We Used Baking Soda to Paint This DIY Designer Vase

This beautiful vase caught our eye. But, $150+ isn’t in our budget for a vase, so we took a trip to the thrift store and made a DIY version. We are slightly obsessed! We’ve been wanting to try the new baking soda + paint trend, so that DIY paint method was used in the making of this vase. It’s a must-try!

All the details to make this DIY designer vase are here, at Momtastic.

diy vase made with paint and baking soda

Make Blow Paint Art With A Straw With Kids

DIY blow art with a straw-googly eye monsters art for kids

Well, we love straws in our drinks, but we never knew we would like them so much for art. We recently blew our way to colorful art with paint and, yes, a straw. Our kids loved this project. It’s fun year-round; on sunny days, and on cold days too, when the kids need to get creative, and off the screens. Since Halloween is around the corner, we made the colorful blown art into cute, adorable monsters. Get those straws out, and those lungs ready to blow.

Blow Art With A Straw

Materials:

  • Watercolor paper
  • Crayola washable paint (watered down with drops of water)
  • Straws (we used paper, but plastic would work, too)
  • Dropper
  • Sharpie
  • Googly Eyes

Directions:

Step 1: Get a paint tray, or tiny cups. Pour about 1/2 tablespoon paint into a cup, along with 1/2 tsp – 1 tsp water. If it’s too watery, the paint will run off the pages too quickly. If it’s too thick, it will not move much at all. Try to find the right consistency that makes drops when placed on paper, and moves well with some wind.

DIY blow art with a straw-googly eye monsters art for kids

Step 2: Use the dropper to drop “blobs” or dots of paint onto the paper. You can place them wherever you want – some close, some far, some big, some little, etc.

DIY blow art with a straw-googly eye monsters art for kids

Step 3: Now, it’s time to blow. Use the straw to create one-of-a-kind art. As you will discover, the art changes with the direction of the straw and wind. If you blow from the top, it’s a different effect if you blow from the side. We made tiny dots of color, big blended works of art, and medium sized ones, too! It was a lot of fun.

DIY blow art with a straw-googly eye monsters art for kids

DIY blow art with a straw-googly eye monsters art for kids

 

Step 4: Add googly eyes, and use a Sharpie to draw arms, legs and any monster-like accessory or body part you want. How cute are they?

DIY blow art with a straw-googly eye monsters art for kids

DIY blow art with a straw-googly eye monsters art for kids

 

DIY blow art with a straw-googly eye monsters art for kids

DIY blow art with a straw-googly eye monsters art for kids

 

 

Kids Boredum Buster: DIY Salad Spinner Art

diy salad spinner art - kids craft

Well, it looks like some of us may or may not be home with the kids again this fall due to COVID-19. So, we need to start pinning and saving art ideas in case we’re the art teacher this year. This DIY salad spinner art is fun for kids of all ages, so we definitely plan to re-visit this art project again this fall and winter. The best part is if you use washable paint, it can entertain the kids for hours, and then you still use it to clean lettuce for dinner. Mom win!

We shared all the details at Momtastic here.

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Beautiful DIY Bean Art The Whole Family Can Create

DIY bean art for kids and tweens

Handmade Charlotte inspired us to create with beans after we saw their amazing masterpieces based on Dr. Dolittle. It’s a great movie for kids, by the way. Our kids loved it! There is always major creativity and talent happening at Handmade Charlotte, so check it out.

So, we recently invested about $8 in a couple bags of beans, and had so much fun. Gabriella and I spent the afternoon creating unique art…with beans! You can do this year-round, and all ages will enjoy it. No glue-gun needed. Just basic Elmer’s for this.

We shared all the details here, at Momtastic.

Valentine, You Rock!

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Let everyone know how much their rock your world on February 14 with DIY painted rocks. It’s really easy, colorful and fun! Get the kids involved – heck, use rocks from their prized rock collection piling up in their pockets and drawers!

Momtastic has the details here.

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