We've start a little unofficial tradition where Marshall gives family members ornaments for Christmas. This year I didn't want to just buy ornaments so I turned to Pinterest for some inspiration. Now, we've all seen the Pinterest fails that have been floating around the Internet so I didn't want to do anything that was going to take a lot of time and be a huge disappointment if it didn't turn out. Easy, right?
Well, I came across this ornament that looked like it would be pretty easy to do. Now… to get a crazy 3 year old to cooperate!
I picked up some of the plain $6.00 ornaments from Target. I thought blue would make a pretty background. I also picked up some sharpie markers, white poster paint, and sponge paint brushes from Michaels.
Well, I came across this ornament that looked like it would be pretty easy to do. Now… to get a crazy 3 year old to cooperate!
I picked up some of the plain $6.00 ornaments from Target. I thought blue would make a pretty background. I also picked up some sharpie markers, white poster paint, and sponge paint brushes from Michaels.
As soon as Marshall saw the supplies he got super excited for the pending messiness that was soon to come.
Next steps were to slather on the white paint on his hands and keep him from touching anything! Easier said then done but we managed to complete the whole project with only paint on our hands and the ornaments.
After our hands were good and painty (is that even a word???), the next step was to mark up the ornaments. We just set the ornament in the palm of his hand and he wrapped his fingers around it. Since Marshall's 3 and has the attention span of a flea, I had to move quick for each ornament as well as reapplying paint in between. I only made him hold onto the ball for a few seconds. We had a few smudged patterns but overall he did pretty well with the whole process.
And here are our drying ornaments waiting for the final touches to be added.
I originally tried to do all of the embellishments with Sharpie markers, but the blue ornament was too dark so the black hats weren't showing up very well so I turned to some adhesive backed felt for the hats. Otherwise, I used a Sharpie for the eyes, nose, and buttons. The marker did each through the paint a little bit, but you can really tell. It is possible that a different type of paint would be better suited for this type of project if you are really particular, but the poster paint worked fine for what we needed it to do. And here is our finished product!
Not too bad for our first Pinterest project :)
Have you had any successes or fails at Pinterest project attempts?
~AKO
