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Christmas DIY Craft – Winter Wreath

Amy — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 12:57:11 +0000

I’m so excited to show you a beautiful DIY craft that I created for Disney’s Family.com! This wreath is probably one of my favorite crafts to date… and Disney even made a video of how to make it! How cool is that??!

This pretty winter wreath is super easy to make and you probably have most of the items in your home or stashed in holiday boxes. I used items like coffee filters, silver cupcake liners, and old plastic ornaments.

Play the video below to see how to make this wreath or find online directions with step by step photos at Family.com. They used colorful ornaments, but I prefer the all white and silver for a look that could last past Christmas. I’m so excited to see one of my creations turned into a nice video like this. YAY!

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Painted Pumpkins

Amy — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 12:56:02 +0000

I don’t carve pumpkins anymore, I paint! Because I have small children, this is just the easiest and most fun for them now. My daughter LOVED her Minnie Mouse Pumpkin last year. I have a big pumpkin primed and ready to paint on Halloween. I’ll reveal it soon!

These are some wonderful pumpkins the older girls at my daughter’s school painted. Each year they display their art work and I’m always super impressed with their creativity! Some are painted on plastic pumpkins, perfect for saving for next year.

Dr. Suess is so fun! This is a big gourd sitting on a plastic container, the hat is a paper plate.

To learn how to paint a pumpkin visit this site. If you would rather carve one, check out One Pretty Thing’s Pumpkin Carving Round-Up.

Another photo thrown in just for fun…

Dance Class + Little Girls + Halloween Costumes = Super Cute!

Do you carve or paint pumpkins?

Crafts for School Photos

Amy — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 08:58:00 +0000

Have you thought about how you will capture the back to school memories? If you’re like me, you take lots and lots of photos!

Today on I Heart Faces, my partner Angie (mother of four) wrote a great article about inspiring ideas for back to school photos. I thought I would follow up with creative ideas on what to do with your photos.

Make a personalized frame to remember details.

I found some cheap wooden frames at Ikea and free downloadable back to school paper. Along with my free Star Wars Stickers, Mod Podge and paint, this turned into a really great keepsake for the year!

I will also add this tag from Trixie Scraps’s back to school kit to the back of the frame.

Here’s what you need:

Wood Frame
Paper
Mod Podge
Foam Brush
Exacto Knife
Paint

Paint the Mod Podge on the frame. Then lay the frame on the paper. Make sure to smooth the wrinkles out of the paper. Trim with the knife and add stickers, buttons or whatever your kids are into. Then put a little paint on the brush and tab around the edges to cover the remaining wood.

This took about 10 minutes to make and is a great project to do with your kids!

I found the mother load of back to school freebies when I went searching for printable paper!

The Blog Train Blog has 50 plus scrapbook artists who all made FREE Back to School Kits!

You could stay on this blog train for 3 days with all the submissions they had! WOW! One of my favorites was Random Inspirations by Monica. I used her green “back to school” paper for my son’s frame.

A school bus tissue frame is another cute idea.

I found this idea on freekidscrafts.com

Here’s what you need:

Printable school bus template
Tissue Paper in yellow and white
Glue
Black Marker or Black Paint
Cardstock or heavy paper
Photos

Print the template on heavy paper. Cut tissue paper into 2″squares. Crumple each piece into a tight ball. Dip into white glue and place onto pattern. Continue crumpling and gluing down pieces until the entire bus is filled. Paint or use markers to make the tires black.

Tape photos to the back of the school bus showing happy faces looking out of the windows.

Pumpkin Painting Party

Amy — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 17:41:48 +0000

I hosted a pumpkin painting party for the neighborhood kindergarten kids. We have several new neighbors, this was a fun way for everyone to meet and greet.

Did some test painting before everyone showed up. Since my 2 year old is obsessed with Minnie Mouse right now… look what I made her!!

Think she liked it??? ha!

(Note: I used wooden skewers to stick the small ear pumpkins into Mini’s head.)

Time for the party to begin!

I found tiny aprons at Hobby Lobby. They were half off! Love Hobby Lobby!

I also found some foil cupcake pans at the grocery store, then filled each cupcake area with paint and a brush. No mixing the paint this way! I also covered the tables with press and seal cling wrap. It just sticks right to the table and no mess! Target has some cute Halloween press and seal.

Contests are always fun at parties. The kids all loved guessing how many pumpkins were in the jar. They each had to write down a number several times! Can you guess how many? (41 is the magic number!)

My son guessed 88. He cried when he didn’t get the prize.

Of course there were lots of “P” snacks. Popcorn, punch, pretzels and pumpkin bread!

If you want to have your own “P” is for Pumpkin Party. Download my FREE invitation below…

The kids were so proud of their pumpkins! They even sat still for several photos. Wow!!

Pretty Pumpkins…