Kid Crafts

Over the summer I highly neglected not only this blog but my family blog as well. I am now back into the swing of things and hope to be on both a little bit more, always knowing that my family's needs do come first.
Joyschool has started back up and today I was the host. Our theme for the week is the beach. I made cute little lobsters for the kids last night. I found the idea in the Publix magazine that comes out every so often. I was hoping that the kids would be able to help me with it but the glue took so long to dry that I just did it for them and then we did another craft today. I think they turned out really cute. I am looking forward to Thursday's craft as well, a rock sea turtle, which I found in the Family Fun magazine. Hope it all goes well and I will post pictures when we are all done.



During summer break I did work on a few other things as well. Here they are....

A Lima bean wreath. I can not remember where I found this idea but I really liked it and wanted one for my own house.

I finally finished my last project display board. It has been put to great use.

With the help of my good friend and blog contributor Alison and my mom we made 60 warm fuzzy for our most recent Primary Activity.

When my sister and her kids were in town we wanted to do a kid friendly craft. We decided to make some cute necklaces. Here we are in the process of making them. We made one for each child.

Here is the finished product. Makayla actually made the darker one for me for Mother's Day.

Materials needed for this craft: A three inch wide by about 45 inches long strip of fabric, marbles, and beads.
What you do: Fold in half the fabric strip and sew together. Turn the fabric right side out. Fold one end in a little and sew it shut. Figure out where and how you want to marbles to be placed. Once you have that figured out the start with a bead and the marble and so on. When you have all the marbles and beads that you want you sew up the other end the way you did the first and you will have a finished necklace. So easy and with so many choices of fabric so cute. Enjoy.


More coming soon. Our craft group is meeting up again after the summer off. We are really excited and have some great things we plan on doing.

Magnetic Menu Board with Rose Magnets

This is a craftalicious original, brought to you by my mother, Becky of Mesa, Arizona.

She has always been little miss crafty pants and is very multifaceted. She's a talented woman, that one is, so I'm sure you will see more of her on this blog in the future.  This is her tutorial for a magnetic menu board with matching fabric rose magnets.

Supplies: 

• metal sheet (bought at Home Depot or Lowes) mine is 12X 18 inches
• fabric to cover front and back, wrapped around short ends of metal sheet
• wide ribbon which is wrapped on the 2 long sides of your board
• glue gun and glue
• round disk magnets

Directions for board:

1. Cut one piece of fabric to cover both sides of metal sheet, overlapping about 1 inch on backside. Cut within 1/2 inch on both long sides. Do not take fabric to the exact edge.
2. With hot glue gun, glue only short edges of fabric after stretching it around metal sheet, overlapping fabric on back side and gluing the edge down.
3. Glue ribbon on both long sides, folding half of ribbon on and around edge of metal sheet.

Directions for fabric rose magnets:

1. Cut several 1.5 - 2 inch strips of fabric per rose petal. Each flower needs 3.
2. Fold lengthwise and roll each strip and secure with glue on end.
3. Glue raw edge of each roll to the raw edge of the next petal. Rolls are flat on bottom so that magnet disk can be glued to the underside.

Place Magnetic Menu Board on any pedestal to display or hang on a wall.

 

April's Craft Night

For April's craft night we worked on fabric bracelet's that we found from V and Co. The tutorial can be purchased here. This project was a bit more tricky then we thought that it was going to be. Please be kind when looking at the photos and don't look too close. The purple bracelet was the first one that I did. The blue turned out better, but I am not sure if it is my crafting ability or what but I was not overly impressed with them. I may try again but we'll see. Just wanted to at least put them on the blog and maybe get a few tips or tricks on the bracelets.

Rosette Bib Necklace

Apparently these are all the rage these days. I may be a bit late jumping on the bandwagon, but I've been wanting to make one of these forever! I found this amazing tutorial online from youcanmakethis.com blog and got started right away.

Here is my first attempt. I could see making these in many fun colors. For my first, I wanted to make something neutral that would match lots of outfits. And each part of it has its own story behind it. Like one of the embellishments on it is from my junior year prom dress that I finally dug out of my closet and decided to use the material and clip off the pretty jewels from it. Another embellishment is from another old college shirt. The wool felt is hand-dyed. And the white rosettes are from an upcycled wool sweater I found at a thrift store.

Here's another rosette necklace tutorial I found at the Tortoise and the Hare. Enjoy!

Project Board Uno

This is the first of two project boards I created. The other one isn't quite finished yet, but I'll post pics of that soon. Here is a preview of what we are doing for March craft night, inspired by the Make It and Love It tutorial found here.

I hang this one under the mirror where we store our keys. It's on the wall right as we walk in from the garage so it's fun to be the first thing we see when coming home.

Felt Flowers

Here is a picture of my finished felt flowers. We used some of the same patterns. I was glad to hear you were doing it too since “Great minds think alike!” I made all the flowers first and then glued them on some scrap upholstery microfiber samples. Then I cut another piece of the fabric just a tiny bit smaller. I used hot glue to put two edges together leaving a channel for the headband to go through. This way I can use the same headband and just switch out the flower for the day or I can use them on a ribbon to decorate a handbag or a pin on a shirt.

Fabric Rose Wreath

Remember those fabric rose wreaths I wanted to try? Nearly 3 yards of white fabric and how many hours later........ here we are. I really do love it, but next time I will definitely try something smaller :)