Mother's Day: Toddler Friendly DIY

This Mother's Day project is simple, quick, and toddler friendly. Sydney and I made these to give to both of her Grandma's and I think they will love it.

Supplies Needed:

Construction paper and tissue paper

Scissors

Mod Podge and/or any medium gel

Pencil

Paintbrush

Hole puncher and ribbon/string

Glass vase (we got ours a Wal-Mart)

Pipe cleaners (we used green)

Stapler

Cardstock & printed poem

Dull knife or letter opener

 First we traced Sydney's hand-print on 4 different colors of construction paper.

 I then folded them in half and cut them out so that I got 2 prints from each color.

 We then took our polka dot tissue paper and tore it into little strips.

 We then covered the vase with mod podge using a paintbrush. (This was Syd's favorite part.)

 We then adhered the pieces of tissue paper to the vase and then mod podged over it again when we were done. (The vase needs to dry overnight.)

 Here is the poem that I tied to the vase using a piece of purple raffia. (I got the poem from one of the teachers at my school.)

 Then you fold each hand-print around a green pipe cleaner and staple it into place at the bottom.

 Then take a dull knife or letter opener and curl the edges down to give the fingers a petal effect. (I used a butter knife.)

 When you're done, your Mom or Grandma will have a wonderful, thoughtful gift that they can keep forever. Easy Peasey!

Easter = Candy Coma

So has everyone come down from their Easter candy sugar high yet? I have been trying to hide the remaining candy but Sydney keeping sniffing it out! So I guess I'll be forced to stash it in my purse for snacks at work. Hehe.

As you can see from the photographic evidence below, we had a great Easter.

Easter in Instagrams: Bunny pancakes! Happy faces! 

Play dough messages from the Easter bunny! 'Dude looks like a lady' egg!

My attempt at an ombre egg. I dug it. Also, horse egg. We are super fancy over here.

Sydney decides to opt for the do-a-dot paints for her eggs. 

It actually turned out cool, it had a marbled look to it.

Sydney admiring her eggs. The hunt is on folks!

Nothing beats a basket full of eggs and a sparkly pair of Toms.

I made that and it was glorious!

My sweet little bunny. 

We hope everyone had a wonderful Easter holiday!

Christmas 2010

Christmas was so much fun this year, Sydney was was more interested in everything. She is obsessed with Frosty the Snowman! I don't know how I'm going to put all of the decor away without her freaking out about it. She did great with the tree and only broke one ornament. We had a great time with family and friends and the joy in Sydney's eyes as she mastered opening her presents was priceless.

Checking out the tree.


Christmas morning before the destruction began.


Amazement.

Her new learning tower with detachable easel.
BTW, dry erase crayons are awesome!

Her aunt and uncle got her a pink VW beetle that goes 2 miles an hour.
She loves it!

Look out....road warrior!

I hope you all had an amazing holiday!