Friday 29 August 2008

Kiddie Craft: Lacework


The other day, during my bonanza gold-rush, I found some things that I had been looking for to do this craft idea with my small fry. I saw this idea when I was checking out pre-schools the other day. I loved it so much, I wanted to try it at home.

So what you need:
- some marbles (3-5, varying sizes are good)
- a round plastic basin
- at least two different coloured paints (non-toxic)
- spoons & a couple of plastic bowls
- paper doilies that you can buy at the supermarket
- one rubber glove is a good idea

I could only get my mitts on these silver doilies, so our demo lacework is inadvertently bling blinged. White ones are just perfect.

To get your little one doing little lacework pop a paper doily in the basin. Get them to choose which colour paint they want to work with (a couple of colours are good), and get them to scoop the paint in - big, fat dollops on the doily. Oh yeah baby.
Pop your marbles in the bowl.
The next step I like to call - the rock and roll. Get your small fry to roll the marble around in the basin, through the paint, until your doily has a crazy-cool pattern going on. When they're finished, hang up to dry. I say hang up because if you leave them on newspaper, the delicate parts of the doily tend to stick and rip. And that ain't much chop.
Et voila! Lacework.


Cute huh?

Oh and you might be wondering why the heck I advised a rubber glove? Well the marbles tend to roll under the doily all the time - so instead of getting paint all over your pretty self, glove up and tell those marbles to keep a-moving. Capiche?

7 comments:

CurlyPops said...

Cool idea...I bought some of those doilies at one of the local $2 junk shops a while back but I haven't actually found a use for them yet! Now to search the house for some marbles....

Liesl said...

Hey what a fun idea. I might just try that with the boys ... how wrong could it really go?

Looks like you're putting the marbles from that loot to good use already!

Sasparilla Sue said...

I don't have any kids to do this with but considering my general lack of artistic ability, I think this is right up my alley. Thanks for the idea!

Angela said...

Thank you for encouragement. To-let you in on my secret, I plan to photograph "His and Her's" toilet signs!

In Melbourne there are so many creative ways to say "Toilet". I can only imagine the French, English and Danish have their own version!

Angela : )

Sarah said...

Sweet! Maybe you shouldn't mention gloves on your blog - given your recent suitcase find! Anyway, super sweet - go Noah. Your Daddy would know doubt be very proud

Kirsty said...

Great not-too-messy fun!

Maureen Reynolds said...

That looks like such a fun doable...who needs little ones when that seems to bring out the child in anyone. Hope I have a round basin around here...