I found some small balloons and thought up this idea mostly to keep the kids amused while I paper mached the ice cream pinata I'm making. Whenever I put a layer on they want to help and it gets messy ( and makes twice as much work for me).
They each covered a small balloon in four layers of paper mache which we did over 4 days as each layer needs to dry before adding another. They painted them to look like dinosaur eggs ( or how we think they may have looked).
Using a needle I popped the balloons inside, painted them with a coat of polyurethane, which was slightly brown tinted which I thought looked good on them, and used a craft knife to cut slits big enough for inserting coins. One is a present for our wee friend who is 4 next month, there's one for us too. The idea is that once the egg is full of coins they smash/ rip it open to get the money out.
They each covered a small balloon in four layers of paper mache which we did over 4 days as each layer needs to dry before adding another. They painted them to look like dinosaur eggs ( or how we think they may have looked).
Using a needle I popped the balloons inside, painted them with a coat of polyurethane, which was slightly brown tinted which I thought looked good on them, and used a craft knife to cut slits big enough for inserting coins. One is a present for our wee friend who is 4 next month, there's one for us too. The idea is that once the egg is full of coins they smash/ rip it open to get the money out.
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| base colours |
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| 'splodges' |
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| all done and ready to be wrapped as someone's pressie |
Cool fun. love to see them going all out and smashing them
ReplyDeleteJust found your blog - love to see kids getting stuck into activities. Well done :)
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