Showing posts with label crafts for kids. Show all posts
Showing posts with label crafts for kids. Show all posts

January 02, 2013

Felt Playhouse: Homemade Christmas Present

I had a blast making my little one a felt playhouse for Christmas and I imagine we will have a blast playing in it in the months to come!  Already all three of my boys think it's lots of fun!  Even my 9 year old gets excited about it- though my older boys' ideas of playing are a little different than mine.  (Think robbers breaking in to steal carrots compared to picking apples from the orchard and eating them at our pretend table.)

We had a little knit house that covered a card table growing up.  I remember pretending all kinds of things inside our "house."  So I've wanted to make one for my kids for awhile but never seemed to find the time. 

Then I saw this adorable felt house at homemadebyjill and was inspired!  I loved the idea of having a garden and apple tree where they can pick fruits and veggies.  I also loved how she put mesh in the windows since it can get a little stuffy in a felt house.  I copied a lot of her ideas with a little personal twist of my own.

 My lettuce leaves are a little too plumb : )  But I think the pumpkin vines turned out pretty good.  I still need to finish the actual pumpkins!
  Here's the other end of the garden with one loan corn stalk.


I had fun with my flower garden!





I decided to leave off the dog since my son has lots of stuffed animals he can carry in and out of the pet door.


In the future it will be fun to put some mail in this little mailbox.

 
I still need to finish the pumpkins and a few more apples and tiddy up a few thing- I think mine is a little too loose around the edges but all in all, I'm very pleased with how it turned out.  And it was really a lot of fun to make!! 

December 03, 2012

Nativity Puppets

Before we had children, Jer and I were nursery leaders at church for the 18 month old children.  
We had about eight 18 month to 24 month old children.  They were adorable but it was quite a challenge to keep them happy for 2 hours and try to teach them a lesson and sing songs when most of them couldn't talk. My Mom made me these wonderful puppets to use with them at Christmastime and they are still a favorite at our house.  

 I've said it before and I'll say it again, I LOVE FELT!  
It is so easy to create with and great for things like this!  


I love the details on each one- yet they are so simple.




We use them to act out the nativity story or the boys just like to play with them around the house.  Thanks, Nana, for making these for us!