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Again, I am LATE! The problem with trying to be unplugged is, well, you are often unplugged. I guess that is a good thing.
The theme for this month’s Unplugged Project is the very open-ended concept of:
Pretty
Have fun and be creative! If you have never joined us before, please consider it. You can read more about how it works here.
TURN YOUR DINNER INTO ART!
As is my pattern these days, I am a day or two late in posting our project for July’s Unplugged Project theme of beach. Oh well!
I am such a packrat that I have had these clam shells sitting around all summer. In fact, I am embarrassed to admit that I saved them from a fabulous meal in Upstate New York back in June and brought them all the way home with me! (I just don’t really trust Arizona seafood.) We soaked them in hot soapy water right away after eating to clean off any grease and smell.
We used a dremel tool to drill a small hole in each one. You’ll need a good masonry drill or dremel bit for this since, as we discovered, clam shells are quite hard.
Before we began painting, we soaked them again, this time overnight in pure bleach just to get rid of the last lingering slightly clammy smell. We then rinsed them off in cold water and let them dry.
Next we painted the outside of them bright colors. (I think it would also have been a pretty project with them left as-is, but my daughter wanted them to be colorful since this was to hang in her room.)
After the paint dried, we decided to splatter them with gold paint using old toothbrushes. Fun but a bit messy!
We left the inside natural, but you could paint that too if you want.
After they had dried completely (overnight), we strung a piece of fishing line through each one. My daughter brought in four sticks from the yard to make the frames for hanging them.
We tied each pair of sticks together in the form of a cross using yarn and then hung one shell off each arm of one of the crosses. We suspended the second cross below the first using yarn to create a second tier. We again tied one shell onto each arm and hung our final one much lower from the center.
Voilà!
We are having a busy summer of travel, playing outside with friends, refurbishing and cleaning my precious old doll house (that is finally out of my Dad’s New York attic and home with us in Arizona!), sprinklers, popsicles, etc. How about you?
I have been blogging even less than usual and have even thought about taking a little official summer break of my own, but I guess I’ll just keep up minimally, as best I can when activities allow. So, I am late again with this month’s Unplugged Project theme, but here it is:
Beach
This seems appropriate for those of us enjoying summer here in the northern hemisphere, as well as for residents of the southern hemisphere who might appreciate a little virtual escape from winter’s chill right about now (am I correct?).
You can blog (or leave a comment) about anything remotely related to the theme beach. Perhaps something as simple as a trip to the beach, or perhaps a project you made with sand (like the permanent sand castles we made long ago for the Unplugged Project theme hard, or sand pictures that we made for the theme sand, or your own inspiration), or something sun or water-related? Pretty much anything goes.
If you are unfamiliar with how the Monthly Unplugged Project works, then please read more here and consider joining in, even if only via a comment. Just unplug, have fun, and tell us what you did!
(You’ll have to plug back in again for that last bit, but you can be quick, right?)
I have been busy with summer activities and have not been feeling tremendously bloggy lately, so please excuse my tardiness in announcing this month’s Unplugged Project theme.
This month’s theme is inspired by one of my favorite activities:
Sleep
If you have never joined our Monthly Unplugged Project, please read more about it here.
There are very few rules. The main ones are that the linky below is only for people who have done a project that is somehow, in some way, arguably related to sleep. Also, please link to your project post, not just your blog in general. Finally, I’d really appreciate a mention and link to Unplug Your Kids in your project post.
Thanks and have fun!
Hello all! Welcome to the month of May. May already? Yikes!
The theme for this month’s Unplugged Project will be:
Bread
Remember, it doesn’t have to be baking bread, it can be crafts with bread, learning about bread, the letter “B,” whatever you want.
If you have never joined our Monthly Unplugged Project, please read more about it here. There are very few rules. The main ones are that the linky below is only for people who have done a project that is somehow, in some way, arguably related to bread. Also, please link to your project post, not just your blog in general. Finally, I’d really appreciate a mention and link to Unplug Your Kids in your project post.
Thanks and I look forward to seeing what creative ideas you come up with this month for bread!
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