Father's Day Ties!

It is almost Father’s day! 

Because Rory has the best Daddy we are trying to make some great gifts for him Father’s day so he truly knows how much he means to us.   Daddy loves all of Rory’s art work, it is hung up all over his office; but for father’s day I wanted to make something different!  I thought we could make him something he could wear to work.   We decided to make Daddy a nice fancy tie! 

Materials needed:

• Tie
• fabric crayons
• paper to color on
• iron

*It does require an iron, but I made sure to use the iron when she was napping. 

This activity really affordable and easy.   We bought a nice white tie and some Fabric crayons and started to color!  

I have always wanted to use Fabric crayons, just to see if they worked and how well they worked.  I had Rory color on a big piece of white paper, we went through each color and she had a great time scribbling.  I made sure she pressed hard with the colors, so when I needed to iron the drawing on the tie the colors would be bright and vibrant!

I cut the paper up into strips so that the whole tie would be covered.  When Rory went down for a nap; I put the paper, colored side down, on the tie.  I held the iron down on the coloring for a few minutes at a time.   The crayons worked great!  When I removed the paper there was beautiful scribbles all over the tie!  The color was so bright and I know Daddy will love it!

Then your done!  A beautiful, one and only, Rory designed tie!  I can’t wait for Father’s day!   

A Bed for Kind of!

A Bed for Kind of!

Rory has nothing but love for her baby, Kind of.  (Yes, that is her name, “Kind of”, she was Rory’s 1st birthday present from my 4 year old niece, Shannon who originally named her.)  One thing that we like to do is pretend that Kind of is a real baby;  Kind of eats with us, plays itsy bitsy spider with us, dances with us, etc.  We have recently started to get Kind of ready for bed, but it was really hard for us to put her in Rory’s big crib so we decided to make our own bed for her!  

Materials:

• A box: a shoe box, or any small to medium size box
• old wrapping paper, or paper to wrap the box in
• tape
• decorating supplies: we used crayons, letters, stickers 

The first thing we did was get an old box and cut down the top flaps.  

To cover the box, we used some old wrapping paper left over from Christmas.  I turned the wrapping paper inside out, so that the white side was on the outside for Rory to draw and decorate, which was a huge part of the fun.  Rory could hardly wait to color in it, so it was being colored on while I was wrapping it!

I wrapped it up like a present, I cut the wrapping paper large so some of it would overlap and fit on the inside of the box as well (if you choose to wrap the inside of the box, this will help make wrapping the inside of the box easier).   

If you are struggling for time or your toddler is being crazy, you do not need to wrap the inside of the box, the baby and blanket will cover up most of it; however I chose to wrap it.  I cut slits in the corners so they would wrap nice and pretty.  Again, it does not need  to be really nice and pretty looking on the inside since the blanket and baby will be covering. 

Finished Bed!

Then comes the fun part....DECORATING!  I had many old stickers laying around from my scrap booking days, and let Rory pick out what kind she wanted to use.  We also found letters to spell out “Kind of.”  (Of course I had to help spell them, but Rory put them on herself!).

After it was made, we were able to put  Kind of in her bed and sing to her.  It has now become a daily activity where we put Kind of to bed, get her changed in her pajamas, give her a blanket, sing her “Twinkle Twinkle,” give her kisses, and tell everyone in the house “shhhh, Kind of is sleeping.”  

Kissing Kind of Goodnight!