Painted Egg Banner

I don't know about you, but this weekend I was in need of some serious Spring decorating. I didn't want to spend any money, so I decided to get the littles in on the Spring decorating. We made this Painted Egg Banner with supplies we already had on hand. I love being able to use up leftovers from previous projects. I got this activity from The Mailbox Arts and Crafts Book. I use this book a lot in school. I can always find fun projects for those little hands to create.

In my opinion, getting little hands in on the holiday decorating is the best! It makes them feel good, you get to have some cuteness hanging in your home, and you get to spend a bit of quality time together creating. Win Win! 

This painted egg banner is super simple and both my seven and nine year old enjoyed making it. Plus this Mama loves having it hanging on the wall. We made enough eggs, so I could have two banners.

To begin trace an egg shape onto a piece of white card-stock and cut it out. This is a great way to have little munchkins work on their scissor skills. Dip straws into watered down tempera paint and blow onto paper eggs. Use the straws to blow the paint on your paper. See what fun designs you can make! I didn't have tempera paint, so I watered down my Crayola paints. I suggest putting towels under your work area. Crayola pants are washable, but having those towels under everything made for a quick clean up afterwards.

When the paint is completely dry, use a colored pencil or crayon in a contrasting color and fill each unpainted area. We taped ours onto yarn I had leftover from my Radiant Orchid Wreath. I love using up those leftovers!

Hang your eggs and enjoy!

XO Danielle

20 St. Patrick Day Activities for Kids + Feature Friday Linky Party

St. Patty's day is fast approaching, so craft time is in full swing around blog land. Today I have 20 fun crafts to do with those sweet littles of yours.
Share a little comment love with these fancy ladies and if you were featured snag a button here. Also don't forget to link up, while you're here. I can't wait to see what you've been up to.

17 Fun Things to Do for St. Patrick's Day @ Secrets of a Super Mommy

Wee Little Shamrock Men @ U Create With Kids

Shamrock Streamers @ Rockabye Butterfly

Hand Print Leprechaun @ Elizabeth Lauren

Pot of Gold @ Play and Learn with Dana

Easy Leprechaun Dress-Up @Super Mom Moments

No Pinching St. Patrick's Day Shirt @ Dukes and Duchesses

My First Rainbow Painting @ In Lieu of Preschool

Shamrock Craft @ Hands On As We Grow

Fruity Rainbow @ Hands On As We Grow

Bell Pepper Shamrock @ Train Up a Child

Toilet Paper Roll Leprechaun @ Moments of Mommyhood

Mini Pots of Gold @ The Crafting Chicks

Marshmallow Rainbow @ No Time For Flashcards

Shamrock Color Matching @ Crystal and Co.

Rainbow Hand Print @ B Inspired Mama

Lucky Shirts @ The Crafted Sparrow

Streamer Rainbows @ Mom's Crafty Space

Lucky Banner @ Blissful and Domestic

Coffee Filter Pom Pom @ Blissful and Domestic

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I can not wait to see what you all have been working on.
 Read the rules below, grab a button, and get your party on!

• Feel free to link up just about anything {that is appropriate, of course}.  Recipes, Tutorials, Inspiration, Crafts, Printables – If you blogged it, feel free to link it!  If you didn’t… don’t!
• It’s not mandatory, but I would {love} for you to follow my blog.
• Please link to your specific post and not your entire blog. 
• Please add this party to your linky party list.
• Please do NOT link Etsy stores, giveaways, or other link parties
• Take a few extra minutes to visit some of the bloggy goodness that has been linked up.
• Most importantly: HAVE FUN!  Feel free to grab my button and spread the linky {love}.

XO Danielle

Kid Made Christmas Cards

Hello again, Blissful and Domestic readers! It's Lorie from Reading Confetti again, back with another easy craft for your kiddos.

We had some fun making Christmas tree cards.  The possibilities for these are endless.  We started with card stock and gift wrap ribbon. I cut the ribbon into four strips of graduated lengths.  I told my three year old and four year old to glue them from the top, shortest to longest.

My four year old's:

My three year old's (She likes to do her own thing.): 

We also tried some green lace:

And yarn:

They were very proud to hand out their cards. 

Thanks for reading!  I hope you'll stop by Reading Confetti and check out our 10 gift ideas that inspire literacy in preschoolers for around $10.

-Lorie

Leaf Magnets

Hi everyone!! I'm Jennifer Donovant from iwanttobeaworker.wordpress.com and knitogether.wordpress.com which is a co-blog between my sister and me. I am so excited to guest here on Blissful and Domestic!!

I am a Christian wife and mother who loves making things with my little girl. I became very blessed this year by getting to become a stay at home wife and mommy. With that has come a lot of opportunities for more church involvment, more crafts, more walks, more stories, more of all sorts of things. I absolutely love it, but still find myself wondering how I didn't accomplish all I wanted to in a day :) That being said I have wanted to come up with some things that we could make and have on hand to easily give to someone in a card, with baked goodies, or as a simple thinking of you in the church mailboxes. Ever since fall has begun my little girl and I have enjoyed walking all over town and admiring the leaves, and she has really enjoyed her fall "collection" which is leaves she finds pretty, acorns, pine cones, etc. I have also noticed on Facebook that a lot of people share our love of fall. I wanted to come up with a way to preserve that beauty and share it with others, while at the same time making keepsakes with my little girl. I had been thinking about how to preserve those beautiful leaves and share them....then I started thinking...maybe I can laminate them! For this project I used:

• My laminator(got this year for $25 from Wal-Mart, best investment ever!)
• Paint sample cards (from Home Depot-Lowes no longer has this kind)
• Ribbon (I keep skinny ribbon on hand that you can get for $1.00 at Wal-Mart or The Dollar Tree)
• Scissors
• A little modge podge
• Leaves
• Magnet tape (got mine from craft dept at Wal-Mart)
• Printed Bible verse

I simply laminated some of the leaves and then added magnet strips to the back and we have leaf magnets! Others I laminated, used a hole punch, added ribbon, and viola a leaf bookmark! Super simple and very cute!!

 

 

Two of them I did with a Bible verse. I picked the verse I wanted, typed it up, printed it, and then cut it out with fun scissors to make the edges pretty. To make the bookmark itself, I was going to use card stock (I buy the scrap booking packs from Wal Mart for $5) but I then remembered I had several paint sample cards...those are free! So I took a paint sample card and cut out my bookmark using an old bookmark as a guide. Then I stuck the verse to it via modge podge, added a leaf to the bottom, laminated it, cut it out and made a very cute bookmark! For another I played around and just stuck the verse to a paint sample card, then decided what I thought would be cute. So ended up cutting that one out into a square shape, added a leaf, and laminated. It turned out being my favorite! I made it a magnet and put it in a birthday card to an aunt. Everything we made was pretty, easy, fits into a card, cost very little, and I think people will enjoy getting them....I know I would.

   

I was originally hung up on trying to make the traditional style bookmark, but then decided it was just as cute to use the leaves by themselves or to make different shapes. My little girl loves hearts...so I see some heart shapes in our future. I loved this because it can be adapted for different things....I have plans already to try flowers and flower petals in the spring, and to try to capture leaves next fall in different stages of changing colors. The possibilities are endless! Hope you have enjoyed this idea! Let me know what you think and what you create, I love new ideas!' 

Bye for now lovelies! 

JD