Winter Boredom Busters! Craft felt, toys...

Felt friends! Felt, scissors, hot glue and some imagination. Super easy.

Milk jug fairy house

Craft felt play food can be made as elaborate or simple as you want. There are tons of FANTASTIC ideas online! This took 10 minutes, very little hot glue, and some imagination. We were out of brown or tan so our 6 year old said, "I want blue and purple toast!" The tacos were really fun and easy! I love making eggs. So simple yet so cute and the kids can smush them up and fit them inside plastic Easter eggs!

I have a firefighter 2.5 yr old. Everett LOVES fire trucks and plays 'fireman' all the time. He was using toy guns as his water hose until his mom had a better idea for him and made this hose screwed onto a soda bottle! He loves it!

Sebastian wanted a house/cave for a robot of his. It needed to be SUPER SPOOKY and DANGEROUS he told me...so I helped him create this. Some of the figures are glued on which he likes. The spikes are tooth picks and add an actual element of danger. That wood piece with the holes actually drops down from the roof with a string. There are trap doors too, a vampire bat and a spider. Oh, and later he added "poison plants" of course. (some silk plants I had laying around)

Christmas Crafts Galore ...I love the holidays with my kids!

We made holiday candle jars; the tea lights glow through the tissue paper so beautifully and they are so festive and neat! This was such an easy and fast craft. I like crafts that I can make a bunch of something fairly quickly, these will make really great gifts!

Supplies we used: newspaper to cover table, tissue paper, mod podge glue, beautiful scrapbook/craft stickers (really good ones), ribbon for gluing around the jar rim and for making bows on large size jars, hot glue gun for ribbon around rim, paint brush for gluing down tissue paper, glass jars, tea light candles for finished project.

We used cereal boxes and cut out holiday shapes (tree, houses, candy, candy canes). We then covered them with fabric scraps and glued with mod podge. Once dry we poked holes and added ribbon/ hanging hooks and hung on the tree.

Christmas carolers made from: toilet paper rolls, construction paper, little sheet music we printed from the internet, and the hats are old mismatched socks we cut and tied at the top.    

Puppet Theatre

Made a puppet theatre out of old broken book case

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The whole thing is painted in chalkboard paint. It was still curing when we took the photo.

Card Board Box Fun

Tin Can Robots

We used tin cans, a glue gun, and lots of odds and ends to make robots.The kids had a lot of fun making them. We used: screws, broken toy pieces, electrical tape, washers, nuts googly eyes, chain, clothespins, and more. When we were done we watched a couple educational shows about robots.

Magazine Holders made from cereal boxes and decoupaged kids magazine clippings