Craftacular week

This past week we spent working on crafts of all kinds. We made shirts, we made Christmas trees,pressed leaves in wax paper, we made a gingerbread house and also some pictures with foam shapes. It was a week of fun and my table was full of things to work on. First we made some pressed leaves. It is super easy to do and took only a few minutes. Get an iron and some wax paper and some beautiful leaves. Take some wax paper put leave on it then get another piece the same size and place on top.

Gently put the iron on it and go over the paper once it has sealed a little you can go over it like you would normally.

When we were done we hung them in the window.

Payton loves to make things with these foam pieces. It is fun and it lets her use her creativity to make something. I love that there are so many shapes and letters/numbers for her to use to create something. We did one and made our family and it had all our names so she could see them.

This year I thought it would be fun to makes some Christmas decorations. I saw this amazing idea on one of my favorite blogs Enjoying the Small Things . I figured we could do this one so we went and gathered the supplies that we couldn’t get from my mom. Then we had fun wrapping Styrofoam cones with yarn and gluing buttons then we painted terra cotta pots with beautiful colors and we were done. They look great and add some color to our house.

Carefully painting her pot.

 Payton loved all the buttons, she loved to sort them –especially the orange ones she has by her.

We did two white ones to represent me and Payton and two green for Kevin and Logan.  It is fun to have some new decorations that we made. I think we may have to think of something new to make or do each year.