Thank goodness for YouTube! I crocheted these hats for the girls that live next door to my parents. If you don't think you can crochet, you should really look at some of the tutorials on the internet. Video instructions are SO easy! I will post links later!
If you haven't tried loom knitting, you should! It is so easy!
I made this infinity scarf by just following the directions that came with my loom and then crocheting the ends together.
Here are two diaper cakes I made for baby showers last week. This has kind of become my specialty at work.
These "cakes" are really easy, but a little time consuming to make. I use size 3 diapers. It generally takes about half of a big box of diapers (about 50 per cake). Here are the steps:
1. Roll all of the diapers tightly and secure with ribbon (I use curling ribbon)
2. Cut a 16 inch wide circle out of cardboard for the base. (I use an 8 inch string tied to a thumbtack to draw the circle and cut it out with power scissors)
3. Start by tying 3 diapers together standing up, this is how you start each layer.
4. For the middle and bottom layer, surround the initial 3 diapers with more diapers until the ring looks full, then secure the rings together with the curling ribbon. I don't count because the number could vary based on how tightly the diapers are rolled.
5. Add one more ring to the bottom layer and tie tightly with the curling ribbon.
6. I use loops of masking tape to attach the layers to each other and the cardboard base.
7. For the top layer, I surround a cheap bottle with diapers. Sometimes I fill the bottle with stuff, but it depends on the theme.
8. After the cake is assembled, I use 2.5 inch polyester ribbon followed by another thinner more decorative ribbon to wrap each tier. The wider ribbon helps make the cake look more finished.
9. Finally, I use school glue to attach paper Easter grass to the cardboard, being careful not to get glue on the diapers (You want your friends to be able to use them later after all). Then I decorate based on my theme.
I'm not sure if this will work, but I'm willing to try...
So I used a dry-erase sentence strip (you can get these at teacher supply stores). I wrote the student's name on the strip with a dry erase marker and then I traced the letters with puff paint to create a raised boundary.
I have used wiki sticks before to outline letters in a similar way, but the students can pull them off. I will post an update when I decide whether or not this works.
This is the bulletin board I made to go along with our Olympic themed unit from Unique Learning Systems (which is awesome by the way).
I haven't made a title for the board yet, but here's the basic idea: We're going to track the US medal count on a bar graph (coloring bars in with wet-erase markers - the poster is laminated). We are also going to look up events in some of the sport categories and write their names on the smaller cards. After recording the names, we are going to find the countries on the map. So if all goes well, we will be doing math, social studies, and life skills (web searches) all with one bulletin board... Wish me luck!
Here's a wall art project inspired by an article in Better Homes and Gardens. Click the link for their instructions.
I modified this a little to suit my decor.
Materials:
4 value pack canvases
4 cans spray paint (khaki, light gold - not the brassy gold, avocado green, and brown)
2 cheap packs of silk foliage
2 strips of wood (the size of yard sticks) to hold the canvases together
Instructions:
Spray the base color (khaki), then I lightly sprayed the gold. Make sure to spray the sides of the canvases.
Lay out some of the foliage (ferns and grass on mine, then spray second color (avocado green).
Lay out the rest of the foliage and spray the third color (brown).
Let the paint dry then remove all of the foliage.
I used the wood to attach my canvases by gluing and stapling the pieces to the top and bottoms of the canvases. However this also looks good if you hang them separately.
