One of our favourite ways of producing colour in our crafts involves squirting water onto felt tip pen markings and watching the colours separate and dry on coffee filter paper. Here are a few links showing crafts we have made using this method:
Butterfly coffee filter paper art
Coffee filter paper hand wreath
I wanted to see whether it would be possible to do the same using wet wipes to produce snowflakes (I initially experimented with coffee filter paper, but it is the wrong shape and too small to be able to fold multiple times to create a snowflake). Snowflakes require a square sheet of paper and thankfully I was able to find a packet of wet wipes that are already cut to a square shape:
I started by drying out a few of the wet wipes by placing them on the radiator for a few hours and then treating them like coffee filter paper. Wugs and Dooey drew markings on the wipes using felt tip pens and Do-A-Dot stampers. One they had finished, they sprayed the wipes using a squirty bottle of water.
Dooey in this picture is drenched in water from the squirty bottle because he thought it was hilarious to squirt himself instead of the wipe (something that my mum also found hilarious and so let him do it!)
Once the boys had finished, we left the wipes to dry.
Once they had dried, I followed this video on you tube to make the snowflakes.
It was a bit of an experiment and I lost some of the wipes in the process. I had hoped to create really intricate designs with the wipes, but they are quite thick so a simple design works better or perhaps using an iron to flatten the wipe on each fold when making the snowflake would have worked well.
What we used:
Pampers sensitive wet wipes
Felt tip pens
Do-A-Dot stampers
Squirty bottle of water
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