As soon as one holiday ends, Adrian is anxious to begin plans for the next. Valentine's Day is always a special day with us, we usually make a cake or cupcakes and make each other little cards. This was a project I saw on Pinterest via
The Peanut Paint Shop, (check it out, real fun) but I wanted to do a simpler (or FREE, with stuff we already had in the art. dept.)version.
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| Here is Adrian painting the black-n-pink combo heart ( his favorite color combination this week) |
Adrian made two extra watery water color paintings on thick-ish plan white paper. Then he used a template I made out of card stock to trace and cut out four hearts. (I helped round off the hearts when he was finished)
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| covering the hearts in colored sugar (the best part) | | | | | |
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The I wrote everyone in the family's name in Elmer's Glue and Adrian covered the glue-hearts in red sugar. We chose red sugar because we didn't have glitter. I think glitter would be really fun. (To color sugar add a few drops of liquid food coloring to plan white sugar in a container with a lid and then shake around. Easy Peasy Lemon Squeezy.)
Then we let the sugar "soak in". Then A shook away the sugar to reveal our names! He thought that was cool. I thought it was messy, but oh well. After everything was dry, we attached the hearts to one another and TA-DA!
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| I think it's adooorable |
It's cute, he's proud of it, and I used what I had. That's my kind of kids craft!
Nothing else to exiting going on around here really. A few colds, a few tantrums, the norm. Oh,...and this happened:
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| He thinks he looks like a ninja. |
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| Not to be left out, Adrian had it stretched over Sawyer's face, too- but Sawyer no-likey. He actually looks a bit concerned in this picture. |
