We started this project way back on the first of October...
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The girls loved to see the way the colors ran together - they made such pretty designs.
Even the paper towel underneath was made beautiful.
I love the way the light shined through.
We tried to do a few without wetting the coffee filter first - they had more distinct dots,
but we preferred for the colors to run together.
Once they were dried we had quite a stack of colorful coffee filters - they eventually got put away in a drawer. Isn't that sad? I just didn't know what we could do with them - I wanted to do something fall related, but couldn't figure out what.
Eventually - a month and a half later we took them out once again. The girls got some scissors and began cutting them up into triangular shapes.
In fact, that's all Mina wanted to do - cut, cut, cut. She LOVES her scissors.
Once we glued and taped them to some paper tubes we had some little fall trees. I like them all - Some trees are at a different stage than others it seems.
This is our first coffee filter craft ever.
What have you made with these?
Tape a coffee filters over one end to "seal" the tube. Fill 1/3 full with dried rice or beans (or beads or whatever you have). "Seal" the other end with a second coffee filter. Decorate the outside of the tube. You have just made a "rain stick".
ReplyDeleteFollowing you back from the hop! What a cool idea!! What kind of markers are these? Where did you get them! They're cool!!
ReplyDeleteHow cute! I messed up last time I was at the store and got the BROWN coffee filters! Duh. I passed on an award to you! Check it out: http://readingconfetti.blogspot.com/2011/11/award.html
ReplyDeleteYou could do this again with the kids and turn them into snowflakes for the winter season. :)
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