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June 17, 2015

Adorable Recycled CD Doughnut Craft for Kids

We turned a CD into an adorable doughnut craft with homemade puffy paint frosting. We love Recycled Crafts, so when the Kids Craft Stars challenge this month was to craft with CD’s I was thrilled. We have never crafted with a CD before and painting on new materials is always fun!


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Supplies:
CD
Acrylic paint (Brown, and other colors)
Paint brush
Glitter
White glue
Shaving cream

If  you wanted, you could skip the puffy paint and just use acrylic paint.

Directions:
1.  Paint the CD brown and set it aside to dry. We didn’t have brown paint so I used red, green, and yellow to make a doughnut color. Our CD’s had designs on the front of them so we painted the shiny side.

2.
When ready to paint the doughnut, mix 1 part glue to 1 part shaving cream to make the puffy paint. Divide the puffy paint and mix in acrylic paint to add color for the frosting. Paint it onto the doughnut, making sure to leave some of the edge brown (so you can tell it is a doughnut), and try to really glop it on if you want it to dry puffy. My daughter spread the puffy paint around like regular paint so it didn’t dry puffy…(still turned out super cute though :).

3.  Sprinkle glitter on top and use the paint brush to paint sprinkles on.

The kids love feeding their doughnuts to all their toys or pretending to take a bite for themselves 🙂

More CD Crafts by the Kids Crafts Stars

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CD Frog
CD Hippo
CD Peacock
CD Mosaic
CD Hovercraft
CD Spinning Toys
CD Dream Catchers
CD Cookies – Duckling Gets A Cookie?

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Love, Katie & the Kiddos

Filed Under: CD, Crafts, Create, Kids Craft Stars, Recycled, Uncategorized

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Comments

  1. The Practical Mom says

    June 18, 2015 at 6:52 am

    These are so cute! I just remembered to pull our our puffy paint that i'd kept hidden !

    Also, Have you guys stopped the linky ?

    • Katie says

      June 19, 2015 at 5:31 am

      Thanks so much and yes we have-just for the summer. Please come back and link up with us in Sept. !!! 🙂 Have an awesome summer 🙂

  2. Susen Kuchta says

    June 19, 2015 at 1:50 am

    so cute!

    • Katie says

      June 19, 2015 at 5:31 am

      Hi Susen, You are so sweet, thanks! 🙂

  3. Jeanine H says

    June 21, 2015 at 2:23 pm

    LOOOvVVEE!!!!! These!! Ok, I have to know where did you get those gorgeous unique sparkles/glitter!

  4. Mum of One says

    June 28, 2015 at 12:54 pm

    Love this and so pretty. Thanks so much for sharing with the #pinitparty

  5. Gude @HodgePodgeCraft says

    June 29, 2015 at 12:32 pm

    I LOVE these – totally featuring you tomorrow #Pintorials! x

  6. TheBoyandMe says

    July 2, 2015 at 9:23 pm

    What a great idea, wonderful recycling for CDs because I never know what to do with them!

    Thanks for linking up to Tuesday Tutorials

  7. Amber Moore says

    October 15, 2015 at 12:06 pm

    Really creative idea! It's practical, it's waste-free and it's yummy – what more to wish for!

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