Kids Crafts: Coffee Filter Flowers

Last summer I was a camp counsellor at "Girls on the Go", a summer camp for girls aged 9-13 in Berkeley. Our main site was at a park, and we would bring lots of arts and crafts to do when we weren't doing our insane activities.

This craft is the absolute easiest thing to make, and they really turn out so beautiful!

1. Take 3 coffee filters and pinch together the centers of them, tying the pinch with a piece of string (or elastic band or whatever you have on hand)
2. Using watercolours, paint the coffee filters. This can be done however you want! I like the use different colours and try to make an hombre effect with the lightest in the middle and the darkest around the edges.
3. Allow to dry

The Incredibles: Homemade Costume

For Halloween this year I really wanted to be an Incredible. I didn't want to spend a lot of money on it, as I know I'm really never gonna wear it again (except maybe for another Halloween). After looking online to no success, I decided to just make it! I love homemade costumes; in 3rd grade I was a christmas present by literally wrapping and decorating a box and cutting arm and head holes - it was awesome.

Anyways, the process for this costume was extremely simple! I went go the closest goodwill and picked out a plain red t-shirt for 3 dollars. After looking online for shirt cutting tutorials I watched this one in order to cut the shirt into a crop top. After, I drew on the logo with marker, and started painting using an online picture as a guide. I just used regular acrylics, mostly because I know I'm never gonna wash it or really wear it so the paint didn't need to be proper fabric paint.

Paired with some black high waisted shorts, and I was ready to go!