Classroom Treat - Christmas 2010

Snowmen on my mind

Aren’t these SUPER cute! 

Melted Snowman (LOVE THIS)

I had every intention of making these for my boy’s classmates, but I can honestly say it’s not happening (major bummer). Maybe I will make them next week, for neighborhood friends and family. If you want the how-to's, head over to The Idea Room and Amy will show you!!! 

But I did spy these darling marshmallow treats over at eighteen25 and I know that I can definitely make them. 

So sugarplums will be dancing in my house over the next few days.

Happy Treat Making To You,

Megan

Yummy Thanksgiving Treats

Check out these treats

I am still trying to pick which treat I want to make for C’s preschool Thanksgiving Feast!!! I know – way to wait until the last minute, but maybe you can help me decide.

I was checking out familyfun.go.com and found some REALLY cute treats for kiddos! Here are the two I have narrowed it down to.

You can find the how to’s for the Acorn Dough Nuts here and for the Marshmallow Pilgrim Hats here!

So which one would you make?

Happy feasting to you, 

Give Thanks

…In Style

Do you have a kids table at your Thanksgiving feast? Depending on where we are feasting there will be a table set aside for the younger ones. I have fond memories as a young girl, sitting with my cousins - coloring; playing games; not having any adults telling me how I ought to sit and eat; and enjoying the yummy food together.

Well, this year we will be having a kids table at our Thanksgiving meal destination and you just have to see this SUPER clever idea I saw over at One Charming Party! (Check out the blog for the how-to's)

I can’t wait to make this for the kiddos this year! Maybe I will make the corn husks for the adults too. So much fun!

Happy Thanksgiving to you, 

Classroom Treat

Don’t be just any type of sucker…

…be a mummy too!!!

Just a few more weeks until the boy’s class parties and I am almost finished with the little treat for them to pass out to their classmates.

Supplies:

Sugar Daddy suckers
Gauze
Googly Eyes (7mm)
Black ribbon
Black ink
Glue

How To:

1.   Cut your gauze in 2.25” x 10” strips. I was able to find cotton gauze at the 99cent store.

2.  Cut the black ribbon to be 9”.

3.  Print out onto cardstock some cute tags, cut them out and then distress the edges with black ink. Punch a small hole in one corner (big enough for your ribbon to pass through). Slip the ribbon on the tag.

4.  Take one sugar daddy sucker and start wrapping the gauze around it and then twist it around the sucker stick. Secure it in place with the ribbon.

      5.  Glue on the googly eyes! 

As you can see, it’s pretty easy to do and I was able to get several items at the 99cent store and WalMart. This cost me about 15 cents a sucker (I had ribbon and ink already so that cut down my cost). 

Happy Creating to you, 

P.S. If you would like me to send you the tag, just leave me a comment with your email address.

Firecracker Craft Project – Kid Friendly

I love the 4^th of July! I love our country and we have a good time celebrating all that we are blessed with!!! To help get us in the spirit, we made firecrackers out of toilet paper tubes!!!!

Here’s What You Need:

1 – Toliet Paper Tube
1 – Paper Towel Tube
Scissors
Red, White, and Blue Paint
Paint Brushes
1 - Chenille Stick (whatever color strikes your fancy)
Tape
Ribbon

How To’s:

1.    1. Cut the paper towel tube so that you have 3 tubes at different heights. I cut the paper towel tube to about 4.5” and 5.5”. You won’t need to cut the toilet paper tube.

2.    2.Paint each tube one of the 3 colors. Be sure to paint about an inch down on the inside of the tube (on the side that will be the “top” of the firecracker). Let dry!

3.    

     3.Cut your chenille stick in half and then take one of the halves and cut that one in half. So you should have 2 smaller pieces and one longer.

4.    
     4.Attach the longer chenille stick in your tallest tube with tape. You could use a glue gun for this but tape worked for me. It kindof bugged me that I couldn’t put the chenille stick in the center, but I really didn’t want to have to worry about jimmy-rigging the top so that I can center it – so I let it go, that need for perfection!!!!

