Life, Ramblings and Crafty Fun.
We had a playdate after work today. It’s been pouring cats and dogs lately (a new-to-Jaylene saying that makes her crack up laughing) but today was absolutely gorgeous, albeit a tad humid. I’m working on taking better pictures when at an event. It helped that Jayden was at home with his dad, because I was keeping my eye open for picture possibilities, not on chasing him.
When I was a kid, I loved to color. One of my favorite kinds of coloring pages were the mosaic types with symbols in the middle of the spaces to tell you what color it should be. For example, color all the ones with dots red, all the ones with a dash yellow. As you colored in the code a picture would “magically” appear. Jaylene and I have been following a similar concept in a drawing exercise.
First you scribble. I recommend that it be fairly open and use medium sized spaces. Too small or too large and it will be hard to see your picture.
Then look at your scribble from all angles until a picture pops out at you. You might need to add in a few more lines like we did with the face below.
Then color in the parts of the picture.
This one is a horn
And this one is a rabbit
If absolutely no picture appears to you, then pick two or three colors and start coloring in your shapes, alternating colors. When you’re done you’ll have a funky abstract design.
If you try this activity, please drop me a line or share a scan, we’d love to see your scribble art!
Right now there’s only one video that gets used in our house. Play along with me is an interactive video for babies. Jaylene loved it and we often sing the songs and do the activities with Jayden. The first time we saw him do the chicken dance was when I started singing “Baby’s in the bathtub, splash, splash”. He’s not into doing the actions while he’s watching, but he will speak to Froggy and Bunny. We’ve found something else we can do instead of the actions while watching though…
Jayden’s not an especially cuddly baby, and we’ve discovered that it’s easy to sneak in cuddles when he’s distracted by the tv.
We take turns.
Unfortunately we only watch 20 minutes of the video once, maybe twice during the weekends, and hardly at all during the week, so we’ll have to find another way to get cuddles.
Inspired Ideas has a lovely mother’s day picture available. The expression on the face of the littlest one is adorable.
Of course the evergenerous Lisa has a countdown up.
Designer Digitals has a few quotes up for downloading.
Do you know of any other giveaways?
Click on it to see a larger size. It uses fibers and charms.
And here’s a video of Jayden dancing and Jaylene bouncing.
We don’t always do something new craft wise. Last year we made these apple pins
And recently we made them again!
Materials: Jewelry pin back, glitter glue (or glitter hot gun glue) and little doo dads
The original pins used hot glue gun glue, but the second round used glitter glue which made it much more kid friendly/independent. I have oodles of these pin backs so I’m sure we’ll make them again in the future!
Click on the above to go vote for your favorite softie! Here are my favorites, and a few more…
If you want the links to the original flickr pages, you’ll find them listed on my favorites page.
Yesterday was our third trip to the Ju Ming Museum but our first to discover the waterpark and children’s art center.
Jayden was wearing his Surfer Dude clothes which have a pattern that magically appears when wet.
He loves playing with water.
Usually.
And here’s the Video
We were out all day enjoying the wonderful sunshine today. We’re missing our Canadian family a lot these days. A lot.
