2011 Crafting & 2012 Craft Challenge

I kept track of how many craft items that I made during 2011.  Here is my tally:

Total Items Made: 789

This includes 37 quilt blocks.

January's total: 106

February's total: 52

March's total: 73

April's total: 48

May's total: 89

June's total: 17

July's total: 50

August's total: 18

September's total: 96

October's total: 42

November's total: 65

December's total: 133

This was all apart of my New Years Resolution to make 365 items during 2011.

As you can tell I did it.  In fact I more than doubled that amount.  My my 2012 New Year's Resolution is to make 700 craft items.  I did not want to run myself ragged trying to out do myself from 2011, but I did want to set a higher goal.
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Diamond Overlay Dishcloth

I finished crocheting this dishcloth the other day.  Making the diamonds was a new technique for me.  Its always good to learn new techniques.  This pattern came from one of those thin booklets, "Contest Favorites Dishcloths: 17 Best Designs from the Crochet With Heart Dishcloth Contest."  I got it for Christmas from my parents.  I'm currently crocheting a 2nd dishcloth from the book.  Right now I'm concentrating on the single color dishcloths from the book.

Tuesday Tot Craft Time: Making Butter

What you do is put some heavy whipping cream in a jar, and shake it until there is a lump of solid (butter) in the liquid.  You separate the lump from the liquid, and now you have butter.

Tuesday Tot Craft Time: Kid Made Wreaths

These 2 wreaths were put together by kids for our church's Winter pageant.   We gave them the supplies, and they arranged them.  I hot glued anything that needed to be tacked down for them.  I think that they did a good job.

Tuesday Tot Craft Time: Reindeer Games

Earlier this month I helped out during my church's holiday fair.  One of the places that I helped out at was in the kids' craft room.  They made cards, ornaments, and reindeer hats.

Tuesday Tot Craft Time: Gingerbread Men

Today is the last drop in craft day at our library for a few weeks.  We made gingerbread men, which are super easy but very festive.

They provided the kids with foam pieces, glue sticks, crayons, and pipe cleaners to decorate their gingerbread men with.

My son's gingerbread man is on the right and one of his friend's is on the left.  I cut out the background because it had to many kids' faces in it.  I'm ok with showing my son's face, but I don't feel right showing his friends' faces without permission.  Anyway, the kids had a great time making this craft, and now we have something else to decorate our walls with for the holiday.  

Tuesday Tot Craft Time: Christmas Ornaments & A Tree

My son made this snowball / snowflake ornament using a paper circle, some packing peanuts, glue, ribbon, and a stapler.  So easy and a great way to recycle those packing peanuts.

I love to go shopping after the holidays.  I found some blank wooden candy shapes for about 8 cents in the after Halloween sale bin.  I thought that they would make great peppermint candy magnets for Christmas.  However my son really wanted something to do, so I gave him these to color and put foam stickers on.  It took a little bit of time and some muscle, but I got my small hole punch to go through them so that they could become Christmas ornaments.  He is giving them to his friends for Christmas.

This one is supper easy, just cut an ornament shape out of construction paper and let your child decorate it.  Then punch a hole at the top and attach some ribbon or yarn to it.  Don't forget to date the back of it so that you'll always remember when your child made it.

I saw this at a preschool recently and I just loved it.  All you need are some green circles, a yellow star, and a brown rectangle, add some glitter glue and some sequence and you're good to go.

Tuesday Tot Craft Time: Kitty Mask

This week's craft is a kitty mask.  Now the example one is a paper plate, but we used a recycled food box to make ours.

Here is the cat face traced onto a food box.  I cut it out for my son, and he colored it.

We now have 2 other kids (sometimes more) who we meet up with every week at the library to make crafts with.  

After my son was finished coloring his rainbow kitty, I punched a hole on each side, attached some yarn, and tied it around his head.  The eye holes are to high, and we need to recut them.  He loved making this mask, and I love that it used a recycled material.

365 Items in 2011: Update

Since this is the last month of the year, I wanted to bring up my main New Year's Resolutions.  It was to make 365 items during 2011.  Well I have almost doubled that.  So far I have made 688 items this year.   I'm thinking that next year my goal will be 650.  I know that I've passed that number, but I don't want to kill myself trying to out do this year's total.

Total Items Made: 688

This includes 37 quilt blocks.

January's total: 106

February's total: 52

March's total: 73

April's total: 48

May's total: 89

June's total: 17

July's total: 50

August's total: 18

September's total: 96

October's total: 42

November's total: 65

December's total: 32

Who else has participated in this challenge /  resolution?