Subway Art

Family Rules Subway art! I just added ribbon to frame! Bathroom Subway art with ribbon and flowers on frame! I just love these! For both of the above, I just googled "Family Rules Subway art" and "Bathroom Subway art" and I just found some that I liked! There are different ones for different preferences!

Puppet Theater!

Materials needed

*Cardboard box, You can use any size that you want, This one was from a cd player.
* masking tape
*acrylic paint
*foam brush
*some ribbon and hot glue gun
*Stickers of people or animals
*different colored cardstock
*popsicle sticks
*clear spray paint

Cut the bottom off box, and cut a square in front. Cut one of the flaps into a tower crown shape! Emma helped me paint the box and top crown any colors you wish! Don't forget to paint the inside of the box too, so that when you see through the inside, it doesn't look ugly! Emma placed stickers on the colored cardstock! And I cut out around the stickers!After you cut around the stickers on the paper, hot glue gun them to the popsicle sticksHot glue gun the top crown part to the box. and deocorate with ribbon and stickers. I put a ribbon where the top crown and box meet to cover up the hot glue. And ribbon along the bottome of the box for decor! The flowers and green swirls are painted on! After all is done, spray the clear paint all over box too avoid scratching off paint.I still haven't got a picture Emma using it, in the day light, where you can see her enjoying it...but really soon!

Clothes Pins

After I did Emma's Chore chart, I still had 42 clothes pins left over! I decided to modge podge them all with fun colored paper! So now I can use them for Preschool stuff and for other fun craft things! Thank you to my mom for the tote of all the scraps of fun paper!

Dinner Menu

You can print out the week paper HERE!
I printed it on just a grey cardstock paper, but some fun colored cardstock would be fun! I cut it down to a 8X10 and bought a plain black 8X10 picture frame! Put the paper in the picture frame and decoratde the frame with the Fabric Flowers that I gave a Tutorial on in the post below! I made them yellow to match my kitchen. I then planned out the week menu, using this printout HERE!
Then you can just write out the dinner items on the picture frame glass with a dry erase marker! And place it in your kitchen! I love it because I can plan out our week and by doing so, we are saving money on groceries because when I go and just buy everything we eat, then just decide nightly what to eat, but this way I just go to the store to get what I need for the week! It is great!

Fabric Flowers

Fabric Flowers supplies:

*one strip of fabric measuring at 1 inch by 10 inches

*hot glue

here we go:first you will need to get your fabric cut to 1 inch by 10 inches. (it doesn't have to be perfect we're going for wonky)

dab a little bit of hot glue at the end of your strip and fold in half.

secure.dab another bit of hot glue and fold in halfdab a little bit of hot glue to the end again...this time you are going to fold over like the picture below. (fold down instead of in half again)

now you are going to twist your fabric a littleand dab a little bit of hot glue to the "base"i like to make sure my fabric is twirled a little on the tighter side(but not too tight!). this will make your flower smaller and tighter.

continue to twist and twirl your fabric all the while adding a dab of hot glue to secure your new twist to the last twist.

when you get your flower as big as you want it (making sure you leave a little bit of a tail)add some hot glue to the bottom of your flower and fold and secure your tail at the bottom of your flower flat.

Emma's Chore Chart

All you need to start is a $1.50 regular size clipboard, and a package of normal size clothes pins for $1.25 at any walmart type store, or craft store. You will also need a list a few chores for your child and cute 8 1/2 " X 11" scrapbook paper, some modge podge and a brush!Print out the list of chores onto the cute scrapbook paper is a cute font! I also typed on the top on one side, "Done" and on the other side, "Not". Then she knows that she has to move the clothes pin from the "Not" side to the "Done" side after she does it! Then put modge podge on the clipboard and carefully place the paper on the clipboard to glue down! Smooth out any air pockets and let dry! While drying you can decorate your clothespins the same way you just did the chore chart to the clipboard! After the paper is dried to the clipboard, modge podge the top of the paper to clipboard again and let dry very good!!

