Posts Tagged ‘pinterest christmas’
As promised here, this is the blog post about the hands/feet wreath in the middle of our Christmas mantle.
I found this on Pinterest and I knew I had to try it!
Click here to take you to the website the pin is linked to.
I had supplies. I had green cardstock in two different shades. I had red cardstock scraps and a circle hole punch. I also had a paper plate to make the process of wreath-creating much easier.
I took two full 12in x 12in sheets of green cardstock in a light shade and a dark shade.
I took M’s hand and traced it out.
Sorry so blurry. It was hard enough keeping her still to trace her hand, so you could imagine how hard it was for me to try to trace her hand AND take a picture at the same time!
After I did her hands, she wanted her feet traced too. The pinterest project doesn’t feature feet, but I figure we could take some creative license and add some feet. So I took the other shade of green cardstock and used that for her feet.
In the end, we had a stack of hands and feet.
I cut a hole in the middle of a paper plate, covered it with glue and we just started sticking the hands and feet down. It took a bit of guidance from me to make sure we made it circular. She had fun sticking things down in the “goopy glue.”
I used my 1in circle hole punch to punch out several red circles out of a piece of red scrap cardstock. I put down blobs of glue and allowed M to stick them down where the blobs of glue were.
I’m sure we could have covered the paper plate better buy adding more hands and feet, but the amount of hands and feet we had were just the right amount to keep her attention.
Have I told you how much I love having a three-year old during Christmas time?!
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Her first Pinterest craft..
Posted on: November 22, 2014
Before bed, M and I sometimes browse Pinterest on my phone.
She LOVES looking through the Christmas pins, so we’ve been finding some toddler-friendly Christmas crafts to do.
One big shopping trip to Joann’s later, we had enough supplies to start working on these Christmas crafts.
M and I started with this pin. Clicking on the picture will take you directly to the pin. Clicking here will take you directly to the pin’s website.
These items were super easy to find at Joann’s AND they were reasonably priced. All these items costs less than $10 and we have enough to make about 10-15 candy canes. Perfect to hang around the Christmas tree this year.
M loved stringing the beads onto the pipe cleaners. She started off following a traditional candy cane pattern of alternating red and white, but after awhile I let her just do her own thing. After finishing the first candy cane, she was so proud of herself. She held it so carefully so she wouldn’t ruin the shape and would look at it many times.
She wanted to make a second one. She started off ok, but being three years old, the lure of just playing with the beads was just too strong. So I finished the second one for her, and I let her continue to play with the beads. We counted them, lined them up on the ground, and sorted them by color. It was a great learning opportunity AND a super fun craft!
I can’t wait to work on more Pinterest Christmas projects with her!
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