I know the number of post are beginning to decrease and I'm deeply sorry for that. There has been a small crisis along with other things going on; however, I was able to somehow get a few things accomplished during this period.
Although my son's room has a little ways to go before its completed, I figured I would share a couple ideas with you.
This first project is a simple and perfect way to include your child in the process of redesigning their room, even for children as young as 4 or 5 years of age.
Simple as baking cookies!!! ... and what little boy doesn't love space stars??
Clay Stars: We used polymer clay and star-shaped cookie cutters.
Although my son's room has a little ways to go before its completed, I figured I would share a couple ideas with you.
- Using a roller, roll your clay on wax paper to your desired thickness.
- Cut out your stars with the cookie cutter just as you would cookies.
- Once you have all your stars cut out, bake in oven (on low) or hot-plate (on low-medium). I prefer to use a hot plate; it allows you to bake them with more precision being you don't have to look at them through an oven door. If you choose to use an oven, you may want to keep them on low and check every 10-15 minutes, and adjust heat as needed.
- After you have taken your stars out the oven, allow them to cool. Once cooled, you can then paint them. I use white acrylic gesso on this particular star before painting and the color came out much better than the other stars.
- Now you can place these stars any where you wish!!
Here's a photo of the stars my five year old cut out and painted!!
These stars were embellished with additional stars and made into hooks for the wall.
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