Showing posts with label 4th of July. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 4th of July. Show all posts
Sunday, July 4, 2010
Thursday, July 1, 2010
4th of July Crafty Round Up
Here is a quick look back at some of our 4th of July creations! Hope you all have wonderful weekend!
Wednesday, June 30, 2010
Firework Centerpiece
This project was quite learning experience for me!
Spray glue and glitter don't go together well, at least for me.
Tape works so much better than glue.
Stickers don't stick on glitter, go figure.
With that said I am thrilled with how our fireworks came out!
This would be a fantastic project for the 4th of July!
Start with a toilet paper tube - we sprayed it with glue and added glitter. Ugh. If you are going to go the glitter route I would suggest just painting on good ole' Elmer's White School Glue. Then your fingers probably won't have glitter permanently stuck to them. Or you could use markers, crayons or paint and decorate away!
Next step - construction paper strips and star stickers! Of course you could skip the stickers and go straight for the glitter!
Now things got a bit tricky for me. I started off gluing each strip inside the tube and that wasn't working very well so I decided to line all the strips up a little wonky and tape them all together. Then I added a bit of glue to the tape, rolled it up and stuck it in the tube!
I am sure you will be much smarter than me on this one too and not roll it so all the stickers are facing down. Ugh. So we had to go back and add stickers to the other side of the strips too!
The USA letter stickers aren't really sticking but they still look great!
Spray glue and glitter don't go together well, at least for me.
Tape works so much better than glue.
Stickers don't stick on glitter, go figure.
With that said I am thrilled with how our fireworks came out!
This would be a fantastic project for the 4th of July!
Start with a toilet paper tube - we sprayed it with glue and added glitter. Ugh. If you are going to go the glitter route I would suggest just painting on good ole' Elmer's White School Glue. Then your fingers probably won't have glitter permanently stuck to them. Or you could use markers, crayons or paint and decorate away!
Next step - construction paper strips and star stickers! Of course you could skip the stickers and go straight for the glitter!
Now things got a bit tricky for me. I started off gluing each strip inside the tube and that wasn't working very well so I decided to line all the strips up a little wonky and tape them all together. Then I added a bit of glue to the tape, rolled it up and stuck it in the tube!
I am sure you will be much smarter than me on this one too and not roll it so all the stickers are facing down. Ugh. So we had to go back and add stickers to the other side of the strips too!
The USA letter stickers aren't really sticking but they still look great!Tuesday, June 29, 2010
Red, White & Blue Swirls
Remember those tye-dye-riffic cookies we made... LAST YEAR. Well it was time to break out the recipe again but go for a bit more of a patriotic look.
Can I state for the record I LOVE the 4th of July. Sure maybe it has a lot to due with my birthday being the 2nd and possibly me thinking for my entire childhood that the parades and fireworks were in my honor. Whatever. But I do truly love red, white and blue. So pretty. So festive. I ♥ it!
Can I state for the record I LOVE the 4th of July. Sure maybe it has a lot to due with my birthday being the 2nd and possibly me thinking for my entire childhood that the parades and fireworks were in my honor. Whatever. But I do truly love red, white and blue. So pretty. So festive. I ♥ it!
Okay back to the cookies. This time Madison was much more involved and excited to be working in the kitchen with mommy.
She added ingredients.
She colored the dough.
She stacked it all in the fridge.
And then she chose to do nothing until the cookies were ready to eat. So I rolled the balls.
And formed the cookies.
Miss Maddie came back for the eating part.You can find the original recipe at The Secret is in the Sauce.
Monday, June 29, 2009
A Patriotic Muffin Tin Monday!
Today's Muffin Tin Monday theme is Red, White and Blue or Patriotic or The 4th of July! To be completely honest I had no idea until this morning, I thought today was an anything goes day. And of course I have to go grocery shopping this week so things were sort of thrown together!
Top: chocolate chip ice cream with strawberry sauce, vanilla yogurt with red and blue sprinkles, julienned carrot fireworks
Bottom: frozen blueberries, peanut butter and jelly star sandwich, mini marshmallows
I told you I have to go shopping!
We did however have plenty of supplies in the house to make some 4th of July decorations!
On Sunday with a little help from daddy Mad made a contact paper star filled with red, white and blue sequins. A week ago or so we made the pipe cleaner fireworks mobile. Today we made a foam star swag for the front door along with a scrap paper collage star and a patriotic wind sock! I am planning on doing some more lacing tomorrow with some cardstock stars and ribbon.
Top: chocolate chip ice cream with strawberry sauce, vanilla yogurt with red and blue sprinkles, julienned carrot fireworks
Bottom: frozen blueberries, peanut butter and jelly star sandwich, mini marshmallows
I told you I have to go shopping!
We did however have plenty of supplies in the house to make some 4th of July decorations!On Sunday with a little help from daddy Mad made a contact paper star filled with red, white and blue sequins. A week ago or so we made the pipe cleaner fireworks mobile. Today we made a foam star swag for the front door along with a scrap paper collage star and a patriotic wind sock! I am planning on doing some more lacing tomorrow with some cardstock stars and ribbon.
Monday, June 15, 2009
Boom! Bang! Crash!
We have started our 4th of July crafts a little early! The current issue of Parents Magazine features some very cool pipe cleaner fireworks and Maddie was eager to start crafting!
Materials: pipe cleaners, glue, glitter
Optional Materials: paper plate, ribbon, thread or fishing line
I love the easy-peasy crafts and this is most definitely one of them! All you do is cut a few pipe cleaners in half and the proceed to dip the end in glue and then glitter. Then twiddle your thumbs for a bit while they dry.... Next up we used one pipe cleaner to bundle up 4 others (so that's 5 pipe cleaner halves per firework) and then we bent up the ends as desired.
I will admit Maddie thought they were spiders!
We decided to turn our fireworks into a mobile so I cut out the center of a paper plate and let Maddie color it with her glitter dotters. I used a hole punch to cut holes for the ribbon to hang the whole thing on and then a few extra holes to tie on the fireworks.
As an after thought...this is a great project for OUTSIDE! Then you won't be finding glitter all over your house for the next week, which unfortunately I will because I didn't think of that until we were done! Oops!
Materials: pipe cleaners, glue, glitterOptional Materials: paper plate, ribbon, thread or fishing line
I love the easy-peasy crafts and this is most definitely one of them! All you do is cut a few pipe cleaners in half and the proceed to dip the end in glue and then glitter. Then twiddle your thumbs for a bit while they dry.... Next up we used one pipe cleaner to bundle up 4 others (so that's 5 pipe cleaner halves per firework) and then we bent up the ends as desired.I will admit Maddie thought they were spiders! We decided to turn our fireworks into a mobile so I cut out the center of a paper plate and let Maddie color it with her glitter dotters. I used a hole punch to cut holes for the ribbon to hang the whole thing on and then a few extra holes to tie on the fireworks.BOOM! BANG! CRASH!
As an after thought...this is a great project for OUTSIDE! Then you won't be finding glitter all over your house for the next week, which unfortunately I will because I didn't think of that until we were done! Oops!
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