Happy Thanksgiving Week!
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Monday, November 23, 2009
Thankful Turkey Craft
We used my felt turkey template and instead of using felt, we cut everything out of construction paper to make our own Thankful Turkey Craft! After gluing on the basic turkey body and head etc. we wrote something we were thankful for on each feather then glued them on the turkey.
Happy Thanksgiving Week!
Happy Thanksgiving Week!
Sunday, November 22, 2009
Felt Pizza Tutorial
Well, like I said I developed a felt food craving quite quickly after the doughnuts! There is a wonderful video tutorial from Lilly Bean! Here's my attempt at the felt pizza:
Supplies:
1. Using the light tan felt, trace your pizza pie shape onto the felt. The straight sides measure 5.5" and then I used a plate to draw on the curve. (Repeat 4 times if you're making a whole pizza)
2. Layer your traced felt piece onto another one, then roughly cut out the crust shapes going through both layers and secure layers together with a pin. Using a sewing machine, sew along the line you traced onto the felt. Once done, cut a slit into one side of the felt and flip inside out. (Repeat with all 4 pieces)
3. Once pieces are flipped inside out, cut filling foam to fit: The edges will be 5" long each straight side then I used the plate to trace on the curve again. (Repeat cutting 4 pieces of foam). Stuff foam in through the hole you cut and smooth out. Hand stitch the opening closed.
4. Using cream felt for cheese, trace pie shape onto it. The edges of the cheese will be 4" on both straight edges, and again I used the plate to trace on the curve. Repeat for 4 slices of cheese and cut out. (I just traced one, then folded the felt in half and cut it all at the same time.)
5. Stitch cheese onto the crust, leaving a gap at the rounded side for the crust.
6. This part was tricky, but...fold the red felt in half so you are sewing 2 pieces together and free-hand sew circles (I used my machine so they aren't very round, but I tried to make up for it when I cut them out! I made 8 pepperoni's so there would be 2/slice.
7. Using green felt (folded in half again), free-hand stitch a pepper slice, I tried to do a half circle shape...the Lilly Bean lady does it MUCH better! Cut out when finished.
8. Using tan marbled felt (folded in half again), free-hand stitch mushroom shapes and cut out.
9. Place toppings on pizza and serve to your hungry kids that have been waiting all afternoon!
If you missed my doughnut attempt, click here!
Supplies:
- 4 Sheets of light tan felt for crust
- 1 sheet of light cream for cheese
- 1 sheet red for pepperoni
- 1 sheet green for peppers
- 1 sheet marbled tan or brown for mushrooms
- needle and matching thread, scissors, sewing machine if you have one!
- regular sized plate and ruler
- Filling: you can use 1/2" foam, or I used some sheet cotton from my christmas houses!)
1. Using the light tan felt, trace your pizza pie shape onto the felt. The straight sides measure 5.5" and then I used a plate to draw on the curve. (Repeat 4 times if you're making a whole pizza)
2. Layer your traced felt piece onto another one, then roughly cut out the crust shapes going through both layers and secure layers together with a pin. Using a sewing machine, sew along the line you traced onto the felt. Once done, cut a slit into one side of the felt and flip inside out. (Repeat with all 4 pieces)
3. Once pieces are flipped inside out, cut filling foam to fit: The edges will be 5" long each straight side then I used the plate to trace on the curve again. (Repeat cutting 4 pieces of foam). Stuff foam in through the hole you cut and smooth out. Hand stitch the opening closed.
4. Using cream felt for cheese, trace pie shape onto it. The edges of the cheese will be 4" on both straight edges, and again I used the plate to trace on the curve. Repeat for 4 slices of cheese and cut out. (I just traced one, then folded the felt in half and cut it all at the same time.)
5. Stitch cheese onto the crust, leaving a gap at the rounded side for the crust.
6. This part was tricky, but...fold the red felt in half so you are sewing 2 pieces together and free-hand sew circles (I used my machine so they aren't very round, but I tried to make up for it when I cut them out! I made 8 pepperoni's so there would be 2/slice.
7. Using green felt (folded in half again), free-hand stitch a pepper slice, I tried to do a half circle shape...the Lilly Bean lady does it MUCH better! Cut out when finished.
8. Using tan marbled felt (folded in half again), free-hand stitch mushroom shapes and cut out.
9. Place toppings on pizza and serve to your hungry kids that have been waiting all afternoon!
If you missed my doughnut attempt, click here!
Saturday, November 21, 2009
Felt Doughnuts Tutorial
Well, after my "I'm not a sewer turkey project", I got on a felt food kick and decided to make some doughnuts! I got the idea from Escape Artist, and here's my attempt at it!
Supplies:
1. Trace your pattern onto the doughnut colored felt, you'll need 2 circles per doughnut. Then trace the doughnut hole, I used a quarter, but I think the holes are too big, so I'd use something smaller like a nickel or the inside of a CD.
2. Cut out the doughnut circles and holes. Next cut out free form frosting piece and a hole from the center the same size as the doughnut hole. (I traced the chicken can onto the pink frosting then just cut a curvy frosting piece inside the circle.)
