Summer Holiday Crafts - Day 11

Todays craft project was found on Pinterest and came from the 'Zaby and Kuku blog'. 

I knew that Lara would love the cute dogs and so I bought some co-ordinating fabric for her to make one. 

When we made the worms last week we used the sewing machine but today Lara did all the sewing by hand. 

It took a little while and she got in a knot a few times. 

But, she persevered and finished the toy.

We have more fabric so may make another one another day.

Summer Holiday Crafts - Day 7

Todays craft idea came from a Pinterest pin which I pinned nearly a year ago. It was an idea from the Darling Petunia blog which was a link from the Dollar Store Crafts website.

Our project was to make a toy from a microfibre cleaning mitt - the type of thing you perhaps use to clean your car. I hunted everywhere for the right type (it had to have a thumb) and then eventually I found some in Poundland. When planning summer holiday craft projects it's important that they don't cost a lot and so to find the mitt for £1 was great. I bought two!

A tuorial for this project can be found on the Darling Petunia Blog, but here's mine.

First Cut off the cuff and the thumb. Leave a little fabric at the base of the thumb.

Add some beady little eyes.

Turn inside out and sew the cuff portion into a point but leave the thumb open.

Turn the right way out.

Stuff!

Sew up the opening where the thumb was.

Add a pom pom nose and your hedgehog is complete. Lara called him 'Spike'.

We also made up the orange mitt and called him 'Prickle'

Summer Holiday Crafts - Day 5

Whilst away on holiday we bought this book - 'Make Your Own Misfits'.

The book is full of bizarre creatures made from scraps and odds and ends. Lara decided she liked the look of Bernie, George & Denzil the worms.

We should have used an old sock to make them but not having the right colour old socks we instead made our worms from some scraps of pink fleece fabric left over from a previous craft project. 

They were quite fiddly to turn and stuff, but we managed, and after adding beads for eyes and embroidery thread mouths our worms were made

Bernie .....

George .....

 and Denzil.

Summer Holiday Crafts - day 1

Last summer Lara and I had a summer of craft. Most days during the school summer holidays we made, created and crafted all sorts of handmade goodies. Of course Lara remembered this and so has been asking me almost daily in the lead up to this years summer holiday to 'do more craft'.


So, not wanting to disappoint (and with the help of Pinterest) I have a few projects up my sleeve for the coming weeks.


Today's inspiration came from Marthaafterhours.blogspot.com . I love the chicken army on the blog and thought Lara would too. So after scouring the Internet for instructions on how to make the chicken beanbags and with a few left over scraps of fabric, a bag of split peas, some wadding, buttons and some felt we set about creating our own chickens.

Lara decided that she should make 4 chickens to spell out her name. Cute!

Fifth Day of the First Week of the School Summer Holidays - Felt Cats

Todays craft idea came from a photo on Flickr. These cats were so cute but at the same time quirky and I thought Lara would like trying to make some.

So we assembled a few scraps of black felt, some bright sewing threads, buttons and stuffing and after cutting a template from some paper away she went.

By the end of this afternoon four little moggies had been made.

Second Day of the First Week of the School Summer Holidays - Beanie Buddies

Many years ago I picked up the following book from a discount book shop. It has sat in the cupboard ever since.

Last month however, after much searching, I managed to buy from Ebay (at a fairly good price) a bag of fleece fabric offcuts and some plastic beans. So, this afternoon we decided to have a go at making a beanie toy from the book. The only proviso was that it had to be simple!

Lara choose an alien which we made from some bright red fleece. I did the sewing on the machine and Lara turned the toy the right way out and filled it.

That should have been the end of our craft time today but somehow I was persuaded to also make an octopus! So as well as the red alien we also made a blue Octopus.

And.............. because Lara knows how to wrap me round her finger..... we also made a rather cute pink cat.

Couple of hours of sewing = one happy girl.