Craft Time - Streamers are Fun!

M came across a roll of crepe paper in my art/craft stash and was fascinated with it.  He made these fun streamers all on his own.  Well, I did have to help a bit with the taping, but the idea was completely his.


You need a roll of crepe paper, craft sticks, and some tape.  Cut 3 (or however many you want) long strips of the crepe paper, hold the ends of them on a craft stick and wrap masking tape around the whole thing until they are secure.  Finished!  Go play!

He made one of these for each member of the family and, I have to admit, they are pretty fun to play with! :)

Here is just how fun…













These are perfect for a breezy spring day!

They would be fun to twirl to music, wouldn’t they?

Have a beautiful, super-fun day! :)

Art Time – Self Portrait Collage

M’s crazy eyes.  In real life, they normally
look in the same direction. ;)

I loved this post over at Red Ted Art’s Blog about creating self-portraits.  I knew we’d have to try this, and was intrigued to see how M’s self-portrayal would change when he really examined himself in a mirror.

We decided to do a collage, but I’d like to re-visit this idea using paint or pencils.

There aren’t a lot of pictures to share because I was very involved in this art project, reminding M to look at his face, see how each feature looked, and helping him think of how to present that in his collage.

Here’s what we started with:A variety of colored paper, pencil, scissors, glue, mirror.

M wanted to do the eyes first, and reminded me that we needed black and white paper too, which I thought was very observant.  So off I went to get the black and white paper.

M has hazel eyes, and chose green for his collage eyes.  We talked a bit about the “iris” and the “pupil” a bit as he cut.  I have to say I did draw some of the smaller shapes for M to cut out, per his request.  He used a hole punch for the pupils.

He loves the hole puncher, and used it to make teeth too. It was taking too much work on my part to convince him that his teeth aren’t little white circles. :)

I also thought it was interesting that he saw his hair as light brown.  We get remarks about his blonde hair all the time, but I think being inside so much during the winter did cause it to darken a tiny bit.  He finally decided to use brown and then cut tiny yellow hairs to add to it (like highlights, hee hee).

The finished self-portrait:He was really tickled with himself when he added what he called a “snowman nose” to his face.  Goofy kid.

Not half as adorable as the real thing, but he was pretty proud of it!

I’m linking this up to Kids Get Crafty!

Have a beautiful day! :)