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MATERIALS: old adult-size t-shirt elastic for waistband sewing machine matching thread scissors STEPS: Take an old (adult) t-shirt. Cut off the bottom half at the length you want (including extra allowance for inserting the elastic). Measure the elastic around your child’s waist. Add elastic (see this post if you need instructions on how to do this). Give to your (hopefully ecstatic) [...] If so, check out Andrea’s sew-along! Click on the button to go to her blog, where you can learn all about it! A huge thank you for the fantastic comments on my kitchen chemistry post yesterday – I see many fun experiments in our future! Thinking about science reminded me of using toothpicks and marshmallows to build molecular models, buildings, and bridges as a child. So I pulled some out for the kids. Johnny mainly [...] We made play dough for the first time last week, and I am wondering why I didn’t try making it earlier. It was fun for the kids, super easy, and way softer than the store-bought stuff. Here’s the recipe we used, handed down from my mom (I halved her recipe to make a smaller [...] I was the very lucky winner of the pattern for LiEr of ikat bag’s jam tarts WAY back in October. I made one right away, but put it together wrong side out. Then we were in Vienna, then we had Christmas/New Year, and I finally got around to making the rest this past week. My [...] In December, my mom gave us some decorative star anise to play with. Emma had the idea of using it in a collage. She wanted to attach it to the paper using paint, so we added some food coloring to glue to turn the glue into paint. She stirred the food coloring in carefully with [...] Take an old shirt: Chop off the arms:
Relive late 80s/early 90s fashion by letting your child wear them as leggings. The current rage in felt dress-up bear fashions, as determined by Emma. I made this felt dress-up bear for Emma well over a year ago, and it’s one of the most popular toys in the house. Well worth the two or three dollars I’ve spent on felt for the bear, clothing, and [...]
Emma came up with this idea after watching me make my denim door draft stopper. MATERIALS: cast-off jeans STEPS: 1) Cut off part of the pant leg – long enough to create the depth of the handbag you want plus seam allowances on either end. Choose which end of [...]
Nativity Scene made using this free pattern from Under My Umbrella. |
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