This week we have some adorable cork mushrooms, a classic “cork crafts” idea (you can also check our our simple cork boats). The kids painted them by themselves with my help. As you can imagine they are very simple to make and yet are great for some imaginative play! Then go off and make some Pipe Cleaner People (or pixies). I think that these muchrooms are great to play with, but also look wonderful as Christmas Ornaments. We have many more Christmas Ornament DIYs for you to browse, as well as our special Festive Christmas Cork Craft DIYs too!
These darling little Mushroom Corks are also included in our practical, easy to download and print out Christmas Ornament Book. Each craft is shared on one page – making the perfect worksheet print outs. Lovely to have them all in one place too!
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Mushroom Ornament DIY – Materials
- champagne corks,
- white and red acrylic paint
- a little wire for hanging
And yes… I know CHAMPAGNE CORKS!! Lucky for us we have had 3 “big” birthdays recently (check out our Pink Cake and our Chocolate Hazelnut Cake made for the occasion) AND my in laws are great at collecting these with us. With New Year’s Eve around the corner, why not make these on New Year’s Day?!
1) Paint the stems white. It helped Pip Squeak (aged almost 3years), that I held the cork for her. Let them dry.
2) Paint the tops red. Red Ted (aged 4.75 years) loved doing this all by himself. Let them dry.
3) Add dots (we did this with the end of a kebab stick) and again let dry.
DONE.
Now all you need to make are some super Easy Pipe Cleaner People and away you go!
Oh..and then after about 2-3 days of playing (we made these a couple of weeks ago), the kids got bored (how dare they?!) so I decided to make the 4 that they made into little Christmas Ornaments. Two will be given to Granny, with the kids’ names and dates on them and two will be kept for our tree. I just poked in some craft wire at the top and added a ribbon:
Don’t forget to check out our Christmas Ornament Book. Each craft is shared on one page – making the perfect worksheet print outs. Lovely to have them all in one place too!
Only $7.99
Get yours today and keep it forever!
What are your favourite cork crafts? What mushroom crafts for kids have you made?
artsy_momma says
October 31, 2012 at 4:58 amYou make the cutest nature & nature-inspired crafts!
Ness @ One Perfect Day says
October 31, 2012 at 7:57 amYour toadstools are adorable! Hmmm. Must buy Champagne. New Year’s you say? I think I can come up with some excuse sooner than that! 🙂
Red Ted Art says
October 31, 2012 at 8:03 amAwe thanky ou Artsy_momma I was pleased how they turned out!
And yes… Ness… any excuse to get crafty?!?! Reckon it is tax deductable too?! 😉
Jenny paulin says
October 31, 2012 at 8:32 amThese mushroom corks are great ! Very clever and so colourful x
Red Ted Art says
October 31, 2012 at 9:01 amAwe thanks, we were v happy with how they turned out! I think they will look great on the Christmas tree too!
Emma @Mummymummymum says
October 31, 2012 at 9:24 amVery very cute Maggy!
Kelly says
October 31, 2012 at 12:14 pmOh I adore this idea Maggy! And I have a large bag of corks!!
Claire says
October 31, 2012 at 12:21 pmSo very cute. Thanks for showing us and hosting!¬
Red Ted Art says
October 31, 2012 at 12:52 pmGlad you like them 🙂
Roopa says
October 31, 2012 at 2:24 pmOh my these are adorable!! Now got to go begging for some champgne corks lol 😀
Red Ted Art says
October 31, 2012 at 2:55 pmGood luck on the champagne cork hunt!
the monko says
October 31, 2012 at 5:57 pmThese are so cute. And what a shame I’d need to drink some wine to acquire the corks
Pinkoddy says
October 31, 2012 at 9:46 pmOh they are gorgeous. Love how they’ve become presents too.
sunnymama says
November 1, 2012 at 12:29 amThese are so cute! What a great idea! 🙂
Ross Mountney says
November 1, 2012 at 10:03 amYou’ve got some great ideas here. I shall be passing it on! BWs
maryanne @ mama smiles says
November 1, 2012 at 5:55 pmWhat a fun craft – so lovely!!!
Red Ted Art says
November 1, 2012 at 7:36 pmThank you! We did think it was rather lovely! 🙂
Two of Everything says
November 1, 2012 at 10:53 pmI love these, especially the pipe cleaner people – you are so clever! Great excuse to drink champagne 😉
Red Ted Art says
November 2, 2012 at 7:39 amAwe thanks! I think the combination of mushroom and pipecleaner elves does work well!
Only Best For Baby says
November 2, 2012 at 2:33 pmThis is great, yet again another wonderful crafty idea!
I’ve just posted about Baby Art and mentioned Red Ted Art with a link to you for crafty ideas.
Lydia x
Red Ted Art says
November 2, 2012 at 3:52 pmOooooh thank you so much, very much appreciated!
creativejewishmom/sara says
November 7, 2012 at 11:26 pmSo very very sweet, but where am I gonna get some of those champagne corks? Hmmmmm champagne doesn’t happen very often around here so for now I’ll just enjoy your sweet photos! thanks for sharing on craft schooling Sunday!
Red Ted Art says
November 8, 2012 at 8:10 amAhem.. yes.. therein lies the problem!! Sorry!!! 🙂
Susan Case says
December 20, 2012 at 10:14 pmThese are precious – my favorite. Inexpensive and hands-on.