Close Your Clothes! I made this activity book for Lara's birthday. It's made out of old clothes and some Freecycled fabric, and has pages of clothes-fastener activities with facing pages featuring poems about the fasteners. The pages are each stuffed with two layers of felt I had around the house. I cropped the poems (which I wrote) out the pictures, but I am transcribing them under each page. I'm so happy with how it came out! Good thing too, because it took fo-e-vah to make. Why is everything I do so laborious? I think I must just be a very laborious person. “Buttons are delightful doodads,”Says a fishwife who reviews shads. Adds famed button expert Clay Kee: “If you snub them when you wakey,Then you’re making a mistakey,Coming to eat breakfast nakey!” There are two sides to a zipper,Each side full of little teeth – As you pull the slider upward,They’re connecting underneath!
Old MacDonald had a farm (E-I-E-I-O!) Old MacDonald one fine day (E-I-E-I-O!) Make Custom Stamped T-shirts. Want to make a custom-painted t-shirt right now, using stuff you probably already have on hand? You don't need to run to the store to pick up special fabric paint! You can fix acrylic craft paint onto your fabric using something you already have in your kitchen cabinets. Can you guess what it is? My three year-old son and I had fun decorating t-shirts with this vintage stamp set we have. We even decorated a onesie for his new brother! You can use this technique on new clothes, or use it to spruce up stained clothes (disguise the stains under paint!) So have you figured out the secret ingredient yet? A long time ago, on a thread on Craftster about stencil-making, I read a tip about using acrylic paint on fabric. Project Estimate: T-shirt, on hand or $1Acrylic craft paint, about $.50 per bottle or on handVinegar, on handStamps, on handIron or clothes dryer, on hand Total: FREE and up The Method: Stamp or otherwise make a print on a t-shirt using acrylic craft paint.
72 hour kits for kids. Are you ready? Are your kids? UPDATE: spreadsheet available at this link Alright. I know you all know about 72 hour kits and there are tons of websites with ideas and information about these, but as I was updating mine, I had a lot of people ask about what I put in it and how to go about it (how did people know I was updating you ask? Never mind that it all graced my living room for almost a month)…so I thought maybe some of you might want to know as well. Wow. For years, this has overwhelmed me. I took pictures for you. *NOTE: I am in NO WAY an expert, this is just what I came up for my family after studying a lot of information. Everything in the pack. Long sleeve shirt, sweat pants, jacket, 3 underwear, 2 socks, warm hat, gloves, poncho, shoes (not pictured) I used to stress about changing the clothes out for the different seasons but I read somewhere that you can just cut off the pants and the shirt if it is THAT hot and now you have summer clothes.
Small bills and coins Whew! Look What's Going In The Mail. Water party: sponge ball tutorial. Wednesday, March 23, 2011 Whether you call it a Water Party, an Under the Sea Party, or a Splash Party, we’ve got you covered. This party is now available for purchase in our shop. Photos by Nicole Hill Gerulat.
©One Charming Party. MINIONS! I Spy my ABC's. Another Cute Word Book. To see the origin of this post, click {here}. I've had a run of posts about these word books. I love the idea of using pictures of things they actually see at home to teach them words. In the last example, she used Scrabble letters to spell the words. This one uses blocks, which is pretty cute, too. I just think I'll be making one into a board book so my son doesn't tear it apart.
Such cute ideas! Printable Lunch Meal Planner via TipJunkie.com. Printable Job Cards {Printable Chore Chart. Printable Journal Pages via TipJunkie.com. My Interview With Little Man. For me, January is all about organization! I realize I'm not the only one... But each year when I start putting Christmas away, I get the itch to start organizing. Every. space. in. my. house! Yesterday I literally spent all day long organizing. From the basement to the office; from the pantry to the sock drawer! One organization project seems to lead to another. Ever since Little Man was born, I have debated about how to organize our photos and memories! I stumbled on several adorable interview ideas on Pinterest, and I knew I had to create my own! I actually conducted my first interview with Little Man over the summer when he turned 2 1/2. Here are the questions that I asked this time around: What is your name? How old are you? What color is your hair?
What color are your eyes? What is your favorite food? What is your favorite song? What is your favorite treat? What is your favorite color? What is your favorite animal? What is your favorite book? What is your favorite store? Who are your friends? Make It: Gorgeous Shadow Boxes. I held onto Gracie's (now 4) hospital stuff for awhile, not wanting to get rid of it, but not at all sure what the heck to do with it.
Exactly what are you supposed to do with the very first shirt your kid ever in their life wore? And that tiny little hat... and one of those itsy bitsy little diapers I couldn't bear to throw away (clean, of course!) Then one day, I thought: OH! Shadow box the little suckers! So I did. These two shadow boxes were easy to complete and only took about an hour and a half, which was nice because I was able to knock the project out while Annelie was napping. The hobby store was having a sale on their shadow boxes and scrapbook paper, so I grabbed some up and made both these little shadow boxes for under $20.
I used quite a lot of things, but most of them I already had on hand. Materials: Step One: Paint Shadow Box and Sides of Letter You'll want to remove the glass, or use blue painters tape if you have it, so you don't cover the glass in paint. Xoxo, Baby Shower.