Rust-oleum Spray Paint

Here is what the can looks like for anyone
who is curious!

I have a bunch of organizers for my new classroom that are pretty blah, they were all different colors and didn't match each other.  To make everything look more cohesive I decided to try my hand at spray painting.  I have never spray painted anything in my life but both of these projects were super easy.  I had a hard time choosing between green and blue so, I bought one of each color.  It was also nice because the paint is paint and primer in one, and bonds to plastic!

1.  I sprayed everything off with a hose and let them dry outside.
2.  I laid down lots of newspaper to protect the floor in the garage so I didn't get paint everywhere.
3.  Then I set off to work, I just followed the directions on the can (basically point and spray the items you want to paint, slightly overlapping the rows.

Here is what they looked like before I started.

Here is how both of them turned out.  I love the colors!  Too bad my room is maroon and they won't match too well.  Oh well, something bright and cheery to lighten up the space!  The biggest hint I have is definitely follow drying instructions and don't get too anxious to paint the other side.

Claypot Alligator

This past summer I worked at the Blank Park Zoo as a Camp Counselor.  Every day we had to do a craft with the kids.  Here is one of the crafts that we did with them.  It was a lot of fun. But some assembly required ahead of time.

Materials Need:
Small clay pots (2 for each project)
Green paint
Yellow paint
Green foam
White foam
Googly eyes
Small Styrofoam balls
Hot Glue Gun
Small piece of rectangular cardboard

The first time we did this project we didn't hot glue anything together.  I would recommend hot gluing the clay pots together, the eyes on top and the small piece of cardboard to the bottom to keep it from rolling away.  We also used regular craft paint I would recommend using acrylic paint it would stick better. The paint is slowly chipping off of my example.

1.  Glue the claypots together with a piece of cardboard on the bottom to keep it from rolling around.
2.  Paint the entire thing with green acrylic paint.
3.  Cut out two triangles for the tail.  Glue at one end of the clay pots curve them around so that it forms a tail shape.
4.  Paint the styrofoam eyeballs if you want.  When dry glue onto the clay pots.
5.  Glue on googly eyes onto the styrofoam balls.
6.  Glue on foam teeth cut out of white foam.