>Flowers for Mothers Day or Teacher Appreciation

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We made some really cute flowers in a vase for Little Mans preschool teachers.  BUt they would be great Mothers Day flowers as well. My plan was to make the teachers some tissue paper flowers and call it a day but when we went to grab the paper we only had green.  You can’t make green flowers!  SO we quickly grabbed a few supplies and threw this together.  I say quickly because I didn’t even stop to grab my camera (I know what was I thinking?)  I think I can recreate this for you – it was a lot of fun to make with my little man.

First we grabbed some TP rolls (because I have way too many of these lying around the house waiting to be crafted with.)  We then chose some cardstock and covered the TP rolls with it. 

For the flowers, I actually had some flower pieces of paper lying around but you could easily cut some out of paper yourself.  We cut the leaves out of different shades of green paper.  I didn’t have any green pipe cleaners in the house so I looked through my stash of “stuff” and I actually decided to use green paintbrushes for the stems.  Sweet Girl had a birthday party at Michael’s this year and we gave out goodie bags filled with art supplies, I have a lot of paintbrushes left over from this. 

I stuffed some green tissue paper inside the tubes and pushed the brushes through it just to hold them in place. 

When you are done go ahead and embellish however you like.  We added cute little flowers to the front and wrote “Thanks for helping me to grow” – I attached these with some mini paper clips.

I think my Little Man was excited to give these to his fabulous teachers – what do you think??

Sweet Girl gave her teacher this printout I got from eighteen25.

We added a fabric flower to the frame and used the same “Thanks for helping me to grow” saying and wrote it on the flower leaves.

I was happy with our gifts and I think the teachers really liked them.

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>Butterfly Valentines

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Sweet Girl finally decided on her valentines this year, it took a while – until we saw this great idea  at Skip To My Lou.   She offers a free printable on her site for these butterflies.  I wanted to cut these out on my Cricut so instead of printing them I opened the file on my Make The Cut program and let the Crichttp://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=mosfooandcra-20&o=1&p=8&l=bpl&asins=B000W5I9OC&fc1=000000&IS2=1&lt1=_blank&m=amazon&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifrut do the work.  Sweet Girl and I then went back and added a few extras.  I love the addition of the googly eyes on Skip to My Lou’s version, I may need to make an extra trip to the craft store this weekend.  Did I mention that Sweet Girl loves butterflies this idea was perfect for her.

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Kids Craft – More Ornaments

Tonight we will be ringing in the New Year with some good friends.  Said good friend called yesterday to let me know that she will be having a tree up for decoration at the party and can my kids make some ornaments to hang on this tree.  The party’s theme is “Black and White” and the tree is white but the ornaments don’t need to necessarily be black and white.  Of course my kids can make some ornaments – and they did – here they are….

We started with strips of paper; black, white, off white, pretty pattern thrown in and for some b&w fun we cut newspaper too.  The strips were 1/2 inch by 9 inches.

Next we used four strips for each ornament (any four) and glued the ends together to form circles.

We then took the four circles and put them together in an “X” formation to make the ornaments. We bent some of the rings and left some big to get different shapes.  We added some ribbon loops and they are ready to be hung.

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