Crafts & Games

Foam Turkey Craft

November 20, 2011 By Budget Saving Mom 9 Comments

We made really cute foam turkeys with the kids a couple of days ago. We cut out the foam for the kids the night before, and then we had them glue the turkeys together.

What we cut out:

1 black body (2.5 inch circle)
1 orange head and neck in the shape of an 8 (3.5 inches tall and one inch wide at the “head” portion.)
10 oval wings (different colors 1 3/4 inch long by 1/2 inch wide ovals)
1 small yellow beak (3/4 inch long, and narrow)
1 red wottle (2 inch long, 1/2 inch wide with wavy cuts)
2 yellow feet (1 inch long)

The younger ones glued their turkey onto a plate.

You glue the orange head over the black body. Then glue the red wattle, beak and eyes onto the head.

Glue the wings onto the back of the turkey, and you can add a strip of foam to turnit into a napkin holder if you wish.

Here is a picture of a finished turkey!

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Apple Turkey Craft

November 19, 2011 By Budget Saving Mom 12 Comments

My mom and sister’s mother ‘n law had all of the kids over for Thanksgiving crafts at my mom’s house. All 8 of the grandkids were there, and they had so much fun doing crafts! I thought that I would share some of the crafts that we made with you guys!

Here is a list of supplies needed:

apples
toothpicks
mini marshmallows
jumbo marshmallow
raisins
gum drops

To get ready for the craft, they just washed the apples, and stuck toothpicks in them. You stick several toothpicks in one side of the apple for the feathers. Then you can stick 2 toothpicks in the front for the jumbo marshmallow and 2 raisin eyes. Under that, you stick one more toothpick for the wattle. One of my kids added two toothpicks to the bottom of the apple for legs as well, but it meant that her apple wouldn’t stand up. It was really cute though!

First we just put the jumbo marshmallow on the front, and alternated mini marshmallows and raisins for the feathers on the back of the turkey.

Here is another one of my niece’s sticking marshmallows onto her apple.

After adding the marshmallows and raisins, they added gumdrops to the end of each “feather”.

We added raisins for eyes onto the two toothpicks that held the jumbo marshmallow. Then, the older ones cut a slit in a yellow gumdrop, and made a beak. We added a red gumdrop for the wattle under those. This is what it looked like when we finished.

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How To Make An Eye Patch

October 3, 2011 By Budget Saving Mom 17 Comments

One of our daughters has to wear a patch over her eye a couple of hours a day. She hated wearing a sticky eye patch, so we came up with this cloth eyepatch made out of polar fleece.

She loves wearing this patch. It is much softer, and she feels like a pirate.

We used black polar fleece to make the patch so that it would not be see through. We cut out the polar fleece in the shape of the eye patches that we had been using. We covered up the patch portion of the black polar fleece with pretty cloth.

My mom was going to embroider the patch, but there were too many needle holes, and it turned out that she could have seen through the patch.

After the patch portion was sewn, we added a black strip of polar fleece with velcro at the end to attach the patch. The strip of cloth is attached slightly higher on the side where the eye is not covered up.

This is also going to save us quite a bit of money. She will need to wear patches for several years, and they are expensive to buy! Plus, she feels very special with her own pink patch.

This could also make a cute costume!

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Homeschool Quilt Lesson

September 25, 2011 By Budget Saving Mom 23 Comments

This week in preschool we read the book, The Rag Coat, by Lauren Mills. It is such a good book! I actually cried as I read it, but it is seriously one of my favorite kid’s books ever now. We had checked it out from the library but I am going to be buying it with my Swagbucks gift cards via Amazon!

In this book, there are mothers who quilt. So, we started talking about how quilts can tell stories as well. The best example that I have at my house is actually the quilt that my mother quilted for my husband as a present for us after we were married. My husband is very patriotic, and she made a quilt with the song, America the Beautiful.

My daughters and I went over each block, and talked about how the quilt was able to tell a story. The cloths that were chosen for this quilt all had a purpose. It was really fun to examine the quilt and compare it to what we had learned. We were able to talk about how special quilts can be, and about how they can tell stories. Here are closeups of some of the blocks in this quilt.