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Build Your Own Snowman Mobile Kids Craft

November 17, 2014 by Danielle

Guess what, ya’ll? It’s time for this month’s Craft Lightning! I love participating with all the fabulous other bloggers that join in the fun, and YOU get tons of fun ideas! This month’s theme was Holiday, so I thought I’d share this really simple-but-adorable Build Your Own Snowman Mobile Kids Craft! Free printables included, of course!

I hope I’m not the only one who has kids that get restless with all the holiday chaos that tends to come, plus with breaks from school leaving more free time. This craft is really simple, and takes less than 15 minutes to put together! The kids can have fun customizing it with their own little stickers and ribbons, then they can help ‘decorate’ the house with their new Snowman Mobiles!

Supplies

Free Printable Snowman Sheet – Two
Ribbon of choice
Round piece of cardboard or plastic lid (like cool whip lid or something)
Stickers of choice
Glue (sticks worked best for me)
Black marker
4 Googly Eyes

Directions

Print off TWO of the Free Printable Snowman Sheet and cut out your pieces. Your snowman mobile will be double-sided, which is why you need two sheets. Line up your pieces as you’ll have the snowman.
Glue a ribbon in between your snowman pieces, being sure to put the gloves over the stick arms, and the arms inside the middle snowball. Glue on your googly eyes, nose, and pipe (or whatever you desire). Use the black marker to add the dots for the mouth, then ‘buttons’ on the lower snowballs.
Add a sticker border to the lid, and tape the ribbons hanging down from below the lid. Add your stickers, as desired, to the side ribbons to hang down around your snowman.

That’s it! Now let your kids display their snowman mobile’s as some fun holiday decorations! The best part? You can even keep them up past Christmas since they’re perfect for WINTER decor as well – score!

Now head over and see the other fun, simple HOLIDAY crafts joining in for this month’s Craft Lightning!

DIY Welcome Fall Sign

August 27, 2014 by Danielle

Okay, so I know it’s ‘technically’ still summer, but once school hits I’m in total FALL mode! Especially when it comes to decorating! My front door has been ‘blah’ for awhile, so I needed something cute and fun to spruce it up….and I loved how this DIY Welcome Fall Sign turned out!

I’ve done quite a few wreaths before, such as last year’s Give Thanks Wreath or my Frozen Inspired Wreath during the winter, but for some reason I was in more of a ‘sign’ mood this time around. One of the best parts of this Welcome Fall Sign? It was super budget-friendly, costing me less than $5 for used supplies! Plus how fun are the wire coils? Totally crazy, spunky and awesome!

It only took me a little bit to do, also, so it was a total winner in my book. There’s so many ways you can switch this up to make it fit what YOU like, so just have fun with it!

Supplies

2 wood boards of desired size (I had some on-hand)
2 wood shapes (I did an Owl and a Ladybug, $0.77 each at Walmart)
Googly eyes
Paint of choice
Fake moss or grass
Colored wire
Buttons
Vinyl or stencil for lettering
Ribbon for hanging
Hot glue

Directions

Paint your boards and wood shapes. Allow to dry completely. (note: I used puffy paint to get the textured dots on my ladybug). Once dried, hot glue your googly eyes to your shapes. Glue the moss/grass to the main board.
Glue the top board over the moss. Place your vinyl lettering on the board (I cut mine out with my trusty Silhouette Cameo…couldn’t live without it!) Add your shapes to the corners (or where you’d like).
Twist the wire into swirly coils as loosely or tightly as you’d like. Mix it up a bit, let them go crazy! CAREFULLY glue them to the board (I did long pieces, and glued the center of them to the board). Then (also carefully) glue the buttons over the center of the wires.
Attach the ribbon to the back and hang for display. Enjoy your totally fun and crazy Welcome Fall Sign!

Give Thanks Wreath

November 9, 2013 by Danielle

I have hardly any Fall/Thanksgiving decorations. I mean, like 3 or 4 things (that’s including my Fall Gratitude Banner). I don’t know if I just am so eager to get the Christmas stuff out, or just too overwhelmed with the busy-ness of the season, but I never really bothered about decorating this season. This year, I really wanted to add more to my decor for this time of year, so I decided a cute little Give Thanks Wreath on our front door was just the ticket! It was so easy to make, and I love the fall colors!

DIY Give Thanks Wreath / Busy Mom's Helper

Supplies

Circle Wreath Frame (I used a foam piece for a couple bucks at Walmart)

Wired Burlap Ribbon

3 or so Wired Ribbons, thick (fall colors)

Flower (fall colors, match the ribbons)

Give Thanks Sign (printable below)

Hot Glue

Door Hanger

Directions

Wrap the Burlap Ribbon around the wreath frame.

Hot Glue the Ribbon down tight, in the ‘back’ of the wreath.

Get your hanging ribbon, a couple feet long, curl it and hang it from the bottom right of the wreath.

Hot Glue it down to the back of the wreath, out of sight.

Use all but a tiny bit of the colored ribbons to make a big bow. Glue it on top the ribbon on the wreath. Then glue the flower to the center of the bow.

Print the Give Thanks sign – it is lightly colored brown in the space, so print in colored unless you’d like a grey tint.

Cut it out, then use the last couple inches of colored ribbon to peak over one of the corners. Hot glue the ribbon pieces to the sign, then hot glue the sign to the top left of the wreath, angled slightly.

Hang on your door with a door hanger, or somewhere in your house for a cute decoration.

Enjoy!!!

Fall Gratitude Banner

November 7, 2013 by Danielle

First of all – it’s November. Seriously!!! I still can’t believe that – like I’m in shock or something. Since there’s nothing I can do about it, though….moving on! I wanted to have a fun way for our family to count our many, many blessings during this month. I know you should show gratitude year-round, but I wanted to ESPECIALLY focus on it this month. I decided a fun way to do it was a Fall Gratitude Banner. Colorful maple leaves where we can each write one thing we’re grateful for every day of November. It also helped decorate my Backpack Center!

Fall Gratitude Banner with Free Printable Pattern / Busy Mom's Helper

First, I printed off 15 pages of this cute Maple Leaf:

Then I let my kids each have a page to color. Can you tell which leaves in the photo at the top my kids did? I did the rest. We used yellows, oranges, reds and browns to create that beautiful Fall color of leaves. After cutting them out (this was the not-so-fun part), I taped each one along the ribbon and hung it over and on the shelf of the backpack center.

Now, for each day in November, we each say one thing we’re grateful for and I write it on one leaf. So thirty leaves = 30 days = 30 things to be grateful for (times 6 people, that’s a lot of gratitude)!

That’s a close-up of the leaves we’ve done so far. Like some of the things listed? Like Batman, Ketchup or M&Ms? Well, I am grateful for M&Ms too, so I shouldn’t judge 😉

12+ Fall Crafts for KIDS

September 13, 2013 by Danielle

I’m a stay-at-home mama, so I’m always trying to think of fun, cute yet inexpensive activities to keep my three younger ones busy (and me sane). Although I’m really eager for holiday ideas and fun, I’m trying to take it slow and enjoy right now – FALL SEASON!!! This is my first fall in Texas, and coming from Northern Utah, where the fall is so beautiful and colorful, I’m kind of blah with just the greens and browns right now. Perhaps it will still happen, but we’ll see. In the meantime, this list of 12+ Fall Crafts for Kids will keep us in plenty of colorful fun!