Marvelous Mug

A few christmas gifts from my boss ago, i got a set to paint your own mug. I didn't really find a good use to it untill fathers day last year. When toddler and I made a mug for daddy. With toddlers fingers and the paint this gave a cool mug for daddy to use at work.

Now I wanted to do the same for the godfather of baby, but since all the paint was used during the fathers day project (you know how this goes..;)) I had to go out and buy new paint. Unfortunately they don't sell child friendly porcelain paint anymore. So we had to thing of something else... This is what I came up with:

With child friendly finger paint I made a hand print on a regular piece of paper. Then I cut this piece of paper around the shape of the hand and used it as a mold on the mug.

Then I used porcelain markers to place dots around the hand print. Now you can make this as crazy or lovely as you want. But for this mug I only covered the part around the hand print. Unfortunately I have no end result picture of this mug. :(

But fortunately.... I used the same idea for baby's godmother and since she is a big fan of a lot of tea or coffee, she got a very big mug from our local dollar store (Action).

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Clever Clock

So it has been a while since I posted, but I haven't been sitting still with performing Arts & Crafts!

When our oldest one left the baby group at daycare and went to the toddler group, I wanted to make the teachers a little gift. Personally I'm all about usefull gifts and therefore we made a clock to thank the ladies for the wonderful times.

What did we use: at our local dollar store (Action) we bought 4 clocks of €3,99 each. I took them all apart and cut out a piece of paper that would exactly fit behind the arms of the clock. In this clock there was a plastic pin that holds the arms, so I needed to make a hole exactly in the middle of the paper.

  

On this piece of paper I wrote my text (in Dutch) saying: 'Thank you for the wonderful time'. Then I had our little toddler stick punched out shapes onto the paper. I let him stick every clock (he had to make three) in his own pace. In this way it is fun for everyone ;). In hindsight, I think it was a better idea to use a pritt stick, since the paper wrinkled due to the wet glue.

 

Since the paper wrinkeled I had to make sure it stayed flat to the back of the clock (or else the arms get stuck behind the hearts and stars I learned the hard way)... I used double sided tape for that and next I reassembled the whole clock and let it run for 12 hours to be sure that the arms could pass every punched out shape.

 

When our toddler had his last day at the baby group, I told him to give the gifts to his teachers. He was very proud in giving them, saying that he made it ;). And the girls were happy recieving it. They told me that it got a nice place in the kitchen or on the fire place.

On to the next!