Monday crafts: how to turn old puzzle cubes into educational weather blocks
First I laid two coats of white acrylic paint on all sides and left them to dry. This step requires a lot of patience as you need to do it in stages given the nature of the cubic shape. On top of that you should let the first coat be fully dry before moving on to the second.
Once the first step was over and my cubes were nice and dry, I drew the weather symbols with a thick black pen suitable for multi surfaces on one of the cubes and the names of the weather condition on another.
I also decorated another two cubes with images in colour and the corresponding name of each image.
To finish the work I sealed them with clear water based varnish.
This post links up with Kids Get Crafty on Wednesday and the Play Academy on Friday, check out these sites for more crafts and playtime ideas.
this looks nice
Maria! Your recycled craftiness is AWESOME!!! I love these. CLEVER YOU!!!!!! Am SO pleased I inspired you, but the final idea is all yours!! YAY!
Thanks for being such a fabulous Linker Upper!
Maggy x
This is pretty cool! 🙂
A great twist on the story cubes Maria. They’re so adaptable aren’t they – I thinking about making action cubes (hop, skip, jump) so we can play a game with them. Thanks for joining in with our Play Academy.x
Thanks for the idea Cathy. I teach English to a small group of children and that would be a great way to learn about actions:)