Crafty Goodness

here is bean making spiders. she really wanted to make spiders for halloween! so we went to the store and got pipe cleaners and wiggle eyes so we could do it.

we started with painting the egg cartons black. silly mommy had no black tempera paint... she had every other color of tempera but someone insisted on black spiders! (gee, can you guess who that was? ha ha!) we ended up using acrylic! ahhhhh, acrylic with a toddler! scary huh? then we had to wait for them to dry. but, due to the damp air around these parts and the thickness of some of the paint bean applied, dry time extended into the next day.

next, sticking on the legs. lets just say that sticking pipe cleaners through egg cartons is a lot easier said than done!! this was a mommy only part of the project as it involved using a large tack to make holes to feed the pipe cleaners through. (this is also when mommy was cursing the fact that she let bean make 6 spiders!)

then on with the eyes! bean did a great job of sticking on the eyes. they are even kinda straight. ;) the biggest problem we had was that she was insisting on mouths (and still is when she thinks of it). i don't know how to give the spiders mouths and have been trying to talk her out of it. spiders have tiny mouths, so small you can barely see them... just in case she asks you. ;)

lastly, she decided that they should hang above our dinning room table. so, i had to find thread and hang them. i must say they look pretty darn cute up there!!

we also made banana bread today.... yeah, i'm an over achiever. HA! the reality is that i make too many promises (we will do this and that and whatever this week) and she has a superb memory and reminds me to do the stuff constantly until it is done. sigh. when will i ever learn!!!!!