Craft Time: Stained glass candle holder

Why, yes, that is a (homemade) modge podge activity tray for my 22.5 month old! I felt like living on the edge for the morning craft session. We made Mimi a lovely candle holder from a jelly jar and some fun tissue paper we had at the house. Mr. T thought it was so much fun and he loves any craft he can turn into a mess at the end.

Here you can see the finished jar to Mr. T's left at the back corner of the tray. I'm afraid all hands were required so I didn't get any good pictures of him actually painting on the glue, but oh did he think that was grand! But if the glue/paper combo stuck to his hands he got mildly frustrated. So I stepped in before I had green tissue paper stuck to our vaulted ceiling. It happens.

Pouring the glue onto the tray.

 

Painting the tray with glue and affixing the leftover tissue paper. And this is why our activity tray is plastic for now. It also came from Target's dollar bin. These things clean up great!

Mimi's finished candle holder glowing at her house. Isn't it sweet? I'd love to visit your links for gift crafts you did with your little ones! Thanks for stopping by!

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OK. These are actually from around Father's Day. As Mr. T has gotten faster and faster, I cannot snap photos lest I risk paint flying all over my dining/living room area and perhaps even up to the ceiling. Yes, he is that good. :) Aren't all toddlers? But, he does do well with the little paint pots. He has great coordination and has a ton of fun coloring and painting. And yes, even with my "help" there is still a mess to be cleaned up when we are done, and every bit of it is worth it to see how he lights up just from dipping a paint brush into a pot.

This project was a little kit that came with two cars. We painted them both, let them dry, and sent one to Poppy and one to PopPop. Daddy was slightly jealous. He likes wooden cars. But aside from trying to contain the painted area of my home, Mr. T did an amazing job painting these two beauties. Little ones really are excellent artists. I hope we can always foster this in him. He is such a little creative!

And so Daddy didn't feel left out, we got this little gnome at Target and Mr. T and Daddy painted this together one Saturday morning. Again, Daddy was in charge of paint containment, and  Mr. T painted by himself. I freely admit to putting this in my curio cabinet where it will remain for the next 45 years or so.

What sort of art projects do you and your little ones like to do?