I’ve been totally slacking on my Pinterest projects lately.
I keep accumulating good ideas but never seem to bring them to fruition.
Finally two weeks ago, Forest was having a bad asthma day so I decided it was time to get
our craft on. The boy loves painting as well as all of the characters from Sesame
Street so when I saw this idea floating around on Pinterest I collected all the
supplies for a rainy (or asthmatic) day.
Its pretty simple. All you need is:
-Construction paper (a multi-pack depending on which character you want to do. We did Elmo and Cookie Monster so only needed orange, white, and black.)
-Washable Paints in whatever colors your monsters are.
We used Crayola Washable Paints in primary colors yellow, blue, green, and red.
-Toddler Paint Brushes.
-A pack of cheapo white paper plates. I just needed 4 of
these but unfortunately Target was only selling them in packs of 200 so I now
have basically a lifetime supply.
-Scissors.Toddler scissors if your little one has the dexterity to use them and wants to 'help', but I just did this part on my own.
-Glue Stick.
I let Forest paint the
paper plates in their individual colors while I got the mouths and eyes ready
to glue on.
I didn’t use a stencil and
just eye-balled and free handed the proportions I needed. Then once the paint
was dry on his paper plates I had him help me glue the features onto them.
He
was instantly OBSESSED and asks to ‘hold cookie’ and 'paint plates!' all the time. It was fairly
simple and since I have several white paper plates left over I have a couple of
similar crafts in mind for the upcoming holidays. Like how cute are these turkeys???
Totally doing it. Any of you creative readers have other ideas for what to do with 196 paper plates?
P.S. Forest’s asthma is doing sooooooooooo much better (and I probably just jinxed it by typing that) but we were able to get it under control with a few days on Claritin which we much prefer to his inhalers. Praise Jesus!
Totally doing it. Any of you creative readers have other ideas for what to do with 196 paper plates?
P.S. Forest’s asthma is doing sooooooooooo much better (and I probably just jinxed it by typing that) but we were able to get it under control with a few days on Claritin which we much prefer to his inhalers. Praise Jesus!
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