St. Patty's Day Pins

Now that Valentine's Day is over its on to the next holiday of the year. Me being Irish and all I particularly love this holiday. Here are a few of the ideas that I found to do with the kids.

Clockwise from the top left- rainbow twizzlers and rolos for Aiden's classmates, rainbow pudding, leprechaun craft, rainbow paint drip pots, rainbow bath paint, button rainbow craft, pom pom rainbow, chocolate covered pretzels

Center- Shamrock hand prints on canvas.

{{as an art lover I've always been fascinated with rainbows. Another reason I love this holiday.}}

Halloween Pins

I love Halloween. I love all holidays that I have an excuse to decorate, make awesome food and create fun crafts. Here are a few of the things that I want to try out for Halloween. I’m pretty confident that they will come out decently, but I will let you know in the end.

 Clockwise from top left- Glitter Pumpkins, Witch hat cupcakes, Glitter spider webs, popcorn hands            (though I will probably use Cheerios or puffs for these), Spider Lollipops, Glow-in-the-dark Cupcakes.

"Tie" Dying Eggs

Literally.... with a neck tie.

This is another idea that I found on the website Pinterest. You can dye eggs using a mens tie. Now it can't be any old tie. It has to be a 100% silk tie Otherwise the colors won't transfer properly. So to find my silk ties at a decent price off to a thrift shop I went. There were a lot of ties to choose from, but I wanted ones that had really intricate designs and bright vibrant colors. You know the ties that only old people would think of wearing because most of the general public would think that they were butt ugly, however if you look at the tie in terms of decoration then they look pretty good.  Here are my ties.

So basically you cut the seam in the back to open up the tie. Cut a swatch out of the tie. Wrap the egg in the fabric. Make sure that you pull it tightly around the egg so its smooth so there aren't any creases in your pattern. Next you wrap a piece of plain white or cream colored cloth around the egg. Place it in a pan with boiling water and 1/4 cup of vinegar. Remove after 20 minutes. Set on a towel or a colander to dry and once they are cooled then you can remove the fabric and enjoy your colorful eggs. No painting required and considerably less mess. Of course I did get a few eggs so Aiden could have fun coloring his own.

I will say that they they didn't quite come out like the picture did. It was really hard to get the fabric smooth over the egg and there were quite a few areas where the fabric overlapped and bunched up. Its an oblong object so its not quite going to sit right. I may or may not do this again next year.