Magic Marker Monday — Dragonflies — And A Giveaway!!!

“It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.”

~Pablo Picasso

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We decided to have some extra special crafting fun this week.

Wanna know why?

So you’ll be as excited about Magic Marker Mondays as we are!

Wanna know how we plan to get you excited?

With a Magic Marker Monday Craft Kit Giveaway, of course!

So come take a peek at what we’ve been up to…

Dragonfly Mobiles!

Last week was our last week of homeschool for the year and we wanted to celebrate with a super-fun craft. I found a great tutorial put together by Christine from Lavender And Limes and Sarah from Going Starfishing over at a fun online magazine I stumbled across called Smaller.

We added a little kid-friendly fun with the googly eyes and bright colors. My daughter insisted on making hers ALL pink — and that they were most emphatically NOT dragonflies. They were to be referred to as butterflies. Lovely, beautiful, princess-y pink butterflies. Got it? Good. Now that we’re all squared away on that score, let me tell you about the fun we had…

I cut out the wings and my daughter painted them all with fabric stiffener.

Which she believed to be down-right hysterical fun.

So much so that she got a teensy bit carried away… my table runner is now a tad on the crispy side. Then we hung up the wings to dry with paperclips on cotton string tied beneath our kitchen cabinets.

While the wings were drying, my eager little kindergartner glued the eyes on the wooden clothespins that would become our dragonfly bodies. In no time at all, the wings were dry and I handed them over for her to glue into place. Messy, but fun!

I finished it up by gluing decorative ribbon around the edges of two plastic embroidery hoops (one smaller than the other) and then tying the hoops together, adding a small plastic hanging loop, and last but not least, tying all the dragonflies (oops I mean butterflies) onto the two different hoops at different heights which gives a tiered effect to the mobile.

We hung one in each of the kiddos bedrooms and they are beyond delighted.

In fact, we even had to make a couple extra little guys because they were so much fun. Our hallway has been filled with the happy sounds of dragonfly races all week!

NOW FOR THE GIVEAWAY!!!

One lucky Magic Marker Monday participant will soon be crafting away with a dragonfly mobile craft kit of their very own!

The kit contains supplies to make one mobile: Seven pairs of pre-stiffened dragonfly wings in blue/green/gold shades (see above), seven clothespins, googly eyes, two green plastic hoops, cream-colored decorative ribbon, plastic hanging loop and a spool of golden thread. All you need is craft glue, scissors and a comfy spot to get crafting.

Entering to win is easy!

All you have to do to enter is join in with the Magic Marker Monday fun! Simply put up a post on your blog showing off your child’s artwork, then come back here and sign Mr. Linky — that’s it!

You don’t need to do any fancy crafts either — if your kiddo made it, we want to see it! You can even grab something you already have hanging up on your fridge and do a quick post about it.

What could be simpler?

Want extra entries? No problem!

1. You can get one entry for every Magic Marker Monday that you participate in during the month of May — that’s four entries!

2. You can put the Magic Marker Monday Button in your sidebar and then come tell me about it for an additional entry.

3. You can Twitter this opportunity for one extra entry.

4. You can subscribe to our feed for one entry.

For each extra entry simply come back and tell me about it with a comment on this post.

This opportunity will go from now until midnight Tuesday May 26th.

Offer is only available in the U.S.

Please be sure to read our Terms and Conditions.

So tell me… what has your little artist been up to this week? Link up and join in — we can’t wait to see!

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Michelle is a stay-at-home mom, wife to her wonderful husband, and mother of their two adorable and much-loved children. Through her blog, In The Life of a Child, Michelle has grown a passion for supporting families who are parenting children through extreme medical challenges. Her oldest child was born with a rare birth defect known as a lymphatic malformation and was also diagnosed with cyclic vomiting syndrome. Michelle and her husband share a common goal as parents: To treasure every moment and raise their children to be extraordinary individuals.

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