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)

Sew fun!!! Homemade Lalaloopsy Mini House

I love, love, love making toys with my kids. Today Penelope (6) and I made her a Lalaloopsy house and bakery & sweet shop out of a cardboard box, scrapbook paper, sewing bobbins, buttons, thread spools and the cute Lalaloopsy cardboard houses that the mini dolls come packaged in.

Sweet Shop Bakery!

The darling cardboard houses that the Lala' Mini dolls come packaged in are hot glued on to the entire outside of the box, and the doors really work and open into the house!

The back of the house is a store front pie shop and ice cream shop! Sew fun!

Spool flower pot

Miss Spider Birthday cake and homemade Miss Spider Hollow Tree fort for Penelope

Making fairy dolls

We learned how to make darling faries out of pipe cleaners, felt, flowers, and wood beads. My dear friend Molly taught us this craft and we have been having fun ever since. I didn't capture the best photos the other day but here are some samples. Pictured below is a group of fairies & fairy babies in buntings, a close up of a boy fairy Ethan helped make, and a purple haired fairy Layla helped make. They are now all happily housed in our wooden dollhouse.