Category Archives: Crafts

Jun 19

Fun & Free: Homemade Crayons

Agnes loves to color. I mean really loves to color. She loves to color on the floor, and the door, and wherever else she can sneak her artwork. Her crayons were getting a bit broken, so I thought it would be fun to make her some new ones.

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She is learning her shapes and colors, so I used a set of silicone baking cups for the crayons.

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I set the oven to 200 F. I placed the silicone baking cups on a large cookie sheet, so I could safely remove them from the oven. I turned on the oven light, and all of the kids gathered around the oven to watch the crayons melt.

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The crayons take just a few minutes to fully melt. Once they were melted, I carefully removed the cookie sheet from the oven, and I placed the silicone cups on a rack to cool. I let the new crayons cool and set for over an hour. The silicone baking cups made it easy to remove the new shaped crayons.

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The shapes were too cute too.

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Agnes loved them! She kept shouting, “orange, yellow, triangle”.

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Dylan wanted to help her color too.

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I don’t think she needed too much help.

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It was sweet to see them working together.

Feb 8

Crafting for Valentine’s Day

Valentine’s Day is just around the corner. I’m not a fan of the holiday, but  I love to make homemade Valentine’s. I know, I’m strange like that. Crafting homemade Valentine’s are also a great way to save a little money too.

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This year for both of the kiddos Valentine’s Day parties I am making bookmarks.

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They were really inexpensive too. I only spent $.97 on the new heart shaped hole punch. I had everything else on hand.

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I needed around 50 Valentine’s for the party, and my hand still hurts from all that punching. Dylan really liked the Valentine’s, I don’t think that  Thade really cared for them though. He’s not really a fan of Valentine’s day either, so yeah, there you go.

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I had fun crafting though, it was a great way to spend a chilly Winter morning.

Dec 7

Christmas Crafting: Paper

I have really missed crafting… Lately I’ve been getting back into the habit. When the boys are in school and Agnes is napping, I’ve been working on little Christmas crafts.

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I decorated a window in our dining room with little paper snowflakes. I thought this would be a quick project. I cut them all by hand, and it ended up taking me two hours to get them all done.

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They do look pretty when dusk rolls around.

Today I started working on gift tags for Christmas presents, and for Dylan’s preschool presents. He needs 22 small-little-bitty Christmas gifts for their party, and I think I’m going to go with candy gifts. What preschooler doesn’t love M&M’s

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The tags turned out super cute, and now I want to make Christmas cards too.

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It was fun getting to craft again.