Happy Mother's Day! - 1st-2nd Grade Crafts

Here's another craft idea that turned out pretty well.  Adorable for Mother's Day!  

Thanks to Super Girl (my friend) for finding the idea.
Thanks to Jo-Ann's for a great & relatively simple idea.
Thanks to long-suffering 1st-2nd graders for careful work & patient waiting.

Here are the directions that I used.

I made a couple of addendums to the directions, but as they say, definitely read the directions before you start.  

The directions say to tape tissue paper to a piece of white paper & draw/write on the tissue.  I copied a couple of patterns of coloring pages onto the white paper to act as templates for the kids to follow.  This made a world of a difference.

The idea is a basic "t-shirt transfer" principle, but with candles and without the option of using an iron for quick transfer.

Which leads me to the other "addendum."  The directions suggest using a heat gun or hair dryer.  May I offer a gentle suggestion?  USE A HEAT GUN!!!!!  The hair dryer took forever!  Ok, it really wasn't that bad, but for one who gets impatient easily...well let's just say by the 5th, 6th, & 7th candles, it took a lot of will power to finish. 

Here's a picture of the completed project.  Love it!  The finished product made forever with the hair dryer quite a bit more worth it.

By the way, these candles strike me as the perfect parent gift.  Think about all of those "kids projects" you've received.  Be honest:  you dare not throw them out, but you have no idea where to put them or what to do with them.  

With this one, Mom's can look at the pictures on the side, burn the candle... and...it's gone.  The kids are thrilled to pieces that mom liked and  used the gift.  And...it's gone.