- Milk jug storm trooper helmet.
- Rolled newspaper swords.
- DIY insect antennae.
- Balloon torch light sabers.
- Superhero poncho capes.
- Cardboard roman centurion costume.
- Mermaid tail.
- Pumpkin carving from last year.
- Toilet roll bat decorations.
- Halloween pancakes.
- Jack o lantern pinata.
- Halloween apple printing, hand printing and stencil making.
- Milk Jug trick or treat pumpkin pots.
There haven't been any bloggable projects as such this week. It's more been a week of make believe, in that there's been a lot of den building. The kids (well, mainly my four year old) really wanted to make a "fairy fashion shop" in the livingroom, so for days we had all the furniture moved around and piled up in weird ways in an attempt to fake a boutique, including half the chairs from the kitchen. The livingroom was also stuffed full of every dress up dress, scarf, regular dress, kid's shoes, and well anything that was considered girly looking enough to be sold in a fairy fashion shop. I helped them to use electrical tape to fix some PVC plumbing pipes between chairs to make the rails for the clothes to hang on and we used every long stick thing we could find, even the broom handle to make the shop front and "fitting rooms". My older daughter's Christmas present a couple of years ago was a toy cash register, so that made the store totally real in their eyes. We have humungous stores every now and again. I think the last one was a pet shop that lasted for about a week (It slayed me that it had an all purpose "amphibian and reptile tank" where frogs and alligators seemed to co-exist quite happily).
Anne-Marie and Sara, if you're reading this, thank you so much for passing on all the lovely dress up clothes! We wouldn't have had such an impressive selection without your generosity! Lots of little girls came over to play and enjoy this nonsense over the course of the week.





- Heather at "Blog She Wrote" did our Duplo word blocks. Kudos for that, because it takes quite a while to sort all the little stickers out for it.
- Rachelle at Tinkerlab made a load of the craft foam bath murals from last month. I have to keep an eye out for some of the glittery craft foam, because Ffi would love that!
- Steph at Snickerdoodle added some of the craft foam bath murals in a gift package she was putting together. They look really sweet packaged up that way! I might have to make a couple of extra little kits and put them in the kid's stockings at Christmas.
- One more for the craft foam bath mural gang, over at "This Girl Loves to Talk". I try to show my kids these versions of our projects that other kids get to have a go at and when they saw this one they said we needed to make some tiny houses for the fairies to go in our garden set.
- Gorgeous gorgeous versions of our painted skirts over at Sparkling Adventures!
- More from "This Girl Loves to Talk". They adapted the rolled newspaper pirate swords I did for Alphamom to be Musketeer swords.
- Over at Juise, they made our Fall leaf rubbing mural from last year. I love the rainbow colours. Ours is still up on the wall in the kitchen. I did mean to take it down when fall was over, but became rather attached to it's mellow warmth, so it stayed. We'll have to make another soon!
- More plasticine stamping over at "Tout un Fil".
- Really cute version of our iron on plastic bag decals, using a Smokey Bear bag, over at "A look into our life".
- "Let's Promote Play" shows kids making a version of our stained glass tissue paper window.
- More colourful tissue paper window fun at Bangalore Kaleidoscope.
- Lovely bright double window of tissue paper stained glass over at Many Skies Mama.
- Blast from the past for me to hear about Putti Prapancha making our cardboard pizza from over a year and a half ago. It's very cool to find out that some of our older posts are still useful to people.
As usual, all links are to other people's versions of our projects. if you want to see our posts that inspired them then I believe each of the readers posts does link back to the Filth Wizardry one.
Keep making messy art and telling me about it, because it helps me to feel justified in writing another blog post about the mess we just made, rather than cleaning it up.
16 comments:
I love the store! And I'm always in awe at how you create such huge play spaces inside what doesn't seem to be a tremendously large house. What's your secret?
Thanks MaryAnne. I don't know if it's really a secret, but I kind of just don't mind that the whole house is taken up for a few days with this nonsense. We don't have a playroom and the kid's bedroom doesn't have any space for this sort of thing, so we just let them own the livingroom.
Our front door opens right into the livingroom and it was funny one evening when a kid knocked at the door asking about buying magazine subscriptions to fund his baseball team and Paul and him had to sit down in the "fairy store" to write out the paperwork to send a magazine subscription to a vet's hospital. Poor kid really didn't know what to make of our "livingroom".
I think the rocket ship that nearly touched the ceiling still holds the title for "most confused looks when answering the front door".
The Millenium Falcon? How not to love you, Linds!?
Would like to write more but we're having a meltdown sort of day over here right now. Another day, then!
Have a great week!
Thanks ! You have many great ideas !
Gotta tell you that I LOVE LOVE LOVE your blog. From your postings alone, you're the type of mom I wish I was! I strive to embrace the mess more and more, and you inspire me! :)
Thanks Lindsey for the shout out!
Those duplos ROCK. Thanks so much for a great idea!
Heather
I would definitely shop in that fairy shoppe! Your children have a real eye for detail, and I have to agree that the cash register makes it all quite authentic. Thanks for the link back. You do a great job here, and I'm thrilled to pieces when you post your borrowable projects!!
Love the ideas....thanks for sharing!
I love it all, love the photos. Those boys must have been very happy you were watching over them!
Love the store you created! And thanks for the halloween links!
We are making the storm trooper helmet today! We are working with some alterations after looking at the movie helmets profile, so far so good. My family was just amazed at your creativeness to visualize it in milk jugs in the first place.
I did want to mention that I found a mention of your project on the internet that did not give you credit at all.
http://www.slashgear.com/storm-trooper-helmet-made-from-milk-jugs-11107074/ I didn't want to send them a nasty message before letting you know, in case you know them or something!
THanks again for the great craft idea!
Thanks a lot for all this ideas to have good haloween. In france we don't really celabrate haloween. Just to eat some candies. it's not a custom.
But now with ours lasers, it's a sympathic celebration !
Oh, my goodness, I so want to create a little fashion shop like yours. You always have the greatest ideas.
Just have to write and tell you with your stormtrooper mask from milk jugs, you gave us the idea for a Jango Fett mask and jet pack. We're very pleased with how it turned out and others knew just who my DS was trying to be. :) Would love to post a picture but don't see how to do that.
Wow! My kids have taken over our living room for a a day or two before, but it's never looked as... delightful as this! I've realized just now that I often give me kids enough leeway that what they make becomes an annoyance to me, rather than tipping the scales just a LITTLE farther and adding in just a few ideas they hadn't even thought possible such that what they(we) makes is a DELIGHT instead. Thanks for the nudge!!!
Wow can I just tell you how awesome you are? I can't wait to do crazy stuff like this with my son!
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