Crafts category

  • Tomato Cage Ghosts

    We are busily raking up leaves and cleaning out our gardens here in the midwest, but before I store those tomato cages for the winter I have one more use for them. They’ll make a great form for ...
    Oct 29, 2012 8 Comments

  • Advent Calendar Project – Week 19

    (Every week until December 1st we will be making a small Christmas ornament that can be used in our Pocket Advent Calendar. Join us in making all 24 or just pick and choose your favorites.) This week ...
    Oct 26, 2012 21 Comments

  • Preschool Project: Spiders on the Web

    This week, we are ushering in Halloween with full strength. We made spiders to sit on a web. The web was strung on thumb tacks on the fence. The spiders were made with beads, pipe cleaners, and a li...
    Oct 25, 2012 3 Comments

  • Iron Craft Challenge #21 – Felt Elf

    This Iron Craft challenge was to use one of my favorite supplies, felt. I wasn’t sure what I was going to make and then I kept seeing these little elves in all the stores around Iceland. I was ...
    Oct 23, 2012 7 Comments

  • Project: Zombie Baby Head

    One of the things I knew I wanted to try making for Halloween decorations this year was a zombie baby head. My first stumbling block was actually finding the head. My plan was to get one at the local ...
    Oct 22, 2012 8 Comments

  • Advent Calendar Project – Week 18

    (Every week until December 1st we will be making a small Christmas ornament that can be used in our Pocket Advent Calendar. Join us in making all 24 or just pick and choose your favorites.) This week ...
    Oct 19, 2012 1 Comment

  • Easy Halloween Costumes

    It’s coming down to the wire to get those costumes made for Halloween. Here’s a couple Susi did over the last couple of years. This easy bacon and eggs costume requires no sewing, cost le...
    Oct 18, 2012 No Comments

  • Halloween Mantle 2012

    I had so much fun decorating our mantle for Halloween this year. I went a little crazy at the dollar store (if you can call $12 crazy), used stuff I had around the house and laughed an evil laugh the ...
    Oct 16, 2012 3 Comments

  • Preschool Project: Happy Birthday!

    Preschool Project is a series that we are running about stuff to do with little kids. It focuses on the process more than the end result, and on the learning and doing more than on perfection. This we...
    Oct 16, 2012 3 Comments

  • Frogect Runway

    Our friend Jelly Bean has always loved “Froggy” She carries him at all times. In order to avoid the dreaded loss, there are several froggies “in play” at any given time. But li...
    Oct 15, 2012 2 Comments