What's New

Here's a few things we've got done this week:

First, I bought a few packs of large buttons on sale at WalMart this week, along with metallic glue sticks that my KL decided needed to be tried out- more specifically as new hair bows.

She picked out the ribbons, designs, and buttons for each.

Here's the first one, my first of this style boutique bow:

She very much loves pink. And really wanted to use the heart buttons.
(My husband was kind of happy with this one because it ended 2 different rolls of ribbon, he thinks I have too many.)

Here's the second:

She wanted to help with this one, however, when she did she shifted the layer of red loops so one is a little out of place, but she didn't mind so I don't mind. This one she chose the star ribbon because I "haven't used it in a while" (I've got some ribbons I've never used but she's worried about the one's that have been a while since used). Then she chose the yellow and red to match and the blue star just seemed perfect to finish it all off.

The metallic glue sticks weren't really all that impressive. The only time I could tell it was a metallic color was when I would use a large spot, and even then it was really just a little shimmer looking more than full on metallic looking- oh well, they were cheap (cheaper than a pack of regular).


After we made new bows we tried a science experiment/DIY art supply- turning run down markers into liquid water colors. Here's how they looked just about 10 minutes after adding the markers. I'll edit later to see how they look later- they're supposed to sit for about a week to pull all leftover ink out.

You can see the water already pulling the color out of them.

This is approximately 18 hours later:

(We had neon dry erase markers that left those colors with an almost cloudy look, we will have to see how those turn out.)

Before I'm completely done I will probably cut the ink tube out to get the most out of them, but for now we will let them sit like this for the directed week. I'll update this post, or make a new one, when they're all finished.

That's all for now,
Jo!

Flower Week Day 7, Ocean Week Day 6

I just realized I never posted these photos (sorry!). 

For ocean week on Saturday we took a hammer to a few rocks and chose our favorite jagged pieces and then threw them in a water bottle with some sand and water- all week long while at Papa and Grama's the girls are shaking the bottle (when they think about it) and then when they return we will pour out the water and sand and see how the rocks look. I don't have any picture of this experiment but I will post photos of the rocks when we look at them again. 

For the last day of flower week we did a very simple math craft. I gave them each 5 flower centers with numbers on them. 

Then, for KK, she made a multiplication to equal that and represented it on the page.
For KL, she counted that many petals and glued them on. 

I had them pick their flower centers randomly when we started, so of course KK got 3 different prime numbers!! She made those easy by just gluing 1 petal on each of those centers. 

(The 16 has 2 to the left side and 8 to the right, and the 3 and 4 of 12 kind of all ran together but I knew what she was doing.) 

KL got a little tired because she had a lot more gluing to do, so by the end she was counting them out and handing them to me to attach but she still did the counting. 

That's all for now,
Jo!