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Picnic Blanket made from Sewing Scraps and Leftover sewing supplies-mybrightideasblog.com

Kit&Caboodle Blanket Using Scraps

Use up your scraps of fabrics that you’ve collected from other projects-make a blanket! I feel like I have spent a lot recently on craft supplies and fabric so I want to challenge myself to make things out of the scraps I have laying around from old projects. I found a cheap fleece blanket…

Yummy winter project! Make marshmallow Snowmen-mybrightideasblog.com

Food

Marshmallow Snowman Edible Winter Craft Project

What a fun winter project to do with the kids! Snowmen made out of marshmallows!What a fun winter project to do with the kids! Snowmen made out of marshmallows! This post should probably be divided into 2 sections. The tidy marshmallow family made with toothpicks and icing gel. Or part 2 the crazy looking marshmallow…

A fun and Easy Winter Craft Project is Clothes Pin Snowmen! mybrightideasblog.com

Crafts

Clothes Pin Snowman – Make Easy Kids Craft

It’s the adorable pompom nose that really got me wanting to make this quick and easy children’s craft. Paint a clothes pin white and start building a snowman. Gather up your usual basket of crafts. You’ll need pipe cleaners or a bit of yarn for the scarves. Clothes pegs, paint brushes,…

No Sew Felt Pizza-Rediculously Easy Felt Project! mybrightideas.com

Crafts

Make a Felt Pizza Toy in minutes – No sew

How to make an easy, no-sew felt pizza! It’s super easy and fun to make with very little skill needed. Since kids are always trying to imitate parents in the kitchen this will be a hit! You will need felt in the following colours: 1 tan/light brown for the crust 1 red for pizza…

Hacks

Wooden Window Shelf-Easy Diy Plant Display

Looking for a place to put some potted plants in the one window with all the sun. This super easy DIY- Do it yourself project for a shelf that goes over the sink. Tidy Sink…But so Boring…. I’m writing this post about a year after I built this and I still love it….

Kids

Clothes Peg Caterpiller Easy Craft for Kids!

This caterpillar is such an easy project with just a clothes pin googly eyes, white glue or hot glue gun (for heavens sake choose the hot glue-for everyone’s sanity) and pom poms. This clothes peg caterpillar craft is such a cute little project. It reminds me of a set of little pom-pom fridge magnets my…

Sweet Winter DIY Craft-make a snowman out of a white sock and rice! mybrightideasblog.com

Kids

Snowman Craft – Use a sock and rice! Super Fun Craft!

Looking for a sweet and easy craft project? This sock snowman is adorable and so easy for any crafting skill level. Grab your crafting kit and the lost sock basket on the dryer and we are ready to make this snowman project! You will need: a white sock, a colored sock for the hat, 1…

Crafts

Decorating wooden memory or jewellry boxes. Easy Craft!

Pick up some plain wood boxes from the craft store or dollar store and paint gives it a make over! Jewelry box or memory box whatever you want to use it for! You will need: A wooden box Craft Paint Paint Brushes Stick on Gems Clear Coat Polyurethane Spray or in a Paint Tin…

Very Easy Project...Tea Cup, stuffing, a bit of fabric. Beautiful way to keep using an old tea cup.

Sewing

Tea Cup Pin Cushion – DIY Easy Peasy!

Use an old tea cup-even a broken one, or like mine one that is missing a saucer to make a pin cushion. Its a super fast craft for any skill level. You just need: scrap of fabric, shirt, pillow case, napkin…some sort of cloth….you only need about 8 inches square piece of fabric for most…

How to sew a winter hat from fleece with a hole for your pony tail. mybrightideasblog.com

Kids

Sew a fleece snood-neck warmer in just minutes!

DIY Sew a Fleece Neck Warmer (Scarf Alternative) Snood At the school my kids go to they prefer the children do not wear scarves for safety reasons…preventing a playful accidental strangling sounds like a good idea. In my part of Canada (eh!) we need our necks covered when its bitterly cold. So this neck…