Showing posts with label crafts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label crafts. Show all posts

Friday, April 23, 2010

Enchanted Lanterns

An blustery evening back in December two boys took their little lanterns out for a stroll in the park.



A little hike through the ferns

And a flameless tea light flickered to life a fanged spider

A starry sky

A cruise ship on the high seas

And added a bit of mystery to a leaf covered field.




If you want to make these little lanters you'll need:

an empty baby food jar
colorful paper
an exact o knife
a vivid imagination
some jewelry wire
mixture of beads
glue
flame-less tea lights

I sized up the paper to the jar and cut out a strip long enough to cover the baby food jar. Then used the exact-o knife to cut out whatever the boys wanted. Ethan prefered a spider (with fangs), a cruise ship, and a camp fire with marshmallows and a bee (with stinger...see a trend here?) Jacob asked for a sky with wind and stars. Once I had those cut and used a bit of mod-podge glue I glued the paper to the jar . The I wrapped the jewelry write around the neck of the baby food jar a few times for good measure and created a handle. I let the boys string their own beads and once they were done I secured it to the neck of the jar. Popped in a flame-less tea light and set forth for enchantment!

Thursday, April 22, 2010

Sensational Vintage Magnet Board

I saw this idea on another blog and changed it a bit to my own liking.

I started with a metal grease drip pan from Wal-Mart. The sucker was huge but it made it large enough for both my kids to stand and create at it at the same time.

A few vintage books I found at a local antique mall for a buck each!


*Book lovers beware* I (so nicely and gently) ripped out the pages


This blew me away- copyrighted 1887!


Beautiful handwriting pages


I then lined the drip pan with the torn pages and mod-podged the heck outta them!



Then I neglected to take pictures of the next step- but I found some scrabble like squares at Michael's along with some round magnets and I hot glued them to each other


I found these two pressed leaves in the book and had to include it on my board.


Viola- Alphabet Magnet board!


Hung with a ribbon at boy sized height!


Sensational Vintage