Shamrock Window Decor

It could have been a creative green place mat for Henry.

Instead, 

we made it into a shamrock for St Patty's Day.

Here's how Henry and I made our Shamrock.

I laid out a piece of contact paper, sticky side up.

Henry added gold glitter.

And more glitter.

[We may have had a glitter mishap that went something like this : 

Mom, it isn't coming out fast enough!

Then he turned the top to the big opening and just poured.

We ended up starting over.]

Add lots of green.

Rip of lots of green tissue paper and arrange on the contact paper.

We also added crinkle green grass paper - not sure what that's called.

[that link is the best I could find on Amazon, its multi-colored grass.]

Oh, and add more glitter in for good measure.

When your collage is finished,

cover it with another piece of contact paper 

and smash together as flat as possible.

Hold up in the light!

Pretty!

I then cut out shamrocks. 

The plan was to cut out lots of little ones and decorate our tree,

but it turns out that contact paper isn't too easy to cut.

[I'm not sure if we covered the contact paper too much, or if my contact paper is just the cheap kind.

But the edges had a hard time staying stuck, so I had to scotch tape them together in spots.]

So, I quickly changed it to window decor! 

All the better, light shines through it this way!

[I have previously banned glitter in this house, due to cleanup :

I have found a couple good solutions: play dough and lint rollers]

After our glitter mishap,

I wasn't ready to start another project with play dough and I didn't have any lint rollers.

But, I did have something sticky : the contact paper!

I folded it sticky side out onto itself 

and folded down one end and made a mitten!

Henry enjoyed the cleanup!

[It worked great for the table cleanup - the floor cleanup was another story.]

If you haven't noticed yet - from this post, or this post or this post,

I always try to involve Henry in the cleanup after a project. 

To me, that just makes sense.

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