Let’s Hear it for the Boy — Week #3

May 9, 2013 By
Let's Hear it for the Boy Link Party

Wel­come to Let’s Hear it for the Boy Thurs­day! Each week myself and 3 other blog­gers co-host this fun party as a place to link up any of your boy-related crafts and activ­i­ties or browse around to get ideas for the lit­tle (or big) guys in your life! Each week, we pick our favorites to high­light from the pre­vi­ous week’s party.

Let's Hear it for the Boy Link Party

Week #2 Favorite project picks:

Kim from seven thirty three picked:
PVC Bow & Arrow by Sugar Bee Crafts

 

Heidi from Mom’s Crafty Space picked:
Smack­able Mini Pinatas by Craft, Interrupted

 

 

Alli­son from All for the Boys chose:

How to make a Water Wheel by Mak­ing Boys Men

Now, let’s get this week’s party started!! :)

PARTY GUIDELINES: 

  1. BOY related projects only (projects for grown boys are OK)
  2.  Link to your blog post, not your main page
  3. Dis­play our party but­ton or link back to any of the 4 blogs to share the love
  4.  To make it even more fun, visit oth­ers that have linked up and leave comments


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DIY Disney Shirts!

May 8, 2013 By
DIY Disney Shirts

If you fol­low­ing on insta­gram or twit­ter, then you’ve likely seen all of our DIY Dis­ney crazi­ness lately! With our trip to Dis­ney World com­ing up, I could NOT resist doing some DIY out­fits for the boys, espe­cially since I’m all about the boys hav­ing match­ing and coor­di­nat­ing as much as pos­si­ble! ;) Last year around this time, I shared my DIY Dis­ney Crafts Roundup post which ended up being the #1 post of last year! It’s been pinned more than 35,000 times!! WHOA! Disney Crafts RoundupOne of the many projects that I loved from the roundup but hadn’t got­ten around to mak­ing yet was match­ing per­son­al­ized Dis­ney shirts for the boys like these from Ran­dom Thoughts of a Super­mom. So, since Young House Love issued their spring pin­ter­est chal­lenge…and we’re going to Dis­ney World for the Dis­ney Social Media Moms Con­fer­ence, this was the per­fect oppor­tu­nity to make some! :) DIY Disney ShirtsSqueee!!! I LOVE them!!!! I’ll be post­ing more detailed tuto­ri­als of some of our Dis­ney projects after the trip (I’m too busy pack­ing & pack­ing to get every­thing posted right now ;) ), so stay tuned for that. But, over­all, the gen­eral process was pretty sim­i­lar to the ones on Ran­dom Thoughts of a Super­mom. One major dif­fer­ence is that I used iron-on interfacing/fusible web­bing for the Mickey heads instead of spray adhe­sive. So, mine are no-sew! Also, I used a cot­ton print fab­ric I found at Hobby Lobby instead of felt. The text was done on my Sil­hou­ette using heat-transfer! It was my first time using it and it was SO easy! I couldn’t believe it! I def­i­nitely recommend!

My mom (the one with all the sewing skills) has been work­ing on some projects for us too. The boys have match­ing Star Wars out­fits and I’ve got some cute new head­bands! :) Super excited! Need­less to say, my mom and I both have been busy!

DIY Disney CraftsIf you want to see the new clothes in action, be sure to fol­low along on insta­gram and/or twit­ter! I’ll be using the #Dis­neySM­Moms hash­tag! Stay tuned for some tuto­ri­als com­ing here on Mom Endeav­ors and also on Dis­ney Men­tor Moms! In the mean­time, you can get lots of Dis­ney craft inspi­ra­tion on the DIY Dis­ney roundup!

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DIY Art: Beachy Seahorse Canvas #Lowescreator

May 3, 2013 By
DIY Canvas Beach Art

Did you know the Pan­tone Color of the Year is emer­ald?! And, emer­ald just hap­pens to be the birth­stone for May (and my birth­day month ;) )!! As a Lowe’s Cre­ative Ideas Blog­ger (*this is a spon­sored post), this month’s chal­lenge was all about incor­po­rat­ing the Pan­tone emer­ald color into a project! So, since we’re now in May already, I’m shar­ing some fun DIY can­vas art with a beachy emer­ald theme! DIY Canvas Beach Art

To make this, you don’t need too many supplies–just some paint, a brush, and can­vas. You may also want a paper and pen­cil too. That’s how I started. First up, I decided to sketch a sea­horse (mod­eled after a few dif­fer­ent images & graph­ics). So, I could make it about the same size as the 11x14 can­vas, I taped 4 sheets of printer paper together (over­lap­ping where needed). I did the sketch on that paper and then cut out the sea­horse. Seahorse SketchI could have just taped down my seashorse tem­plate and painted over it, but I was con­cerned about bleed through with the paint. So instead, I just traced my sketch right onto the can­vas. The next step was just to paint!Painting a seahorseI started with a large brush around the out­side, then did a rather fine brush around the edge of the sea­horse. Over­all, it did need two coats. The can­vas was still wet in spots when I took this photo (and I used a semi-gloss paint), but shows the just-finished prod­uct:
Seahorse Canvas ArtIt’s the per­fect addi­tion to a beachy bath­room. Now the only ques­tion is which bath­room should it live in? It’s super cute in the boys’ beach-themed bath­room: Kids beach bathroomBut, I also really like it in our beachy mas­ter bath­room too! I have the DIY Starfish art and framed shell art in there, so it’s seems fit­ting that the sea­horse would be added too! DIY Beach-themed Bathroom ArtDeci­sions, deci­sions! I don’t know! Which bath­room do you think the sea horse should live in??

