Water Lily

Somehow I had a little blog break.

Between the husband needing the 

computer and us not doing much 

blog worthy, I took a few days off.

O and I have been studying artwork

by Claude Monet, in particular is

water lily phase.  (And by study

I mean, we are looking at the 

artwork online and talking about it)

After we reviewed some of his work

I pulled out the coffee filters, food coloring,

paintbrush, and every available container

for holding liquids that we have here.

I had to put a lot of coloring into 

the water for it to have the color

I was looking for.  I may have even

emptied an entire bottle of coloring

to get the green color.

O used the paintbrush to drip color

on the filters.

After she did this for a while,

I showed her how she could dip the

filter in the bowl.  She preferred

that messier way of coloring the filters.

Since we don't have the space (or

the patience) to wait for the filters

to dry, I blasted them for a few seconds

with the hair dryer.  

After O painted to her heart's content, we had

enough filters to make about 5 water lilies.

We folded the pink/purple filters snowflake style, and

cut the edges of them.  O really enjoyed this part.

She did not enjoy making the rest of the water lily.

We sort of just twisted the pink/purple filters

until they held some 3 dimensional state and

put a drop of glue on them.  I used 2-3 pink/purple

filters to make the lily. 

They turned out pretty well.  I feel like they

would be great for party decor.  Easy and quick

but very pretty.  For now, we will just leave them

on our window will with all our other crafty 

projects we aren't quite ready to throw out.