Kids Hooded Towel

Hooded Bath Towels

I love hooded bath towels, but when my son outgrew his baby ones, I noticed how expensive child size ones are so I decided to make some myself. This example is actually one for my niece for Christmas.

I wash my towels and ribbon separately before sewing to prevent shrinking and bleeding of material.

Supplies:
One regular size bath towel
One hand towel
Matching Thread
Ribbon
Sewing Machine


Directions:

Lay your hand towel out and cut in half. Since only half is needed, you can use the other half to make another hooded towel!


Fold your hand towel in half, and fold your bath towel in half. Find the middle where they meet and place a pin. Unfold them and pin them together for sewing.


Sew together using a regular straight stitching.

Fold the hand towel and bath towel in half (right sides together) and stitch the top part of the hand towel closed.



You have just completed your hooded towel. But I want to add ribbon for decoration, so my next step is to place ribbon on the lined part of towel, pin it and sew it.


Completed hooded towel:

Halloween Letters

Supplies:
Mod podge
Scrapbooking paper of choice
Scissors
Paint-color of your choice, paintbrush
Wooden Letters



I used pre-made wooden letters from a craft store.


Traced the letters on scrapbooking paper, and cut the letters out.


Mod-podge the paper on the letters.

Paint the letter of choice.


After they are dry, hook the letters together with metal hooks.

Glass Bead Wooden Cross

I have tons of beads just lying around so I figured I would make something with them.

I bought a plain wooden cross from a craft store.
Painted it black.
Dug through my beads and picked out clear, and turquoise beads and began gluing with a hot glue gun!

Garden Rocks

I wanted to make homemade signs for our garden so I decided to paint on rocks we had laying around in the backyard.

I simply gathered the amount of rocks that were needed, sprayed the dirt off with water and began painting! I used regular craft paint and then sprayed an outdoor sealer when I finished painting!







This is a great project to enjoy with your kids on a nice spring day while preparing your garden!!

Candy Heart Wreath

Supplies:
Wreath--I used a branch tied one
Large Candy Hearts- 1 bag
Hot Glue Gun and Glue
Clear gloss indoor/outdoor spray


1. Start gluing candy hearts on, and continue till wreath is covered.



2. When glue is dry and wreath is covered with candy, spray with a clear gloss to protect your wreath.

Paint Chip Letters

I saw this project and decided to try it for myself. I collected paint chip samples from the hardware store to make letters for a child's room. Here are the easy steps below to make your own:

Supplies:
paint chips of desired color
scissors
wooden letter(s)
circle to trace with
glue stick
mod podge

1. Choose your paint chip colors


2. Get a plain wooden letter


3. Trace circles on paint chip and cut them out with scissors.

4. Randomly glue paint chip circles onto wooden letter.



5. Mod podge when all circles are glued down.



Project is complete!

Another version:

How to Make a Beaded Necklace

Example is a junk necklace, but the instructions go for any necklace.

Makes a necklace measuring about 18in. long

Supplies:
random assortment of beads(or any other beads you have picked out)
Nylon Coated Stainless Steel Wire .015"
Tube Crimp beads
Cutting Pliers
Crimping Pliers
Necklace Clasps
Any of the above supplies can be bought at your local craft store



Directions:
1. Measure out wire to 21.5in. and cut off spool using the cutting pliers.

2. Put a crimp bead on the wire, put one of the necklace clasp pieces on the wire. Loop the end of the wire through the crimp bead again, leave about 1/2in and crimp the bead with crimping pliers.

3. Always put smaller beads on the first 1/2in. of wire.

Continue putting beads on necklace. You want about 1.5in left of wire with no beads so make sure before you get to that point you have smaller beads near the end of wire. Follow steps 1 and 2 to end the necklace.

You have just completed your first necklace. Hope you enjoyed it!

Let me know if you have an questions about the process!

Ribbon Hair Bands

How to make a stylish ribbon hair band

Supplies:
brown ouchless hair bands
brown and pink ribbon
scissors
lighter
ruler or tape measure


Directions:
Cut off about 11inches of ribbon, one off of each spool.

Tie randomly around hair band. Double knot it.

Using the lighter, slightly burn the ends of the ribbon to keep from fraying.


Ta-Da! You are done!

You can use any color hair bands you like and any color ribbon!

Other hair accessories I have done:

Wall Letters for Nursery

Supplies:
paint-light pink or color of choice
ribbon- green, black and white checkered, pink, white
pre-painted wooden ladybugs, dragonflies, butterflies, and flowers
plain wooden letters

Directions:
Paint letters pink, let them dry.
Add ribbon and other accessories to your liking. Apply with a hot glue gun.