1st Year Milestone Scrapbook

Jenny at Crafty Chicks created this adorable monthly milestone scrapbook for the first year of her baby's life. I wish I had thought of doing this for my little boys. Love it!!!

Adorable Apron Giveaway

Isn't this apron cute!! I just ran across this giveaway at a great blog (Posh Point of View) Click here to take a look. You will love them!!!

Other Uses for Plastic Baby Food Containers

I have a 7 month old baby, so we have quite a few of those plastic baby food containers hanging around our house. For some reason, I feel a little guilty about throwing them out. I have been asking around a little and found that people have quite a few good ideas about how to recycle these little containers into useful things.

• Throw a pacifier in one of these containers and it keeps it clean and easy to find in your diaper bag or purse.


• Use them as snack containers for older children.


• Store homemade playdough in them.


• Use them to hold salad dressing, or other condiments, when packing a lunch.


• Put a couple of antiseptic wipes and band-aids in them and you have a portable first-aid kit.


• Make tub toys by poking a few holes in them and then let your kids fill them with water and watch the water flow out through the holes.


• Paint storage for craft paints, or for touch up paints for your house.


• Use them to store chopped onions or celery in your freezer.


• Store spices in them. Just label and they stack neatly in your cupboard.

Thanks to all of the smart and creative people who came up with these great ideas. If you have any other ideas about what to do with these containers, feel free to comment and share your inspiration.

Baby Closet Size Dividers

I found this great tutorial on how to make cute size dividers to help you organize your baby's clothes. This is a great idea!! Please click here to go to Armelle Blog and check out her amazing creativity!

Magnetic Art Display

I was over at TipJunkie's blog today. I love her Teach me Thursday tutorials, and she had featured one in particular that I loved and wanted to share. It is from Wisdom of the Moon and is a cute and functional magnetic art display strip. I love it! What a great idea. Her tutorial is very good and I think I will be heading to our local home improvement store today to copy this one. Click on the link below to see it for yourself.

Wisdom of the Moon: Magnetic Art Display

Girly-Do's

I ran onto this site about a lot of fun and cute ways to do your little girls hair. I only have boys, so I can't take advantage of all of her good tutorials - but I can imagine having a lot of fun with this blog if I had a daughter who would sit still long enough for me to copy some of these darling "do's".

Click here to check out her blog.

Paper Dolls

Do you know a little girl who is a fan of the Berenstain Bears? If so, she might enjoy these cute (and free) paper dolls I found. I am thinking of printing these up and making a set for my niece. Click here to check out the family of paper dolls and all their outfits.

Frozen T-shirt Contest

I just took my boys to a birthday party and they played a fun summer game. The host had taken several adult-size t-shirts, wet them down and folded them neatly, then put them in separate ziploc bags. Then she froze them. She handed one bag out to each child and instructed them to remove the t-shirt, unfold it, and put it on over their clothes. The first one to accomplish this was the winner. The kids had a lot of fun. It took a few minutes, because the frozen t-shirts were hard to unfold. I thought it was a pretty cool activity for a hot summer day. : )

Crayon Jars

My husband and I have been working in his classroom, getting ready for the school year. He has buckets and buckets of old crayons, and he was getting ready to toss them. I told him to wait, and I would look for some kids craft projects using old crayons. I found this one using old crayons and a jar. Since I was just giving it a try, I only used two colors, so my jar isn't as vibrant as it could be.

The project was pretty easy and fun. Click here for instructions on how to make one of these jars with your kids.

Peanut Butter Clay

I got this recipe for Peanut Butter Clay from my aunt when I was a little girl. I made it with my boys for the first time this morning. They played with it for a long time and had a ball.

Here is the recipe:
2 C. Peanut Butter
2 C. Powdered Milk
1 C. Honey
Mix all ingredients together, adding more powdered milk, if necessary, to get desired consistency. Make things and then eat 'em up!

Since this recipe has peanut butter and honey, I definitely would not make it for anyone under one year, and I would be careful when using it with toddlers.

We're Back

Sorry about the lack of recent posting. My family and I just got back from attending a family reunion in Utah. We will back to our regular posting schedule soon. Thanks for checking back in with us.

Shrinky Dink Keychains

I made some of these fun shrinky dink keychains with my kids and one of their friends today. I drew the outlines onto the shrinky dink plastic (that I picked up from a craft store), and punched a hole in the top. Then the kids colored them in and we baked them as directed on the package. They loved watching them shrink up in the oven. After they were cool, I added the keychain hardware. It was really easy and the kids loved it. Our friend didn't want to leave when her dad came to get her. She was hoping to make another one.

Leaf Tracings

My boys and I made these leaf tracings today. It took up some good time and they loved it! This is what we did.

1. We went into the back yard and picked leaves off of some of our plants. As you can imagine - I supervised this pretty closely.


2. We brought the leaves inside and laid them flat under pieces of scrap paper.


3. We unpeeled a few crayons and then rubbed the side of the crayon over the paper on top of the leaves.


4. The images of the leaves - and all their cool details appear before your eyes.

My two year old needed a lot of help with this one, but after I helped my 4 year old with one, he was able to do them by himself. They thought it was just like magic. We all had a great time with this.

4th of July T-shirts

Creative Chicks at Play have done it again! Click here for their simple and fun tutorial on how to make these cute t-shirts for the 4th.

Onesie with applique

I needed a quick baby gift today, so I tried my hand at some simple applique on a onesie. I thought it turned out pretty cute for how fast it came together.