Simply Crafty: Recycled Crafts

Thursday, June 9, 2011

Caterpillars * Recyclable Craft

I love recyclable crafts.

And even more I love the look on their faces when I set something like an egg Carton in front of them and tell them we're making Caterpillars. Have to love the "Huh ? ?" look.

Super easy craft, take the bottom of an egg carton, cut in half and hand a half to each kiddo.

Than let them paint away . . .

They can take the Kasen route and mix all the colors !

Or the Taelor route and make a pretty rainbow

After they were done painting, I put them outside to dry, didn't take long here with the Tucson heat today.

After they're dry attach two googly eyes to the front. Next, for the antennas I simply cut a pipe clean in half, twisted around a pen and poked through the top of the egg carton. Easy Peasy .

We're in bug heaven over here ever since I got the boys bug catchers from the Dollar Store and these were perfect to feed into their Bug Lovin' .

Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Mom, where's the orange crayon ? ?

I know all you moms have heard that before

Here in the Simply Crafty house, I hear that a lot during homework time.

Like the other day when Taelor needed a green crayon to draw three trees and I swear he spent more time looking through the crayon tub for the right shade of green than drawing the trees.

So that got me thinking. . .

How could I put all the crayons on display without it looking

messy on our kitchen table ? ?

Ta Da ! ! Our new beautiful Crayon Organizer

It all started with one little tomato sauce can.

While I was making dinner one night, after I had rinsed out the can and went to throw it away . . ding . . . off went my crafty light bulb.

After using and cleaning seven more cans, I painted each one with acrylic paint and clear coated them . . . I painted the can

red - orange - yellow - green - blue - purple - pink - white

Than I screwed them to a 11" by 6.5" piece of wood . . . simple enough :)
Than I organized the crayons into the coordinating cans :)