I've found a lot of pants from my husband in a bin when we switched our winter clothes with our summer clothes. He said he wanted to throw them away.....Oh, no, you won't!!!
I was thinking what to do with them. The fabric is nice, sometimes thick and sturdy, so my idea was to make pillow cases out of them. The inside pillows I bought at IKEA.
I started to cut 2 rectangles out of the pants.
Sew those rectangles together and the short side. Iron the seam. Fold about 5 inches right side together on both sides. Sew, cut the corners and fold inside out. Push the corners out. Fold both sides and overlap both sides inside out. Sew the sides like the picture below. And flip the case inside out.
From the rest of the pants I've cut as much circles as I could (size of the bottom of a glass). Sometimes I got 30, sometimes 10.
With fabric paint (the color you like and the color that fits best with the fabric) you paint the circles and let them dry. Then you hotglue the circles in the center so it forms a flower. If you add more of these circles, then you get the flower effect shown in the picture. I hand sewed them on the pillowcase. Done!
Some of my plants in my garden come up: tulips, daffodils etc. Then of course another load of snow was dumped on top of them. I hope they make it. Last weekend I've started my indoor garden. Plants that need to get ready for the spring. I've started butternut squash, tomatoes and green beans in egg carton boxes. My kids were helping me and they wanted to do their own thing as well. This gave me an idea for our Saturday Crafts. I've collected salad boxes, tin cans, yogurt cups and toilet paper rolls. I bought some soil and I still had some sunflower seeds from last fall.
The kids could paint the boxes or pots, decorate them with magazine paper, fabric pieces or felt flowers and beads. Some of the kids planted a small garden in a decorated salad box and made a little house or "castle" made of toilet paper rolls.
Welcome spring....well, almost:)!
First of all I want to thank all of the moms, dads and kids who come to our Saturday morning crafts. Thank you for helping and for your (financial) support.
It was time to make some cute or cool houses, made of recyclable materials like yogurt cups, big and small, cereal boxes and tissue boxes turned inside out, so kids could paint and decorate them. We had paint, fabric, glue, bottle caps and other things for decorations. It was funny to see that more kids wanted to do this craft, cause last weeks crafts required more help from adults. This time the children were more involved and the parents did a wonderful job working with the children. Here are some pictures. Till crafts!
I'm just amazed how many children just keep coming to our Saturday's Crafts. They are so creative too. I was stunned by the boys. They don't need any example and they just make things with the materials that are on the table.
This Saturday we made cute Valentine's crafts. We had love bugs, made of egg cartons, heart bracelets, yarn hearts and cereal box baskets.
Here are some pictures.
It was an exciting day. We invited someone to make a promotional video about creating our Craft Cafe with Indoor Playground. Part of it is also our Saturday morning crafts with the children. They were so excited and made some hilarious comments: "Am I going to be on Netflix?" " I'm making a notebook and I love to be in your movie" "'d like to be a movie star when I'm bigger!"
While the camera was rolling we did some cute crafts.
Several people donated old calendars and toy catalogs to us. It was a nice idea to make some collages. Here are some pictures we used as an example: