Homemade Kazoo

Today I am sharing a project you can do with little kids!! It's a homemade kazoo. You put wax paper over a toilet paper tube and secure it with a rubber band. You can hum into it and it sounds like a kazoo. It was actually pretty cool! Very easy and fun.

Rating- Difficulty- 1

    Time- 1

Overall-5

Plastic Spoon Rose

At one of our previous sleepovers, me and my friend Miranda were looking for something to do. And this is what we came up with. A plastic spoon rose. We foun instructions that said to melt the spoons with a candle. Then, you glued them all together. How hard could it be? Apparently really hard!! They took forever to melt if you held it above the candle but burned when you held it right up next to the flame. Burning plastic spoons are no fun. Just trust me on this one. And then once we finally got them all melted, it took forever to try and fit it together. Because they all melted completely different from each other. The top is the one off of Pinterest, the bottom, is ours. We thought the different colors of spoons would be cool since we had them. 

Rating-
Time- It was about a 4
 Difficulty-4
 Overall- 3

Victoria

Mini Bow and Arrow

So I'm sure by now you have all seen this, right?

 

Seemed cool! So I of course had to try!! I got the pen to make and and I was set. Except I also ended up needing scissors, duct tape, a glue gun, and burn gel. I needed the scissors because, well, there is no other easy way to make a hole in the middle of the pen. Hence bringing out the scissors to poke a hole in it. The glue gun and duct tape would be because the rubber band would not stay for anything!! So I put a ton of glue on the end of it with the rubber band. Then it would still not stay so I decided to use duct tape as plan B. Burn gel is because I burned my fingers several times with the glue gun. Not fun, but it happens to the best of us. So I finally got it finished and surprisingly, it actually works really well!! Took way longer than I anticipated but is actually really fun to use!!

Rating: Time-2
            Difficulty-2
            Overall-4

Victoria 

Cupcakes!

Yesterday, I make cupcakes. Mint chocolate chip cupcakes. They looked really good! Here's a picture:         

They were actually really good. The cupcake didn't turn out as well as I was hoping. I have had better cupcakes, but the frosting was really good!! The only thing, is with the frosting, we were out of butter and I had to use a substitute. And it had a weird sort of aftertaste to it. But it was just because of what I used as a substitute. I'm sure if I used real butter there would be no other problems. Other than that, there were no big problems! And just a quick little side note, their frosting was green, while our frosting ended up purple. Per request of my little sisters. The food coloring is optional though

Rating:
Time- 4
Difficulty- 3
Overall- 5

 That's all for now!
Victoria

British Flag Project

I would like to just say real quick that this is not a project off of pinterest. This is just something I came up with and decided to make. Although I am still going to share it with all of you who read this

It's a British Flag binder! I made it with Duct Tape. Basically just covered all of it in dark blue Duct Tape and then used the red and the white to do the pattern you see on the front. The back is all dark blue. This is the binder I will use to put my flute music in for my band class. Took me a while, but I think It's really cool!! What do you guys think?

Rating: Difficulty- 3
Time: Surprisingly, a 4
Overall- 4 1/2

-Victoria

Free Music?

For Christmas I finally got an mp3 player! But the problem is, buying the music to put on them can be kinda expensive. In my opinion anyway. So that's why I had put off getting one for the longest time. But when I saw this on Pinterest I thought it might be worth a try. Basically what you do is you go to Youtube, copy the URL, paste it onto this website and it turns it into a free mp3 download! It almost sounded too good to be true!! But I gave it a try and it works! It takes less than a minute to convert it and is free. How does it get better than that? Here's the link if you want to us it too: http://www.flvto.com/#.UADrvZtSFI0.pinterest

So rating time!! 
Difficulty: I'm going with 1. Maybe 2 if you aren't good with this kind of stuff
Time: Like said, too less than a minute, so it's a 1
Overall: 5! Because it is cool!

Well, that's all we have for today! See you next time,
Victoria

Update

For those of you who were interested in seeing, here's a picture of MY hat!

  
What do you guys think?

Victoria