How may styrofoam food tray I am consuming in a week? I collected styrofoam food trays and counted them.
It it scary to see the reality. But this is the styrofoam trash as a 4 person family /week.
I buy vegetables,cheese,ham,etc…many things are on these styrofoam tray wrapped with plastic. I like repurposing the trash.
How to upcycle styrofoam to printing materials.
I washed and cut the edges to make then flat styrofoam .
Then keep in the plastic container which was BBQ meat container.
Let’s start print making❣️
use pencils or ballpoint pen. Draw the image you like on the styrofoam plate.
Then, add ink on the styrofoam. I used roller for adding ink onto the tray. Ink is acrylic ink this time.
Ink tray is the plastic container lid of BBQ meat😝
Applying the ink on the styrofoam, put the paper on the styrofoam. Rub the back of the paper to attach the ink to paper.(I use my hand to rubbing)
Done!🥳
I like simple black. I added yellow to see the different.
Styrofoam printing was fun. It is safe Art for kids because no knife to make prints.
Can’t stop printing! This is the view of my kitchen floor in the end of the art making day
Now I need to clean these and cook the dinner!
Let’s collages all printed art.
This art is now exhibiting in the art fest at Quincy May13-June 11 . (@ Qarts gallery)
Options/ stamp pad , watercolors
The stamp ink pad works too!( left side was stamp pad ink, right side is watercolor and crayon to add detail color )
I tried the watercolor using brush for colored printing. It works too. Need to adjust the right amount of water is a bit challenging but watercolor printing might be easier to clean the mess.
We are planning to go to Japan in the middle of the school term. Kids need to say goodbye to their classmates and teachers.
I want to make some thank you and goodbye gifts for their friends.
As my kids are half Japanese, so I think Origami might be interesting. Would origami flowers on pencils be a memorable gift?
The colored paper I use is from the kids school.
Yes, school gave us lots of letters, news, and homework papers. I kept the colored paper.
This origami flower is a tulip, it is very easy to fold. After creating the flower part, cut the bottom a tiny bit, stick a pencil to the cut hole, and tape around the pencil.
I used green floral tape to attach the flower to the pencil. That tape is bit stronger than washi tape.
Aghhh… can’t go outside and don’t go outside is so different!
Yes I bought the ingredients that can be preserved for a long time. So I don’t need to go grocery shopping which means I don’t have reason to go outside😫
Lunch and dinner is my exciting time. Today’s lunch
Hey! My son ate one sausage before photo shoot!
Oven baked German sausage, Brussels sprouts, carrots, celery, mushrooms with girlie marinated olive oil😋 celery corn 🌽 soup and toasts, sauerkraut on the side.
Why so much celery? Because last week I went to Haymarket in Boston. 5 bunches of celery for 1$ !🤩
We thought we had tons of paper coffee filters. But we did not notice how we are addicted to coffee. We ran out filters! But don’t want to go shopping only for coffee filters…
We had Aeropress coffee filters but we couldn’t find the press parts. So…I tried a cheese cloth filter.
Since origami is easy work for me, I prepared square-shaped cheese cloth.
Then food in half to a triangle shape.
Fold both sides
Fold top triangle part to the below flaps from the previous fold.
Done! We call this Origami shape “paper cup”.
Set this in a pour over coffee dripper.
It works!
The coffee taste was good. I can survive with this.😋
