Christmas Crafts

We make our cousin gifts with our traditional Christmas crafts each year. Our first year Tovrea made bleach stamped Tshirts. He made (cut out on sticky black paper) the design for each cousin, some got snowflakes and some got their first name initial stamped on a solid colored shirt. The technique involved stamping over the design with bleach and then removing the sticker. CoCo made glitter letters for each cousin and sibling.

This year Tovrea made collage book boxes and CoCo made spray painted animal jars. We all enjoy the tradition of making the gifts for each cousin, the kids feel more involved and have a since of pride giving out gifts at Christmas.

Tie Dye Fun

One of our crafts at the craft shop at Snow Mountain Ranch was making tie dye shirts for the kids. We, well mostly me but Tovrea did do much of his own, made these shirts on the last day so the project continued at home with soaking and rinsing, and rinsing...and more rinsing!

Today all 3 shirts were washed and ready to wear-

Butterflies and Zombies

This week we had more fun with "Paint Face" as they call it. I painted the girls, CoCo and Ingrid, to be butterflies- hanging around looking pretty just like a butterfly.

For the boys, Tovrea and David

....it had to be Zombies...

The boys decided they would actually become Zombies and I captured their ideas on what it would be like if Zombies were in our backyard.  Keep in mind, they were only brave enough to think about this during the day light hours. As soon as it started to get dark, the paint was gone...

in the grass...

on the swings...

in the tee pee...

walking around

on the slide

             and finally on the patio...