Kids Craft: Rainbow Hearts Banner

Hearts Banner, is a perfect project to do during the quarantine. We all would have some cardboards lying around at home. Creating something from nothing brings great joy to little ones. And in the end, kids will have their own masterpiece to decorate their room with.

I and my 3-year-old enjoyed making this together. We painted it my little one's favorite rainbow colors. She is obsessed with anything rainbows, unicorns, or animals. We hope you will enjoy making it too.

You need cardboard,  scissors, and a heart template to start with. Here I am using a heart cardstock cut out from a valentine banner that I made long ago. You can draw a heart and cut it out or print a heart shape and cut it to use as a template. Having a template on hand makes it easy to get all of them in the right size.

Using a pencil trace around your heart template on cardboard. You can trace as many hearts as you like. We did 7, each one for each color of the rainbow.

Then I cut the hearts out using scissors. If you are letting your kid handle the scissors, then use your own judgment. My 3-year-old is too young to cut cardboard, so I did that for her. 

She had so much fun coloring the hearts. We used acrylic colors. Best Tip: Use a cheap cookie tray for painting little things with little ones. It always helps keep the mess contained. I got my cookie tray long ago at Walmart for 80c. It was well worth it. 

After the paint dried, I coated them with clear varnish to give them a nice finish. And let dry again.

Stick the hearts to a thread using tape. And tada! hearts banner is ready to add color to your walls.

My little one put it above her play kitchen. I think it looks so cute. What do you think? Let me know in the comments. I would love to hear from you. Thank you for stopping by.

Kids Craft: DIY Bird House

We live in Florida and the weather here has been beautiful for past 2 months. My daughter and I spend most of our quarantine in our patio. Our mornings are filled with sweet birdie tweets and melodies. Last week I decided to make a bird house and we up-cycled our empty milk mug into this cute little bird house. 

You need scissors, an empty milk jug and some duct tape to make this bird house. We used some acrylic colors and stencils that we had on hand to decorate it but this step is totally optional.

I used my duct tape to trace 2 circles on the milk mug and cut them out with scissors. Use your judgement if you are going to let your little one handle the scissors.

Then we both covered the cut circles with pieces of duct tape as shown in the picture, just to protect the birds from any sharp edges.

Decorating our bird house was so much fun. My little one loved having the freedom to pick colors of her choice and sponging the paints all by herself. She was super excited to remove the stencil and see how beautiful the flowers turned out.

After the acrylic colors dried out I took out my clear spray can that I had left over from years ago and sprayed it lightly on our design to protect it from rain. I closed the bird holes with the cut out circles and tape as shown in the picture as not to get any spray inside the bird house.

We used couple of bamboo skewers from our kitchen and made little platform for birds entrance as shown in the picture above. After getting the skewers in right position I cut off the sharp pointed ends a little so that it will be completely safe for the birds. You can instead use the popsicle sticks if you have.

I used an Xacto knife to make small slit on the top of the jug next to the cap and put a bird feeder chain through as shown in the picture. Then we hung it on a tree next to our patio using a S hook.

We filled the bird house with wild bird food and we desperately waited for it’s visitors. The birds took couple of days to visit our bird house. Few sparrows and cardinals enjoyed the feed but soon squirrels invaded it. Nonetheless my little one enjoys squirrel watching too so it was still a win for us. 

Hope you enjoy making a bird house with your little one as much as I did. Let me know what you think about our bird house in the comments. I would love to hear from you. Thank you for stopping by. 

Little Projects for my Little One Part-3

Hello all, Hope you are all doing good. I missed blogging so much in the past few years. I had to take a break to shorten my to do list and keep myself sane for a bit. But it turned out keeping myself busy is what keeps me sane. Isn't that funny? Let me continue from where I stopped. I was sharing the little projects that I put together before my baby arrived and this part 3.

How cute is this little jewelry chest? I saw a similar one in Etsy listing but they were all sold out. Later when I saw this empty wooden chest at Michaels I had to grab it. I painted it in white and shades of pink Ombre style. Decorated the top 2 drawers with flowers and second row with simple polka-dots using nail art dotting tools. The third row I wanted to paint tiny hearts so I used my cricut to cut out a customized stencil to get a perfect finish.

The picture above gives you a glimpse of how I painted it.

I love hearts and I had this heart shaped pillow that I got from my husband as a gift. But it's bright red looked out of place and I wanted to cover it in pink to go with my theme. I got this pink rosette textured fabric from etsy and sew this simple pillow cover similar to my patio pillows except this one is cut in heart shape and I just added a Velcro piece for closure.

It was a quick project and I heart how it turned out.

I saved little scrap wood pieces from DIY Coat rack project and this scrap wood photo frame was a simple project to put them to use.

I covered the wood pieces with scrapbook papers using modpodge and added wood dowel pieces to the back to make them stand. For the pink one I just mounted the picture using double side foam tape. For the grey color one I decided to add those little clips to make it extra cute. And I had grabbed that oval shaped frame from Michaels Dollar bin long ago. I just spray painted that one white.

