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. “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! 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. For years, this has overwhelmed me. 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. 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! 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. I used quite a lot of things, but most of them I already had on hand. Materials: 1 shadow boxbaby accessories (diaper, shirt, hat...)acrylic paintpaint sealer (found in the acrylic paint aisle)scrapbook paper (I used 3 contrasting sheets per box)square cardboard (I used a scrap of a cereal box)decorations (I bought a package of flower decorations from the scrapbook aisle of my local craft store)printed out black and white photo (see Step 3 for details)sandpaper4 brads (optional)wood block letterhot glue gun and Mod Podge Step One: Paint Shadow Box and Sides of Letter xoxo, Baby Shower.