Party Platters: Glue the base of a glass to the bottom of a decorative plate with glass adhesive – I used ‘Liquid Nails: Glass & Tile Adhesive’. Once the glue has dried, spray paint the bottom of the platter. I bought all the plates and glasses from the Op Shop (Thrift Store) for 50c each.
Mini Cupcakes with pink butter cream frosting and decorated with a Mini Oreo, white chocolate and sprinkles.
Pink Snowballs. Marshmallows coated in white chocolate and rolled in pink dessicated coconut.
Marshmallow and Mini M&M mushrooms. Wobbly Presents
White Chocolate Butterfly Cupcakes
Decorate the chairs with inexpensive plastic table cloths. Cut them into strips and tie around the back of the chairs.
Decorated Pop Tops. Pink balloon, crepe paper, feather string and a butterfly.
White Chocolate Winged Butterflys
Try these easy hot chocolate dipping spoons for deliciously gooey treat. Choose your favourite sweet or mini chocolate to place in the chocolate. Pictured below is a Mini Oreo. Scroll down for more ideas.
Spoon a dollop of melted white chocolate onto a teaspoon. Place a small treat into the chocolate and chill to set.
Dip the spoon into milk or dark chocolate, covering half the treat (or all if you prefer). Scrape the bottom of the spoon to remove any excess. Chill to set.
Dip the spoon into a hot drink to make it melty and wonderful.
Teds in Bed: Give a Tiny Teddy and yummy blanket of milk chocolate and sprinkles. Click here for full instructions (Pdf)
Marshmallow:
Soft centred jubes:
More of my edible crafts:
Ingredients: Milk Arrowroot Biscuits (or any oval shaped cookie), white icing, white marshmallows, pink sprinkles, lollies/candy and black writing icing. To make the ears, cut a marshmallow in half and dip the sticky centre into the pink sprinkles.
Ingredients: Milk Arrowroot Biscuits (or any oval shaped cookie), Sour Strap lollies, Mini M&Ms, icing tinted with food colouring.
More of my Easter crafts:
Easter seems to have crept up on me this year. Suddenly I have too many projects and too little time to post them. So here are 2 projects crammed into one.
The first is a basket made out of a plastic soft drink bottle. An adult will need to assist in this project as it requires some fairly heavy duty cutting and a burning candle flame. I used the flame to heat the petals of the flower basket in order to keep them in place. This isn’t as difficult or dangerous as it sounds! You simply bend back the petal and slowly bring the folded part closer to the flame until it slightly buckles and stays in place. I then covered the basket with tissue paper and PVA, but you could also spray paint it for a faster finish. Click here for full instructions (Pdf)
The next project is a quick and easy Easter Bunny face that doubles as a treat bag to store your eggs.
To make this bag, you will need 3 x paper plates, ribbon or string, a stapler and items to decorate the face. Click here for full instructions
More of my Easter crafts:
Finally – we have a wobbly tooth! A good friend once gave me some wise advice about the first Tooth Fairy visit. When her daughter lost her first tooth, the enthusiastic Fairy left, not only coins, but a dazzling display of glitter trails, streamers and hand-cut paper flowers. Several teeth later it dawned on my friend that old TF may have peaked too soon and failed to take into account that children lose about 20 teeth in total. As my friend had twin girls she was naturally concerned that TF would struggle to continually meet the very high standard she had left on her first visit. (Personally I suspect TF may have had too much fairy chardonnay that night, but I digress.)
With this in mind, we decided to make it easier for the Tooth Fairy and create a little spot dedicated to tooth retrieval. I saw these cute mini doors here. I haven’t found anything locally so I thought I’d have a go at making our own.
For this project you will need a piece of regular box card – the type with corrugated fluting on the inside. The fluting is important as the door is hinged via a skewer threaded down the centre of the cardboard.
I liked the idea of an outside world inside the box, so we painted the interior with landscape colours. Then we made a little tree from ‘Make & Bake Clay’. In the tree is a tiny nest to place the tooth in. To strengthen the tree I first twisted a wire frame, then we wound the brown clay around it. I rolled out some green clay and cut leaf shapes with a craft knife. Click here for full instructions (Pdf)
Tomorrow my eldest will begin Grade 1. At the end of last year parents were asked to attend a brief meeting with the Year 1 teacher. The meeting went well, until we were all given 5 scrap books each and asked to cover them with contact. A ripple of panic washed over the room. “Don’t worry if you get any bubbles or wrinkles” the teacher kindly said. How can we not worry about bubbles in contact? Isn’t the number of bubbles and wrinkles inversely proportional to how how much my child can learn? Or something like that.
The video below shows my method for covering books. It may not be a terribly crafty post, but I hope it is an informative one. If, like me, you are facing another 10-12 years of covering school books, you might as well get off to a good start.
Apologies to the parents who have already spent tonight wrestling with books and sticky plastic, I really did mean to get this out a week ago….
When it comes to Christmas dresses, I’ve found the choices to be rather slim – or brief, to be exact. Last year I needed something festive to wear to a children’s Christmas Party. The only festive outfits I could find were of the skimpy/after hours/in-private variety. Hardly appropriate! (“Mummy, why can I see Mrs Claus’ undies?”) SO, I found a second hand red dress, pictured on the left, and transformed it into the dress on the right:
It even lights up!
This is how I did it:
1. Stitched white fur trim to the collar, pockets and hemline.
2. Replaced the buttons with gold bells
3. Unpicked an opening in the hem and threaded plastic garden reticulation hose all the way around, inside the hem.
4. Decorated a pair of red shoes with bells and plastic holly.
5. Fortunately the dress had an extra lining skirt underneath. To this I safety pinned 5 novelty flashing Christmas necklaces.
And there you have it; a Christmas Dress that flashes in a child friendly/G-Rated kinda way…
This is my last post about baubles. Really. Here is a simple way to make a plain Christmas bauble into something special with round glass pebbles. These pebbles are normally available in small bags at discount or craft stores. The string used to hang the baubles will need to be replaced with fishing line, as the pebbles make the bauble considerably heavier. Due to their weight, the baubles are not suitable for hanging on a Christmas Tree. I attached the pebbles with a hot glue gun. Click here for full instructions (Pdf)
