Simple Saturday

 Mesmerizing...don't you think? Talk about a quiet, simple, yet satisfying activity. Making one of these spiro-delighful drawings is the bomb!

Don't have one of those jazzy Spirograph toys? Well, don't you worry one little wiggle, my friend. Tomorrow I'll show you how to create your own Simple Saturday Spiro-manic drawings sans that expensive toy.

 All you'll need is to download the .pfd I have linked to tomorrow's post, some colored pencils, and a ruler. That's it!

So tomorrow, find yourself a serene little corner and get ready for a ton of line drawing, pencil coloring fun!

Now where's that pencil sharpener?

Remember yesterday when I told you about the happiness I felt when I stopped to observe that chorus of cheery monkey-faced pansies shimmying in the wind? Well, it appears that I'm not the only one who derives pleasure in those colorful treasures. Check out what www.herbs2000.com has to say about my pal the pansy.

A pansy derives its name from the French word pensée which literally translated into English denotes ‘thought’. The herb was so popular in Europe that even Shakespeare mentions about it when Ophelia refers to pansies as ‘That’s for thoughts’. Interestingly, in the conventional ‘flower language’, the three colors of the pansy flowers stand for three different things. For instance, purple, while and yellow stand for memories, loving thoughts and souvenirs respectively. And what is noteworthy is the fact that all the three terms bring a sense of comfort and ease to the heavy hearts of separated lovers. Hence, pansy is also often known as the ‘heartsease’.

That's right. Me and my old buddy Shakespeare...we know a good thing when we see one. Enough of the history lesson. Let's make a Simple Saturday Fingertip Puppet! I know you can't wait. I can see you sitting there right now with your construction paper, tape, scissors, and waterproof markers in hand. Let's get after it!

 To begin with, let's use the markers to draw the pansy's center and its stem along the inside of one of your fingers. I used my pinkie finger. You can chose which ever one you'd like to. Heck, use all 10 of those digits, if you'd like!

Next, draw 5 petals on the construction paper and cut those heartshaped darlings out.

Next is the tricky part. Tape the petals around your fingertip. After a tiny bit of pansy petal shading...ta da! You have made a Simple Saturday Pansy Power Fingertip Puppet! Isn't that the cutest thing you've ever seen?

Hey...you know what? I think I'm going to replicate the pansy chorus and make a pansy puppet on each of my fingertips. Yeah...that's it.

All right, y'all... I'm offically inspired. For now, my friend, for the sake of time we'll have to settle for this solitary bloom. BUT keep your eye on this post. 

Get set for an update... a plethora of pansies!

A pansy party!!!

Behold my most favorite flower...the pansy -  also know as Monkey Face. So lovely.

A few months ago I stopped to appreciate a large cluster of these treasures which lined the edge of the shopping center sidewalk. They seemed to be dancing in the warm summer breeze. It was like those vividly colored monkey faces, all turned my way, were cheering me onward.

"Hurray for you, Debbie! Hurray! Hurray!"

Tomorrow, let's replicate my pansy cheering section. What do you say? Gather up some brightly colored construction paper, scissors, tape, and water color markers and I'll show you how to make some Pansy Power Fingertip Puppets.

Hip! Hip! Hooray! 

Super simple. 

Super sweet.

Simple Saturday Fingertip Puppets.

Remember the short supply list? An index card, scissors, and a marker?

  All you have to do is draw a picture of your puppet. The two nickle-sized circles at the base of my drawing will be cut out leaving a nice place for my fingers to slide right in. That's it, my Simple Saturday friend. I told you it was easy.

Got some kiddies to keep summertime busy? Suggest that they draw a family of puppets.

A plethora of Simple Saturday Fingertip Puppets...that's it.

They should stay busy for a long, long time.

We hope.

Get ready for one the simplest of Simple Saturday posts ever...Fingertip Puppets. Yep. This is another post that is so simple I'm almost ashamed to claim it as my own.

All you need to gather up for tomorrow's project are a few index cards, scissors, markers, and two fingertips. 

And that's all there is to it.

See you on Saturday, Twinkletips!