Fabric Paint on a Tote Bag!

It has been a while since I posted an art activity. I have been thinking in the back of my mind that I need to do it. This activity is something that is a lot of fun for all ages. You can do a lot with it and really on anything (of course you need to use some judgement on what). All you need is fabric paint and a tote page/felt pennant, anything that you would like to paint. Be sure to put a covering on your table, just to be on the safe side that nothing stains. What we have used is the Tulip brand fabric paint that is in a squeeze bottle. It is easy to manage in their hands and they have the best time creating with their minds onto the fabric. As you can see from one of the girls, she liked to spread the paint around, I would recommend breaking out the paintbrushes, otherwise it could get messy using the tip of the fabric paint. The fabric paint comes out of the paintbrushes really easy with water.

Hoooot...Hooot...Owls in the Tree

What you will need:

1. brown, yellow and orange construction paper


2. newspaper


3. brown/white or what you have available paper lunch bag


4. wiggly eyes (you can draw eyes on another piece of paper if you do not have wiggle eyes


5. Roughly 5" of yarn - use can use any color of yarn that you have around the house
   

If the children are old enough, have them cut the owls body using the brown construction paper buy cutting a rectangle first, and then curving the bottom two edges. At the top curve inward from the two top corners (see photograph).

Have the children cut out the owls feet and beak. The owls feet (yellow construction paper) can be a circle and then cut the toes at the top of the circle. The beak (orange construction paper) is a triangle. Glue the eyes onto the owls body along with the feet and beak.

Next have the kids glue the owls body to the front of the brown/white lunch bag.

Have the kids crumple several sheets of newspaper and put them into the brown/white lunch bag, and tie the bottom of the bag with the 5" piece of yarn.

Lastly, fan out the bottom of the bag (right underneath the yarn) so that the owl can stand straight up on the table.

Yes, I finally created a blog...both my husband and sister thought I should do

My himamma blog is something that I have been wanting to do, I just have not sat down and started writing. So tonight, I thought I would! The goal of the himamma blog is it to be an exchange of ideas/projects that one can do with their kids, cousins, friends, etc. It is a great way for kids to explore what fun it can be to do an art/craft project, and learn at the same time...I call it an "Art Playdate". My sister and I have been getting together with each others kids, where one of us is responsible for the art/craft project and the other one is responsible for lunch. It has been a lot of fun getting together.

I participated in an exchange with many moms across Indianapolis, where we each were given a project, created multiples of that project and then exchanged them one night at a Mom's Night Out. It was so wonderful, because now, we had a great deal of skill building projects that we could do with our children at home. I loved it...and my oldest daughter loved it at the same time, because she was learning something new.