DIY Play Donuts

My kids and daycare kids love playing pretend baking and cooking. They have a canvas tote full of play food and dishes and have a play kitchen as well. We even have two small drawers in our real kitchen that are full of play food so the kids can pretend to cook while mommy is making lunch or dinner.

I came across the cutest diy play donuts using sold (and clean) socks. I made these three donuts in less than 30 minutes!

Materials You Will Need:
* Clean Sock (any color will do)
* Scissors
* Colored Felt
* Colored Beads
* Sting/Thread
* Needle

Instructions:
1. Cut the toe off the sock.
2. Roll the sock to create a donut shape.
3. Cut icing out of felt and sew it onto your sock donut.
4. Sew the colored beads all over the top of the "icing" to look like "sprinkles"
5. Sit back and watch your kids enjoy your diy project!

 

Note: I also saw where someone that did not want to take the time to sew it on or did not have the materials to sew it together used a hot glue. They hot glued the felt on top and then used puffy paint in different colors to make this sprinkles. Such a cute idea!

Organizing Earrings

Stud Earrings:

While cleaning out and organizing my bedroom this past weekend I decided I needed a better way to organize and display my earrings. Before this weekend they were shoved away in a drawer were I'd regularly forget about them. I'd wind up rotating between the same three pairs.

Here is the solution I came up with....

I found this jewelry organizer at Walmart for just under $10. My favorite part is that it hangs nicely in the closet with my clothing. I decided to put each pair of earrings on a lavender piece of card stock so they would stay together and face forward. I also like that the hook on the top rotates to allow me to have a better look!

Hanging Earrings:

Here is how I've organized and displayed my hanging and hoop earrings....

This took a little more work but not much! All you need is a picture frame (remove the glass), cute scrapbook paper or card stock, ribbon, a glue stick and hot glue. So easy and super cute! It turns my earrings into a work of art!

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Today is St. Patrick's Day! We are doing lots of things to celebrate... wearing green, making special treats, and working on fun craft projects.

This morning we ate a bowl full of Lucky Charms. Yum! Even my ten-month-old loved them. We do not do sugary cereal very often so this was a special treat.

For lunch we had a "pot of gold". We made homemade macaroni and cheese.

My three-year-old daughter made a cute shamrock green construction paper cut-out. She loved using a glue stick to glue down these green construction paper squares that were pre-cut for her.

And we can't forget to wear our green! My son wore his cute shamrock socks (from the dollar bin at Target) and my daughter wore her homemade shamrock hair clip we made together.

Front of the hair clip....

Materials used: two different shades of green felt, hot glue/glue gun, metal hair clip, scissors, shamrock button (found in the dollar bin in a small package). 

Back side of the hair clip

We hope you have a fun St. Patrick's Day!

Cute Cupcake Packaging!

 

We love cupcakes! We love to make them, we love to eat them, and best of all we like to share them with family and friends!

Here is a super adorable way to package the cupcakes to hand out as gifts for your family and friends! All you need is a small clear "punch" cup, a cellophane bag, and some curling/packaging ribbon! Place your delicious homemade cupcake inside the cup, then place the cup into a cellophane bag, and finish with adding some beautiful and colorful ribbon. We also added a little gift tag to ours. We handed out these cupcake creations this past Valentine's Day and they were a hit!

 

The cellophane bags were purchased on clearance after Christmas for around 50 cents in a 50 ct package but you can also find really cute ones for $1 all year round at the Dollar Store.