bad blogger! bad! and a sharky centerpiece

Super sorry for the lack of posting. I was at my first horse show on the weekend, which is my usual blogging time, and between little kids, work, and a life - I didn't manage to get in here until now!

Luckily I have another shark craft for you to try with your littles. I didn't take any progress pics, because, honestly, this one is super simple.

You'll need:

an egg carton
tissue paper in various shades of blue and white
bamboo skewers
googly eyes
glue
scotch tape
marker
grey cardstock

Cut out shark shapes from cardstock. Let your kids glue on googly eyes. Once the glue has dried, tape the dull end of the bamboo skewer to the shark.

Now wrap the egg carton in blue tissue paper and tape the seam. Layer the different shades of tissue paper on top.

Using the pointy end of the bamboo skewer, stick the sharks through the tissue paper and into the egg carton. Repeat with the rest of the sharks, leaving them at different heights. Fluff up the tissue paper if need be to make it look "wavier".

And here you go - sharks swimming in the ocean! This was a fun centerpiece for me and Boy Wonder to make and it was just the right size for snack time at his birthday party.

Shark party hats!

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These hats were originally created by Robyn Rasmussen. View her info here at http://tipsfromtheheart.blogspot.com/2011_07_01_archive.html

I apologize to Robyn - I saw her pic on Pinterest, and thought I could come up with somethign similar. I never visited her blog, nor did I see her tutorial on the hats. Now that she's brought it to my attention I can see we have nearly identical posts. With that said I feel it's not right to leave my post up here at the risk of looking like a plagiarist, so I'm removing it. Feel free to click the link to her blog to learn to make these cute hats.
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