Wednesday, April 7, 2010

Today's craft activity....

Book marked this site a while back thinking that we  might try some the cool activities on it some day. All the activities are free to download and are fairly quick and simple. Quite a few of the activities would be suitable for younger children too.Today we made 'spinners' which are made of paper with a different part of a picture on each side with string in the middle. Hard to explain but when you spin the string the two bits of pictures mix together to make one cool picture.  Hopefully my photos will demonstrate better than I can explain.


When you spin this one you get the face on the cat.
Here are the 6 spinners we made and ...

....the other 'half' of the pictures.

I have managed to get a little sewing done today. These blocks are for Penny's "Quilt as you go quilt-along". I started off with the random placed coloured one on the right but really wasn't liking it so decided to go with the one colour per block which works better for me.

5 comments:

Suzanne said...

That is really neat! We'll have to try that some day over here.

Leslie said...

those spinners are very cool...and i love the blocks you are working on

Susan said...

Thanks for the link! It should come in handy this summer when I have the grandkids here!

em's scrapbag said...

What a fun activity for the kids. I love your quilt as you go blocks.

Sarah Gauntlett said...

what a cool idea! those spinners look great!

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