Another Cabinet Flip!

Before........

After! I love it!!!!! I painted it robin egg blue and sanded it all around to distress it. My husband added the hardware that we got at a yard sale in a free box!!!!!

DIY Canvas Art

 

I have seen some really cool canvas art in stores and thought I could do something similar myself. I have also seen some cool ones on Pinterest and posted them on my Pinterest boards and some of my favorites are found here. I went out to hunt some local thrift stores to find some canvas (because buying a canvas at a craft store is SO EXPENSIVE!) and this is what I found:

Cute, but not what I am going for.



I painted over the picture with a blue/green paint.



I then added a word and some branches and a little birdie! Cute!

I Love My Cricut!!!

For anyone out there that likes DIY projects, crafts, scrapbooking, stencils, decorating, etc., you need a CRICUT!!! I love mine so much. It makes being creative so much fun!

The Cricut made it so easy to put this saying on our wall!

The Cricut makes projects a lot more easy! 

My Cricut in action!


I would love to see what you have created with your Cricut!

 

A New Take of the Easter Egg Hunt -Fun Learning Game for the Kiddos

It is spring break this week in our school district and I wanted to come up with a fun game for the kiddos to play. I wanted a game that incorporated some learning/review from school, but also fun to keep their attention. I had different aged kiddos here so I had to make it "fit" to everyone.

This is what I did:

I took some small pieces of paper and came up with 26 different learning/review questions and/or statements. Here are some of them I used (you could come up with a billion if you had the time):

• name three fruits
• name a jungle animal
• count to 65 by 5's
• name the city you live in
• I drew a picture of a clock and then asked what time it said
• the person who writes books is called a what?
• write your phone number
• what is half of 10?
• what two colors make purple?
• if there are 5 bunnies and they each have three jelly beans, how many jelly beans are there in all?
• how many ways can you spell "to"?
• write three ways to show the number 3
• 7+____ = 12
• write a complete sentence
• what does a sentence start with?
• what is this "?"?
• show the tally marks for the number 12
• write your address

After I wrote each one down, I put it inside a plastic Easter egg. I then took a permanent marker and numbered all the eggs. I split the kids up into teams and gave each team a clip board with a piece of notebook paper numbered 1-26 (the number of eggs I had). I hid the eggs around the house. The difference in this hunt is that you have to go around with your team, find an egg, read the paper inside and write your answer on the corresponding line on the notebook paper and then finally, PUT THE EGG BACK so the other team can get to it. The team that finds all the eggs and answers them wins! At the end of the hunt, I read aloud each question and each team said what they had! This turned out to be a fun game and the kids didn't even know they were working on reading, writing, teamwork, basic skills, listening and so much more!!! You could make this as big or small as you wanted to. You don't even need teams, just do it with a few kids. And, you can adjust it to any level!

This was the pile of eggs at the end of our hunt!

Showing you what I did with clip board and notebook paper for their answers.

All of the kids loved the game!


I would love to hear if you tried this at home and if your kids had fun with it too!

DIY & and ? Art!!!

I have seen some canvases in the stores that simply have signs and symbols on them. I really like them, but they are usually pretty expensive, so I decided to make my own! I had two canvases in the basement and made my own "symbol art". I like the & and ? so I went with those.

Here is how they turned out!

I painted the canvases a turquoise color and then I added the symbols in black (made from my Cricut) and then I went over it all with some brown paint to make them look a little aged! I love them!

Easter/Spring is in the........ House!!!

Since the temperature around here isn't going to get above the teens, I felt the need to start my Easter decorating and push some "spring" into our day (and the fact that Easter is creeping up here very soon doesn't help either!).

I put some stuff on this table in my living room and made the wreath out of things I have had in my Easter "tub". The little white pots on the wreath are actually napkin rings! I am sure all of this will be moved around a time or two (and the wreath will get some ribbon and bows), but I just wanted to add a splash of spring to the house today!

Easy St. Patty's Day Activity: Works on Cutting and Lacing

I traced a shamrock onto a piece of paper and had the kids cut it out. I took a hole punch and punched holes all around the shamrock. Then I gave each child a green piece of yarn to thread around the shamrock. Fun, easy and a great activity that the kids can work on cutting and lacing!