My kids love it when I get funky with their food. They are huge fans when I make “squidapusses” (hot dog cut to look like a octopus) and when I saw this over at Plum Pudding, I’m sure I’ll be making this over the weekend.
Sure it looks funny but that’s half the idea!
Like making “squidapusses” the creativity occurs before the hot dog is cooked.
Head over to Plum Pudding to see how it’s done.
My daughter LOVES fairies! I think she wants to be one.
When I saw WeeFolkArt.com’s post on these little faerie items, I thought of her.
First we have a simple felt flower fairies. They are just too cute and seem simple to make too. It might be something good for her to practice her stitches with.
The second one that they offer is a fairy flower carpet. The base is felt and the flowers are silk.
If my daughter ever cleaned her room, I would make this for her in a second!
The best part of this one, is you can make it to your own desired size, limited only by the number of flowers or amount of felt you have.
Wee Folk Art – Flower Fairies and Flower Faerie Carpet
Earth day is April 22. What are you going to be doing? What are you changing this year to make the world better? More importantly, how are you going to involve your kids with it?
I found that Disney has a site that does just that. I have found that the Disney sites are very kid friendly and pretty easy to navigate in general.
They have “green” crafts and recipes, games and project all aimed to involve the entire family. 
I’m really liking the crafting section. Most are geared to the under 8 crowd but I know my daughter will like reusing cans as flower pots. The only question for her will be how many can she do. We’ll start the seeds inside and then move them outside when the weather isn’t so cold.
I’m looking forward to trying some of these ideas out with the kiddies!
Kaboose – Earth Day
Why does it seem like like if one friend is pregnant, there are three more as well? One of my best friends, my cousin and two other friends are all pregnant and due around the same
time (this fall). I’m happy with my three kiddos but enjoy it when others have kids because it lets me get my baby fix without the late nights and diper changes.
The best thing about friends having babies, is getting to give them gifts! Even the older babies are still so much fun to either buy for or craft for.
With Earth Day coming up next week, I found this post for a “crinkely” baby toy that reuses the plastic wrapper from wipes. I would have never thought to use this for a toy but it is BRILLIANT! My kids, plus the dog as well, always loved the noisy, crinkley toys when they were little.
Susan Beal over at Craft Stylish has given us guidance on how to create this toy for your favorite kiddo*.
The best thing is, you don’t have to make an owl if you don’t want to. I see me sneaking noisy wrappers into all kinds of shapes of stuffed toys for kiddies over the years. I could even ask my youngest kid’s pre-school teacher to keep the wrappers for me since she goes through so much with the young ones who go there and the many uses for them.
With recycled, or reused, fabric this could be a fun and green craft to do.
Craft Stylish – Baby Toy
*Let the record state, that me giving a child a gift of this sort does not desinate them as my favorite nor do I love one of my own children more then the others.
Yesterday I posted links for the “Bunny Tails” and “Easter Egg Seeds”. Well, while I was dying Easter eggs last night for my youngest’s Pre-School party, I literally whipped them both up.
I had everything on hand, marshmallows, heavy weight paper, stapler, double stick tape, clear plastic bags AND ink for my printer. I also had on hand my paper cutter which made cutting straight lines a breeze. I made 15 of the bunny tails and 3 of the seeds because that’s all I needed. The bunny tails template has 4 per page and the seeds have at least 12, probably more. I was done both crafts (including printing time) in less than 30 minutes. Granted if my kids had “helped” it would have taken longer but they were already tucked into their beds before I got started.
Here are some pics that I took.
My bags were a bit smaller than what Can’t Stop Making Things used so I trimmed down the paper just a bit. My bags (2 oz. sized) held about half a cup of marshmallows perfectly.
If you are looking to occupy the kiddies for a bit before company arrives or when they are waiting for the big feast on Sunday, this is a GREAT way to occupy them!
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