Showing posts with label corn cob painting. Show all posts
Showing posts with label corn cob painting. Show all posts

Sunday, June 5, 2011

Sidewalk painting

The kids woke up today asking to paint again. I started out by taking them to the picnic table with the washable paints and some fun sponge stamps that I picked up on clearance.  The excitement quickly faded.  So I remembered seeing an easy and cheap way to make sidewalk paint on Frugal Family Fun Blog just recently.  And what do you know, I had everything in the house.  I had noticed sidewalk paint before on other blogs, but they called for liquid watercolor and stuff that I didn't have on hand.  And with all the craft stuff I do have, I think Adam would have finally put his foot down.  So I headed in and grabbed the supplies.  I didn't tell the kids exactly what we were doing, so they were a little cautious at first.  But once I mixed up the paint, they were really into it!  The colors were surprisingly bright for food coloring.  I figured they would be more of a pastel.  We started out with brushes, moved to the plastic spoons used to mix, to just flat out dripping it out of the cups.

Paint all mixed up and ready to go!
 look how neat
 The supplies:
2 tbsp. corn starch per color
2 tbsp. water per color
4-5 drops of food coloring
I also just used disposable spoons and cups to make it easier.




Thanks Valerie for the idea!  We had tons of fun!

Tuesday, November 16, 2010

Corn Day!

Last week, my co-organizer hosted a corn day.  She had 2 corn crafts, and we taste tested different ways to eat corn.  We tried canned corn, popcorn, corn nuts, hominy, baby corn, and mini corn bread muffins.  The kids tasted everything.  Yes they didn't like all the things, but they at least tried one bite of each.  Once they ate a bite of everything, we brought out the "corn" cupcakes.  I found these in the book Hello Cupcake, and have wanted to make them for forever.  The kids just ate the jelly beans off the top.  Our crafts were really fun and messy!  Amanda had a picture of a corn cob printed out, we smeared glue over the cob part, and then put un-popped popcorn all over it.  Then came the really messy one.  Each kid got a piece of construction paper.  We set out plates with different colors of washable paint along with a small piece of cooked corn on the cob.  They got to roll the cob in the paint and then roll it along the paper.  D really got into it, and she just wanted to keep going.  The kids thought the messy crafts were great fun.  Thanks again Amanda!





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