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Celebrate Dr. Seuss
March 2nd is Dr. Seuss's birthday. How about celebrating Dr. Seuss's birthday by starting off the day with some green eggs and of course make Dr. Seuss a party hat!
Keep the kids busy by reading Bartholomew and the Oobleck
Next on the agenda some fun Thing 1 and Thing 2 Pencil Toppers.
Do you have some fun ways to celebrate Dr. Seuss? Please leave your ideas and links in the comments!
Crayon Heart Pencil Toppers
Earlier this week I posted about candy pencil toppers. I received a comment from Diane who mentioned at her school they could not bring in homemade edibles, in fact it is a new state wide law. YIKES. She had a great idea to fill the molds with melted crayon. I think the crayon hearts make really great pencil toppers.
Use the molds for making hard candy, the white ones NOT the clear.
Place a few chopped crayons into molds .
Place mold on cookie sheet. Bake for about 10 minutes at 250 degrees. Watch closely. Wax is highly flammable so extra care must be taken. Remove once crayons have melted. The molds should be about half full.
Allow the crayon to cool just enough to thicken. Place plastic pencil pop in heart mold at a slight angle.
In oven proof container melt more crayon. I used a tin can with the edge bent for easy pouring. Place can on cookie sheet or in pie plate to make it easier to remove from the oven. Also like colors melt best together. We choose blue and purple for the back, but it looks black. It colors fine but didn't make the heart very pretty.
Pour melted crayons filling up the hearts to cover the plastic pencil pop. I first tried melting enough crayon in the molds so the last pour wasn't necessary, however I had too much trouble with the melted crayon running back into the pencil pop reservoir part of the mold.
When completely cool pop out of mold.
The Long Thread has a darling free printable to use with a crayon heart. If you are looking for some yummy treats and fun ideas visit Diane at Created By Diane. Her photographs are lovely!
Find Pencil Pops at LorAnn Oils. Use code candy to receive 15% off.
Gold Medal Cookies and an Olympic Torch
If you are looking for some Olympic crafts skip on over to AlphaMom to see how we are celebrating the 2010 Winter Olympics.
Felt Groundhog Finger Puppet
Celebrate Groundhog Day with a felt hiding groundhog puppet.
A few pieces of felt, a 5 oz cup, wiggly eyes, thread (for whiskers), large Popsicle stick and glue is all you need.
I made groundhog finger puppets for my crafting partners. To give the ears dimension, I folded the sides of the ears to the center and place them between the two body pieces and machine sewed around the edge.
Add some facial details and you have a groundhog finger puppet. To use the finger puppet for the hiding groundhog just place it over a large popsicle stick.
My crafting partners also made their own groundhog puppets. To make it simple for them they glued their groundhog pieces directly to the popsicle stick.
Then they added the face.
Cut a hole in the bottom of the cup for the popsickle stick to fit through.
Next they glued felt to the outside of the plastic cup.
Then they cut slits in the felt around the top edge.
Fit the groundhog through the hole. Now you see him.
Now you don't.
Happy Groundhog Day!
Just when you think you have thought of the most clever craft ever, you then find others have thought of it also. I have seen similar groundhog puppets around the web. If you have a similar craft or fun idea to celebrate Groundhog Day please leave a link in the comments so everyone can check it out!
Can you believe this is a groundhog shaped meatloaf? It was made by Sommer, a Skip to my Lou reader.
Sommer said she was surprised at how easy and fun it is to shape meatloaf. She says if you bake your normal meatloaf on a foil covered cookie sheet, you can pretty much shape it into whatever you want. The eyes are olives and the whites of his eyes and teeth are mashed potatoes. Her family calls it the Ground-Groundhog Meatloaf. I think she should be a food sculptor. Sommer has some skills!
I have linked my hiding groundhog puppets to Today's Creative Blog's Get Your Craft On! Go check her out and be inspired. Don't forget link up a project and show her what you've got!
