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Stamped Air-Dry Clay Ornaments


Hi there! Today, I did a fun project with my crafty friend, which is pretty rare these days with a 4 month old! During little ones nap, I got my clay out in hopes to make some handmade ornaments. I bought the white air-dry clay to make little baby handprints, which we eventually got to, but while waiting for baby to wake up, we had fun experimenting with different kind of stamping. I found some ideas on this fun blog while searching on Pinterest. 
I brought out some stamps, but the using real cedar branches was so fun! I used a brayer, but a rolling pin works fine! For the ornament shape, i used a cookie cutter, but since I didn't have a circle, I used a cup and an exacto knife like it's shown above. They should take 2-3 days to dry... just don't forget to make your string/hook hole before they do!  I can't wait to hang them in the tree! 

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Big Paper Bows

 


This was a fun one! How do you wrap a big akward gift?! With a giant bow of course! 

Last year I reclaimed a bunch of science lab high stools and spray-painted them various colours for my wonderful teacher friends. This was for Mme Emilie's birthday... So of course it needed a giant bow! Here's the tutorial I found on pinterest. I had made a smaller version with scrapbooking paper before, but not one this big. I ended up using wrapping paper to get a fun pattern. It turned out so well!



a smaller version of the bow, with scrapbooking paper.

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Reclaimed Foam Chair

Hi again! Here's a little project I did last Spring. My husband found this fuzzy purple Tinkerbell chair on our buy nothing group, hoping that I could make a new cover for it... Challenge accepted! Man this wasn't easy. I took the fuzzy purple cover apart and cut all new pieces with the sage green fabric and Bambi accent. Turned out so well, matches with little one's room AND we got to recycle a chair! Woot! 

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Thanksgiving Turkeys

 


Hi there! Look at the cute little turkeys we made today in class, in honour of Thanksgiving! I've done this craft before with real leaves, except they evetually all crumbled and disintergrated. I much prefer the craft with paper feathers and real ones! Have fun! My students loved them!

Here's what you need:
🍁 toilet paper roll
🍁 colourful construction paper
🍁 glue
🍁 scissors
🍁 black marker
🍁 feathers
🍁 body template (see below) printed on sheets of kraft paper

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Mini Leaf Garland



Happy Fall! I had fun making a tiny leaf garland for our mantel today. The colours were inspired from a table runner we had found at Ikea last season. For those who use a Cricut, here is the link to the project: Mini Leaf Garland. I also have a print and cut version that I used for my classroom a couple years back: Fall leaf Garland (print and cut)
 
Materials needed: coloured cardstock, thread and a big needle!
I love it so much!

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Kindness Rocks

 

This Summer, I made some painted "kindness Rocks" with my neice, to leave around Calgary. I first heard of this project through Facebook a while ago: #kindnessrocksproject. I love, love, love this project!! Check out their website! We found all our rocks during a hike by the Water at Fish Creek. It was so fun to paint these little guys and spend some great quality family time. :)

Wanna participate in this fun project? Check out the How To HERE!

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Pencil Name Picker

 


This project cost almost nothing.. and now I have the cutest random name pickers for my classroom! Perfect when I want to pick a student at random. Now, I just need a cute mason jar and some names labels on for these guys.

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Fall paper wreath


Hello Fall! To celebrate fall arriving, we created a collective artwork in class this week: a fall leaf wreath! I found my template HERE and HERE and printed them on cardstock. Also, you know those kids love those googly eyes, so..... why not! Happy Fall Y'all!

Materials:

🍂 colourful cardstock
🍂 a big bristol board (cut into a "ring")
🍂 googly eyes
🍂 glue
🍂scissors


Check out this one from a few years ago:



Template found on: onelittleproject.com






 

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DIY Heart Wrapping Paper

Happy Valentine's Day!  Yesterday, I decided to make my own Valentine's Day wrapping paper for my husbands little gift. It turned out great. All I needed was some brown kraft paper and some heart stamps + stamp pads. And the best part ? It can be recycled!
Turned out so great!

Perfect with my little handmade card!

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Easter Mantel

Hi there! Easter is just around the corner so I decided to finish decorating my mantle this afternoon. This year, I added a little egg garland, since I had egg cutouts left over from my classroom decorations. Looks great with our usual bunny sculpture and bunny print. Hooray!

If you'd like to make a little garland too, it's so simple! You'll need thread, glue and egg cut-out! That's it!
Bunny print we found at Homesense.

