Craft Class

My new year's project is working with a homeschooling family on Fridays, to teach them art/crafts. We are having fun! They are currently learning how to decoupage, and we have some other fun projects lined up. In this photo, they decoupaged cookie sheets to create a magnetic board, then made their own magnets using bottle caps and clear stones, and using clear glue to attach a design to the back. For these particular magnets, they chose comic strips and scrapbook paper designs. They also designed and created shadow boxes using paints, papers, glue, and ribbon. The butterflies were made with paint and q-tips, painting the design on one half of the paper, then folding it and pressing down to create the other side - much like the finger painting we did years ago. It was a quick way to fill some time at the last minute. These projects were spread over a couple of weeks.