My crafty sweet Daughter

My Sweet almost 11 year old has been creating crafts for her little sisters to do this week!

 I of course wanted to share her creativity with you!! 

 

Here are some pics of the crafts she did with them!

 

 She had them add felt, yarn, googly eyes, sequence, and pompoms to make these!

(Little Bitty had some help writing her name)

These cute cats are painted with felt noses and ears, yarn for the mouth, bristles for the whiskers and of course googly eyes!

 Decorating crowns is always a favorite for little girls!

Paper snowcone cups with tissue paper glued on are the dresses.

 She had them make pop stick puppets with tissue paper, drawn faces and the same sparkly sticky foam board I used for the Hello Kitty Birthday for the crowns!

 

I think she did an excellent job and in a little over a year will be the best babysitter in town!



4th of July hair bands and bows!!

 

These are really simple and fun to make!!

 

I found this fun, sparkly, tubing at Michaels.

 

 

I bought some plastic hairbands.

 

I just slid the hair band into the tube.

 

Once you get all the way around hot glue the ends.

 

Let it cool for a couple seconds and then squeeze it!

 

I cut some felt.

 

And glued it over the ends so that they wouldn't be scratchy on the little ears.

 

You could even glue felt all the way around if you have a sensitive one.

 

 

 

 

How to make the bow...

 

then tie a knot around the middle...

 

You can hot glue this to the hair band...

 

or glue it on a clip!

 

Happy 4th of July!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



Heading out west! YeeHaw!

 

 

This is something we did a few months back with some friends!

 

We have been reading the Little House books and used the Prairie Primer book this year for fun ideas to go along with them!

 

One of the suggestions is to measure out an area and have it be your covered wagon...

 

I flipped our dinning room table upside down and turned it into a covered wagon!!

The kids had a blast packing the wagon and pretending they were heading out west!

Of course we had corn bread and beans to eat too!

 

 

Hello Kitty Party!!

I am sorry it has been SOOO long since I have posted anything!!

I AM PREGNANT!!

 

 

Well I'm now feeling much better (a first for me!!)
and this week is my middle daughter's 6th birthday!

 

 

She LOVES Hello Kitty!!
Right now her favorite color is red so I'm writing in red!!

 
 

 

Of course we had to have a Hello Kitty Birthday Party!!

 

Being Prego I opted to have the party at Michaels. It's only $50 to use their party room!

 

They will run the craft for you if you choose one of their crafts...I did my own.

 

 

 

I had coloring pages for them to do while we waited for everyone to arrive!

 

 

Then we made Hello Kitty Masks!

 

I had cut them out of craft foam and got 4 masks from each sheet!

I cut bows from craft foam that was sparkly and had a sticker back, noses from yellow felt, and the whiskers are just pipe cleaners.

 

 

I had them use tacky glue for the noses and the pipe cleaners poked through the foam.

 

They came out pretty cute if I do say so!

 

 

Next we played pin the bow on Hello Kitty!

For this I just drew a pic of Hello Kitty on foam board.

You could print one off if you don't feel confident but Hello Kitty is pretty simple to copy.

I used the same sticky, sparkly foam sheets for the bows!

 

Then we did face painting!! Always fun!

Michaels will do it for you (for $25extra) I helped out to get it done faster.

 

 

One of my daughter's friends wanted a white cat with red stripes...umm OK....I did my best. ;)

 

I had them decorate their own cupcakes!!

 

 

 

They had so much fun doing this!

 

 
I tied the bags so the frosting only came out the right way!

 

 

I will end with a kid party tip!

 

Have your child write thank you notes before the party and put them in the goody bags!

"Thank you for coming to my party and for the gift!"

(I printed it off and she glued it into the card then wrote her name and drew a picture.)

Then you don't have to worry about who gave what and mailing thank you cards after!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Wii Birthday!

My oldest turned 12 today!

 

We had such a fun time with his friends!

 

We live in a wonderful area with such a great community!

 

I'm so thrilled that he has a great group of friends!

 

For his birthday we had his best buddies over to go sledding and play video games!

 

It was a good day!

 

 

 

I made a cake to look like wii remotes and it came out pretty good so I thought I'd share how I did it!

 

I baked two cakes one an 9x13 pan and one a 9in round pan.

 

 

 

I also made some GF cupcakes for our buddies who can't have gluten.

So they wouldn't feel left out I made little mini wii motes out of fondant as a cupcake topper!

 

 

 

I cut the 9x13 pan right down the middle so that I had two long rectangles.

 

 

 

The round pan was a little more tricky.

 

 

 

I looked at the nunchucks and tried to copy the shape using the curve that the cake already has.

 

 

 

I cut the shape out of cardboard and covered it with foil to give the cake support and allow me to move them easily.

 

 

 

The next step it to frost them.

 

 

This is just the crumb coat so it doesn't have to look pretty

 it just needs to coat the cake!

 

 

 

Now it's time to roll out the fondant.

 

Fondant is like clay.

You need to work it with your hands for a bit to soften it before it is workable.

 

Sprinkle your work area with powdered sugar.

 



 

Roll it out just like you would pie  crust or playdoh!

 

 

 

Once it is the right size

 

 

drape it over your cake

 

 

 

and smooth it with your hands.

 

 

 

Use your fingers pull it down over the corners.

 

 

 

Pat the sides down.

 

 

 

Use a knife to push in and under the cake and then cut and pull the extra off.

 

 

 

Repeat with the other cakes!

 

 

 

Use a wet paper towel to smooth the surface and make them look shiny!

 

 

Now is the FUN part!

 

Adding the details!

 

First I mapped out where I wanted the buttons to end up.

 

 

 

To make the round buttons I rolled a ball and then smooshed it!

 

 

 

I added the little details as well the A, -,+, 1,2...

 

 

To make the cross I cut a square and then cut out the corners!

 

 

 

The cord is just like making a snake with playdoh!

 

 

 

I just left one end a little bigger to look like the plug.

 

Use water as "glue" just dip your finger in the water and then dab where you will be adding your detail.

 

 

There you go!

 

 

 

I hope you give it a try it was a lot of fun to make!