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Home » Arts & Crafts » Kids Arts and Crafts » Just for Fun CraftsBubble Print Paper- Everyone loves blowing bubbles. With this simple craft, you can make pastel prints of soap bubbles on paper that you can use for other projects, like personalized stationary.
Materials Needed:
• tempera or acrylic paint
• bubble blowing liquid
• drinking straw
• flat pan large enough to hold your paper size
• paper to print on, white or pastel in color, the thicker the better
• newspapers to cover your work surface and to put the finished prints on for drying
Directions:
1. Spread the newspapers out to cover your work area.
2. Pour bubble liquid into the pan to a depth of approximately 1/4" (1 cm).
3. Stir in thoroughly 1-3 teaspoons of paint, depending on the size of your pan.
4. Insert the end of the straw into the liquid and blow very gently to make bubbles covering the surface of the liquid. You can also stir the liquid with the straw to make smaller bubbles.
5. Holding a piece of paper by the edges, lay it down on the surface of the bubbles, pressing down slightly to pop some of the bubbles. Don't let go of the paper or let it touch the liquid.
6. Lay the paper face up to dry.
Hairy Potato Head- If you like Mr. Potato Head, you'll love this life-like version that actually "grows" hair. You'll even need to give him a haircut now and then. This project is pretty simple, but it's a good idea if parents help.
Materials Needed:
• Panty hose, cut into 1 foot "tubes"
• Grass seed
• Small rubber bands
• Wiggle eyes
• Black fabric paint
• Red fabric paint
• Sawdust
• Plastic bowl
• Pipe cleaners
• Hot glue gun
• Water
Directions:
1. Take panty hose and cut into 12" or longer tubes. Tie a know at one end and turn it inside out.
2. Take a small handful of grass seed and shake it to the bottom where the knot is.
3. Then stuff quantities of sawdust into the tube to make the head. When the head is the size that you want it to be, make the neck by tieing the head off with a small rubber band.
4. Shape the "head" with your hands and pull out a section for the nose. Tie off the nose with small rubber band and shape the nose into the shape you want it. Pull out two more sections on the sides for ears. Tie them off with rubber bands and shape them how you want them.
5. Hot glue wiggle eyes where his eyes should be. Use fabric paint to paint the rest of his features. Use red for the mouth and black for the eyelashes and the moustaches, glasses, eyebrows etc. If you want, you can use pipe cleaners for glasses.
6. When the fabric paint has dried, set "Hairy" in a plastic bowl filled with water, making sure he is saturated for a day. Then "stand" him up in the bowl, or glass, and within a few weeks, he will have a head of hair. Make sure the tail of the panty hose acts as a "wick" into the water, so that the water in drawn up into the head. You can also trim "Hairy's" hair as it grows.
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