DIY colored sand

what you need

• Salt
• baggies
• food color
• vinegar 
• plates
• school glue
• paper
• plastic tub

What to do

1. pour salt into baggies 
2. and color
3. add a cap full off vinegar
4. zip and shake until salt is fully coated
5. pour out on to plates to dry over night
6. repeat for other colors.

To make sand art

1. make designs with school glue.
2. coat glue with colored sand
3. let dry

 Then you can just play in the left overs.

video

Melted bead wind chime

what you need
• beads
• muffin tin
• coil closures for bracelets or necklaces
• Clear string. We used bead n stretch
• nail polish or crazy glue to secure the knots
• and either nail clippers or wire cutters to cut off the excess coil after your beads are done melting.
• you're also going to need something to tie your finished melted beads to. We had an old winter time that I took part and just put back together with our new parts. You might be able to use a coke can or one of the wooden rings from needlepoint. Get creative.

What to do
1. First you can align the bottom of your muffin tin pan with the single layer of beads

2. Then you're going to add one of those little coils near the top but not too close to the top
3. Once you have all tins filled put them in the oven at 400 degrees leave in for 25 to 30 minutes 

4. Take out and let cool hang out and let cool the plastics released from the bottom of the pan on its own.

5. Once cool remove and cut off the excess coils. 

6. Assemble your wind chime reinforce your knots with crazy glue or nail polish.

Bingo Marker Art Activity

Super fun, super easy.  All you need are bingo markers and paper. I bought our bingo markers at the Dollar Tree, so that makes this activity super cheap also. Bonus.

We let free and got pretty in to our art making session and pretty messy. I'm a spotted multicolored Mama right now. We where doting pretty hard to make a splatting effect and we achieved that effect on paper as well as all over ourselves . So I'd say wear old clothes and do this activity out doors.

I think this activity is a keeper as long as you have some clean up time available, which is the case with most crafty activities, so no big deal.

Homemade paint for the titty bittys

This is our experience with this recipe for homemade paint.

Like it states in the blog name I'm pretty graceless. I threw this together with  Eriksen crying and Haven going crazy behind me. It came out a bit clumpy but it still worked for its purpose. I got the recipe from  http://kidsactivitiesblog.com/

You need :

5 cups cold water
2 cups flour
1\4 cup salt
food color

instructions:

1. put water and flour in sauce pan, heat low (I think this is were I might have messed up) sir until smooth.
2. stir in salt.
3 Let Cool
4. Pour  some in separate cups and add color
5. have fun.
It makes a lot there is so much more left in the pot.