Craft Corner:Cracked Marbles

It has been very busy around here, so I thought I would take a quick moment to share one of the craft projects we worked on. My daughter wanted to try out cracking marbles and my son has a bunch of marbles, so I borrowed some of his.
For this project we used some cats eye marbles, colored marbles and flat glass disks. You can get them at the dollar store, along with some other glass pieces that will be fun to use as sun catchers.

Directions:
Bake marbles in a 500 degree oven for 25 minutes
Submerse in ice cold water and watch the cracking begin! The blue ones cracked really well and look great. Don't try using dark colored marbles the cracks won't show up at all. The disks would be cool used in the glitter glue magnet project we recently did.

This is a little sun catcher we did with the blue marbles. It really sparkles in the sun light. Plant pokes are a great addition to the back yard plants! 

All of the projects we do around here are re-purposed items from around the house and shop.The copper wire we used is some coax cable my boyfriend had in his shop. He was able to strip it down pretty quick using his vice and a utility knife. You can do it by hand with a exacto knife and some pliers

Craft Corner: Fourth of July Windsock

I was inspired to make this windsock after seeing one recently on the internet. 

I used three plastic table clothes from the dollar store and my boyfriend made me a ring out of some scrap wire he had lying around his shop and a bit of fishing line to hang it! First I cut the table covers into about one inch wide strips ( I didn't unfold the table covers). I used a hitch knot to attach the pieces of table cloth and because I did use dollar store stuff a single layer broke when I pulled it tight to the wire so I doubled each piece just to make things easier! It did take me about two hours to complete this project as it is fairly labor intensive. Happy crafting!