Tie-dye shirts

This is my very first time ever trying to do them. I can't say that I love how they turned out but it was worth the try. The boys on the other hand really loved the experience. 

I couldn't find the squeeze bottles so we used big droppers instead and pour the dyes in mason jars. Now, after doing, I have a better idea on how to mix the colors better so gradually change them and that I don't really need to soak them with the dye too much because the colors can bleed, but when you have two little guys helping and determined to use as much as possible, that's another story :)

Elephant sock puppets

The boys chose to make elephants as their sock puppets. I gathered some of my very old socks. I had to cut a pair to make the ear. 

Material:

- Socks

- Felt pom poms

- Goggly eyes

- Glue ( We used silicone )

- Pipe cleaners (for the nose)

- Batting (for the nose)

Cut the ears

Glue the pom poms and place goggly eyes on top. Leave a little bit the top of the sock to make the trunk of the elephant. I twisted some pipe cleaner around it but I later added some batting to make thicker and then wrapped the pipe cleaner again.

In the last pictures, it didn't have the batting in it but later you'll see the difference

I cut a little piece of felt to make his mouth

The boys took them outside to play with them. They were so happy with them that they couldn't wait to show papa

And that is our elephant sock puppet :)

Summer List and Pipe cleaner bubble wands

This is our summer list. A collection of little and big things the boys would like to do this summer. The majority are the boys ideas, but I pitched in a little. 

I found this idea off of Pinterest. I had it in one of my boards so we attempted to make them on Saturday. They turned out pretty nice, and the bubbles were very big compared to some other bubble wands. The only thing though was, that I had a little difficulty making the right consistency for the soap, so sometimes we would have tons of big bubbles, and sometimes nothing would come out. I guess I have to work on the perfect bubble soap recipe :)

I really like this picture. You kinda see my reflection on the bubble that is about to come out.

Taking a picture of the bubbles while blowing the bubbles was a bit difficult but I really wanted to take a picture. And I like how it turned out. 

You should try it too. Super simple to make and very entertaining :)

This feels weird mom!

I've been seeing online a lot of activities for kids with cornstarch and water. That simple.  So I decided to give it a try and the boys really liked the gooey stuff I put in front of them. 

I didn't follow any recipe, I kinda just added a little bit of one thing and then of the other. One thing though, if you put too much cornstarch, it will be very hard to manage and really not enjoyable. So just go little by little if you decide to give it a try. 

They really enjoyed it. David played a lot longer with it that Anthony did. We are gonna do that again, specially while I'm making dinner to keep them distracted, when they usually watch a movie. 

The thing is pretty easy to clean. When I noticed it was getting messier than I thought it would, I put some old towels underneath the containers and that was better. Messy but better.

You should try it too, it's pretty weird and entertaining! 

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I am working on my embroidery. I've done two different things already. One I'm not that excited about (the first one of the two pictures next ), and the other, I like it. I just need to figure out what to do with them. I'm thinking that I make some pillows, we'll see...

I still need to dissolve the marker traces. The first one, I copied the design of my favorite tea box, and the second one I created. 


What do you think?

Marshmallows, sticks and dancing

D hasn't been feeling very well, but he got some rest and seemed kinda bored so we got some modelying clay, marshmallows and sticks and began to build things.

I helped them build a house

Then it quickly turned into a campfire. Anthony added the fire

 And David added the stones for around the fire

I guess they've spent enough time helping their daddy build a camp fire that they already know what it needs :) 

And while we were doing this, we listened to Pandora, Toddler station (like we do often and I mentioned on a previous post ) and one of their favorites songs came on and look what they ended up doing ! ...Dancing :)

These two a some cool dudes! 

Embroidery it is!

I decided what I want to learn to do. 

Remember I said I wanted to learn something new this new year? Well, it is going to be embroidery. Why? Because when I was in Elementary and Middle school Sewing and Knitting were the crafts that were taught the most and I burned out then. Too much I guess -specially when there was no interest from my part whatsoever-. So I've been looking around and I think you can do some beautiful things with embroidery. Also, I've been wanting a sewing/embroidery machine for a while now, but honestly I don't wanna add one more thing to our house that's for sale. The less the better. 

So I'm excited! I can't wait to go to the crafts store and choose my beginner materials. I've found some good tutorials in some blogs (1,2,3) and I can't wait to try it. 

There it is. 


Let the embroidery begin... :)

Dream Catcher

Some day last week, Anthony and I made a dream catcher while David slept his nap. I've been wanting to post pictures of the boys doing some of the crafts we do at home but I get really busy sometimes that I completely forget and then never do it. However, I thought I would take a little bit of time to show you the dream catcher A and I made.

Materials used:

- Disposable plate

- Scissors

- Yarn

- Bead

- Feathers

- Glue (not shown in picture)

- Hole puncher

Cut a circle in the middle of the plate- leave it as if it were a ring. Punch holes around the edges of the plate. Pass the yarn through the first hole and start adding the beads. Once finished, leave a string extra in the bottom so you glue the feathers to it. For the top, you can add a handle from the same yard. 


I didn't get to take a lot of pictures during the process because I was holding the plate while Anthony was passing the yarn through the holes. And towards the end he lost interest but I called him when it was time to glue the feather to the bottom. 


Here it is...