4.12.2011

paint chip garland

This week, I found myself in charge of activity days for my church (it's where girls ages 8-12 get together to do stuff) and I was supposed to do an easter craft.

hmm. I love crafts. not the greatest with seasonal ones. but when I saw this paint chip garland on

modern parents messy kids
adore.  I knew we had our craft.

so I went to home depot and totally cruised by the paint chip....all casual like...noticed the paint mixing guy was helping someone else...and I swooped in and started grabbing paint samples like it was a spilled bag of cadbury minis in nov.
made a few eggs to trace

 and then I thought....this is supposed to last an hour...I had better find someway to stretch it....

enter penne rigate.
I just layed some out for the girls and they painted them with the watercolors (they get really dark when dry)

then we threw out the paint chips and started tracing and cutting.
then we just threaded our twine noodle, egg, noodle ,egg


and then we got a little silly (bound to happen with 6 crazy girls!)

all done.

hang and enjoy.

(some girls even got creative and wrote happy easter on their garlands!)


thank you to modern parents, messy kids! I'm indebted to you!

I don't know about you...but I am so loving springy pastely colors. makes me so happy.

(I even did it again yesterday with my son's preschool class!)
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11 comments:

  1. gail@My Repurposed LifeApril 12, 2011 at 7:58 AM

    too cute! love it
    gail

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  2. Kimberlee, The Spunky DivaApril 12, 2011 at 8:07 AM

    That is too cute! Those kiddos sure had fun.
    ~kimberlee
    www.TheSpunkyDiva.com

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  3. Glorinha, Tatiane e Ana Maria.April 12, 2011 at 8:45 AM

    Suas criações são sempre belas e criativas. Parabéns tenha uma otima semana.

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  4. Steph at ModernParentsMessyKids.comApril 12, 2011 at 10:01 AM

    You guys did a great job! I had to laugh at the image of you lifting paint chips for your church group :). I added you to my pinterest page of readers that tried the project here:

    http://pinterest.com/modrentmessykid/reader-s-mpmk-projects/

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  5. MeriApril 12, 2011 at 10:29 AM

    I love it!! I think I am going to do this with the kiddos while they are on Spring Break next week. :)

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  6. ValerieApril 12, 2011 at 11:18 AM

    I love this! I'm going to try and do this with my kids for an activity. . .

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  7. RhiannonApril 12, 2011 at 11:56 AM

    very cute! i wish i knew about this 2 days ago! I just threw away a handful of paint samples. i held on to them thinking i know theres some great project out there in blogland and i just got tired of hanging on to them.

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  8. UnknownApril 12, 2011 at 1:31 PM

    GREAT kid craft!!! Thanks for sharing here! Gotta love a girl that'll snag paint chips from Home Depot for a church activity! *wink*

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  9. TrinaApril 12, 2011 at 2:03 PM

    Megan sure had fun! I think she would like it if you did it every time!!!

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  10. AnonymousApril 12, 2011 at 4:48 PM

    How fun! Looks like a cute craft. I'm sure my class would love to do something like that. Thanks for sharing.

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  11. Fern Smith's Classroom IdeasApril 12, 2011 at 6:39 PM

    You have made me night! I can't wait to hit the Home Depot!
    ~Fern
    Fern-Smith.blogspot.com

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