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Thanksgiving M&M Turkey Favors

November 17, 2014 by Margaret 6 Comments

Cute, easy craft for your Thanksgiving table. #turkeyfavors

I fell in love with these crazy looking turkeys when I saw them on Pinterest. I had to make them.

Gobble! Gobble!

We took the entire family and Thanksgiving to Great-Grandma’s house last year. My assignment was to create something fun for the table. I picked these Turkey favors. My kids had a blast helping me twist a cute pipe cleaner.

Jenn at Clean and Scentsible has a great tutorial on how to twist your pipe cleaner. She found circle netting for her turkeys. I wasn’t so lucky. I used brown mess netting cut into 12″ squares. I also closed these little beauties with a regular garbage bag twisty tie (I wanted to be able to get at them quickly).

I filled my little gobblers with regular M&M’s, Peanut M&M’s, and Peanut Butter M&M’s, because that’s what I like, but really any candy would work.

My original plan was to fill them with Fall colored M&M’s, but I couldn’t find any the week of Thanksgiving. So, if you ever plan on making these stock up on Fall colored M&M’s at Halloween.

Enjoy!

Margaret

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Felt Easter Bunnies

March 27, 2014 by Margaret 7 Comments

We thought it would be fun to bring back Felt Easter Bunnies. Just another favorite felt project from the past that is a great gift for friends and teachers at Easter time.

They are super easy and kid friendly to make.

Materials

for one bunny

pattern

2 – 9″ X 12″ felt squares

2 – 1/2 ” white pompoms

1 – 7 mm pink pompom

2 – 12 mm wiggle eyes

1 – 20″ piece of ribbon

Erasable pen (Frixion by Pilot irons off)

Other items

Pinking shears or other sharp scissors

fabric glue or hot glue

Pins

Place the felt squares on top of each other. Trace the pattern on the top using the erasable pen. Cut along the traced line. Pin together and cut through both thicknesses at the same time. Glue about 1/4″ along the edges
leaving the space between the ears open
(I like to sew mine together, but I don’t have little children that help me).

Glue the eyes and pompoms in place.

Through the opening between the ears fill with your favorite Easter candy. Rap the piece of ribbon around the base of the ears and tie them together closing the opening.

Make a bunch of them for Easter dinner table favors.

Mary Ellen

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Bugs Needed a Home

June 6, 2013 by Margaret Leave a Comment

My kids love playing with their pipe cleaner bugs. They fly and crawl them all over the house, but the other day Tyler said, “Mom, they (the bugs) need a place to live.” I was stumped. What had I started? So again we went to the craft box. Which I might add is in desperate need of a trip to the craft store. I had to find something that would pass for a house for creepy, but cute bugs. I found my felt stash and and went to work.

So again I pulled out the glue gun and scissors. First I had to make a flannel board.All you need is piece of cardboard, batting, and flannel .

Center the cardboard on the batting and start gluing. Make sure to pull the batting tight.

Then do the same with the flannel. Turn it over and you have a flannel board.

I asked my kids where, caterpillars, butterflies, and dragonflies live. This is what we came up with: apple tree, cloud, flowers, pond and lily pads.

Now the bugs have a place to live.

Happy crafting!

Mags

Pipe Cleaner Bugs

May 20, 2013 by Margaret Leave a Comment

My kids get tired of me sitting at the computer and sewing machine so we had a craft day. I bought a bag of pipe cleaners a few months ago for a project that never happened. The kids have been asking what they were for weeks so I decided it was time to introduce them to the fun of pipe cleaners. They really weren’t interested until I suggested we make bugs. They helped my gather supplies and this is what we came up with: