Today while Niall was having his morning nap, me and Rio spent our one on one time doing some spring craft.
We ended up making a potted flower which I think is an amazing handmade gift idea for Mother's day, sneakily to yourself like mine, or for a grandparent.
I started off with toilet tubes. If your like me your far more likely to have these hanging round the house than actual plant pots.
I then cut them in half to make them smaller and Rio reminded me that scissors 'are sharp' in the meantime, thank you Mr Maker!
You could now decorate/paint these but as Niall's morning nap is very unpredictable we made the most of the time and moved straight onto the next step...curling strips of paper around your finger!!
If you have an older child you could get them to do scissor trick for that step. But Rio found this way just as fun.
Once we had a few we then added them, and some more, to the inside of the toilet tube with cellotape!
I was planning on adding flowers next but Rio asked if we could include a butterfly so I dug one, some eyes and a straw out of the crafting drawer.
A lovely added extra :) .. Now back to the flowers.
We ripped up tissue paper and scrunched it into little balls, pva glueing it to the plant as we went. I used a lolly pop stick dipped into the bottle to save any wastage as Niall was stirring and I knew our crafting session was about to be cut short.
And VOILA!
Rio seems to know when a photo is for blog purposes and does this fake smile face. Little cracker jack! I wonder what his school photo's will end up like. I know it isn't the norm to be there when Mothers day presents are being bought/made but every time I look at it sat on the fireplace I smile at the memory of us doing it together. Parcel's keep arriving that I'm not allowed to open so I know for certain that Craig hasn't forgotten about me. How could he? I've hinted weekly for the past month!
We ended up making a potted flower which I think is an amazing handmade gift idea for Mother's day, sneakily to yourself like mine, or for a grandparent.
I started off with toilet tubes. If your like me your far more likely to have these hanging round the house than actual plant pots.
I then cut them in half to make them smaller and Rio reminded me that scissors 'are sharp' in the meantime, thank you Mr Maker!
You could now decorate/paint these but as Niall's morning nap is very unpredictable we made the most of the time and moved straight onto the next step...curling strips of paper around your finger!!
If you have an older child you could get them to do scissor trick for that step. But Rio found this way just as fun.
Once we had a few we then added them, and some more, to the inside of the toilet tube with cellotape!
I was planning on adding flowers next but Rio asked if we could include a butterfly so I dug one, some eyes and a straw out of the crafting drawer.
A lovely added extra :) .. Now back to the flowers.
We ripped up tissue paper and scrunched it into little balls, pva glueing it to the plant as we went. I used a lolly pop stick dipped into the bottle to save any wastage as Niall was stirring and I knew our crafting session was about to be cut short.
And VOILA!
Rio seems to know when a photo is for blog purposes and does this fake smile face. Little cracker jack! I wonder what his school photo's will end up like. I know it isn't the norm to be there when Mothers day presents are being bought/made but every time I look at it sat on the fireplace I smile at the memory of us doing it together. Parcel's keep arriving that I'm not allowed to open so I know for certain that Craig hasn't forgotten about me. How could he? I've hinted weekly for the past month!
