Craft

 

Color Flash Cards

Here is a cheap and easy way for your child to learn their colors.

Supplies:
Paint Sample Cards
Hole Puncher
Metal Book Ring

Go to a local store that sells paint and pick up some paint sample cards, one for every basic color.

Punch holes in the corner.


Place on metal ring and you have color flash cards!

Your kids will love putting the rings on their fingers and playing/learning with their color cards.

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!