Make your own Easter basket

Well I saw this thing in a magazine several years ago and thought that is cute. The took a recycled container and made a pen/marker hold out of it but it looked like a basket. So I have been recycling my daughter's formula containers waiting to come up with something and I did.

I made the kids an Easter basket out of them. Easy as 1,2,3. Poked 2 holes on the side of the container with scissors, then placed the color pipe cleaner in them as the handle, then got colored paper and cute it to the size (had to use 2 sheets to wrap all the way around). Glued then used stickers to decorate.

Fun easy and cheap. I had all the materials on hand so cost me nothing......love those projects.

Can before covered, can covered, and then stickers placed......my son wanted Pirates.

2 side views and the back

Recycling Sweaters for Yarn

Have an ugly sweater you received as a gift? Need some yarn? Instructions for how to recycle an unwanted sweater into yarn that can be sold or used to knit, crochet, weave or otherwise craft something new. I'm sure this can also be done with scarves, blankets, shawls, or anything else made of yarn.

If you recycle some and make something new send me pictures and I'll post them here.

Car Painting

                     C is for Car Painting

Today we did the letter "C" so I had J pick out a car he wanted to use and we painted with it. It is fun when you have a car that has tire tracks and it makes a neat design on the paper. Simple and fun.

Materials:
Toy car
Letter C or you can just write it
Paper
paint
pan, plastic lid....whatever you want to use to move it back and forth

J said Mom this is cool....too cute!!

J was having a blast



Left a pretty cool design


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Alphabet Bath Learning

We have been working on the sight of the Alphabet with my 3 yr old, so tonight at bath I thought hey he will think he is having fun in the tub instead of learning. So I made a game with the foam letter. Then when I would pick a letter up I would say where does the blank go and he would say the letter and match it up. We did upper and lower case. I got these foam pieces from the Dollar Tree.

It's funny cause lately with learning the sight of the alphabet he will tell you the wrong letter on purpose to get us going trying to stop the game we make up with him. The other night he told my husband, Daddy I just want to play I am too small to learn. Have to give it to him he is a silly little cookie.

He loved the game and did good. Still have to work on 5 of them but he did suprise me that he knew as many as he did.

M is for Mommy......J said



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EMMA BROWN

PLEASE SUPPORT AND VOTE FOR EMMA BROWN, a Bristol UWE Graphic Design student, she has made it to  the final (& the only Bristol finalist) of a design competition run by Subtv in association with Renault. 

Emma's design for the new all-electric Renault Twizy needs your vote today. If Emma wins she will get her design realised and her tuition fees paid for one whole year. 

Emma says, "Winning a competition of this scale would create an excellent opportunity to further myself as a professional designer". 

“My shortlisted design was inspired by a set of photographs I took at a firework display. The long exposure captured the trail of the fireworks and the unpredictable nature of their formation. To me, this captured the essence of energy, which is a significant feature of the car.”

“Our lecturers are very supportive and always encourage us to enter competitions as this gives us the chance to work to a live brief and the experience is good for our work portfolio. The 'Renault Twizy' is an electric car so I wanted to emphasise its green credentials.

“it's been a rewarding exercise to work to a brief set by an external agency. Several prominent Bristol institutions and personalities have shown support by sharing my entry online, but with the deadline closing in, I still need more votes.”

To support this up-and-coming designer; vote for Emma's design by visiting  www.designatwizy.co.uk/emma  and simply click 'Like’.

Voting closes 30th March.

Alphabet soup in the bath

We have been working on learning the sight of the alphabets with my 3 yr old son. We are always pretend cooking in the bath so I thought hey lets put the crab letters in the bath and make crab alphabet soup. Well it was so cute he said, "Mom that is just the best idea." So it worked again making the learning fun. He is always keeping me on my toes. If he thinks he is learning watch out. Too funny!!

I would say I need the letter....for the soup and have J get it for the pot.

Using bath paint as the sauce.

Then we would spell some words.

Creative Metal Recycling

Check out Eco-Art Creative Metal Recycling. I love this guy's work! Tim Pace uses cast-off, discarded and scrapped metals to create his unique sculptures. Tim likes to retain the shape of the original found object to keep it recognizable within the resulting artwork, like the shovels and clippers used to create the birds in this photo.

Eco-Art pieces range in size from objects that easily fit on the desktop to very tall items that can be displayed as garden art or home décor. I especially like the Reading Mantis displayed outside the Jackson-Madison County Library in Jackson, Tennessee.

Pencil Art (Nails Too!)

I am thoroughly impressed with the way artist Jennifer Maestre is usings bits of pencils to create her art. I'm not quite sure how she's doing it, but the results sure are beautiful. What a wonderful way to use up those short little pencils that are too small to sharpen or write with. She also uses nails and beads and has sections of her website devoted to that.

Check her stuff out at http://www.jennifermaestre.com/.