Recreated Creations

colored Popsicle sticks
pipe cleaners
pom poms
beads
googly eyes
glue

We folded the pipe cleaner in half and placed the Popsicle stick in the bend. Holding the pipe cleaner with a finger on the back side. Cross the pipe cleaner across the front of the Popsicle stick and tuck the tips around the Popsicle stick.
Now form the pipe cleaner into the wing shape you like.
Glue on googly eyes.
Glue on pom poms and beads as you like.


We Then arranged all our completed pieces on the painting to see where we wanted them affixed. Once the kids had the flowers and bugs where they wanted them, I used a punch and hammer to make holes into the painted picture. I affixed the bugs by threading pipe cleaners around them and into the punched holes. I secured the ends on the back of the painting with scotch tape. I affixed the flowers by pushing the garden wire that was attached to the back of the flowers into the punched holes. I also secured the wires on the back of the painting with scotch tape. To hang the finished project I punched two holes into the painting and thread dark blue ribbon in them. I tied knots at the ends of the ribbon and taped them with scotch tape to the backside of the painting.

Now that the project is finished I LOVE the painting. This is exactly what the painting was missing...kid character! I am so glad I could figure out a way to revamp this painting. I had spend many hours reworking that painting and never finding the right look for it. Before it was very bland and boring to me. Now it has character and a fun feel to it.
                                                     



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