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Bread Dangles

We’ve been making bread dangles! ‘Bread dangles?’ you say…

We used our cookie cutters to cut some shapes from fresh bread (fresh is best).

Then used a chopstick to poke a hole at the top and bottom of our shapes. We popped our shapes on a rack to dry out overnight.

The next day we painted them using PVA glue mixed with acrylic paint (we used 1:1 ratio). It’s best to try to paint them all over.

We strung ours up on this great branch that Master D collected – don’t they look wonderful!

 And hung them above Little Miss Q’s cot. We love our bread dangles!! 

Happy crafting, Kelly

January 15, 2012 by

Fish!

‘Santa’ made Master D this fishing set for Christmas. He’s had lots of fishing trips since, catching the fishies and putting them in my little old basket 🙂

So, when we came to craft day he asked to make fish. So that’s just what we did 😉 I drew some simple fish on foil, then we put them on an onion bag, rubbing with our fingers to give our fish scales. Master D then coloured his fish using markers and crayons.

Sorry, hard to capture this well but you get the idea

 We found that the crayons helped keep the scale texture but they don’t have the same shine.

Next we used blue watercolour paint to make our ocean.

Painting with a brush takes to long?!
Rightly concerned by the painting method

Adding salt to get some texture. Then we released our fish into the water 😉

Thanks to our lovely friend Nay for the great craft book – The Usborne Book of Art projects that gave us this idea!!

Gone fishing, Kelly

January 7, 2012 by