3. Secure the frosting to 1 piece of your doughnut with pins and sew along the frosting's outside edge to attach it to the doughnut.
4. Using small beads or thread, stitch on your sprinkles. I used small beads for 2 doughnuts and then stitched on long sprinkles on the other two.
5. Layer the top of doughnut with frosting onto the bottom doughnut piece and sew along the doughnut hole stitching all 3 pieces together.
6. Stitch the outside edges together leaving about 1.5" open so you can push in the stuffing. Fill doughnut as full as you can, then finish stitching up the opening, and admire your newly created felt doughnut! Zero calories baby!
7. Now go make a bunch more so your kids don't fight over them! (The chocolate doughnut was a favorite over here)
8. Go internet searching for more felt food because you're now addicted, here's some to aid in your search:
Supplies:
- Felt for doughnut, I used light brown, dark brown(it takes 1/2 sheet per doughnut)
- Colored felt for frosting: I used light pink(I got about 4 frosting pieces/sheet)
- Doughnut template: you could use a CD or I used a large can of chicken and a nickle for the hole LOL!
- Scissors, needle, matching thread
- Fluffy stuffing, I used a polyfiber fill stuffing.
- Topping embellishments, I used beads as well as hand stitched on sprinkles.
1. Trace your pattern onto the doughnut colored felt, you'll need 2 circles per doughnut. Then trace the doughnut hole, I used a quarter, but I think the holes are too big, so I'd use something smaller like a nickel or the inside of a CD.
2. Cut out the doughnut circles and holes. Next cut out free form frosting piece and a hole from the center the same size as the doughnut hole. (I traced the chicken can onto the pink frosting then just cut a curvy frosting piece inside the circle.)
3. Secure the frosting to 1 piece of your doughnut with pins and sew along the frosting's outside edge to attach it to the doughnut.
4. Using small beads or thread, stitch on your sprinkles. I used small beads for 2 doughnuts and then stitched on long sprinkles on the other two.
5. Layer the top of doughnut with frosting onto the bottom doughnut piece and sew along the doughnut hole stitching all 3 pieces together.
6. Stitch the outside edges together leaving about 1.5" open so you can push in the stuffing. Fill doughnut as full as you can, then finish stitching up the opening, and admire your newly created felt doughnut! Zero calories baby!
7. Now go make a bunch more so your kids don't fight over them! (The chocolate doughnut was a favorite over here)
8. Go internet searching for more felt food because you're now addicted, here's some to aid in your search:
Friday, November 20, 2009
Jewelry Making and Pattern Skills!
The fun way to work on patterning skills: make some jewelry!
I heard my daughter saying "tiny, long, tiny, pink, tiny, long, tiny, honeybee, tiny, long, tiny..." I guess she decided one of the beads looked like a honeybee...actually it kind of did..well, a bee hive anyway. (If you happen to be one of our female family members, please don't look at the next picture as it may be your Christmas present LOL!)
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And voila'! The fun way to practice patterning skills when you're 6 years old! (Or 30 something ;o) )
I heard my daughter saying "tiny, long, tiny, pink, tiny, long, tiny, honeybee, tiny, long, tiny..." I guess she decided one of the beads looked like a honeybee...actually it kind of did..well, a bee hive anyway. (If you happen to be one of our female family members, please don't look at the next picture as it may be your Christmas present LOL!)
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And voila'! The fun way to practice patterning skills when you're 6 years old! (Or 30 something ;o) )
Mosaic Cornucopia Craft
I found this fun cornucopia craft on Kaboose Crafts and added it to our Thanksgiving Week!
Supplies:
As your crafting, discuss what it means to give thanks and how the cornucopia symbolizes a bountiful harvest. This will go along with our study on the pilgrims and how they had to work hard to farm and harvest their food.
Supplies:
- 1 sheet of plain white paper
- Half sheets of construction paper: brown, black, purple, red, yellow, green and orange
- White craft glue, Q-tips, small dixie cups (1 for each student)
- Scissors
- Pattern from Kaboose (I just printed 1 per student)
- Cut small squares from each color of construction paper
- Provide small cups of white craft glue for each child along with a stack of Q-tips
- Use paintbrushes or Q-tips to dab small amounts of glue onto the paper and glue on the construction paper squares as follows:
- Brown – horn
Black - horn mouth/rim
Purple – grapes at top
Red – apple to the right, below top grapes
Purple – eggplant
Red – apple below eggplant
Green – leaves below apple
Yellow – apple below top grapes
Green and yellow – corn cob
Green – leaves below corn
Purple – grapes below corn cob
Orange – pumpkin
As your crafting, discuss what it means to give thanks and how the cornucopia symbolizes a bountiful harvest. This will go along with our study on the pilgrims and how they had to work hard to farm and harvest their food.
Thursday, November 19, 2009
The Homeschool Toolbar!
I don't normally promote things like this, but I just read about the Homeschool Toolbar and thought I'd give it a try! I have to say I LOVE IT! There are tons of homeschooling resources at your fingertips and even lovely Christmas Music to listen to if you choose!
The toolbar features:
The toolbar features:
- Top homeschool websites & resources
- Top homeschool blogs
- The latest homeschool & parenting news
- Email notifier to organize all of your email accounts.
