For queens and kings

YOU'RE PRECIOUS.
When I was home in the last holidays, my father did show me some his paintings he made recently. Then we started to spontaneously tranform the kitchen in an art room and started to paint. Some time before I saw the graffity picture on the way to work and thought this would be nice to use as an idea. Well, in thoughts about this work the sentence "You're precious." came to my mind. And the crown as a symbol should be for everyone, not only for princess-like girls or powerful kings.

Some weeks later we went to a theatre play with one of my workprojects. The kids loved the play and so did I. It was the story of
"Where the wild things are". As the wild things make the boy to their king, they give him a crown. So afterwards we were making these crowns out of toilet rolls.

DIY: Decoration flags

YOU NEED: some wooden toothpicks, coloured paper, scissors, glue and some stamps. And something to pin it on!

YOU DO: Cut the paper so you can fold it, put glue on the inner side and on the toothpick, fold it and put it on the pick. Paint, write or stamp something on it.

On my muffins there was a hidden message, one side were the symbols and on the other side were letters. :)

DIY: Pencil Holder

Another easy decorative idea.  I like do it yourself stuff which is done in some minutes and right after the idea came into my mind. And I like practical stuff.

The only things you need are an empty, cleaned jam jar which is big enough for pens and pencils, a decorative paper and a old present bow. Oh and a scissor to cut it in the right size. No glue, no expensive stuff, just the things you can find. Et voilá!

Like so many cranes...

DIY: Coloured branches

If you want to be creative and bring some nature in your home this is something nice. While painting the branches or painting a pattern on it you can enjoy the concentration on doing just this one thing. I thought it was really relaxing and calming painting the branches.
So first you have to collect some branches or drift wood. Then you can paint them as you like. Drift wood is especially nice cause it has no treebark left. I took acrylic paint which vanished a little bit on the branches which I had on the balcony. Still it looks nice. These shown on the picture are decorating the bathroom.

Selfmade Hummus

This is a thing I wanted to try out for so long and it's really easy!
A friend of mine gave me this recipe.
You nead

1 can chickpeas (just leave a little bit of the water)

3-4 spoonfull of tahini

1-2 garlic cloves

1-2 lemons

olive oil 

salt

Mix it all together and wait 2 hours. Then put in on bread or in a sandwich.

DIY: Treasure Map

For my work with children I always need new ideas to make up exciting stories. Usually I think of things I have at home anyway and how I can use them to do something by myself.
So one evening I ran out of ideas, so my boyfriend and me were brainstorming and finally he came up with this idea: Making a message in a bottle and creating a treasure map with the help of stamps. We really had fun to make the treasure map by painting and stamping pirates, ships and a treasure. Coffee, burned edges of the paper and crumpling the whole thing made the look complete. I haven't done that since my art class back then in school.

The task for the children was to "read" the message in the bottle. It can be read as a short comic-story about pirates on a ship who come to an island, where a monkey gives them a treasure map. In the end they went for treasure hunting. Afterwards the kids could "write" down their own messages or stories with the stamps. That was also an exercise to practice fine motor skills.
Of course I pretended to have found the message in the bottle at the beach and that the treasure map is really old and should not be touched, otherwise it would fall into a million pieces.