Pipe Cleaner Stamps

My daughter loves to finger paint and I've been trying to find other ways for her to paint along with using her fingers. As usual, I found an idea on Pinterest and decided to give it a try. After taking trip to hobby lobby and convincing my grandmother, who installed a love of crafting in me, to join us. We had a day planned for group finger painting.


Needed Supplies

• pipe cleaners
• finger paint (I prefer Crayola)
• containers for paint (Paper plates work well)
• Paper (There is specially made finger paint paper, but any will do)
• Child cover
• Energetic Child 

Step 1
 Take the pipe cleaners and start to make different shapes and animals. We made a couple different hearts, a diamond, a firework, a fish, and a bunny. Get creative and try to make some other shapes or animals.

Step 2
 Put paint into containers. I used Styrofoam bowls that I had handy but anything that the stamps can sit flat in would work.

Step 3
 Prepare toddler. I have an apron that she wears when we do messy projects. It was a cheap one from the dollar store so I don't have to worry about ruining it.

Oh the excitement.

Step 4
 PAINT!!!

What's this?

Green

Messy! I love messy.

Final product one.

Final product two.

Step 5
 Clean up toddler and let pictures dry. I put all of her paintings up on our walls because I want her to feel proud of them and let's face it, I can't afford actual art.

Monkey really enjoyed this new take on painting, but I honestly think she just enjoyed making a big mess.

Here's the Original Link.

Welcome!

Welcome to Mommy and Monkey Crafting. The majority of the post will be crafts done with my little monkey. My daughter is very energetic as any other toddler and I'm always looking for easy and fun things to do with her that don't involve the television or anything with batteries. I've grown up with a love of crafting and hope to pass that passion onto my daughter.
I will admit that the majority of ideas will be from Pinterest due to the fact that I'm addicted to the site, but I will add the links to the original posts in the blogs.