Munchkins and Mayhem
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Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Paint Your Own Toast
Share & remember has a fun way to play with your food. They'll show you how to paint your toast using just milk, food coloring and some paint brushes. A good after school activity and snack combined.
Good for ages 3 and up.
Get the instructions here:
http://shareandremember.blogspot.com/2011/06/rainbow-painted-toast.html
Build a menu paints polka dots and swirls on her toast.
Get the instructions here:
https://www.buildamenu.com/blog/165/
Monday, January 30, 2012
Individual Mini Pinatas
Make It:
Check out these great ideas for creating the perfect mini pinata for a favor or gift.
Ruffled blog has the cutest idea for how to make individual pinatas using paper mache. Their idea is for wedding favors but they could easily be adapted for kids.
Good for ages 6 and up.
Get the instructions here:
http://ruffledblog.com/diy-mini-pinata-wedding-favors/
One charming party also has a mini pinata for kids tutorial using two white paper cones, tissue garland, ribbon and of course fun candy and prizes. She uses a hot glue gun but tape should work as well.
Get the instructions here:
http://onecharmingparty.com/2011/04/29/cinco-de-mayo-pinata/
Not martha makes individual pinatas using a balloon, laundry starch, and tissue paper.
Get the instructions here:
http://www.notmartha.org/tomake/tinypinata/
Refinery 29 shares very thorough instructions for 2 different pinatas and has a great idea for how to get the balloon to be a rounder shape - putting masking tape on the oblong end.
Get the instructions here:
http://www.refinery29.com/diy-pinatas/slideshow?page=1#slide-1
Studio diy share how to make a pinata using a square kleenex box as the base.
Get the instructions here:
http://www.studiodiy.com/2012/04/26/diy-mini-pinatas-for-cinco-de-mayo/
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Sunday, January 29, 2012
Artificial Pet Jellyfish
Bhoomplay has a video tutorial for how to make a jellyfish in a bottle and they look so real. All it takes is a plastic water bottle, a transparent plastic grocery bag (the thinner the better, like the ones used in the produce department) and some food coloring.
Good for ages 6 and up.
Get the instructions here:
http://bhoomplay.wordpress.com/2011/09/09/diy_jellyfish_eng/
Saturday, January 28, 2012
Paper Mache Bank
Smaller has the cutest idea for how to make a bank using paper mache. They call the money balls and start with an inflated balloon.
Good for ages 3 and up.
Get the instructions here:
http://smallmagazine.typepad.com/smaller/2010/02/heres--a-creative-way-to-encourage-saving-which-lets-face.html
Friday, January 27, 2012
Snowball Search Game
The amazing mess has the cutest idea for a game that brings the outdoors inside. Hide cotton balls (snowballs) throughout the house and then give each child an ice cube tray for collection, that way they'll know if they've found all of the snowballs.
Good for ages 3 and up.
Get the instructions here:
http://www.amazingmess.com/2012/01/indoor-snowball-hunt.html
Thursday, January 26, 2012
Colorful Thread Bowl
Elizabeth Andree shows how to make a beautiful bowl out of colored yarn and paste. Your kids will love getting messy with the paste and love the pretty bowl they made as well. Unfortunately her site is no longer available.
Good for ages 3 and up.
Good for ages 3 and up.
Eighteen 25 has similar yarn bowl instructions as well.
http://www.eighteen25.blogspot.com/2010/03/yarn-baskets.html
http://www.eighteen25.blogspot.com/2010/03/yarn-baskets.html
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
How to Make a Bouncing Ball
about.com's chemistry guide has instructions for how to make a polymer bouncing ball. Once again, the main ingredient, as with most of the science projects is borax. Beyond that it's just cornstarch and glue and some food coloring to make it pretty.
Good for ages 7 and up.
Get the instructions here:
http://chemistry.about.com/od/demonstrationsexperiments/ss/bounceball.htm
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Candy Cane Science Experiment
Candy experiments shows yohow to see the colors that make up a candy cane. All you need is a shallow dish of water and a candy cane and the stripes of the candy cane will slowly melt into the water.
Good for ages 4 and up.
Get the instructions here:
http://www.candyexperiments.com/2011/12/candy-cane-stripes.html
Monday, January 23, 2012
Make a Snowman Out of Soap
Mama in Wonderland has a really cute idea for making a snowman out of soap. The main ingredient is a grated bar of white soap.
Good for ages 4 and up.
Get the instructions here:
http://mamainwonderland.blogspot.com/2011/12/yet-another-easy-holiday-craft-for-kids.html
Crafts and crap uses a clear soap bottle.
