As I worked furiously today I sent the girls outside to Marbleize some paper. I have not tried to to this with paint, but this chalk method works well, and is really easy.
Materials you will need: Colored chalks, the brighter the better, craft stick or 2, white paper that does not have a shiny surface-we used construction paper, wash tub or tubbie big enough to comfortably fit the paper (or cut paper in half).
Fill tub 2 to 3 inches with water. Scrape chalk with craft stick so that the chalk dust falls onto the surface of the water.
Try not to shake tubbie, the dust may sink. After scraping several colors, gently lay paper onto water surface and gently swirl the paper so that it stays on the surface.
Gently peel paper out of the water. You may want to weight edges as the wet paper tends to curl as it dries.
Molly actually made a book out of all her pretty papers! If you drop the chalk into the water wait until you swirl your paper before you dive in after it. And you may want to spray your pages with hairspray to keep the chalk from rubbing off. I didn’t have any so we skipped this part. Warning–this is sort of an addicting activity. The combinations are endless!
Now as far as the cleaning and the pending garage sale…….
It better not rain all day as this pile doubled in size after this photo was taken!!!
Clean dinning room and fresh picked flowers!! Can’t show pictures of the rest of the house yet!
This is going to be our new nature table. I will be taking some ideas from A CHILD’S SEASONAL TREASUREY and THE NATURE CORNER.
And a few photos from our trip to the skate park
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Posted on May 3rd, 2008 by Kristen
Filed under: Activities, Crafts, photography
That looks like fun. I’d like to try marbelizing paper sometime.
Your dining room is so shiny clean!
Looks like rain. Uh oh.
Really want to do this project it looks like fun. But…. what is a craft stick? Any old stick you can get messy?
Also, love the dinning room color!
ALISSA—-The show will go on!!! Gym Gannall says it will be done raining by 11. And my left overs will get me a gold coin for the swap tomorrow at Junctionview!!
ANNA_—–A craft stick are wooden popscicle sticks that you can buy at craft stores or you could a plastic knife or just about anything that will scrape the chalk and make dust.
Are you so busy spending your sale largess that you don’t have time for an update? Seriously, how did it go?
We did the marblizing thing with liquid starch and acrylic paint two weeks ago for history. It is addicting!