I found this cute basket at Target for 3$ and thought it would be perfect to fill it with diapers next to the changing station. 

I made these easy felt flowers and stuck them to basket using hot glue. You can refer my easy gift bag tutorial if you want to see how these flowers are made. I love how girly the basket looks now.

Hope you enjoyed reading this post. Let me know what you think about these simple projects. Would love to hear your comments. Thank you for stopping by.

Little Cricut Projects for my Little one Part-2

Handmade products are the best and when they are made for your tiny bundle of joy they become even more precious. Here is the second set of crafts that I did for my little one.

I always dreamed of having a little girl, so of course I had to make a banner for our maternity photo shoot to shout out my joy and here is that. I made this onesie banner with the help of my Cricut cutting machine. It saves me whole lot of time now that I have other things to take care of.

I just designed my project in Cricut software and put the pieces together once they are cut. It took a little bit of time until I got hang of the machine and now I just love it.

I saw these cute onesie designs on a shopping site but I wanted to give my Cricut a shot, so I designed stencils and used Martha's multipurpose acrylic paints that I already had on hand.

They turned out really cute. Did you ever go shopping clothes for a little girl? Most of the time they have quotes only about dad's like Dad's little princess etc., so I just loved this quote "I'm Cute. Mom's Cute. Dad's Lucky"and I just had to recreate it.

This was my first Iron on project and it was Super easy to do. I chose the word #adorable for this little baby pink onesie.

My Cricut cut through the gold glitter iron on like it was butter. All I had to do was follow the instructions that came with my iron on sheet and after that little bit of ironing it was all done. I used Cricut Iron on sheet and it stayed so well even after multiple washes.

I wanted a 3 piece wall art to go above my baby crib. I saw these wooden boards at Michaels and started brainstorming.

I decided the 3 quotes I wanted on them and whipped up these cute designs on Cricut with card stock and scrapbook papers I had on hand. Personally I think this wall art didn't turn out exactly like how I imagined but I still love it. What do you think?

Would love to hear your comments. Thank you for stopping by.

DIY Birthday Party Backdrop, Decor and More

Hi friends, this post is all about sharing with you how we (myself, birthday boy's parents and aunt) managed to DIY entire birthday party decor including all the knick knacks.

To see how I made this Colorful Bunting Birthday Banner check out my previous post here.

Coming to the backdrop, we got 2 white vinyl table covers and 4 blue plastic table covers from party city. We gathered 2 of the blue plastic covers in drapery style for the top border. We just stapled the plastic cloth after gathering it together and taped it around to be sure. Above picture shows how we did it before hand at home to save some time at venue.

For rest of the backdrop we just ironed white vinyl table covers we got to make wrinkles less obvious (always use a cloth on top of vinyl cover before you iron) and for the sides we just dropped blue plastic covers on either ends. Using table covers instead of fabric for backdrop makes it possible to achieve the looks way under budget.
Those cute little monkeys, lions and giraffes you see here and there are from fun to be one boy set from party city. However you could always print them at home or a print store.

Isn't that chocolate wrapper cute??? It screams cuteness to me and they are personalized with birthday boy's name :) We designed this chocolate wrapper from scratch using picmonkey.com . I am not paid to say this but I just love picmonkey for making it so easy to design amazing printables.

After designing we printed them at a office print press on to magazine style glossy paper. Once printed we cut them to size and stuck them using double side tape at the back where two ends overlap a little. By the way they are regular Hershey's chocolates behind the wrapper.

Here is one more simple DIY Cupcake Stand using dollar store plastic bowls and plates. We got 3 of those bowls for a dollar and the plates for dollar each at a local dollar tree. With just a little hot glue gun magic we joined bottom of the bowl to center bottom of plate and Tada! cupcake stand is all ready.

Here are the pictures of cupcake stands in action. We arranged them on either side of the birthday cake.

Yes! We made those Thank you tags too, without any fancy cutting machines. We designed the tag using picmonkey.com, printed onto thick glossy sheet at a office print press and then we hand cut each of the tags using a pair of scissors. It was little tedious to cut those fancy edges but the end result was well worth it.

We put together little bags of sweet treats and topped with a Thank you tag for everyone who attended the party.

Basket of sweet treats and little fun goodies for kids at the party.

Last but not least we also made a photo booth out of plastic table covers from dollar tree. I made a banner saying "Photo Booth" the similar way that I made Bunting Birthday Banner. Photo booth is always a fun option for both kids and adults.

My friend (Birthday boy's mom, Shriranjini) ordered few of the props on etsy.com and we got those colorful garlands from dollar tree. We made "Grab a prop and strike a pose" poster using picmonkey.com, printed and put it into a dollar tree acrylic photo frame.

Here is a close up picture of cute and delicious cake, just for you. I hope you enjoy this post as much as we enjoyed the party.
Thank you for stopping by. I love hearing your comments. Have a great day :)