Then hang on wall and enjoy! Emma loves to do her chores because at the end of everyday, she get's a penny for each chore done! I know a penny sounds so cheap, but here in Michigan we have a grocery store with a penny horse ride. And Emma loves to save up her pennies and take a few to the store!

Emma's Butterfly Room Decor

For my daughter's bedroom, her decor is butterflies and Precious Moments! So I made this mobile out of white paper with some pink and green pieces scattered throughout! It was so easy. I just took to sticks, and put them in a cross and hot glued them in the middle! I then tied twine on each end and tied the other end of each twine all together to hang on a ceiling hook!Then I drew a shap of a butterfly that I liked and cut it out af a heavier cardstock to use as my pattern! I then cut out, I don't know and exact number, probably 50 white, 10 pink and 10 green butterflys!Off each of the four sticks, I tied different lengths of thick cream colored string. And in each butterfly I hole punch two holes. I then strung on the butterflies, randomly! The holes in the butterflies were about the same size as the string, so no tieing or glueing was needed, the butterflies, just stay on all by themselves! I then tied a small knot at the end of each string. At the end I bent the butterfly wings in and out to look like they are flying! I love it!After the butterfly mobile, I decided to make some more, in different colors from around her room, and different sizes! I put some ribbon tape on the spine of the butterfly and put them on the wall and folded their wings out! so simple so cute

Counting Cards

This top picture are just counting cards, where the children can count out something like M&M's or Goldfish and put them on the cards.
This second picture are counting cards where they count the pictures then choose one of the numbers on the side to put a clothes pin!

Playdough Sheets

These are laminated shape sheets that they can use with playdough to shape the playdough into the different shapes! They love it!

Shapes

Emma has a Friend Cayson, with whom we have been doing Preschool! So I have been doing a lot of fun stuff for them to do! There is a wonderful Blog called Confessions of a Homeschooler! You can download everything that she does and then print it out yourself! I have been borrowing my friends laminator, printing things out in black and white, coloring with colored pencils and then laminating and creating my own little preschool kits! It is so fun!

"Lucky" Banner

Again, something so easy to do and super cheap if you have scrapbook paper available! And an ABC Stencil. I just found some cute green scrapbook papers in my huge pile of paper and stenciled with black acrilic paint, the word "Lucky". I decorated it with cute green and gold scrapbook materials and strung it together with twine! I do this for every holiday also...so over the next year, look for them as the come up! They are super easy and look super cute!

This is one of my favorite holiday decor item! I just cut some branches off a tree in our yard and put them in a vase. I then cut out some paper shamrocks and used a needle and green thread to tie little loops on the top. Then I hang them on! I also use the branches for some snowflake ornaments I have for January, Red roses for Valentines day, and Easter Eggs for easter! So easy and so inexpensive!

St. Patricks Day Subway Art

I found this on another fellow crafter's blog! And now you can find it HERE!

I printed it out black and white and then colored it with colored pencils!

Emma's Kitchen

For this past Christmas, I really wanted to get my daughter Emma a Kitchen set! But I saw a before and after picture of something similar to this on a blog and decided that I could do this really easily! So we found this t.v. cabinet on craigslist.... I painted it white and added the silver oven top! I cut a circle in the top and silver painted a kitchen strainer for the sink. I then found some plastic plumming at Lowes and put the two together as a faucet. I also found wooden dresser nobs at Lowes and painted them green for the kitchen nobs! I added a white dowel and made the curtains out of left over fabric from Emma's beadspread! It turned out so so cute...and just wait till you see the felt food I made below!All of the food is just made out of felt and hand sewn! No patterns. I just found pictures online and tried to figure them out on my own!

Fruit!Vegetables!Breakfast foods!Chips and crackers!Cupcakes and Cookies!

Pizza!

There are others, but these are the pics I have so far! I will update it again when I make more!