paper and embellishments are largely The Escape by Little Yellow Bicycle. Also, some Thickers and October Afternoon letters, Bazill cardstock, gems and some washi tape.)
These pictures cracked me up because Kate insisted on holding the camera up to her eye even though there’s no viewfinder because that’s what I do.
I’m trying to decide between 2 designs for my blanket project. Excuse the *very* rough sketches. 🙂 The bits with the black scallops are seed stitch (bumpy) and the bits without (the middle) are stockinette (smooth). Preferences? Other ideas? I’m leaning toward the stripes personally, but I’m open to other designs. 🙂
Progress so far:
The girls wanted to do a project today do we’re gluing down pony beads. They’re doing the first letters of their names. It’s keeping them way happier than I thought it would. 🙂 Good for their fine motor too.