Bunny from Crate and Barrel (last season)

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Kawaii Shrink Art

Hey again! I had a pretty fun time organizing crafts for my coworker's very crafty daughter's birthday party. She had her birthday party yesterday and wanted some crafts that weren't too "childish". We made some sweet Unicorn Dreamcatchers but I wanted another project they could do afterwards that didn't involve as many materials, so I went to my go-to Shrink Art that kids ALWAYS love. I get the clear stuff from DeSerres and sand it a little to be able to use colouring pencils on them. The kids LOVED this project. I found a bunch of Kawaii (cute japanese) images on-line and then they trace it onto their piece of Shrink Art! We had everything from kawaii cupcakes, pandas, unicorns, you name it! Just search ________ Kawaii on-line and you'll find adorable images. Then, we added a little metal jump hoop and a key-ring and turned them into keychains after! Hooray!

Materials: coloring pencils, x-thin black sharpies, scissors, key-rings, hole puncher, metal jump hoop, key-ring and Shrink Art (or Shrinky Dinky, found at you local craft store).
Instructions:
① Draw your image on the rough side of your Shrink Art piece. if it's the clear stuff, place your favorite image underneath and trace it!
② Trace the outline with a black sharpie.
③ Cut your shape out and punch a hole. *Don't forget this step. It'll be impossible to do once it's shrunken and thicker.
④ Bake at 325°F for 2 minutes, until completely shrunken and FLAT
⑤ String it onto a key-ring, earrings, a necklace, whatever you like!
Watching it Shrink!
Tracing onto the Shrink Art plastic
All shrunken and adorable!!!

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Unicorn Dreamcatchers

Hey ya'll! I had a pretty fun fun time organizing some crafts for my coworker's very crafty daughter. She had her birthday party yesterday and wanted some crafts that weren't too "childish". So I went to my go-to Shrink Art that kids ALWAYS love. I get mine from DeSerres and sand it a little to be able to use colouring pencils on them. I also wanted to find a special project that would take a while to make and that I can't do with a large number of student in a classroom (a little guilty pleasure). After some research of Pinterest, I found some Unicorn Dreamcatchers. I was a bit reluctant since it is a traditional aboriginal craft, but I made sure to tell the kids the background info on it and told them it wasn't a real one.

They turned out so great!


       Materials
       ♥ 6" metal rings
      ♥ yarn
      ♥ waxed string
      ♥ white glitter felt
      ♥ glitter poster board
      ♥ beads
      ♥ scissors
      ♥ glue gun
      ♥ embellishments (paper flowers, foam shapes, etc.)


Instructions
There is a great little video at the bottom of this post from Hello Wonderful,

1. Wrap yarn around the metal hoop, covering it entirely. Add some hot glue to secure.
2. Tie the waxed string to the top of the hoop and cross over to make a star-like pattern. Add beads.
3. Cut out ears from the white felt and inner ear with pink paper.
4. Cut out a horn from glitter paper.
5. Cut your yarn that will hang at the bottom. Mine was about 1m/36"
6. Secure at the bottom with a cow hitch knot.
7. Decorate with embellishments: flowers, jewels, whatever you want!

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Simple Heart Wreath


Hi there! With Valentines day around the corner, I wanted to make a simple paper wreath to hang in my classroom to go with my Paper heart garlands. I found this easy Scrapbook paper heart wreath through Pinterest and thought it would be so easy to with my Cricut maker, although it can totally be done with tracing & cutting!

 Here's what you'll need:

♥ scrapbook paper in a variety of prints
♥ Cricut or cutting machine
♥ heart template (if you don’t have a cutting machine)
♥ scissors
♥ marker
♥ glue
♥ ribbon
♥ cardboard or foam core

Instructions:
All the instructions are on this Blog Post by Typically Simple!
Loving all the colours!
My paper heart garland

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Hello Winter free printable



Hi there! Happy New Year! We just took down our Christmas decorations, but I still wanted to keep a bit of a winter vibe in the living room, without being too festive (check out the little igloo that was given to me!!). Well, on my Pinterest hunt for the perfect print today, I found this sweet Hello Winter print, but it's also a cutting file for the Cricut! Awesome! And it's free! Here's the link! This blogger has so many pretty files! For this project, I simply printed the image on cardstock with my inkjet printer. Happy crafting!
Loving these free JPG+SVG files from Design by Winther!

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Happy New Year Banner!

Hi there! We are having a few friends over for new year's eve tonight and I thought that I would play around my my Cricut and make a banner. I usually make little triangle pennant banners, so I thought I'd try something new, something I could only do with the Cricut... so I decided to make some detailed cursive words, after getting some inspiration from Pinterest. I used the "Babette" cricut font for the words and "Padigton regular" for the numbers.

Loved how it turned out!

My Cricut in action!
Made two copies of the words, so that I could sandwich
 the string in-between the 2 layers.
Gluing my string with Tacky glue
So pretty over the Mantle and fireplace!

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