Tissue Paper Project

Yesterday I spent the day with my friends Michele and Adam.  It really was a day for us to catch up with each other, and to talk about everything under the sun.  Michele and I did our usual creative thing, she with her jewelry and me with a project for next Saturday's kids program. 

The project involves gluing scrumped-up pieces of tissue paper to a clear plastic plate, or to a foam plate.  I found the project online and thought it'd be fun.  What I thought was funny was that I took over 3 hours to do my plate, because I was using small pieces of tissue paper and taking care to do gradations of color on mine.  Michele, however, tried one and probably did hers in 15 minutes.  Which actually makes sense--I'm assuming most kids would do theirs in a short time, right?

Anyway, this is my design.  The scan is not the greatest but hopefully the piece is adequately visible:

It was a lot of fun to just play with color like this.

I also liked Michele's piece:

I liked the contrasting colors a great deal.

I hope the kids like this project as much as we did.

I feel really hopeful that I can pull off doing crafts with kids.  I'm not a kid person really but I'm finding it fun to look for and think of projects that kids would enjoy, and maybe even turning them into projects that adults would like too.