Archive for May, 2008
Mother's Day Craft
May
Now I know that Mother’s Day is over, but I didn’t want to post this beforehand since Hailey was giving this project as a gift to her grandmothers. It’s really cute though, so I still want to post it and maybe you’ll like it enough to tuck it away for next year.
Mother’s Day Hand-print Poem
What You’ll Need:
Two Paper Plates
Poem
Paint
Skin Tone Paper
Pink Card Stock
Washable Paint
Assorted Ribbon, Lace and Silk Flowers
Glue
Scissors
Directions:
Spread paint in one paper plate. Press the child’s hand into the paint and on to card stock to make hand-print. Trace around the hand and cut out. Allow child to paint the other paper plate. Print poem on pink card stock. Cut out in the shape of a heart. Decorate the edge of the paper plate with flowers, ribbon and/or lace. Cut a 30″ piece of ribbon make a loop in one end. Glue to the back of the plate with a loop at the top for a hanger. Glue the heart poem to the bottom of the ribbon under the hand-print as shown in photo (below). Add a bow to decorate.
The poem that I used says:
Someday I will be big
And gone upon my way
But here’s my little hand-print
To remind you
of this day
XOXO
The finished Mother’s Day Hand-print Poem
Welcome to my Party!
May
I’m so glad you are here, checking out my blog!
Here’s a little bit about me:
I have a few other blogs already, but I decided to start another so that I would have a place to keep track of of the fun and crafty things I do with Hailey, my 19 month old daughter. In addition to that I blog about the crafty things that I do. Although that doesn’t happen very often. But, I do love to scrapbook and cross stitch and when I do occasionally have time to work on those things I am going to blog about them. I also use this blog to keep track of my recipes. Cooking is not exactly my strong point but I am working on that.
I’ve been blogging here at Our Crafts ~N~ Things for a couple of months but I haven’t told very many people about this blog yet. So, I hope you’ll look around for a few minutes while you’re here. Maybe you’ll like what you see and want to come back from time to time!
You can check out the other moms who are partying with me right here. Happy blog party!
The Letter C
May
At the beginning of April I started teaching Hailey her letters. I pick one letter and concentrate on that letter for two weeks. I do different activities with her about that letter during those two weeks. Last week I started concentrating on the letter C.
For each letter we use Hailey’s toys to make the letter that I am teaching her. Then I take pictures and print out a few of them. I am using the ones I print out to create an ABC book. Since we’ve only done A-C that is all of the pages we have right now. I will continue to add letters to the book as I introduce them to Hailey.
At first I was going to use contact paper on each page, but that uses up an awful lot of contact paper. So, I’m putting the pages into page protectors instead. I put a piece of tape across the top of the page protector so that Hailey can’t pull the pages out. We’ll see how well that works. Then I’m using those metal rings to hold it all together. I’ll post pictures of the actual book later.
There's Gonna Be A Party
May
I haven’t really told very many people about this blog yet and I’ve decided it’s time to get it out there. I have been getting a few hits from some search engines but it feels a bit lonely over here without any regular visitors or comments. So, I’m going to join the MommyFest Blog party and try to meet some new moms! WooHoo! It’s going to be from May 12-16 and you can get all of the details right here.
Tags: MommyFest Blog Party
