Suncatchers

Today we did a really neat art activity. It used materials we already had at home and ended up being a wonderful process and product art piece at the same time. 

I got the instructions here: http://babbledabbledo.com/art-for-kids-cosmic-suncatchers/?m

Supplies: white glue, food colouring, plastic lid, toothpicks

The first thing you need to do is fill the plastic lid with glue. We used an old yogurt lid. 

Monkey needed my help to really squeeze the glue out. Make sure you cover the entire lid, pretty thick too. 

Once the lid is covered, grab your food colouring. Monkey did 3-4 drops of each colour (which may have been too much). I encouraged him to spread the colours all over the glue. 

Once you are happy with how much food colouring there is, get a toothpick. Drag the toothpick through the glue and food colouring to mix it all together. 

Monkey and I both really loved the way it looked when the colours got pulled around in the glue. I ended up grabbing a toothpick too, I had to!

Once you are happy with how your art looks, you have to leave it to dry. 

It took about two days for the glue to feel completely dry. Once it is, you can peel the glue right out of the plastic lid. 

You can see that the colours blurred together as the glue was drying. We still think it looks lovely!! It may turn out differently with fewer drops of food colouring. 

The last step is to punch a hole in the glue and tie the suncatcher to a string so that you can hang it in the window. 

I really love how this turned out. It is so bright in our window!!

Mar