Jar craft

I have been doing some rearranging and organizing of the kids rooms. Eme Lu hasn't had her own space as of yet and although I am very much pro room sharing I have realized how important it is for J to have his own space to retreat to. It gives him something of his own where he can zone out and not have to share things. I never thought I would do this but I am realizing how much HE needs this. So I am in the works of giving Eme her own space as well. She doesn't have much in there, since it's also our guest room. She loves crafts though. Stickers, colors, play dough, etc. I have so many mason jars and decided that I needed to jazz them up a bit and make a fun craft for the kids too. We decided to cover the jars with tissue paper. We made our own modge podge (half glue and half water) and tore pieces of tissue paper and glued them to the jar.

Here's J in our beginning phases of painting them on to the jar.

Eme Lu wanted to help as well!

This one we added stickers to the jar and then put the tissue paper over it. Turned out pretty cute.

Finished jars after they dried. It's not a perfect work of art but isn't that what makes art! Besides, J did most of this and I think he did a great job!

The jars now house our markers and paint brushes. We will likely make a couple more and add our color crayons and some other art supplies.

A nice way to turn regular mason jars in to something more appealing and fun for the kids! Enjoy.

xo