This is an eclectic gathering of creative ideas including: Painting and Art Concepts, Drawing, Designing, Crafting, Custom Unique Creations, Holiday, Seasonal, and Tutorials.
Halloween Ghosts Are Hauntingly a Great"Boo Boo-ing" Cool Way To Create Fun!
Every Halloween I make one NEW thing to add to my collection of frightful displays. This 2022 season I chose a ghost. My old piano needed something cool coming out of it, "ah, yes, a ghost would look very cool. There's a clip of it in action if you care to view and be frightened.
I give you the items I used to make it, 0:13 on the footage, so you can forward to that exact spot if you are in a rush.
I had some fine flimsy material on hand, but cheese cloth does a good job in forming around the balloons and it's easy to find cheese cloth.
I like crocheting and wanted the eye's to pop out a bit, but using felt is a great alternative.
Happy Halloween and may the Good Ghosts be with you.🎃
I still enjoy opening my mail box, the one outside, and receiving letters, #cards, invitations from friends and family. It's intimate, romantic, and will forever be special to me. I'm pretty sure it is safe to say most people love getting physical, tangible, hear the paper rip, mail to open without touching a screen in the process. I immediately want to know who it's from, "left top corner ✓ check it out!"
If you love sending letters and notes the old fashioned way through the mail, here is an awesome video on how to make your own #envelopes. I'm including a #pattern that you can enlarge or decrease in size on your printer. I used chip board (ie; cereal box) to cut out a #stencil in order to use it repeatedly.
For an envelope to fit a 5X7" card size, you will need to enlarge by a few percentages. It's not an exact science unfortunately, but start at 2% and go up from there. Please be sure to check out past blogs on GoGo Daat Blog! You can visit GoGo Daat Youtube Channel for more interesting ideas! There are several playlists.
If you are interested in Painting or Drawing, recently, I've been adding my oil painting and CP drawing tutorials to my Youtube channel. I call them tutorials but they're more like visual learning videos. One of the ways I've learned from others in my art journey, is just by watching the artist paint or draw.
I put my playlist visuals to music (mostly rhythm and blues, jazz) because I want it to not only be something to learn from, but also relaxing and enjoyable, inspirational.
Learning Eye-Hand Coordination and Small Hand Motor Skills
Manipulation, Patterns, Stacking,
Sometimes I come up with ideas that teachers and homeschool mom's and dad's might be interested in using in their curriculum. I think this would be a great spacial awareness project for teachers to mix and match with students in accord with their fine motor skill and pattern making capabilities Three dimensional looking blocks can be printed, cut out, colored by hand or one can use the pre-colored pattern I've included.
Maybe you'd rather try making three dimensional cubes yourself. It is great for spacial awareness. The ideas is to be able to stack them, placing them one on top of the other like in the video.
Learn how to color 3D blocks, cut them out, and stack them up. The more you make the more fun it is. There are two patterns (below) that you can easily print out. One is colored version and the other is not.
I challenge you and your students to build a large paper tower on the floor. If you do, send me a picture of it and I'll post it on my blog and give you some recognition and kudos!
If you are having a get togethers, a fun way to spruce up the table is by using place-cards. Sometimes, especially when it's mixed company, people feel more comfortable knowing ahead of time where they are going to sit. Of course you may find people rearranging your cards, unbeknownst to you. If you are chill, you'll just let it happen, if anything it lets you know that so and so wants to be near so and so for future planned gatherings.
Although this design I'm sharing with you is more attune for kids and a small kids gathering, who says you can't create some sort of theme card for adults, ie; Pumpkins for Halloween, Turkeys for Thanksgiving, Stacked coin image for Poker night, Books for Book Club, Tea cups for a Tea Party, you get the idea.
In this video, I show you how I went about crafting the image and place card. Below is the actual pattern that you can print out.
The other thing that is nice about a place-card for kids is that they can take them home along with their goodie bag. They will be eager to use them at their own table at home. They may even want to make one for each member of their own family.
Here are some of the items I used to create the place-cards: Enjoy!
I had to come up with an idea for a costume that allowed me to be functional with my job as a preschool teacher. I wanted to stay in character all day, because the kids love that sort of thing.
I love ladybugs so... there you go. I had to figure out how to make a wing that might me used over and over. If your going to spend the time you might as well make it something that will be long lasting.
Watch the video and see what you think; Allow for 2 days in the making of this costume.
Lady Bug Wings DIY and Antennas
I had the red material which I believe is felt, but needed more thickness with strength and flexibility. I used some mylar because it is very durable. It's not hard to find if you look online. You could also use a stiff pellon found at sewing stores, they use it to stiffen collars on shirts, etc. It comes in iron on as well, I think, which means no sewing!
In this project, I used a soft cotton jersey skirt that I purchased for a dollar at the thrift store. It was a long skirt cutting in length it gave me about 10 yards of material to use to weave. Here is a creative stool cover re-cycling a forgotten skirt into a tactile and useful project. Be inspired, you can do it, it's easy and fun. A unique project, for furniture decor and comfort.
I was rather surprised at how this project turned out, and very happy with it. It was one of those "let's see how it looks finished," kind of work ideas. The first thing when I started, I told myself well it could be a rug, but then I didn't have enough material, and when I saw my stool sitting right there, the idea, stool cover came to me. Then as it kept sliding off the stool, I followed with the underbelly and fashioned the drawstring and cord. It turned out so well that now I think I want to make some more for the bar in the dining room.
Clip'n it! Make With Fuzzy-Balls! Use Various Colors!
Time to Get Creative!
I had some extra brown fuzzy pompoms in my odds and ends collectibles along with some silky 1/2" wide ornate blue #ribbon. I took an old clip and one by one glue-gunned 6 or 7 balls onto the top part of the hair-clip making sure the glue didn't get on the opposite side inhibiting closure. They went on easy and it was fun to see the clip transform so quickly into something useful and creative.
Sometimes in order for ideas to present themselves, you need to put all your supplies in front of you. This works for me as I pair and imagine pieces of this and that together. Color combination has a great part in deciding what looks good, also size and shape and balance. As you pick up and move items around the mind starts creating, there's no right or wrong, it's just what feels right to you. I always ask myself, is this something I'd wear? Or does this make me feel good when I look at it? If not, start again.
Most of these clips are for the young, age 5-10. My niece is 13 but I think she would enjoy these regardless. I plan on giving them to her as a gift.
Fashion ones hair with homemade clips and barrettes, it adds to your presence and gives a conversation starter for admirers. Make some clips! Do your hair differently! Jazz it up!