For even more ideas, visit Lowes Cre­ative Ideas and fol­low along with Lowe’s on Pin­ter­est or on Insta­gram! You can also sign up to receive their free Cre­ative Ideas Mag­azine, which is full of all kinds of ideas & inspi­ra­tion! There’s also a mag­a­zine app so you can have inspi­ra­tion on the go!

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Dis­clo­sure:  I am a mem­ber of the Lowe’s Cre­ative Ideas Cre­ators & Influ­encers Net­work and receive a Lowe’s gift card to com­plete my projects. How­ever, all ideas, opin­ions, & expe­ri­ences are entirely my own.

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Let’s Hear it For the Boy — Week #2

May 2, 2013 By
Let's Hear it for the Boy Link Party

I am SO excited to share with you what will be a new weekly fea­ture, all about cel­e­brat­ing boys!!! :) Yay! Last week, Kim at seven thirty three and Heidi at Mom’s Crafty Space kicked off the “Let’s Hear if for the Boy” link party! Every Thurs­day, it will be a place to stop by to link up any of your boy-related crafts and activ­i­ties or browse around to get ideas for the lit­tle (or big) guys in your life! Now, Alli­son from All for the Boys and I have joined the fun and we will all be co-hosting the party! Let's Hear it for the Boy Link PartyHope­fully you’ll find lots of cre­ative ideas linked up and you will be over­come with inspi­ra­tion to cre­ate awe­some things for all the men in your life! ;) Also, each week all four co-hosts will be shar­ing their favorite project linked up from the pre­vi­ous week to ensure you don’t miss out on any of the goods.

 With that, let’s get this party started!

 Week #1 Favorite project picks:

Kim from seven thirty three’s top pick:
Bat­man Birth­day Party from Sim­ply Gloria

 

Heidi from Mom’s Crafty Space’s picked:
Bright and Bold Boys Nurs­ery by Cor­ner of Main

 

 

 Alli­son from All for the Boys chose:

  DIY PVC Pipe Soc­cer Goal by Six Sis­ters Stuff

PARTY GUIDELINES: 

  1. BOY related projects only (projects for grown boys are OK)
  2.  Link to your blog post, not your main page
  3. Dis­play our party but­ton or link back to any of the 4 blogs to share the love
  4.  To make it even more fun, visit oth­ers that have linked up and leave comments


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Simple Mother’s Day gift ideas for grandma: Flower pot & photo flowers

May 1, 2013 By
Mother's Day girft for grandma

I like hav­ing the boys make some­thing fun or cute for the grand­mas for Mother’s Day. A cou­ple of years ago, they did a cute frame and some hand­print flow­ers. Last year, for my mom we did a lit­tle flower pot with some cute pic­ture flow­ers. It’s sim­ple, easy to make, and cute! A per­fect grandma gift for Mother’s Day! Mother's Day girft for grandmaObvi­ously, I did the writ­ing on the flower pot. It says, “Kids are like flow­ers and Gram­mies help them grow”. Awwww!  :) With that quote on the flower pot, then pic­ture flow­ers seemed the per­fect thing to put in! Those were also very easy to make. All you need is some paper, pho­tos, and large pop­si­cle sticks (these were the already col­ored ones, though you could eas­ily paint some). Paper Photo FlowersFor the petals, I actu­ally used my Cri­cut, but you could def­i­nitely cut them out by hand eas­ily enough. Then, find some pic­tures where you can cut the faces out into a nice-size cir­cle for the cen­ter of the flow­ers. Glue every­thing together, even add a leaf if you like. Then, for some added fun, attach mag­nets on the back. Flower magnetsWith that sim­ple addi­tion to the back, grandma can enjoy the flow­ers but use the flower pot for some­thing else! They looked really cute on great-grandma’s fridge! :)

If you’re look­ing for some other great Mother’s Day ideas that kids can make, be sure to check out my Mother’s Day roundup over on the Right Start blog! Mother's Day CraftsFor even more fun ideas, click through the links below, fea­tur­ing some fun ideas from some of my bloggy friends!


What are your favorite Mother’s Day gifts to make or receive?

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Disney-Inspired Kids Craft: DIY Swords

April 29, 2013 By
DIY Sword

Need a fun craft to keep the kids busy on a rainy day, a fun pirate-themed birth­day party favor, or just some good ‘ole imag­i­na­tive dress-up play fun to go with Dis­ney shows like Jake and the Never Land Pirates or Sword and the Stone? Then, you HAVE to make some DIY swords! We made these for the boys’ Jake and the Never Land Pirates birth­day party and they have held up sur­pris­ingly well (almost a month now)!

DIY SwordThis project really couldn’t be eas­ier! You might even have all the sup­plies at home already. If not, a quick trip to a hard­ware store and you’ll have just about every­thing you need. Just a quick note though…most hard­ware stores won’t just give you a bunch of paint stir sticks. But, they may let you buy some at a nom­i­nal fee (it might depend on the spe­cific manager/store pol­icy). If you just want to make a cou­ple, you’ll prob­a­bly be ok. But, when we made these as party favors, we talked to a man­ager to get the 12 that we needed.

You’ll find all the direc­tions you need in the video:

What’s your favorite Dis­ney movie with swords in it?
Dis­clo­sure: This post is part of a spon­sored cam­paign for Dis­ney on MomTV. I received a pro­mo­tional item as a thank you for participating.

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