- Homeschool communities and forums.
- Integrated Twitter & Facebook apps.
- Web search using Google
- Integrated RSS feeds
- Category browsing helpful to moms and homeschoolers.
- Search highlighter
- Local Weather
- Organizing tools such as a To do list, notepad, calculator, conversion charts, maps and more.
- Radio connected to "Positive & Encouraging K-LOVE" , NPR or your favorite local radio station (this feature is optional and can be added or removed as can all toolbar features.)
Letter F for fish in action!
Here's some of our Letter F week fun in action!
I know a whale doesn't theoretically go in the 'fish' category, but it swims and is the only close card we had and she wanted to do the tangrams today, so its all good :)
Our Letter Matching, Please note, the original idea for this game came from Tot School and Carisa's blog. I ended up making my own letters as I wanted lowercase and she didn't have them. These letters work well if you use a 1 3/8" circle punch to punch out the letters then xyron them onto 1 1/2" wooden disks from Michael's. Click here to see the process of making the letters. If you're looking for more challenge, use the uppercase card with the lowercase letter disks or visa versa!
Fish Size Sorting: She loved this one, and laughed when I asked why all the fish were swimming upside down :)
Working with our color cubes and the Letter F: I use our Large Alphabet Lacing Cards! for this activity. Click here to see more CREATIVE COLOR CUBE Ideas
Fish Lacing Card: We did the in-out-in-out pattern on this one:
Foam Letter Builders, we try to do this for each letter we learn, I just handcut them so don't have a template, but you can download a printable letter builder template here, or I also saw How to Build an A
on 1+1+1 that looks like lots of fun!
Fish Color Puzzles: I cut these little guys out then cut them in half in as many interesting ways as I could think of to make tiny color matching puzzles.
Marbles and Golf Tee Motorskills! I've seen this on several blogs, but most recently on Pink and Green Mama. It looked right up our alley, so I tried it today! It was such a hit that everyone had to have a turn, thanks Pink and Green Mama!
Fish Floor Numbers: I made these large floor numbers so that we can play a hopscotch type game. I call out a number and she jumps to it! You could also have them put the cards in numerical order.
Fish Measuring! This is a new game for us, and we're going to use goldfish to learn the difference between long and short. (Notice the teeny tiny tot sneaking in the corner of the pic to get some snacks!
Some fun pom-pom size sorting: we used kids chopsticks from PF Chang's for this, but you can use tweezers, or make your own chopstick holder using a folded up peice of paper and rubberband!
Pattern Block Design Cards
: She didn't finish this whole thing, but did quite a bit of it! Here's a Pattern Blocks & Boards
set that comes with the blocks as well.
We always read Chicka Chicka Boom Boom
and put our letter F up on the alphabet tree!
That's it for now, visit my Letter F post for more Fishy ideas!
I know a whale doesn't theoretically go in the 'fish' category, but it swims and is the only close card we had and she wanted to do the tangrams today, so its all good :)
Our Letter Matching, Please note, the original idea for this game came from Tot School and Carisa's blog. I ended up making my own letters as I wanted lowercase and she didn't have them. These letters work well if you use a 1 3/8" circle punch to punch out the letters then xyron them onto 1 1/2" wooden disks from Michael's. Click here to see the process of making the letters. If you're looking for more challenge, use the uppercase card with the lowercase letter disks or visa versa!
Fish Size Sorting: She loved this one, and laughed when I asked why all the fish were swimming upside down :)
Working with our color cubes and the Letter F: I use our Large Alphabet Lacing Cards! for this activity. Click here to see more CREATIVE COLOR CUBE Ideas
Fish Lacing Card: We did the in-out-in-out pattern on this one:
Foam Letter Builders, we try to do this for each letter we learn, I just handcut them so don't have a template, but you can download a printable letter builder template here, or I also saw How to Build an A
on 1+1+1 that looks like lots of fun!
Fish Color Puzzles: I cut these little guys out then cut them in half in as many interesting ways as I could think of to make tiny color matching puzzles.
Marbles and Golf Tee Motorskills! I've seen this on several blogs, but most recently on Pink and Green Mama. It looked right up our alley, so I tried it today! It was such a hit that everyone had to have a turn, thanks Pink and Green Mama!
Fish Floor Numbers: I made these large floor numbers so that we can play a hopscotch type game. I call out a number and she jumps to it! You could also have them put the cards in numerical order.
Fish Measuring! This is a new game for us, and we're going to use goldfish to learn the difference between long and short. (Notice the teeny tiny tot sneaking in the corner of the pic to get some snacks!
Some fun pom-pom size sorting: we used kids chopsticks from PF Chang's for this, but you can use tweezers, or make your own chopstick holder using a folded up peice of paper and rubberband!
Pattern Block Design Cards
: She didn't finish this whole thing, but did quite a bit of it! Here's a Pattern Blocks & Boards set that comes with the blocks as well.
We always read Chicka Chicka Boom Boom
and put our letter F up on the alphabet tree!
That's it for now, visit my Letter F post for more Fishy ideas!
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