Pom Pom Gumball Machine

Welcome to my blog! I am always trying to find things to keep my boys (Hasan, age 4 & Bilal, 20 months) busy. I have a hard time thinking of things for them to do...well mostly things for Hasan to do. He loves arts and crafts and I feel bad that I am not very creative. Sometimes I get lazy and don't give them enough things to do. I know a lot of other mom's have the same problem so I thought I would share the things we do at home and to give me some more motivation to do more activities with the kids. This picture wasn't taken with any intention of posting on a blog which explains why it's not very good.

This is a gumball machine that I had Hasan make. It's very simple and he loved it. We made this a while ago and he wasn't very good with scissors at the time so I had cut the piece out for him. Next time I will get him to do it. He glued the pieces on. On the circle we put glue and he used a paint brush to spread the glue. Then he filled the area up with pom poms.

Materials Needed:
Construction paper
Pom Poms
Scissors
Glue
Paint brush

How to:
Cut a large rectangle (gumball body), small rectangle (gumball machine knob) and a circle (where the gumballs will be glued) from construction paper.

Glue these pieces onto a piece of construction paper. Put some glue on the circle and using a paint brush spread around.

Put pom poms on the glue that was just spread around.

Comments

Craft Stick Fish

I saw this craft in Easy Fun Crafts with Everyday Items . I have a bunch of craft sticks and it looked very simple. In the book they used bigger sticks...mine were the size of Popsicle stick. I didn't have enough of one colour so I mixed it up. I let Hasan pick the colours. We glued a couple of magnets on the back and Hasan gave it to his Nani (maternal grandmother).

Toilet Paper Roll Octopus

I saw this craft a long time ago and thought it would be good to do with Hasan. It's pretty simple and I've seen it on numerous websites . The hardest thing for Hasan was waiting for the paint to dry. We completed it in two days because Bilal woke up early from his nap after Hasan was done painting.

Styrofoam Jellyfish

I saw this craft on Crafts by Amanda . Hasan made the ones pictured above and although they don't look as good as the ones Amanda made, he had a lot of fun making them which is the goal of any activity we do. In the original craft you are supposed to paint the styrofoam half which would look really good. I didn't do that because then I would have the boys start the craft and then have to make them wait for the paint to dry before they could continue. I wanted to complete this craft in one sitting. I was also lazy to get the googly eyes so Hasan just drew them on with a marker. Bilal had a hard time with this craft and in the end just played with the pipe cleaners.

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