This
week I am altering another find from the dollar store baby shower
favor aisle. When I was at the dollar store a couple of weeks ago to
pick up the rattles we made the bowls out of I also grabbed some of
these packages of baby blocks. As soon as I picked them up I was
certain they were hollow I just wasn't sure if it would be easy to
get the top off. As it turned out I think they must have been
designed to have the lids removed to put something into so it was
easy.
Now
on to decorating them. You could of course leave them the way they
come. They are really cute and in the dollhouse nursery would be
adorable but I wanted to take them a step further. Since the designs
are already raised they are easy to paint and have they turn out
really nice. I used some nail polish that is designed for nail art so
it has longer thiner brushes in the bottles. I get this at the Dollar
Tree but I see it almost every where nail polish is sold. On any
spots I messed up I just used a cotton swab with non-acetone nail
polish remover to clean it up. Try to use the non-acetone variety
since it is gentler on the the plastic the blocks are made of. The
regular acetone kind tends to melt some plastics and you need to be
much more careful with it.
For
the blue block I just used some permanent markers, mine are made by
both Sharpie and Bic but there are a lot of brands out there. If you
are lucky enough to have some Pr0-Markers, Copics, or any of the
other high end alcohol based markers any of them will work for this.
For clean up use some isopropyl alcohol on a cotton swab to erase the
mistakes.
Since
these are plastic I used some of my model cement to glue the pink lid
onto its box at an angle.
Now
both toy boxes are ready for the mini kids to do some clean up and
put their toys away.
Very cute! Seems I just cant stay out of the dollar store! There is always something to new and fun in there! Thanks! :-)
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