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4th April 2012

Crafts

95 / 365 Paper Spring Flowers

Today we made paper spring flowers for our Easter Sunday, dinner table decorations.
I made some flower templates then drew round them on different coloured paper.
I cut them out then using the end of the closed scissors, scored each petal down the middle and folded them. I also cut out different coloured circles for the middle of each.

 

The girls then glued the circles in the middle of each flower….

 

smiled for the camera!….

 

then decorated the middles with rolled up tissue paper

 

Ella then took time out to learn how to balance a spoon on her nose, as shown to her by their friend who had come round to play.

 

This is today’s 365 photo
I made some stems from green paper by folding about a centimetre in from the edge then folding it over and over about 5 or 6 times. I them covered them in sellotape to give them extra strength.
I’d saved some meat paste jars earlier in the year, thinking they’d make nice little vases for the Easter table and I was right! We filled them with micro eggs (well I filled 2 of them because the kids had eaten the other bags of eggs I’d bought and now I have to get more!) and put the stems in. I taped some Easter ribbon round the top to disguise the screw part of the glass.
I taped the flowers onto the stems……
and ended up with this lovely little vase of Easter spring flowers, perfect for our Easter dining table 🙂
Tomorrow we’re going to make hanging Easter Eggs out of tin foil for the main table decoration.
Crafts

Calm Jars

I saw these on Pinterest and had to have a go when someone made them for the Pin Addicts challenge last month.

 

However, I didn’t have any pink or blue food colouring, glitter glue or tubes of glitter as the girls had used them all on Monday so I figured I’d try it with the only glittery thing we had left; glitter paint.
We’ve got gold, silver and pink glitter paint and the gold only had about one quarter left so I thought I’d try that.

I filled a jar with hot water from the tap then squeezed in the gold paint. It looked like a sparkly gold worm lying at the bottom of the jar and I felt sure it wasn’t going to work. I gave it a good shake anyway and was delighted to find it worked perfectly 🙂

No need for glitter glue, extra glitter or food colouring. The colouring in the paint colours the water and the paint makes the water thicker so the glitter floats nicely.

The girls LOVE it and KayCee asked if she could make a pink one so I saved her the next jar I emptied. Of course, Ella wanted to make one then so there’s a jar in the dishwasher for her for tomorrow! She’s going to make a silver one.

We also added warm water to the paint bottles, put the lid back and removed the label. The girls had a friend round to play today who also liked the calm jars so KayCee gave her the gold and pink paint bottle ones for her to take home for herself and her brother 🙂

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