Coffee Filter Fun : Kids crafts

Lisa's * Everyday Life

Jan 20

Today is National Coffee Break day and I am eating coffee cake and making these cute easy crafts made with coffee filters . Have fun and Explore .. with simple things this Saturday.

Coffee filters – 1 per snowflake
Washable markers – colors of your choice (pinks, blues, purples, and maybe a dark green or orange for fun)
Scissors
Small spray bottle of water
Hair dryer (optional)

Choose four colors that you would like to use for your snowflake. Picking a variety of colors that are different shades (light and dark) makes for the best results.

Start with a green or similar dark shade of marker. Draw a circle around the edge of the coffee filter and then draw some circles and blue lines in an "X" across the middle.

Take a contrasting color marker and draw some dots and lines within each quadrant on the coffee filter.

With the remaining marker(s), add additional lines, squares, and squiggles on the coffee filter. No need to add too many lines or shapes. They will bleed into each other

Place the coffee filter down on a washable work surface. You can use a craft mat, silicone mat, or wax paper. Mist the paper with 4 – 5 sprays of water and you will start to see the markers bleed. This is what you want. If the markers didn't bleed enough, add additional sprays of water. Don't add too much water. You want to just saturate the filter, otherwise all the water will drip off the filter and take the color with it. Let Dry.

To make Snowflakes : Fold and cut. On the folded filter, you're going to cut notches out on both sides and then the top. Make small cuts, both triangular and round. The more detailed the cuts, the more detailed the results.

Butterfly :

When the coffee filter is dry, scrunch the middle of it into a butterfly shape and secure with a clothespin. Cut a small length of pipe cleaner, then fold it into a V shape to make antennae for the butterfly. Slide the pipe cleaner into the clothespin