Handprint Flowers

Last week we shared our Hand Print Flower Bouquet over at Mess for Less.  In case you missed it, we wanted to share it with you before Easter!!

Here is what we did.

Materials

Vase

Green Grass

Candy

Paint

Green Pipe Cleaners

Construction Paper

A favorite little pair of hands:)

When we use paint, I usually set it up like this.

I started out by painting my little ones hands with one color at a time.

I helped her to press them down on the paper.

We did this a few times (one for each "flower") and once the paint was dry, I cut out all of the hand prints.

Since each hand print need an exact match for the back of the flower, I traced each one on matching construction paper.

I put glue on the back of the plain print and then the green pipe cleaner on top. 

Then second hand print went on the top.  This is how it looked in the end. 

Next I filled the vase with green grass and some Easter candy - Hershey Kisses:)

Lastly, I placed each of the hand print "flowers" in the vase and topped it off with some more candy.

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TGIF #13 - Share what you did this week!

Happy Friday!!!!!

One more weekend until Easter...I cannot believe it!  Where has the winter gone?  Not that I am complaining...

Thank you all for linking up last week!  I love getting inspiration:)

One of my favorite posts was from Crafting the Night Away - Bunnies in a Jar.  I love it...too cute!!  If it was on my counter, I couldn't help but smile every time I saw it!

And now onto the party!  What have you done this week???

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My Peeps Garland

I LOVE Peeps!!  I think they are so cute!

When I came across this post by Dana over at Made, I knew that I had to try it out!!

Here is how my version turned out.

Here is how I did it (I made a few tweaks to Dana's tutorial):

Materials:

Yellow Felt 

Brown Paint

Pencil

Ribbon

Glue gun

Peep Template

Step 1:  Trace peep template onto felt.  I was able to get 6 out of an 8x10 sheet.

Step 2: Cut out all of your peeps.  {Note:  Dana used two cut outs for each of her peeps and sewed them together.  I didn't have much time, so I bought thicker felt at Michael's and skipped the sewing part}

Step 3:  Using a pencil eraser, dip into brown paint (I used my daughter's crayola paint) and add two eyes and a nose to your peep.

Step 4:  After paint has dried, using a glue gun, glue felt peeps to ribbon of choice.  {Again, Dana sewed her peeps onto her string - but I didn't have the time to do that - I cheated and used glue; but they are still hanging up just fine!}

From afar...

I had a few peeps left over...so I added them onto my little ones Felt Easter Basket!  She loved them!

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Wordless Wednesday with Linky

This past weekend was PERFECT park weather!!  She had sooo much fun going down the big slide!

Feel free to link up your Wordless Wednesday post!  I love looking at them!!!

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Toddler Felt Easter Basket

As you might already be able to tell...we really like playing with felt:)

During Christmas time, the felt tree I made my little one was a HUGE hit!  She loved putting the ornaments on and off and counting them!

Being that Easter is around the corner, I thought it might be nice to make her a felt Easter Basket.  Well...she LOVED it.

She spent a long time counting all of the eggs, putting them on and off the basket and saying each of the colors.

Here is what I did.

I cut out the basket, grass and handle out of green and brown felt.  I drew on the basket with a Sharpie marker to make it look a little more "realistic" (if that is possible when using felt).

I used my hot glue gun to put all of the pieces together and hung it up on one of my walls with Poster Putty (memories from my college dorm room..ha!).

My little one then took over.  She started to decorate herself.

I might cut the eggs down a little so that we can fit more.  And I will also add a bow to the top.  But as it is my little one LOVES it!

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Shop Handmade on Mondays - {Linky}

Can you believe it is Monday again???

Since Easter is quickly approaching, I thought it would be nice to share this adorable bib made by Hazel Love.   

Can't you imagine your little one in this on Easter Sunday??

And now it is time again to promote your handmade items!!

I have so much fun selling our Handmade items in our Etsy Shop and I know so many others out there feel the same way I do:)  That being the case I have decided to promote handmade items every Monday by hosting a weekly Link-up party...YAY!

So for all of you small business owners selling handmade items (on Etsy or elsewhere), please feel free to join in on the fun and promote your items!!

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♥ Visit other shops that have linked up

Link up here!! Note:  It would be helpful if you could include a description of what you sell in {}'s - for example: CGCDesign {children} 

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Letter of the week - I

This week we focused on the letter I.  My little one is 26 months old.

Like usual, we started out the week by taking down the old letter (H) and putting up our new one.  Here is our Letter I is for Igloo.

Our felt board this week is a household favorite...Ice Cream!!!!

I cut out everything freehand as usual.  She loved to count the scoops and name each of the colors.

I didn't come up with too much inspiration on Pinterest this week...here is what we ended up doing.

Our first craft project was really simple.  My little peanut really loves using dot paints and requested them.  So I cut out the letter I and glued it down on white paper.  She had a lot of fun with this one.

We also made an Igloo.  I drew the shape on blue construction paper and cut up some pieces of white paper.  She used a glue stick to stick them on.  This was the first time we used the glue stick...she liked putting her fingers on the glue more then anything else!

Here is what we ended up with.

Lastly, and probably my favorite...we made ICE CREAM!!!

I started by cutting out a cone, strawberry, vanilla and chocolate from different colors of construction paper.

We "decorated" each flavor a little differently.

We started by dot painting (I told you she was really into it) the chocolate.

And for the vanilla we did something similar to the shamrocks we did a few weeks ago - making it into a sun catcher.

And lastly we added some pom-poms (we called them sprinkles) to the strawberry.

This is what our finished product looked like.

Of course we also did some coloring for our I book but as my little one is getting older she seems to prefer "projects" as she calls them:)

We also had some ice cream this week to help reinforce the letter...HA!  Who am I kidding...we have ice cream no matter what letter of the week we are talking about:)

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Look at what I got for $2.58!!!!!

2 packs of Trident

4 Carefree liners

2 Renu eye solution

8 count Crayola Crayons

3 Crayola Scissors

ALL this at Target for $2.58?!?!  I was so excited and the cashier was pretty impressed with me too:)

I used the following coupons to get these items...and you can too!!

(2) Crayola Manufactor Coupons @ $1 off

(2) Target Crayola Coupons @ $1 off

(1) Buy 1 Get 1 Trident Target Coupon

(4) Carefree $1 off coupons (these were in my sunday paper coupons, but you can get $.50 coupon here)

(2) Renu Coupons @ $2 off (I printed awhile ago, they are no longer available)

Happy Shopping:)

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TGIF #12 - Share what you did this week!

Welcome to my favorite day of the week...FRIDAY!!

It has been an AMAZING week here in NY!  Feels like spring is really here to stay!!  This means spring cleaning and spring craft projects..YAY!!

What have you been up to this week?  I cannot wait to see what you link up:) 

I LOVED looking over everything from last week...AWESOME!  Thank you all for taking the time to link your posts:)

These cookies from Lizy B Bakes literally made me laugh out loud!  They are just too cute...I would have such a hard time eating them (well I say that now...)!!

Enough about me...now it is your turn!  What have you done this week???

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Guest Post at Mess for Less

Today we are guest posting over at Mess for Less!!

We are sharing a fun hand-print Flower craft that we made for Grandma and Nana for Easter:)

Here is a sneak peek:)

Head over there to see how we did it and be sure to check out the rest of Mess for Less while you are there!  Vicky has some great crafts for kids and tips for saving money!!

Thanks Vicky for letting us share with your readers:)

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