5.    
     5.Gather your 3 firecrackers and tie them with your cute ribbon.

6.    6.Ta-Da – you are finished!
     


     Happy Crafting to You and Yours,

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Let's Get Stomping

My youngest came home from preschool with these fun dinosaur feet. I thought I would share the cleverness of his teacher and give you the how-to’s for a simple summer craft.

What you need:

-     - 2 large tissue boxes (leave the plastic in the opening hole - see the picture above)

-     - Different colored foam sheets - to make the toenails

-     - Paint and Glitter to decorate the boxes. You could also use paper to cover them

-     - Scissors

How To’s:

1.   1. Have your child paint the tissue box. If you would rather, have them pick out different colored paper, cut to size, and then glue that to the boxes.

2. 2. While the paint is still wet, sprinkle glitter all over the boxes. If you went the paper route, be sure to put glue on your boxes and then sprinkle the glitter.

3.  3.Have your child cut out 6 triangles from the foam sheet

4.  4.Attach 3 “toenails”, with glue, to each tissue box – on one of the skinny sides, near the front.

5.  5.Once the “feet” are dry, they are ready for your little dinosaur to stomp around in.

 Happy Stomping to you,

Halloween Goodies

Peanut #2 and I made Halloween Crackers for his classmates. They are easy to do and make such a nice treat.

What you need:

- Halloween napkins - the number you are wanting to make (beverage size)

- TP cardboard rolls - the number you are wanting to make (I save them already because I use them for crafts throughout the year)

- Small goodies and candies to put inside your cracker (we put bubblegum, pixie sticks, bubbles, candy balls, a small toy and a sour ball in the treat)

- Coordinating ribbon

- Scissors

- Scrapbooking Adhesive (or double sided tape)

Step 1:

Open the napkin and place it right side down on a table top. Along the top edge near the center of the napkin place a small strip of adhesive. Center the toilet paper roll on the adhesive. Roll the napkin over the top of the tp roll to cover it. Place another small strip of adhesive near the end of the napkin so that the napkin will stay put. Gather one end of the napkin and tie closed with ribbon.

Adhesive along the top

Place the roll on the adhesive

Roll it

Stick it

Tie it

Step 2:

Fill the cracker with goodies through the open end.

Step 3:

Gather the open end and tie it closed with ribbon.

Viola! Easy as 1,2,3!

You could also add another piece of paper over the center of the cracker that has hand written or typed greetings (ex: Happy Halloween, Trick or TREAT, A Treat for You). Just wrap it around and use adhesive to attach it.

We are now ready for C-man's class party - too bad we have to wait two weeks to hand them out.

Happy Crafting to you, Megan

Snow globe how-to's

What you will need:
A small or medium sized glass baby food jar (cleaned and the lid could be painted)
Florist clay
A small item to be highlighted in your snowglobe (we used minature trees)
Distilled Water
Glycerin
Glitter
Glue Gun

1. Place a small piece of florist clay onto the inside of the lid. Press down but be sure not to cover the entire lid top, or the clay pushed to the sides may make it hard to close.
2. Press your decoration into the florist clay. Set aside.
3. Fill baby food jar almost to full with distilled water, a drop or two of glycerin and 1/4 tsp of white glitter or glitter snow.
4. Carefully attach the lid onto the jar and tighten.
5. Turn over and make sure that the water level is right. If it is where you would like move onto the next step.
6. Hot glue the around the rim of the lid - this will create a nice seal.
7. Enjoy your snowglobe.

Our Tree of Thanks

Every year we (okay, I) make a Blessing Tree where we attach leaves with things we are thankful for. Today, before church, the boys helped me draw the tree and put leaves up! Things that we are grateful for so far: family, scriptures, toys, Jesus Christ, Heavenly Father, health, food, daddy (mommy hasn't hasn't been added yet :-(, temples, prophets, a nice smelling house (that was one of Big D's leaf) and the 10 commandments!

Look at that fabulous smile!

Who could resist that pancake batter face and jammies?

I will keep our tree up until Thanksgiving and we will keep adding things that we are thankful for!

What are you thankful for?