sick day Archives - Vicky Barone

Not only did we all fight the flu as a family, but we also had the opportunity (between naps) to do quite a lot of projects together when our four-year-old was home sick! (Check out our Froot Loop Rainbows!)

Like all good last-minute projects, this creative craft is all over Pinterest! Here’s one example we liked a lot.

Bell Pepper Shamrock Stamp for St. Patrick's Day | Vicky Barone

What you need: bell peppers (we bought one with three ridges and one with lucky number four), a knife, green paint (we used a few different shades of acrylic, but you can also use tempura), plastic plates, paper, and a paint brush.

First, we cut each pepper in half to make four stamps that fit just right in little hands.

Next, we unrolled the art paper on the table in the playroom so he would have a big canvas for his masterpiece. We filled up some plates with paint and watched as our son went to town stamping away. He had so much fun!

By the end, we had mixed the different greens to make marbleized shamrocks.

When we had used every last inch of paper (our four-year-old made sure of it), we took a foam paint brush and used the excess paint to make stems on each shamrock!

We all had a lot of fun with this project and it got us all very excited for St. Patrick’s Day! We hope you enjoy it too!

My four-year-old has been home sick this week filling up on movies (aka Thomas and Friends on repeat) and soup. As he gets spurts of energy, we’ve been giving him easy projects to hold his attention.

We saw a similar rainbow craft for St. Patrick’s Day on Pinterest and thought we’d try our own. Nothing says sick day like sugar cereal and Elmer’s glue.

Here’s what we started with:

We originally used the foam brush to spread the glue across the paper, but found that nixing the brush and simply squeezing glue lines was easier and more effective.

My son loved sorting the Froot Loops and squeezing the glue all over the paper, Jackson Pollock style.

All in all it was a successful craft and no glue-soaked Froot Loops were consumed. Most likely because we told our four-year-old that the cereal tasted like mulch and he wouldn’t like it. “But it smells like strawberries!”

We cut the project short after the glue dried, but you can embellish your rainbows with a pot of gold and some cotton ball clouds!

P.S. My four-year-old wanted to participate in the writing of this blog post (as I type it up on the floor of the living room with The Muppet Movie playing in the background). Here are his thoughts:

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St. Patrick’s Day Bell Pepper Shamrock Stamp

St. Patrick’s Day Froot Loop Rainbow Craft