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February 23, 2012

Firefighter Party - Craft Activity!

Originally spotted HERE I absolutely love this super easy and cheap craft for Harris' Firefighter Party coming up. The kids that will be coming range in ages from 3 to 7 so a craft that they can all be involved in and have fun with is tricky to find but I think these paper plate helmets are perfect.
My kids and I gave them a test run today and literally put these together in about 8-10 mins so I thought I would share a quick 'How To'...

You will need:
Red, yellow or black crayons, pencils or textas
White paper plates (I happen to have oval shaped ones in my cupboard so that's what we'll use)
Scissors
Glue
Gold paper
Black Sharpie

With you crayon colour of choice colour the entire back/bottom of the plate.

Next, cut a badge shape from the gold paper and write the child's name on it.

Take your scissors and cut around 3/4 of the inside of the plate then bend it up to create the front and top of the helmet.

Stick your name badge on the front.

Pop it on and parade around in style in your new Firefighter helmet!!

Cute hey??
Giggles

October 19, 2011

Halloween Window Silhouette DIY

Bit by bit I have been adding spooky Halloween decorations to our house. Since hanging the wreath I made HERE on our front door on Oct 1st I have added a huge fairy lit spiders web, covered our front door in fake spiders web, created a HUGE plastic spider that sits on our front lawn and of course hung some Giggleberry bunting in Halloween colours in one of our front windows too... but I can't show you it all because I'm not finished yet. So I thought I'd just show you a sneak peek and how I did it.
Window silhouettes! I love the idea of these - they are super cheap and easy to make yourself but when seen at night with interior lights on behind them they look rather spooky and effective.

What You'll Need:
Black contact (I found some at my local newsagent for $3 a roll)
Scissors
Pen
Template of what silhouette you want to make (I went with bats and found templates galore with a quick search on Google Images)
Heavy object like a large book - I used these to keep the roll of contact flat while drawing my bats on it so it didn't roll up.

Grab your template - I just searched 'bat silhouette' in Google Images then choose 3 I liked, blew them up the size I wanted then cut them out. Then place your roll of black contact, unrolled on a table right side facing down, holding the corners down with your heavy objects. Go crazy tracing around your template/s - I just kept tracing my 3 different bat silhouettes until I ran out of space. Next grab your scissors and cut, cut, cut out your silhouette/s.
Now you're ready to stick! Give your window a quick clean before you start to be sure the silhouettes stick well. Then go nuts - stick away until you have the desired look... I tried to have no real pattern to my bats so they looked like they were really flying then hung the one sleeping one from part of the window frame - cool hey?

Told you they were easy to make and don't just stick with bats you can do whatever you like.... a black cat, pumpkins, snakes, rats, broom sticks or how about this one I found on Pinterest A witch stirring her poison in her cauldron!

October 13, 2011

Butterfly Party - Paper Butterfly Garlands!

Butterflies are floating through my mind permanently at the moment with Milla's butterfly themed 4th birthday next month so I have started to make some decorations - Yay!

I bought this gorgeous Martha Stewart butterfly craft punch on eBay

and some scrap booking paper in the colour palette of the party

then, with Milla's help we 'punched' butterflies until we ran out of the paper.

I mixed them with THESE cuties I bought from One Crafty Mumma & have started to make paper butterfly garlands.
They are so simple to make - just run a little cotton through your sewing machine first (so you have something to tie them to where they'll hang from with) then feed the butterflies through like you would fabric. I did them in no order or pattern and did some doubled up so I can then fold the wings away from each other to make them look as though they are flapping.

Excuse the terrible dark sewing room photo but I'm rather pleased so far, what do you think? I have more to make and plan to hang them everywhere on the party day to mimic butterflies fluttering around our yard.
Giggles

October 2, 2011

It's My Birthday chair cover!

Next weekend my step daughter, Felicity, is celebrating her 11th birthday. Mix that with today being a quiet rainy day so kiddies are snoozing away and I had the perfect mix of excuses to finally get around to THIS tutorial I found on Nanny Goat blog aaaaaages ago for a 'My Special Day Chair Cover'

It was really simple with the instructions and photos to follow and I had mine whipped up in 20ish minutes!

Using fabric, ribbon and ric rac and velcro I had in my stash I just changed the words on mine to 'It's My Birthday' and it's all ready for the dining chair of whomever in the family has a birthday to make their day a little more fabulous and fun!

I have to wait until April next year before I get a turn of it!! LOL
Giggles

August 11, 2011

Bedside Table Repurposed into Toy Tool Work Bench!!

Inspired by THIS very clever re-purpose of a night stand by The Frugal Granny, Papa & Grandma Gigggleberry helped me turn an old un-used bedside table that hubby I didn't need anymore into one groovy Toy Tool Work Bench for my little guy.

This is how is started. A basic, old, dust covered timber bedside table that was destined for landfill!

I gave it a light sand & clean all over then painted on an undercoat.

The next part I had to leave up to Papa Giggleberry as I am no good with power tools & woodworking. With the help of his grandbabies while babysitting last weekend, Papa Giggleberry added a piece of timber to the top bedside table to make it a little wider and then screwed some peg board to the back of the unit.

Next was all hands on deck to paint it. We went with grey & black.

While the kids snoozed the other day I sat in the sunshine and hung all the toy tools on the peg board with hooks. Once I was happy with their placement drew around them with a pencil. With the same black paint we used on the bench top I painted inside the pencil outlines to create silhouettes.

A few hours drying in the sun, all the hooks popped back into place and the tools, we bought for a bargain at Aldi just a few weeks ago, now hanging in their place and it was ready to go!!

Harrison The Handyman LOVES it!! He has been hammering, cutting and 'fixing' non-stop!!

Giggles

July 19, 2011

Paper Plate Playtime Palooza!

I've said it here before - give my kids a glue stick and few bits and pieces and they are completely satisfied! Any little craft activity can be the highlight of the day around here so I am always on the look out for fun, easy and cheap activities to do... this has lead me to a new admiration for the humble paper plate!
With just a pack of cheap paper plates some glue, scissors a bit of paint and a few other bits you probably have around the house you and your kiddies can make just about any paper plate artwork. there are literally thousands of ideas to do but I have rounded up just a bunch of them here. Some of these we have made already and others are on our To Do List - enjoy.

ANIMALS: