My daughter and I got crafty this week designing our own patterned hot air balloons with washi tape.

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This is going to be your paintbrush for painting the clouds in the sky.

Pour some white paint onto your paper plate.

Dab your pom-pom into the paint and then onto your blue cardstock paper.

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Continue dipping into the paint and back onto your blue paper to make clouds all over your paper.

Set it aside to dry completely.

Cut out hot air balloon shapes

Cut a hot air balloon shape out of your white cardstock paper.

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Use that as a pattern to cut out as many balloons as you want.

We used two per craft, but I kind of wish we would have done three.

It will also depend on how big you make them.

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Decorate hot air balloons with washi tape

Decorate your hot air balloons with your washi tape.

I love how different my daughter and I are in our design choices.

I went with the bright fun patterned washi tape and she wanted the glitter tape.

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