Odd One Out - Transformation

Which pair of shapes is different and why?

Solution

Last Sunday Droodle #17

Last Sunday Droodle:

Original Idea: A chicken decorating an Easter egg,

Someone painting a vase.

Easter Eggs - Natural Dyes

You can buy variety of products to decorate your Easter Eggs.

I am  going to show you how to do it using what you can find in your kitchen.

My friend told me she is using herbs wrapped around the egg to make a pattern, and beets and their peels to colour them light red.

In my family we always used onion peels to colour the eggs brownish red.

I used both beets and onion peels, parsley leaves and grass.

I also used old stocking and some string. I wrapped the pieces of stocking tightly around the egg with the herb inside.

I placed the eggs in the pots with beets and onion peels. I poured water and made sure eggs are covered with the peels. When the water started to boil, I lowered the heat and boiled for 10 minutes.

Here is the egg from the pot with onion peels.

 The beets did not work for me very well.

The eggs got only tinge of grey, it still looks interesting.  

When I saw the eggs did not get strong colour I only left one and I put the other three to the pot with onion peels and boiled for additional 5 minutes.
After you remove the eggs from pots put the eggs under cold water and unwrap the pieces of stocking.
Dry the eggs and apply a bit of butter to make them shiny.

Since there was no chemicals used, it is safe to eat the eggs, or use them in a salad.

Woven Cup

To make a woven cup or a little basket you will need:

- plastic cup or recycled plastic container,

- yarn in different colours,

- scissors.

Cut the sides of the plastic cup or container into odd number of strips.

Make a knot at the end of the yarn and insert between two of the strips, start wrapping the yarn in and out.

To change colour tie up the second colour at the end of the yarn, and keep on weaving.

You can use the finished cup to hold pens and pencils.

To weave a little basket, follow the same steps, to make a body of the basket.

Use pipe cleaners to make a handle.

Add some extra decorations.

Have fun.

Sunday Droodle #17

What do you see?

Share your ideas.  I will post the best ones next Sunday.

What is a droodle?

Last Sunday Droodle #16:

Original idea:  Easter Bunny watching TV on the couch,

Feet sticking out over the bed,

Square head Duck,

Girl standing on the mat looking down at her feet.

Easter Egg - Odd One Out

Easter Bunny lost his special Easter Egg, it is one of the kind.  Help Easter Bunny to find it.  It looks different than the other eggs.

Solution

Anagrams: Body Parts - Odd One Out Puzzle

Which word is different.

Anagram: word created by rearranging the letters of another word.

Solution

Sunday Droodle #16

What do you see?

Share your ideas.  I will post the best ones next Sunday.

What is a droodle?

Table Centerpiece

When we visited Chako Japanese Buffet, in a waiting area there was a big vase filled with water and pebbles, and sitting on the pebbles was a big flower.

This gave me an idea for a much smaller table centerpiece, anyone can create in their own home.

You will need a glass bowl, some glass balls, or marbles and an artificial flower.

Use glue gun to glue some glass balls underneath the flower, otherwise the flower will float instead of sitting on the bottom.

Fill the glass bowl with balls, put the flower on top, and fill the bowl with water.

It makes a very nice centerpiece, and you can choose any colour and type of flower, different vase, glass balls of different colour.

Have fun creating your own table centerpiece.

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