Pompom Production

March is that time of year when we have the upcoming school fair.  It's a big fair.  Huge!  Well known for a good day out.

We have been repurposing some yarn into pompoms.  It was a real family affair.  Even Stuart made a couple.

The boys & I spent some time making our assortment of colourful balls into Pomp-kins.  Hopefully a fun thing that the children at the fair can spend their change.  We have 51.  We'll see how they go...

Rabbit production is also on the way.  It is of course Easter soon so hopefully they are popular too.

Chris-mouse

Oh why do I browse on line & find more ideas!  Sunday I got it into my head to make mice!  32 mice later....  

But they are cute!  I wondered what I would do with 32, but decided to take them to playgroup to give the kids.  

BJ had to have a pink mouse.  We put him on our tree the other day.  Next to his Hallmark ornament for the year.  Mickey & Minnie enjoyed the company.  

I went into playgroup early & hung them on the tree there so they were on when everyone arrived today.  The looked cute!  Certainly brightened up the tree.  All the kids were excited to get one.  Santa had left the children gifts under the tree while they were all playing outside.  Wow, he's good isn't he?  Anyway, the kids got their gift & a candy cane mouse.  Lots of happy children.  Probably extra happy from the sugar high after the party food first up!  

Want to make your own Mice?  Visit Martha!  

Playgroup is now done for the year.  No more crafts!  But this week I made angels!  Lots of angels!   The kids just had to decorate them.  They had a blast.  This is BJ's angel on top of our tree.  Again very lightly glittered.  Some kids had glitter catastrophes!  There wasn't much plate showing on some of them.  They are quite effective really considering they are paper plates!  For more info on how to visit the blog where I got it from.  It's one of the best places!  So much to inspire!  

OK, have a great week won't you!  Preparing for Christmas or whatever you do!  

Also check out the ladies over at freshlypieced for more inspiration on WIP Wednesday! I will be able to do some of my own crafts next week!  Woohoo!    

WIP Wednesday

I was keen today to cut out & sew a Christmas tree.  Unfortunately there wasn't quite enough to get my triangles out of.  Bother.  So I have to either wait until Friday when I am back at work or go in Thursday when I am near there. I think I will probably wait until Friday.  Oh well!  But I did start off with what the pattern said so I don't know why it didn't work!  At least I have some triangles ready.  I could start sewing.  I'll see if I feel like it later when the boys are in bed.  I probably will knowing me!  

I also got to watch the children at playgroup this morning do some sticking with the Santa pieces that I spent ages cutting out last week.  I used the printable of this Santa, that I found on Pinterest.  But I turned it into pieces to glue on the page instead.  I printed up the blue pages with the numbers & then cut out 5 pieces from templates I made for the Santa head piece.  I think the kids liked them.  I know BJ did as shown here in deep concentration with a glue stick!  We had to do them this week so they had them ready for the 1st December of course.  

Linking up again with Freshly Pieced for Work in Progress Wednesday!

Back To Basics

Can't get much more basic that a toilet paper roll craft can you?  hehehe...  This is my demo tree for playgroup tomorrow.  Not that the kids will get buttons to glue on.  They will get glitter & tissue paper wads & whatever else I can find in the cupboard there.  I have done the prep.  The green tree circles with a  bit missing are ready with the loo rolls.  There is left over yarn ready for them to do something with.  The parents can help them make a star if they want a star on top.  

I did find this craft idea on the net somewhere via pinterest!  But now I can't find it.  It was one somewhere in this lot of 400 ideas!  Go & have a look there!  It's interesting!  You will find loads of things to suit all ages!   

Snowflakes in the Sky

Well this is the complete snowflake picture of BJ's. Turned out quite nicely I think. The kids really loved it. We had snowflakes going everywhere. Some of the kids wanted to just stick the round papers on that weren't cut yet, so I quickly named them as snowballs! So some had a combo of snowflakes & snowballs. They were fun. So there you go, a really simple kids activity that is suitable for groups or at home. Also suitable for different ages, as some older kids can cut there own snowflakes. Just start with different sized circles. Mine were about 15cm diameter. That way they were nice & big for the kids to get snowflake impact quickly. lol

Go on, give it a try with your kids! They will love it!