Recycled jet pack for my boys

Hello everyone! 

I know I've been terrible at keeping up with this blog there are a few reasons why one is one of my previous blogs was very personal and it made some people very upset, people being my step-dad for a man that claims he doesn't know how to use a computer he sure does keep up very well with my blog ANYWAYS!! It did cause some issues with my parents and family members who didn't agree that i should be airing out my dirty laundry for the world to read. I decided that I don't really care I like writing my blogs and I know I'm not the only one who was affected by abuse as a child sometimes Its best to talk about it. Either way here I am.

Today I decided that I would do something for my boys. It’s been a while since I’ve done any crafty stuff I’ve been really stressed out about some financial issues that we are having… but I guess it’s just something that I have to not worry about as much that would be the second reason why I haven't kept up. Crafting always makes me feel so much better it’s my therapy I suppose. And like most crafters these days I am absolutely addicted to PINTEREST! Had it not been for Pinterest I would not have found some of the blogs that I’m currently following and that would be a shame because they are AWESOME!

So today I decided to make my older son Diego a jet pack. My most favorite thing about Diego is his imagination! I love watching him play, the things that he just comes up with its so fascinating and inspiring. He always challenges me to make some crazy things for him, but this idea was very simple. I went down to the dollar tree where things actually are a dollar! I grabbed some 2 litter sparkling water bottles because i love the flavors, and these are the best size for my son who is a little skinny Minnie. I also got some silver spray paint. Today I've made two jet packs actually I also bought some little jugs of apple juice for my little baby Tenoch who is 18 months. He is in the monkey see monkey do stage and is just infatuated with his big brother. So to avoid screaming and tears I decided I had to be a fair mom and make one for the baby too.

I dumped all the sparking water into a clean jug that i had so I didn't have to drink it all right now and I washed out the bottles the same with the juice jugs. i spray painted them outside on my porch like I always do. I have to say this the spray paint was pretty good for dollar tree spray paint I thought it was going to be runny but it wasn't at all.

 I had some felt and foam in my craft room so I made the flames out of those things but I'm sure there are other materials that you can use I thought about using party streamers but I remembered how delicate they are with water so I used something a little more resistant.

  Now I already had a cardboard box that saved so I cut off the flaps to make the backing. I cut four holes in each corner for the straps.

 And I had some elastic material that I used for the straps. I just inserted them through the holes and stapled them to the cardboard you will need two straps per cardboard backing.

I folded the flames at the tip and hot glued them to the inside of the bottle.

Now I did have an issue with my glue gun. It’s so old that it only has two setting really 

HOT and HOLY MOTHER OF GOD HOT! So because of that one of the bottles started to melt a little bit but what I decided to do is...

 Put a button panel! lol what jet pack works with out a button panel!? That’s just dangerous!

So this is my little tutorial on recycled jet packs. If you have a kid like mine that LOVES to dress up and pretend these are a great way to support his passion. And it’s not expensive or time consuming at all!