Get the instructions here:
http://craftsandcrap.blogspot.com/2010/12/snowman-hand-sanitizer.html
Sunday, January 22, 2012
How to Make a Snow Globe
Make It:
Ask listen learn show you how to make a snow globe using glass jars, glitter and virtually any small plastic object.
Good for ages 5 and up.
Get the instructions here:
http://www.asklistenlearn.com/blog/make-your-own-snow-globe
Design mom shares photo snowglobes. She "laminates" the photos by placing them between clear packing tape before inserting and adds grated pvc pipe for the "snow."
Get the instructions here:
http://www.designmom.com/2010/12/diy-photo-snowglobes/
My so called crafty life uses plastic wine glasses and scrap booking paper for a pretty base.
Get the instructions here:
http://www.mysocalledcraftylife.com/2012/11/06/diy-vintage-inspired-bell-jar-ornaments/
Six in the suburbs uses glass jars, small trinkets, glitter, distilled water and glue.
Get the instructions here:
http://sixinthesuburbsblog.blogspot.com/2011/11/home-made-snow-globes.html
Apartment therapy uses mason jars to make giant snow globes. The good thing about these is that you can fit a lot more items into them.
Get the instructions here:
http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/how-to-make-mason-jar-snow-globes-apartment-therapy-tutorials-181673
Babble dabble do calls her version winter terrariums.
Get the instructions here:
http://babbledabbledo.com/mini-winter-terrariums/
The pink doormat includes just snow using glitter glue and snowflake cut outs.
Get the instructions here:
http://thepinkdoormat.blogspot.com/2013/11/mason-jar-snow-globe.html
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Saturday, January 21, 2012
Paper Lantern for the Chinese New Year
Kiboomu has details on how to create a paper lantern for the Chinese new year. It's tradition that the celebrations begin with a lantern festival. Each color means something different.
Red: Good fortune
Pink: Romance
Peach: Opportunities
Orange: Money
Yellow: Success
White: Health
Green: Growth
Blue: Hope
Purple: IdealismEveryone chooses the color that shows their wishes and writes down a written message on the lantern itself.
Good for ages 6 and up.
Get the instructions here:
http://www.kiboomu.com/2012/01/19/chinese-new-year-paper-lantern-craft/
Friday, January 20, 2012
Squishy Balloon Birthday Party Favors
A cute send off for a ballooned themed party is to make squishy balloon people. Simply fill a balloon with playdoh or sand and draw on some cute faces.
We made that gives a step by step account and adds googly eyes to her version.
Balloon Birthday Present: Balloon Birthday Party
Balloons make for a creative gift wrapping for a fun birthday present.
Choose craftiness has a really innovative idea for making balloons into a very special birthday gift. She recommends placing dollars and special notes into blown up balloons and then tying and mailing them. Kids will have so much fun receiving a box of balloons and even more fun popping them to find all of the gifts inside.
Get the instructions here:
http://choosecraftiness.blogspot.com/2012/01/birthday-balloons.html
Be different act normal has a similar idea adding confetti to the balloons as well.
Get the instructions here:
http://www.bedifferentactnormal.com/2012/05/money-balloons-gift-wrap.html
11 cupcakes shares how to make the balloon packaging really cute.
Get the instructions here:
http://11cupcakes.com/2011/07/25/gift-wrapping-balloon-pop-2/
Increasingly domestic hangs the balloons up to be popped in the air.
Get the instructions:
http://increasinglydomestic.blogspot.com/2011/04/very-extra-special-happy-birthday.html
Balloon Filled Favors
The gunny sack fills balloons with candy and then blows them up and decorates with markers. A really creative balloon favor idea.
Get the instructions here:
http://www.thegunnysack.com/2013/03/easter-basket-filler-idea-balloon-egg-pinata.html
Balloon Favor Bags
Domestic goddesque simply ties a helium balloon onto the favor bags for a really pretty favor.
Get the instructions here:
http://domesticgoddesque.com/2012/03/rainbow-themed-birthday-party/
Another idea is to make hot air balloon favors placing goodies in the basket.
Original image here (source unknown):
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Balloon Candy Favors
Turnstall times has a very cute way of turning a giant pixie stick into a balloon party favor by simply taping on a cutout balloon and writing a short note.
Get the instructions here:
http://tunstalltimes.blogspot.com/2011/08/classroom-pictures-part-2-d-o-n-e.html
Balloon Messages: Balloon Birthday Party
Get the instructions here:
http://www.thedatingdivas.com/just-the-two-of-us/birthday-floats/
The thinking closet places notes inside blown up balloons and leaves them as a surprise.
Get the instructions here:
http://www.thinkingcloset.com//2013/02/05/the-art-of-the-surprise-note/
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