Hand Print Ballerina Tutus

This year for Razy's birthday we had a ballerina party.  We wanted to make it special and send each of the invited ballerinas home with a party favor.  What better than their very own tutu and a handprint tutu.  Want to make your own? Your in luck, they are super easy.

Supplies:

Stretched Canvas (or even paper)

Pink Card stock (or any color you would like

Two colors of pink (or any color you choose)

Ribbon

Hot glue

mod podge

lighter to burn ribbon edges

Lets Get Crafting:

1. Take your card stock and fold it in half to cut out n symmetrical leotard.  I actually found that doing this on a piece of paper and then tracing it onto the card stock was easier and you didn't get a line down your card stock. 

2. Mod podge one side of the card stock and lay it onto your canvas (or paper).

3. Using the light colored paint, paint your child's hands and have them press four times (twice for each hand) onto the canvas under the leotard for your tutu. 

4. After washing your child's hand, paint it in the darker color and place one print of each hand to make the tutu look fuller and have a little depth.  Let dry.

5.  Cut a piece of ribbon to fit across the bodice, above the tutu prints.  I like to burn the edges to keep from fraying to to make it look cleaner.  Hot glue the ribbon down.

5. Tie a bow, burn the tails and hot glue it onto the ribbon you already glued down. 

6.  Hot glue ribbon to the back of your canvas so you are able to hang it.

7.  Sit back and smile at how cute your project turned out.  Don't forget to write the date on the back so you remember how old your little one was when they made this cute project.

Day 3- Project Pinterest

Today's project made us all a little loopy.  You will see why once I tell you what we did.  The kids had alot of fun with this one and the nice thing about it was they were able to do a little on it and then take a break and come back to it. 

Today's Project Pinterest

Tie Dye with Sharpies

You will need:

Sharpies:  We omitted all the black, brown, and grey ones

Plastic Cup

Rubberband

Dropper (an old medicine dropper)

Rubbing Alcohol (90% or higher)

A prewashed light colored t shirt

  

Place your cup under your shirt and secure it with a rubberband.

Begin coloring on the shirt with your permanent marker.

The kids had fun drawing pictures. 

It really doesn't matter what they draw because the colors will all bleed together.

Using your eye dropper, fill it with rubbing alcohol and begin dropping drops onto the marker to begin the bleeding process. Allow it to sit and dry before moving onto the next drawing.  You can speed up the process by blowing on it or setting it outside to dry. 

We stopped to take a break and let all our circles dry. 

Once you are done you will want to put them in the dryer for 15 minutes to set the marker.  Do not put them in the dryer until they are COMPLETELY dry.  The alcohol is extremely flammable. Once you set the color you can wash them just like your other clothing.

And here are their masterpieces.

Can you say "CHEESE"?

Of course they have to ask me which on is my favorite.  And I was told I can not say them all.  I had to ignore that question becuase I knew it would start a fight.

We even had to make one for our new baby sister who will be arriving at the end of May!

Let me know if you make these and how they turn out.  I would love to see them.

Day 2- Project Pinterest

I was starting to think I made a mistake that we cancelled our "Stay"cation Destination after yesterday's weather.  However, this morning we were greeted with the pitter patter of rain drops on the roof.  The rain drops kept coming and coming.  After a trip to the store for the rest of our supplies for the week, we were ready to start our project.  Well I was.  The kids on the other hand had to re-earn the right to do their craft.  Luckily they did and we were ready for business.

Today's Project Pinterest

Homemade Bouncy Balls

You will need:

Borax (found in laundry section)

warm water

corn starch

glue (clear glue makes a see transparent ball and white glue makes an opaque ball)

2 plastic mixing cups

a stirring stick (plastic spoon)

food coloring (optional)

1. Label your two cups.  One with Borax and the other with Ball.

2. In your borax cup, add 2 TB warm water and 1/2 tsp of borax and dissolve.  Add food coloring.

3. In your Ball cup, add 1 TB glue.

4.  To your ball cup add 1 TB cornstarch and 1/2 tsp of borax mixture.  DO NOT STIR.

  Let it react for 10-15 seconds.

5.  Stir with your spoon.  When it becomes impossible to stir, take out and mold it in your hand.  It will be sticky at first, but as you knead it it will solidify.

6.  Keep rolling it in your hand until you have a sphere. 

7.  When you are done playing with them, store them in a plastic baggie.  They will only keep for a day or two before drying out. 

8.  Make sure you clean and wipe your work area thouroghly and have the kids wash their hands after making their balls. 

These are not like your typical bouncy balls.  They actually will bounce better on the carpet.  The kids had fun making them and playing with them eventhough they didn't get super high.  For a rainy day activity it was a success!



Project Pinterest and Easter Week

Sadly this year we aren't going to be doing our annual "Stay"cation Destination.  With gas prices being so high, 30 weeks pregnant, preparing for easter, and once again rain on the forcast, the cons outweighed the pros this year.  I still wanted to do something fun with the kids.  We decided that "Project Pinterest" was the answer. 



I have pinned over a thousands pins in the last year.  Somethings will just sit there for years and probably never get done.  However, I have also done quite a few things.  I have a couple of boards that I have pinned that would be fun for the kids.  So each day of spring break they get to choose a project they would like to do.  It can be a craft, a game, a learning thing, a recipe, etc.  After we complete each of our projects we will post them on here for you to see and try for yourself if you would like.


On top of "Project Pinterest", we are celebrating our week long Easter.  We did this last year and it went so well.  We focused on what Easter really means, instead of focusing on the Easter Bunny.  We still did Easter Eggs, and enjoyed candy, but the kids really learned alot and they have been talking about it again this year.  We all are really looking forward to Friday when we will be having our "Last Supper".  This was one of our favorite ways to celebrate Easter last year.   

So stay tuned for some fun, inside, ideas to try during spring break or any time.  And celebrate along with us in our week long Easter celebration.