Yarn Circle Garland

I'm not really sure what to call this craft,

because the craft got adjusted many times during the process.

But this is the beautiful result:

Remember last week when I had two failed crafts 

before having a success with the vehicle tracks painting?

Well, this is one of the failures.

Turned out to not be a failure after all.

What did Henry and I do to make this?

Henry attempted to cut some yarn (again), 

but yarn is not a great material to learn to cut.

I cut various lengths of yarn in various colors.

[These yarn colors are leftover from one of ME projects I have been meaning to complete.]

As I cut each piece, I asked Henry,

"Should this piece be long or short?"

"Longer?"

"How about this short?"

Henry mixed a watered down glue mixture in a cake pan.

[Do not give the child any more water than you actually want to add.

Our glue mixture ended up very watered down.]

Stir it up any way you like.

With a paintbrush.

With your hands.

Toss it. Turn it.

Bottom line: Coat the yarn with glue!

This is where the craft started to take new shape.

Attempt 1 : To make a yarn-shaped balloon like I found on No Time For FlashCards.

Once Henry started placing the yarn over the balloon, I realized there was no way he'd be able to wrap it around the balloon without me doing the entire craft myself.

Then, 

Attempt 2 : Just to pile up the yarn on a sheet pan and make a sort of yarn-mobile.

[Like our Spaghetti Mobile flop]

[with every piece of yarn, 

Henry reached it as high as he could, 

using the paintbrush to make it even higher!]

I think Attempt 2 would have been a fine craft...

... but then I thought of the muffin tin!

Henry transferred the yarn once again, from the pan to the muffin tin.

Again, reaching as high as we could with each piece. 

 Henry carefully dangled each piece into each spot.

In a couple of places, Henry created what he called 'bridges' between the cups.

Then we left them sit to dry.

And dry.

I put them in the oven to speed up the process.

[being very cautious because of the Spaghetti Flop, 

I put it only on 150 degrees for only 20 minutes]

Still not dry.

Wait some more.

I squirted some straight glue over the yarn.

[I was worried our mixture was too watered down.]

Two full days later...

They were dry.

I asked Henry what he'd like to do with the little yarn circles.

He wanted to string them together and hang them on the window.

Our new Yarn Circle Garland.

[I used a funnel to save the leftover watered down glue for a later project.]

The funnel provided lots of entertainment

for Henry when he cleaned up the sticky dishes.

[Linking up to some of these parties.]

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