What does the writer do when she can’t write? She gets crafty!
Expect that I am not crafty in the least bit, which is rather embarrassing to admit as the daughter of an elementary school teacher. Growing up our living room was always riddled with colored construction paper clippings, we saved toilet paper rolls for God’s knows what and I got roped into tracing letters for bulletin board displays all the time.
And yet, for no apparent reason, I found myself in Michael’s arts and crafts store today, where I spent the better part of an hour walking up and down the aisles filling an entire shopping cart. I bought all kinds of stuff I never thought would enter my home…. pipe cleaners, glitter glue and googly eyes.
I have been feeling like I should be doing more arts and crafts projects with Lucas at home and with the holidays approaching and my severe addiction to Pinterest, I have been running across so many cute ideas.
There are literally hundreds of things I’d like to try, but today we stuck with this simple little gem:
Okay, to be fair, I made it and Lucas made this (he’s only two, people), but he thoroughly enjoyed sampling the candy corn!
To make candy corn collage, you will need:
- Card stock paper
- Glue
- White, orange and yellow tissue paper
Instructions:
- Draw a large triangle on card stock and divide into three parts (use an actual piece of candy corn for inspiration).
- Rip tissue paper into 1/2″ x 1/2″ square pieces and use eraser side of pencil to glue to triangle making the stripes of the candy corn.
We are turning our candy corn collages into greeting cards. Fun and easy, just not quite easy enough for two year olds.
For more candy corn craft ideas, visit Pinterest.
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Love that project! When I was a teacher I would do stuff like this all the time with my class. The kids would love it!
It was a very fun afternoon! And now I have a ton of supplies for more arts & crafts. 🙂
That looks really cool. I may try this with the kids too, they love crafts, me not so much 🙂
I was surprised, I actually really got into it.
Fun! That looks like about my level of complicatedness. 🙂
Connor, being a year older than Lucas could do this no problem!
I am the most craft-challenged person on the planet, I’m not even sure I can pull off what you made there, simple as it looks!
Great job Tonya and Lucas!
Thanks, we had a lot of fun. I like Lucas’ piece better than mine though. 🙂
Cute and fun! 🙂
Thanks! We had a good time and I look forward to making more things with my little guy.
This is such a cute idea! Love it!
We had a really fun afternoon and now I have an entire bin of glitter and paper and other stuff for future projects.
I promise not to blog about them all.
So cute! See, you’re craftier than you thought…thank goodness for Pinterest, right?
All the candy corn talk yesterday inspired me! And no surprise, Lucas loved the little triangle-shaped sugar candy. 🙂
Very cute! You and Lucas should keep it up!
My girls love doing crafts, and I have a stock of rip tissue paper, glitter, paper, stickers, pipe cleaners and…, well you know! : )
I even have a pen holder on my office made out of a toilet paper roll and Luc has a pile of stuff in his office that the girls made for him! Please don’t laugh!
What’s challenging for me is that I’m totally unable to throw their craft-work away! Help!!!
Yes, I can see how that will be a problem. Our refrigerator door is already covered with things Lucas has brought home from school.
I love Michaels. I can spend so much time and money in that store. If I ever decide to do a craft with my kids again I think I’ll try this, seems easy to do.
Aww, love it! And now, that candy corn art is hanging up in my kitchen this very minute! Good for you for trying to be more crafty with Piggy!
I have this weird obsession. I buy arts and crafts supplies all the time, but rarely use any of them. But, if you want to know what doing crafts with an almost 5 year old boy might be like, read my newest post! 🙂
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