Kathy547's blog: Cheap craft project with the granddaughter

Here's a craft I did with my 6 year old granddaughter. (And yes, I know, I'm waaayy too young looking to have grandkids😂. I also have a grandson who's almost 7💗). I let Lili do most of the work so it could be something from her to her mom. This was a project I had seen in a crafting group on Facebook but was more Christmas or winter themed. I decided to change it up a bit.

The guy used a cake pan from Dollar Tree (I didn't know they even sold those) but we used an old cake pan that had rusted & gotten so scratched up I couldn't use it. We spray painted the bottom & sides red.



While that was drying we painted 4 canning jar rings black & 4 canning jar lids white. 4 solid lids from spaghetti sauce or anything like that would also work but I didn't have any. We used those little 50 cent bottles of paint in the crafting department.


I completely screwed this part up but it came out ok so no problem. We glued them together first & if I would have paid attention to the instructions, known to paint & glue each tube separately & then glued them together.

These are an empty toilet paper tube & a paper towel tube, cut to 3 different sizes. We painted them white, then dripped Elmer's glue around the rim & let it drip down. The instructions said to wrap paper towel around first but it didn't look right so I pulled what I could off (but I had glued it so it didn't all come off). Not too much glue because then it drips down & pools at the bottom. Let that dry & spray paint it white because that was faster than using a brush. We also shoved aluminum foil & newspaper into each tube for stability & so our candle flames wouldn't drop down too low.






Back outside to see if the pan is dry. It is so we turned it over & spray painted the inside.



We then used Elmer's glue & put glue around the inside of the rim, put each lid down, & pressed down.


We then used Elmer's glue to glue a black button to each lid.


I have sweet gum trees, which I hate because of the massive amount of sweet gum balls they make. These are the adult version of Legos in the floor. They will also do a number on a mower belt if you don't take them up & burn before mowing. So, we gathered them up & counted as we went so we could practice our counting. Then I poured some bleach & boiling water over them & let them soak. This is to kill any nasties hiding in them & to also clean them up a bit. Also, if you leave them in the bleach long enough, they lighten up a bit. After they soaked for awhile we dumped them out so they would dry. We also gathered some pine cones. When they had dried, we spray painted some of the gum balls red & some white.


We then hot glued the 'wheels'.


We painted the handle of an old spatula black (both sides) & after it dried, glued it to the bottom of the pan, pressing down a little. Then gluing a little to the side.


We then put our tubes in the center & then the pine cones & sweet gum balls.



We then added a flameless tealight to each tube.


Here are the screenshots of the original

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