Winter Fun!

I receive Disney's Family Fun magazine, which I love.  It's very cheap and has tons of ideas and fun stuff to do.  I found this winter sun catcher craft last year and have been waiting to try it out.  Grace was out of school one day so we decided to make it.  Keep in mind that it's something that will not have instant satisfaction, given the amount of time needed for freezing.  (We are pretty impatient around here and didn't take that into account!).  But, when it was done, it was awesome!!! 
We used one ice cube tray and filled the cubes only half full.  Grace added 1-2 (and sometimes 3-4!) drops of food coloring to each cube.  These need to be frozen first.  We filled a round cake pan with water with a cup near the top for the hole.  I put some water in the cup to....keep it in place, I guess?  I think the directions said to freeze that for about 20 minutes...well we forgot and left it for about an hour.  It wasn't fully frozen yet, but I still had to break the top layer of ice to lay the cubes inside.  Grace shoved the cubes in the cake pan and we put it back in the freezer for a while. 

It popped right out of the cake pan and we tied some ribbon through to hang outside.  Make sure you have a ribbon or string strong enough to hold it....it would be a shame for all that unpatient freezing time to go to waste!!  Make sure you hang it somewhere that it won't matter for the food colored cubes to melt.  I'm not sure what it would do, but I don't want to be responsible for ruining your porch mat....or what have you.  BUT, it did nothing to our concrete font porch.  Aaaaanyway.

While it was hanging outside, we worked on some other crafts and Grace kept running to the front door to watch it melt and quench her thirst.  The funniest thing is that she talked about how good it was and that it tasted like kool-aid.  Ummm, it was only colored water.  Haha!  Kool-aid cubes may not be a bad idea though!  Since our temps here have been unseasonably warm, it didn't last for more than a couple of hours, but was fun while it lasted.  We will definitely be making one of these again...and hopefully it will last longer!  What kind of crafts have you been making lately?!  Check out these fun pics of our Winter Sun Catcher!