Crayon Wreath!

To go along with our "Back to School" decorations, I made this fun crayon wreath!
I got this fun idea from Katie at A Listmaker's Life. :)

I got a foam wreath form from the dollar store and hot glued a green ribbon around it, then I just hot glued crayons onto the front, and used push pins to put a ribbon hanger on!

Wax Crayon Craft!

With preschool starting next week (we are a little bit of a later start over here) for Molly, we are starting our back to school crafts to get ready for Monday!

We saw this fun craft over at Funny Days A to Z, and had to give it a try. First we hot glued crayons to the top of a white canvas.

Then we used a blow-dryer on the hot setting to start heating up the crayons.

Molly loved helping with this part, she was SO excited for them to start melting!

Here is what they looked like when they started melting! SO cool, but messy. I'm glad at the last minute I decided it would be a good idea to do this on the deck!

Once the crayons were heated up and started melting, the canvas filled up pretty fast.

Here is Molly's finished masterpiece, ours may not win any awards for looks, but it sure was fun!

Cheese Faces!

We saw the idea to make these fun cheese head snacks from Family Fun. Ours are pretty simple, but the possibilities are endless! We used Wilton edible food markers for the faces. My girls definitely are quicker to eat something when they help make it, and it's fun!

Sock Monkey Birthday Cake!

Here is the fun cake I made for my friends sons 1st birthday party! He had a sock monkey themed party with red and blue decorations. The party was SO adorable, and I was so honored that she asked me to make the cake. :) I got the idea for this cake from here.

Apple Hats!

In the fall we love to head to the U-Pick orchard to pick apples, so when I saw this free pattern for this adorable knit apple hat, I just knew my girls would need them for this year. :)

But, since I lack knitting skills, I had my amazing Mother-In-Law whip these cute hats up. She is super quick; I printed her the pattern one day, and the next afternoon they were done. Seriously talented. :)

Here Nora is showing off how cute the hat turned out! (and how cute she is, but I may be a bit bias :)

Molly had the same hat, just a bit bigger. I thought about doing a green one too, but not sure that would still look like an apple.

We had a great morning picking apples!

Glow Stick Wands!!!

I picked up these awesome glow stick wands I saw at the Dollar Store today, after the girls had so much fun playing with the glow sticks our friends brought along camping.

We took them out on the deck tonight, and the girls had SO much fun playing! Seriously, the easiest entertainment we've had in a long time. I just cracked them, shook them up, and handed them over... then sat back and watched them play! :)

Here Molly was stirring, doesn't it look cool!

Molly was trying to show Nora how to write her name, lol.

We had one...

...make that two happy girls.

All for $2, I think I will need to make another trip to the Dollar Store for these. :)

Googly Eye Fun!

Molly asks to do a craft everyday, (don't know who she gets this from, lol) some days we have big, time consuming crafts, and others I need something super quick and easy... That is were this fun craft idea from Frugal Family Fun Blog (one of my absolute favorite blogs) was perfect!

We looked through magazines and picked out some fun pictures to cut and glue to a piece of cardstock. Then Molly added peel and stick googly eyes to the pictures to make them fun!

Seriously funny!!! (If you notice in the top picture, she even turned two into silly monsters, lol, that girl cracks me up!)