Coloring noodles for crafts
Noodles with holes in center
Rainblow Paper Plates
2 paper plates (for each project)
Bubble Fun Pictures
Put some water in a plastic cup. Squeeze a little
liquid soap and 3 or 4
Gulf Ball Painting
A shoebox lid
Take and put the shoebox lid on your table.Place
a white piece of paper
Coffee Filters
1 package of pre-sweetened Koolaide, any color
1 envelope unflavored gelaton
Foil
bottle of alcohol
colors of food coloring
Put noodles in a container.Add enough alcohol to
cover noodles. Now add
the food coloring of your favorite colors you want
to use. All noodles
must be completely covered with both ingredients.
The longer they are
in the solution, the brighter your colors will be.
When at right color
for you, take out of bowls and dry and paper towels.
Let dry. They are
ready for stringing or glue(ing). Have fun!
Colored cellephane paper
Glue
Cut out a large circle in the middle of 2 paper plates.
Glue the colored
cellophane paper to cover the hole on one plate,
and then glue the two
plates together. Fun, sun-catcher.
White construction paper
Liquid Dish Soap
Food Coloring
Straws
Water
drops of food coloring inside the cup. It should
be your favorite color.
Now, put the straw in the cup and blow into it. If
you press a piece of
white paper on top of the cup quickly before the
bubles pop you can make
a picture on the white paper. And it's lot's of fun!
A gulf ball
paint
White paper
inside the shoebox lid. Place the gulf ball in a
color of paint (in a
bowl). With a spoon, gently lift the gulf ball out
of the paint.Place
the gulf ball on the white paper in the box lid.
Grab both sides of the
lid and let the golf ball roll around and make a
wonderful marbelized
picture to hang and brag on. You can use several
different colors.
Coffee Filter Butterflies
Pipe Cleaners
Colored Markers
Take the coffee filters and let the kids decorate
with markers. Pinch
together in the center and tie with a pipe cleaner.
Eztend the pipe
cleaners to be an antennae. Fan out each side and
you now have a
beautiful butterfly! Enjoy!
KoolAide Picture Painting
Liquid Dishwashing detergent
Glue
Stiff Paper
Children create any design on a paper with glue.
Clip the koolaide
package. Sprinkle koolaide over glue. The koolaide
will turn from white
powder to bright wonderful colors. Let dry.
Plastic Jello Fun
3 tablespoons water
food coloring
In a pan over medium heat, cook the gelatin, water
and food coloring.
Stir constantly until dissolved. Remove from heat.
Pour mixture into a
plastic coffee can type lid. You may add sequins,etc.
while wet. Let dry
1 to 2 days until hard. Lift when edges are hard.
Can be cut with
scissors, punched with a hole for a suncatcher, etc.....
Foil Art
Paints
Brushes
For a different kind of textured fun, let your children
paint on pieces
of foil. It show pretty when in different colors.
Many crafts can be
made by glue(ing) their painted foil art onto posterboard
and displayed
for their parents and grandparents.