Jingle Flowers

This fun instrument is easy to make and, according to Eva, smells good too!  Gotta love toddler imagination.
To begin, Eva painted two tongue depressors her favorite color- turquoise.

When she was done, I spread the paint around a little so it would dry this week.  While they were drying Eva kept herself busy.

When the depressors were dry I used plastic strings (the kind you can use for boondoggle) to tie three jingle bells to each.  I guess they do look a bit like flowers.

Then we got to sing and jingle away!