Rainbow and Pot of Gold

Rainbow Finger Prints & Pot of Gold

This was a fun St. Patrick's Day Craft I did with my kids. 

Materials:

• White & Black Construction Paper
• Paints (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple)
• Glue; stick & liquid
• Gold Glitter

Directions:

1. Have all materials ready. I put a small amount of each of the colors of paint on a paper plate so they were ready for the little fingers. 
2. Cut a pot out of the black paper. Glue it towards the bottom and one side of the white paper. 
3. Starting with the red paint, make finger prints in a rainbow shape. Continue with the other colors in the order of the rainbow. Wash your hands between each color. 
4. If you would like you can add some fingerprint shamrocks around the rainbow. 
5. Using the liquid glue, spread some around the top of your pot. Sprinkle the gold glitter on the glue. 
6. Keep your artwork laying flat to dry. Hang it up!

Shamrock "Stained Glass"

By Makenna (2)

This is a fun way for your kids to help decorate for St. Patrick's Day!

Materials:

• Wax paper
• Tissue paper (greens, yellows)
• Liquid glue
• Water
• Bowl
• Paint brush
• Permanent marker
• Scissors

Directions:

1. Take a half sheet of each color of tissue paper. Fold up and cut into 1 inch square pieces. Does not need to be a perfect square.
2. Take a piece of wax paper and draw shamrocks with a permanent marker.
3. Mix about one teaspoon of water with one tablespoon of glue together in a bowl.
4. Paint an area of the shamrock with the glue mixture and layer on a few colors of tissue paper. Paint the glue over the top of the tissue paper. Continue until the shamrocks are covered completely. 
5. Let the glue dry and then cut out the shamrocks.
6. Hang it on a window to look like stained glass art.

Tips:

• You can use some of these same steps to make other pictures for any time of the year. For example; flowers, stars, pumpkins, snowmen.

Painting Mess Free

My sister did this with her kids for Easter. So Cute!

Materials:

• Canvas
• Paints
• Plastic wrap
• Newspaper
• Paint brush 
• Black permanent marker

Directions:

1. Have all of your materials out and ready to use. Put the canvas on newspaper.
2. Squirt dots of paint on the canvas.
3. Place plastic wrap on top of the paint and wrap it around the edges of the canvas.
4. Let your child rub the paint around. Having the plastic wrap over the paints makes this safe and mess free for little fingers.
5. After the canvas is all painted, peal the plastic wrap off and let it dry.
6. To make the bunny footprints, have your child sit in a chair with clean feet.
7. Paint one foot with white paint. Make sure it is thick so you get the whole footprint.
8. Stamp the foot on the canvas so their toes are pointing down and there is space for the ears above the heal.
9. Do the last 2 steps with the other foot or another child's foot. If you have more kids just add 1 foot for each of them.
10. To add the ears to each bunny, use a paint brush to paint the white long ears first. After that drys a little, add a center pink stripe for the inside of the ears. Use that same pink paint and add a small dot in the center of the heal for the bunny nose.
11. Once all of the paint is dry you can add the details. Use the black permanent marker to draw a face, write Happy Easter, and add names and ages by each foot.
12. Hang your canvas and cherish those little toes or you could even give this as a gift.

Tips/Variations:

• You could do the mess free painting for any occasion and with any colors of paint. 
• If you do hand or foot prints be ready to clean them off between each. 
• If your canvas is small enough you could put it into a zip lock bag for the mess free painting. 

Bunny Kids Painting

I loved how easy this was. My kids had so much fun doing some finger painting with this project.

Materials: 

• Small Canvas
• Washable Paints
• Stiff Paint Brush 
• Bunny Stencil
• White Paint

Directions:

1. Get all of your materials out and ready and cover your painting surface when you have kids doing the finger painting. 
2. Paint the whole canvas with all of the colors you chose. Use light colors first, like yellow. If the colors start to mix to much they will turn brown. 
3. Let it dry completely. 
4. Pick the spot you would like to put your stencil. Tape one edge down with painters tape. 
5. Use a stiff paint brush to paint in the stencil using a tapping motion. Do not have a lot of paint on the brush and be gentle so the brush does not get pushed under the edges of the stencil.
6. Pull the stencil off when you are done painting.
7. Let dry and enjoy the artwork through the season. 

Tips/Variations:

• You could use many different paint colors and stencil shapes for this project. For Example; red, white and blue with a star, greens with a shamrock, kids favorite colors with their initials, etc...

First Post!

HELLO! My name is Tasha. I am starting this blog to share some great DIY (Do It Yourself) projects. I am excited to get started on some of my long waited projects! It will be a fun process and I hope you enjoy doing your projects too!😃