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How to make a Creeper

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Minecraft, it’s a game and an addiction.

We are big fans of the game and today I found myself with a lot of boxes, green craft paint and a brilliant idea. It ties into my summer activity box…

We made ourselves a Creeper and good news YOU can too..

1. Go to your local grocery store and ask the produce department for some boxes. They will be free

2. Find a green paint that will be suitable and start working on your new friend.  We mixed a leaf green with army green

3. After everything is dry stack them on top of each other and draw the sad face.  I think he is just lonely and has anger issues (They blow things up in the game)

Ta Da!  A Minecraft Creeper is in your home. It took us about an hour from start to finish.

However….

He came to life after his face and we put him outside

He promised to play nice and now he is following me everywhere I go.

Easy and inexpensive fun. Let’s see if we can scare the crap out of my husband by hiding this guy in the dark bathroom.




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Box of activities

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I am not a crafty person by nature.  I cannot walk into a dollar store and see a treasure trove of supplies that can produce endless hours of fun for my children or potential home decor options.  That is why there are bloggers that ARE crafty and teach me how to think outside the box

I recently found All for the Boys on Pinterest and I was thrown into a world of ideas and it was through her site that I was inspired!  Our summer last year was painfully long and boring so I decided that this year was going to be different; crafty if you will. (I also don’t have a ton of cash laying around to enroll my kids in a million different summer programs  so this a helpful alternative)

I have started out small.  A simple box of supplies for a few ideas.

Contents:

Clothes pins (1.88 for 100 at Wal-mart)

Paintbrushes (had on hand)

Masking Tape (1.00 at the dollar store)

Shower curtain rings (1.00 at the dollar store)

Glue stick (came in a pack of the 3 – 1.00 at the dollar store)

Balloons (1.00 at the dollar store)

Vinyl Shower curtain (1.00 at the dollar store)

Playing cards (came in a pack of 2 at the dollar store; 1.00)

Puzzle (1.00 at the dollar store- I bought 2)

Plastic container  (.96 cents at Wal-mart)

So for approximately 12 dollars I have the beginnings of a box activities for the boys.  If you have scanned the list you may ask what is the point of the shower curtain and rings.  Over at All for the Boys she hosts Fort Friday. I figured, since the the curtain and rings cost a whopping 2 dollars I will allow the boys to color on the curtain and we will figure out a way to hang it for a fort.  I am also having my husband pick up produce boxes at the grocery store for the boys to build a fort.  I am going to post the results on Friday!

I don’t expect this box to stay this small.  It will (hopefully) grow over time. As I have been writing this post my four year old has already raided it….

This box thing just may work.

Twitt

Simple Bird Feeder makeover

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I hate birds and I always have.  In fact you can ask some of my closest friends and they will tell you that I always give their birds the evil eye and then tell the animal what a tasty meal they would make.  I really hate birds.

That being said it might be odd to announce that I am now the owner of a bird feeder.  A bird feeder that I wanted to purchase.  I have always wanted a bird feeder.  I have some odd romantic vision of my backyard/garden area having beautiful flowers, homegrown food and bird feeders. Don’t ask me why but it is a fact.  So this year I finally gave in and bought a bird feeder to make my backyard the local hangout.

The bird feeder I bought is nothing extravagant. I am fairly frugal and I did not want to buy any feeder that was priced over 12 dollars.  (Sorry Better Homes and Garderns, the feeders were beautiful, but “wild” birds don’t need to be sitting their rump on something that cost 30 bucks.) My four year old and I went to Wal-mart and browsed their selection and settled on a wooden house for 9.97.  I didn’t like the coloring but I had an idea and the price was right.

Here is my Extreme Bird house makeover — (okay not extreme but I had a Ty Pennington moment)

 Fresh from the store.  No real color and no seal.  In our climate there needs to be some type of seal and I really wanted some color.

How to make a bird feeder

I remembered I had some Jim Holtz Distress Ink (Tea Dye) at home and I figured I would give it a shot.  I never really could find anything I wanted to use the Ink on so this was a perfect opportunity.  It isn’t too overwhelming and it would give it the brown color I wanted…

Bird Feeder with Distress ink

Can you see the slight color change? Not overwhelming but just enough.

I followed the Distress Ink with Mod Podge; Gloss Coat.  There is a Mod Podge that is made specifically for the outdoors but I only had the Gloss Coat on had.

Hanging Bird Feeder

I lightly covered every side of the bird feeder with the ink and had to use my finger for the corners but I think it turned out well.  A darker brown and now it has a sealant.

Here are the supplies

Tools to makeover a bird feeder

Since I had the Mod Podge and Ink on hand this little makeover cost about 12 dollars for the bird feeder and food.

Quick and easy makeover for the backyard bird feeder. Nothing too detailed and I hope it gave you a few ideas.




Twitt

Crayon Craft

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I started this craft thinking I was sooo clever. Turns out, I’m not. This is all over pinterest. Oh well, I got the idea from my niece and I’m not sure where she got it…

Anyways. Crayon art!

Here is what you are going to need: Crayons (at least two packages of 24), Hot glue, Hair dryer or Heat gun, Canvas

The crayons were 1.27 at Wal-mart, Canvas (16″ x 20″) were on sale at Michaels- 2 pack for 4.99, I already had the hot glue gun and hair dryer

Get your supplies out and ready
How to make melted crayon art

I allowed my kiddos to make the color selection and order. I am pleased they wanted a variety because if they wanted specific colors the crayons would have been expensive. We lined them up on the canvas in preparation for the hot glue.

How to make melted crayon art

After hot gluing each and every crayon to the canvas we began to melt them with the hair dryer.

Melting crayons with a hair dryer

My six year old was able to do a lot of the hair dryer melting but it got old for him pretty fast and we took turns. Here is the result so far:

Melted Crayon art

We plan on melting a bit more tomorrow but you get the idea!

Melted Crayon art

As soon as we are finished we are going to hang it in their bedroom above their beds.

Extremely easy and it looks great!




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