After waking I was served a deliciously homemade breakfast and gifts. Afterwards my husband played his guitar and sang while Babycake danced and twirled and I got to watch and enjoy their talents. I would have enjoyed watching the impromptu show for more than the 30 mins Babycake allowed, but she saw that I had set out some craft supplies in the kitchen and insisted we switch our form of entertainment.
Now Babycake and I love to craft together. It's our was of learning and exploring the world. My husband is not a crafter and assumed that we would leave him to his music. Nope! It's Mother's Day, and I wanted Daddy to join in Babycake's love and joy of this form of art. Since Babycake's birthday party, where we had to save toilet paper rolls for a couple months to get the 12 we'd need for an activity, we've kept the the habit of saving the rolls after the paper is gone. However, I haven't brought up and crafts requiring our growing stock of empty rolls until today. Today I decided we'd make some fun and simple crafts that Babycake will be able to play with for the next couple of days (before I throw the out when she's not looking).
Our first craft, to my husband's unreasonable dismay was a kaleidoscope. I don't know why, but when I told them what we'd be doing he sighed as if thinking I was going to be torturing him, while Babycake cheered, even though I know she had no clue what I was talking about. Anyway...
The materials we used*toilet paper roll
*construction paper
*crayons, stickers
*glue
*foil
*tape
*beads
*sandwich bag
*rubber band
We cut the construction paper to size and glued it onto the roll and decorated it with stickers. Then we cut the foil to size and taped it inside the roll. Make sure the shiny side is the side you see when looking in the tube. Finally we threw some "pretty" beads into a sandwich bag, placed it over the hole of the roll, secured the bag with the rubber band and cute off the excess of bag.
Our second craft was a kazoo. The hubs, the lover of music, was much more interested in this craft. It could possibly be that he was also surprised by how simple and neat the kaleidoscope was, that he was intrigued to see how the kazoos would turn out.
The materials we used
*toilet paper roll
*crayons, stickers
*push pin
*wax paper
*rubber band
This craft was SUPER simple. We colored the rolls, added stickers, made some holes using the push pin, put a small square of wax paper over one end of roll and secured it with the rubber band.
