Crafts

The weather lately has been rainy and grey, so much so that it inspired this fun raindrop kids craft.

It’s easy to get down when the weather is so dreary, so instead of feeling mopey, we started crafting.

The day instantly got better. Instead of moping about the rainy day, we celebrated it instead.

 

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Supplies Needed:

Paper
Liquid watercolors
Cardboard or wood (something to clip your paper to)
Clothespins
Thin cardboard (cereal or cracker box)
Scissors
Hole punch
String
Stick

How to make your raindrop kids craft

To set up the project, you will need to clip your paper to your cardboard or wood.

Put something underneath to catch your drips; the paint will drip all the way to the floor. We just used an old sheet.

You can use any kind of paper for to paint. We have an over-abundance of legal-size copy paper, so that is what we used. Use copy paper, card stock, watercolor paper, construction paper, or any white paper.

Load up your paint brush with blue liquid water color and start smooshing it onto the paper.

This was definitely the girls’ favorite part. They loved watching the patterns form when the paint dripped down.

Once you are satisfied with your painting, stop and let them dry.

While your paint is drying, cut a raindrop-shaped stencil out of your cereal box.

Trace several raindrop shapes on your dry painting and cut them out.

How many you cut will depend upon the length of your stick. You will want enough to go all the way across your stick. We only needed 6 raindrops.

Punch a hole at the top of each raindrop and run your string through.

Tie the string to your stick. Our raindrops were tied approximately 2 inches apart.

Hang your raindrops at different lengths or all the same length, depending on the look you prefer.

Once we were done we propped our mobile up on a shelf so that our raindrops dangled down.

You could also add additional string to the top of the stick for hanging on the wall or from the ceiling.

The next time gray and rainy weather is getting you down, try making a fun raindrop kids craft. It’s guaranteed to make your day better!

Spring was a very, VERY, long time in coming to Minnesota this year.

It was cold and snowy all through April and winter said a final good-bye by dumping over a foot of snow on us in early May. Yuck.

So in order to celebrate the arrival of warm and sunny weather, we made these fun tie-dye suns.

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Supplies Needed:

Coffee filters
Orange, yellow, & red washable markers
Spray bottle of water
Clear contact paper

For the first step, make fun swirly designs on your coffee filters with your markers. You’ll need about three coffee filters for each sun.

You don’t want to color in the entire coffee filter. Instead draw swirls, zigzags, or other fun designs.

Once you are pleased with your designs, spray your decorated coffee filters with water.

Get them completely wet, but don’t over-saturate them.

Now, watch your colors spread out . When we had wet our filters we were pleasantly surprised to see the tie-dye affect.

After your coffee filter have dried, fold two of them in half and then half again.

Keep folding until you have a pie-shaped wedge.

Unfold, then cut along your creases. You will have eight wedges per filter.

Make sure you keep one whole for the center of your sun.

Cut a piece of contact paper large enough for your suns.

Tape the contact paper to your table sticky side up and lay your coffee filter and wedges down to form a sun and its rays.

Seal your sun with another piece of contact paper cut to the same size. Cut around your sun, but make sure you leave a sealed edge.

Now you have a beautiful sun to say hello to spring!

P.S. Please ignore the dirty windows. The girls have been drawing with window markers almost every day lately!