OK so today for my post I wanted to do something a little different. In my pack of goodies sent to me to play with from Helmar I received this bottle of glue...
I thought hmmm what am I going to do with this. After reading the label I saw it was safe for children, so I thought this will be the glue I use when crafting with my boys! My eldest is 2 year old and he just loves to do crafting and painting. I have been trying to do something different with him weekly along the crafting side, and when we had a new character arrive on our TV screens on the kids channel I thought that this was just the inspiration I needed. And so we set out to create these two little owls:
I did call in for some extra Helmar Help on this one:
- You will also need 4 cups cut out of an egg carton (the part the egg sits in) if making two birds.
- Some feathers
- pipe cleaners
- Goopily eyes (I think he mixes up 'Gloopy glue' and 'Googly eyes' from watching Mr Maker :D - too cute to argue)
- some thin orange, white and pink foam squares
- a mini butterfly punch
- scrap pink paper
We started out by glueing two cups together with some Helmar 450 Quick Dry.
We then cut strips of plaster bandage to cover the egg carton to create the body. You could use some of the Helmar Craft and Hobby PVA to make paper mache but in working with a 2 yr old, I wanted to make the drying process a little quicker.
Next he painted the body with some coloured paint. Blue for Hoot and Purple for Hootabelle
Once it was dry we then gave them a coat of Helmar Acrylic Sealer. I wanted to make sure that the paint wasn't going to come off when we did the next step and to add that little more strength to it. This product is non toxic as well so safe for him to use so I gave him the paint brush to do this as well.
The Helmar fun didn't stop there... once dry (which didn't take long at all) we then used the Helmar Craft and Hobby PVA glue to stick the feathers onto the body. He had so much fun with this. He couldn't wait to do it too as we went out specially earlier that day to get some just for this project.
Next I cut out the foam shapes for the eyes, hearts and beaks and added the arms and feet made from bending the pipe cleaners into shape before inserting them into some holes I made in the body.
Austin then added the face pieces including especially the 'Goopily Eyes' which was his favourite with some Helmar 450 Quick dry.
The last little step was to add Hootabelle's butterfly and decorate her heart a little more. Austin punched out the butterfly with a Martha Stewart 3 butterfly punch. We used the little one which we stuck on with a little more Helmar Craft and Hobby Glue.
Lastly we had to add the dots onto the little heart decoration on her.
These are the finished Owls.
It was such a great project that although took some instruction (well a lot really) he was able to do almost all of it (except the pipe cleaners)
I hope this share inspires you to do something creative with a little one - maybe even this project!
Happy Creating,
Helmar USA Inc. Design Team Member
