Pasta necklace!

Here's a kindergarten classic: crafts with macaroni! Kids love em' AND its super cheap... & natural! This week we made some beautiful necklaces with painted jumbo macaroni (the best ones are cylinders like Penne)! One little girl even tried to wear hers to bed that same night!

What you need:
     ☆ Pasta
     ☆ Tempera paint
     ☆ Paintbrushes
     ☆ Wax paper
     ☆ Yarn or ribbon



#1 paint the noodles!
#2 String the noodles!
#3 Tie a knot! ta-dam! so fancy!!

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Best Play Dough

Hi there! Saturday morning, 9am and I'm already at it... Making play dough!Do you know how much I love home made play dough? It's so easy and cheap to make and you can make all these beautiful colors! At work/school, it's a classroom essential. Perfect for practicing those fine motors skills and creativity! Here is a great recipe I found on this blog. 

   Play Dough Recipe:
     ☆ 1 cup white flour
     ☆ 1/2 cup salt
     ☆ 2 Tbsp cream of tatar (spice)
     ☆ 1 Tbsp oil
     ☆ 1 cup water
     ☆ food coloring

 Instructions: Mix the first 5 ingredients in a cooking pot (over medium heat) and stir well until all clumps disappear. Add a couple drops of food coloring. Eventually the dough will form one massive clump and will become difficult to stir. Transfer onto a sheet a aluminum foil and let cool for a minute or two. Then make sure to kneed it for a couple minutes, until it become beautiful play dough! Hooray!

Enjoy xo

Busy hand at play!


I had some fun too!

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DIY tiny change purse

Hi again! I've been sewing gifts for the past week... Aprons, yoga bags, cosmetic bags and my latest... Tiny change purses! Check them out! It's like sewing a cosmetic bag but with 4 x 6" pieces of scrap fabric. And I got to use my ridiculous kitty cat fabric!








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Iron-on Transfer Fun!

Mr.T for Mr. Tyler... the kids' nickname for him!
Magnets and an apron!
Hi there! Christmas is in 3 days and I'm busy crafting way this weekend! One of my favorite things to work with are iron-on transfers. My favorite are the Avery Dark T-Shirt Transfers... they never fail me! Lately, I love making fabric covered button-magnets and ironing a picture to the fabric before I stretch it onto the button. I've been making new creations for xmas gifts! Wanna see?

Materials
     ♡ Dark T-shirt fabric transfers
     ♡ Round magnets
     ♡ super glue (i like goop)
     ♡ Pliers
     ♡ Scissors
     ♡ Fabric-cover button kit
     ♡ Scrap Fabric
Instruction for picture button -magnet:
1. Print your pictures onto iron-on transfer. You might need to play around with the size
2. Cut them out, peel the back and position onto the fabric.
3. Iron on for about 10 seconds (with larger images, follow the instructions on the package)
4. Stretch onto a button
5. Glue a magnet at the back
6. Give to someone and make their day.


Picture-button  factory!
Print pictures onto iron-on transfer and cut them out.
Peel the back and position them onto your fabric.
Stretch onto a button and glue a magnet at the back!
More picture-button creations!
For my newlywed friend!
Pretty fabric and a kitty face! Meow!
  

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Paper Roll Reindeer!

The kids are getting pretty excited at school, so we've been trying to keep them busy with some seasonal crafts! Check out this one: a toilet aper roll reindeer! And the best part.. we are recycling a toilet paper roll! Hooray!

  Materials
     ✄ toilet paper roll
     ✄ pastels & crayons (instead of paint)
     ✄ pipe cleaners
     ✄ googly eyes
     ✄ pompoms
     ✄ hot glue

Click here for the instructions i found on this awesome blog, LOADED with crafts for kids!

Happy crafting! xo


Want some more Winter & holiday projects?
Salt Dough Ornaments

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Salt Dough Ornaments!

Hi there! So the holidays are here and we are getting our craft on at school! The kids are making back of ornaments for their parents so we decided to make a classic... Salt Dough Ornaments! After a couple trials we finally got it just right! Wanna make some? It's so easy and the kds loved doing them!

     Materials
          ✩ rolling pin
          ✩ cookie cutters
          ✩ straw
          ✩ salt dough
          ✩ tempera or acrylic paint
          ✩ fabric ribbon
          ✩ modge podge & sparkles (optional)

Salt Dough recipe:
2 cups flour
1 cup salt
3/4 cup water

   
Instructions
① In a large bowl, mix salt and flour together.
② Gradually add water until you have a nice dough consistency (not too clumpy and not too sticky)
③ Turn the dough on a hard surface and kneed for about five minutes until it's nice and smooth!
④ Voilà, it's ready to use! Flatten out small portions with a rolling pin until about 0.5 - 1cm thick (max) and cut into different shapes! Don't forget to poke a hole with a straw (for the ribbion) before baking!
⑤ Place on parchment paper and bake in the oven at a low temperature, about 200°F for about 2 hours.
⑥ Paint and tie a ribbon! You can even seal it with a shiny coat using modge podge or varnish and add sparkles!
Ready to bake!
Painting them with pretty colours!

So many tiny masterpieces! 
Sparkle city! We even sealed with a coat of Modge Podge!

Wanna see more ornaments we made? 


Sparkly Pine Cones

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Recycled Snowflake Cards!




Hi there! I have a special treat for you guys today... Miss Jessica's recycled snowflake cards! My fantastic colleague and head teacher at our school let me share her fabulous cards on the blog. Best part about them? She reused old wrapping paper and turned it into fancy snowflakes... then into cards for the kids at school! Hooray Miss Jessica! I guess all that talk about being green and recycling at school has rubbed off on us! xo
Materials
❉ old wrapping paper
❉ scrapbooking paper
❉ white cardstock
❉ glue 
❉ scissors

Instructions:

Snowflakes
Cut a square from the old wrapping paper. Fold 3 times and cut patterns into it. For a little more help, check out this post on how to make classic paper snowflakes

Cards
Determine the size of your cards and fold a piece of cardstock in half. Glue some scrapbooking paper for the background and paste the snowflake on top! Voilà!
Look at them all! A work of art!
It enven inspired me to make snowflake giftbags! Yay!
Oh and if you'd like to see my walrus holiday cards, click here!  Happy holiday crafting!

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