Mothering Day Four: Crazy Crafty

In honor of Mother’s Day, I am posting a week’s worth of information on the things that I have started to do since I became a mother. Here are Day One, Day Two and Day Three.

It has been a while since my last Crazy Crafty post.  We have been just a little bit busy over the past few months with the pregnancy and moving.  But I have high hopes that I will get back into a pattern of crafting with my kids on a regular basis.

Here are some Easy Crafts to Do with Kids:

• GOOP- Mix 1 tsp of Borax with 6 Tbsp of water and stir to dissolve.  In another bowl, combine 1 Tbsp of glue and 1Tbsp of water.  You can add food coloring if you would like.  Then add 2 tsps of the Borax solution to the glue mixture until it forms a clump.  Pat it dry and knead it until it is pliable.  Punky loved making this and it lasts a long time since we kept it in the fridge.
  
• Paper Mache Covered Balloons- To make Paper Mache combine 1/2 cup flour, 2 cups cold water, 2 cups boiling water and 3 Tbsps sugar.  Mix together the flour and cold water.  Then add boiling water.  Stir in sugar.  The mixture will thicken as it cools down.  Cut strips of newspaper or you can even use tissue paper.  Blow up a ballon.  To cover the balloon, dip each piece of paper into the paper mache and place on the ballon.  After the entire ballon is covered, let it dry.  After it has dried, pop the balloon.  You can then decorate how ever you want.
• Rain Stick- This a great way to repurpose paper towel tubes.  Trace two circles that are larger than the end of the paper towel roll onto a piece of waxed paper.  Adhere one on to one end of the paper towel roll using a hot glue gun or a rubberband.  Take a long piece of tin foil and tightly roll into a snake.  Push it into the tube, zig zagging it back and forth to make it fit into the paper towel roll. Put some dried beans or popcorn kernels into the tube.  Cover the other end of the tube with the waxed paper circle and adhere.  Let your children decorate it however they want.  To play with it, turn the stick back and forth- it will sound like a gentle rain fall.
• Salt Dough Crafts- Combine 2 cups of flour, 1/2 cup of salt,  and 3/4 cup of hot water. Knead together and then form into whatever you would like.  You can roll it out to make ornaments, but make sure you make a hole a little larger than you will want for the hole to hang it from.  Then using a microwave-safe plate (not paper or cardboard), microwave for 1-4 minutes, one minute at a time until the dough looks done.  Let your craft cool before decorating it. You can also use this dough recipe to make handprints of your children.  This is a great craft for Christmas time.
  

Here are just a few that were a lot of fun to make together.  I’ll post more crafts in the days and months to come.

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