Rainy Day {Olympics} Fun

With Hubby out of town and dark clouds looming outside, I decided to give some of these Olympics crafts (that I've been voraciously pinning) a try with my 3 busy little ones...

First of all, we worked on the (salt dough) medals for our upcoming "Family Olympics"...

We used the star-shaped magnet from an old Fisher Price toy to make an imprint...

and a straw to create the ribbon hole...

After the baking and cooling steps, we painted them...

 

I used glitter paint by Craft Smart (from Michael's) in gold, silver and orange (for bronze)...


I got the idea from The Imagination Tree and the post with step-by-step instructions can be found here.

While our medals were baking, we created some "ring art" using plastic bowls dipped in the 5 colors of the Olympic rings...

After the "rings" dried, we went back and stamped the letters "U.S.A." along with some gold stars...

I think that they turned out quite well!

Just waiting on them to dry now...

I got the idea from this official Olympics poster designed by Rachel Whiteread, which I L-O-V-E.

Fingers crossed that the weather stays dry tomorrow!

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