Feet Clapper

Today's "We-Flecting Wednesday" feature is actually something my little brother made, and then I thought I would finish up on the art work from last week since there was a lot.

My little brother, what a great kid. He is graduating from high school next week, how did this come up so quickly? What an awesome guy, it will be a pleasure and an honor to see the kinds of things this kid will do with his life- I know he'll do great things!

Well in a somewhat honor of him graduating I thought I would share a little fun of something he made a few years back and I will honor him with it at his graduation- the feet clapper- by "clapping" my congrats to him throughout the night when they call his name and such (we gotta be the loudest, most annoying group in the crowd to make sure he knows he is loved by his crazy family!).

Don't you just love the hair toes?

I snatched this great prize at a family white elephant gift exchange many years ago. I know it might have been kinda cheating because I already grabbed it knowing what it was (because I saw him make it earlier on in the day), but I thought it was fun and cool, I wanted it, and I got it!

All he did was trace his feet onto some wood (really thin wood, I can't remember the name of it, I know it's not ply wood, but something like that). Then he cut it out with I believe a Jig saw (sorry if you don't have one, he used my sisters, maybe a local hardware would let you cut stuff out? Or maybe it could be done with a thick cardboard of some kind). Then he painted it, drilled the two holes to tie the strings through, and now when you hold the handle and shack it, it makes a "clapping" sound! Yeah for clapping feet! And congrats to my little bro- we are so proud of you!!

Now to finish of the post by sharing the rest of the art work. This last little bit is kinda one project. We were given a blank packet with 26 squares in it and we were supposed to draw different designs or pictures for each letter of the alphabet, here is what I came up with, hope you enjoy!

A: "Ark"

B: "Batters up!"

C: "Chillies"

D: "Dork"

E: "Elf"

F: "Fat"

G: "Goose"

H: "Hat on His Head"

"I: Ill"

J: "Jump roping Jack"

K: "Karate Boy, hehehe"

L: "Lazy"

M: "I've lost my Marbles!" (ya, I am not the best speller)

N: "Nuts!"

O: "The Odd Octopus!"

P: "Peace Dude!"

Q: " Quarter back" (like my proportions?)

R: "Rino"

S: "Superman!"

T: "Teeth" (lovely yellowish ones at that!)

U: "Universe"

V: "Vampire! SSS, I eat you!"

W: "Windex"

X: "X-Men" (Wolverine here to be exact :)

Y: "Yo- yo Man!" ( I just couldn't settle for the normal old yo-yo)

And lastly, Z: "Zipper!"

And to top of the whole collection, this was a flower I painted. It was a fun way of doing it. We had to water color paint on the table and then "stamp" the paper onto it to capture the picture, this is how it turned out!

Thanks again for stopping by! See you all on Friday for my fun finds!!

Until next time!....