31 Days of Pinterest: Finger Puppets
Posted By Melissa on October 13, 2011
This post is Day 7 of a 31 Day Journey through my Pinterest Boards. Click here to see more!
You may notice that I am posting day 7 on what is really day 13. Yes, I’m behind. I have a few more projects done but could not find the time to sit down and type up my posts. We went out of town over the weekend to attend my mom’s retirement party! She and my dad put together a great party. We had fun visiting with cousins and old friends also. Then between house, my schoolwork, kid’s schoolwork, and well, blogging comes last. But here I am again.
I saw this picture on Pinterest and immediately put it in my Cool Stuff for Scouts board. They are so cute and I thought they’d be easy to make.
I decided to make them for our AHG Troop’s kick off night and bought all the stuff needed. I waited until that day to make a sample. Do you know that it is actually kind of a pain to PAINT styrofoam balls??? This project is not for children! Okay, maybe it just is not for me. Here was my sample:
I do think they are super cute and I probably will still make more with the girls and use up our supplies. However, I would paint all the balls ahead of time instead…actually I would SPRAY paint them ahead of time! See the lovely underneath of the ball:
Another leader helped with these and she was probably cursing me by the end of the night. There was paint everywhere! We even used skewers and a block of green florist stuff, but they were still a pain to paint.
Let me know if you try them!
LOL! They are cute, but I won’t try anything that says it’s a pain! LOL! But it does sound like spray painting them ahead of time would make it much easier… but how easy would it be to spray paint all those balls, dry, roll them, paint again… and as a perfectionist, I’d probably have to do a 3rd time… LOL!