Before the start of the summer, i had decided that i wanted to do a lot of crafts with the boys while school was out. They LOVE crafts & i feel like we don't get enough time to do kid friendly crafts when our schedules are so tight during the school year. Sooo, i asked Rebecca if she wanted to try to do a craft each week with all the kids. She thought this would be a good idea to try too!
Last week was project 1: Freezer paper stenciling with the kids.
You can do this 2 ways, one is by painting & the other is with bleach. Because i didn't have my paint brushes (i had left them in bible class the day before!) We went with the bleach method this time! The kids chose an image & we cut it out on my cricut with the freezer paper. Emma's we used an exacto knife to cut out because i didn't have a peace sign image on any cartridges. Then we ironed on the freezer paper all over the shirt to cover as many areas as possible since the kids were going to spray the bleach themselves.
Here the kids are choosing a peice of paper to decide which order they would get to spray the bleach. You have to think of these things when you have 4 kids & one spray bottle! 
Luckily, the most volatile of the kids got to go first! Here is Eli getting a little help from me...
Then Jackson got a turn & then the girls...
We left them out in the sun to dry (which took about 5 minutes because it was around 100 degrees!!)
After they faded to our liking, we peeled off the paper & rinsed them in cold water to stop the bleaching. Then we hung them back out to dry.
They were thrilled. Craft Camp Project 1 was a SUCCESS!
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