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.

Projects from Class

Last Thursday I taught a juice pouch notebook class at the East Branch of the Somerville Library.  It was a full class (15 kids), and everyone walked away with a juice pouch notebook.  I made an orange Kool Aid one.  Then 5 of the kids stayed longer and made paper beads to add as a tassel on their notebooks.  Four of the kids were girls, and they wanted to learn how to make paper bead bracelets.  So I did a mini demo of how to make them, and sent them home with supplies.  My demo bracelet is in the above picture.  Here is a past blog post that shows what the bracelet looks like when finished.  That particular bracelet was made as an example for another class at the other branch of the Somerville Library.  One of the kid's brother asked if he could have it, and how could I say no?  :)  

Flowers 3 ways

This week I have made two chrysanthemum hot pads.  I want to make a Patriotic series of them, which would mean a set of 9 hot pads.  I have a solid blue cotton and a variegated patriotic cotton as well as the solid white and red ones that I used for these two.  With the 4 cottons combined that would mean 9 different hot pads (the variegated one would look strange as the center color to me, so I'm only going to use it as the outer color).  

Earlier this week I bought some 3" origami paper and made these 4 tea bag rosettes using the same paper and the same folds, but with 4 different looks.  I want to place something like a button in the center of them and turn them into either ornaments or gift toppers.

Here is a picture that I took this morning from my garden.

Cars Tags and iPhone Hoodie

I die cut some more tags today, this time out of a Cars themed juice box paper (Juicy Juice).

A picture of my iPhone hoodie before leaving for the park today.

This is a picture of the iPhone hoodie when we were ready to leave the park.  I get more knitting and crocheting done when out of the house or at night (after the kids go to bed) when watching tv with my husband.  Today I learned how to do a 3 needle bind off for the bottom of the hoodie.  One of the sleeves is finished.  I'm expecting to have this finished within the next day or two.