Showing posts with label crafts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label crafts. Show all posts

Thursday, September 1, 2011

The Mermaid Room!!!

Abby has been asking me to paint a mermaid on her walls for a while now, and I finally decided to do it.  As you well know, our kid is terrified of sharks and usually thinks they are coming to get her around bedtime.  We decided to paint her magical bubbles and a mermaid to keep the sharks away as she sleeps in her little boat at night.  

Abby is ecstatic about how it turned out!  It's hard to tell from the photos but there are jewels and glitter everywhere!  When she saw the finished room, she wrapped her little arm around mine and told me I was her friend.  The ultimate toddler compliment, huh?

The room before we took down the flowers and old curtain.
You can barely see the pencil sketch of the mermaid in the works.


1st Layer of Paint

Finished Room Complete With Pergo Floors- Yay!!!
(You can see she is out cold from all the day's activity.)

View 2 of Finished Room
Lastly the Finished Mermaid
You can kind of see how shimmery everything is here.  It's so girly- I love how it turned out!

Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Gloomy Day Craft

One of my New Year's resolutions is to do more fun art projects with Abby.  Here's one we did today.
Construction Paper Sun Catcher.
Simple and quick since most toddlers have the attention span of a gnat.

Craft Materials

Tearing up paper
Excited Lil' Crafter!
Torn Paper Waiting For Use
Working on her Sun Catcher
Checking It Out Before We Cut Out Hearts
Admiring Her First Heart
Collecting Her Hearts 
Pausing for a Delicious Toasted Peanut Butter, Marshmallow, Chocolate Sandwich 
Not Too Bad for a Toddler Sun Catcher 
Our Sun Catcher Menagerie


Here's the book if you are interested in trying it out yourself.
I hope to post more fun projects soon!  There are tons more to try.

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