Wednesday, July 23, 2014

Crafting around: bath paints, snowflakes and wheelbarrow


Bath paints

I have been hearing about bath paints for toddlers for a while but only the other day plucked up the courage to try making them. It was mad fun. I followed the recipe from this website. Essentially the "paints" are just a mixture of soap, cornstarch and food dye. You can get a bit of the Jackson Pollack effect. And they make oodles of bubbles afterwards!



Snowflakes

Today my son came back from preschool with a big collection of tissue paper snowflakes. So we stuck some thread on them to make a nice hanging ornament for our kitchen doorway.



Wheelbarrow

Just to complete a productive afternoon we made a wheelbarrow with a Laughing Cow cheese box as wheel, a skewer as axle, some straws to connect to the barrow and a milk container for the barrow to carry Teddy. Those round boxes work pretty well as wheels.