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Creepy Crawlies

21 Oct

On Tuesday you got to see the Spider Web Craft that the Happy Buddy and I glitter-ized for our Happy Home!

Couldn’t resist sharing a few more creepy crawly ideas with you… :-)

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First of all, what Happy Buddy wouldn’t want to wake up to a plate of these Spider Pancakes from Oopsey Daisy?

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Or how about these adorable (and healthy) Spider Crackers from My World of Crazy Fun for a little after school snack?

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Chicken Babies had the most brilliant idea of surprising her Happy Home with an Indoor Spider Web for them to crawl through!

How magical is that?!?!

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Make these awesome (and super simple!) Spider Hats from House of Baby Piranha for your Happy Buddies to wear and scare Dad when he gets home from work.  Teehee. :-)

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These Spider Handprints from Our Nifty Notebook are the perfect keepsake this October.

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It would be a cinch to spin together a few of these Pipe Cleaner Spider Lollipops from Home Confetti and hand out as classroom treats.

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Pop a few of these Spider Ice Cubes from Fahrenheit 350into everyone’s drink glasses for a dinner time startle.

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Make and Takes came up with these cute little Q-Tip Spiders and Web Paper Plates!

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And, finally, this Paper Plate Spider Candy Holder from Parents is a fantastic way to store your little Trick-or-Treater’s loot!

I know your Happy Home will creep its way to fun with any of these spider-y ideas.

Happy Creepy Crawl-ing! :-)

EEK! A Spider!

19 Oct

While I am not a huge fan of finding them in my shower or crawling up the wall next to my comfy chair…

God did make ‘all creatures great and small,’ so I thought the Happy Buddy and I would celebrate these creepy lil’ guys yesterday.First we used some Elmer’s glue to paint a spider web on an orange piece of paper.Then a little someone got to have the time of his life sprinkling silver glitter all over the wet glue.

Beware.

You will have glitter everywhere.

When we were snacking on some apple slices later that morning we giggled when we discovered one of our apples had a piece of glitter on it! :-) While your sparkly web is drying, use some black construction paper and googly eyes to make a few spiders.Then place your spider on the web!

We must have made 1,000 of these webs and spiders yesterday because after we made one, the Happy Buddy immediately wanted to make another, and another, and another.

Now we have a cute little project to give to 1,000 of his closest friends!

And I have a house covered in sparkles!

Life doesn’t get much better than this, does it??! :-)

Happy Spider Craft-ing!

Googly Eyes!

17 Oct

“The Lord watches over you…” Psalm 121:5

Something about googly eyes makes me think of this time of year!

Here is a round-up of some eye-catching projects for you and your Happy Buddies to enjoy!

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How creepy fun are these Googly-Eyed Monster Goo Cups from Make and Takes?

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Or how about these adorable Googly Eye Hand Puppets?

Sooo simple – 3 supplies!  Make one TODAY!

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I LOVE these easy-peasy Googly Eye Cupcake Toppers from Scrumdilly-do.

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Your Happy Buddies will have the time of their lives squishing this Monster in a Bag craft from Little Page Turners.

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Frugal Family Fun had the brilliant idea to add googly eyes to old magazine pictures!

You will get such a giggle when you see the rest of their project HERE.

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La-Dee-Da Creations made a simple Googly Eye Picture Frame.

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Chica and Jo put this Googly Eye Wreath together for their front door this month!

Thought maybe this would be a great lesson for your Happy Buddies using the Bible verse quoted at the beginning of this post… :-)

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And, finally, Hip Hip Hooray! threw a fun monster-themed party and added googly eyes to the party cups.

What a clever touch!

Happy Googly Eye-ing! :-)

Pumpkin Magnets

13 Oct

I picked this idea up from Family Fun a few years ago.

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I cut out a pumpkin shape from orange paper and then some facial features from yellow paper (I think yellow is happier than black). :-)

Then I laminated the pieces and stuck a magnet to the back.

I called the Happy Buddy into the kitchen and he got right to work.Almost done…PERFECT!

This is the greatest activity to keep your Happy Buddy’s hands busy while you are cooking dinner.

Plus, it is a mini-lesson in shapes!

Happy Pumpkin Magnet-ing! :-)

Craft – An Apple Tree

16 Sep

Johnny Appleseed’s birthday is coming up!!!!

When I was teaching 2nd grade, I think my class spent more time in the month of September studying apples than we did learning all of the other things that I was supposed to be teaching.

I just really love apples.

It wouldn’t be September for me without including a few apple activities here at Happy Home Fairy, so let me introduce you to what the Happy Buddy and I put together yesterday!So cute, right?!

And unbelievably simple.

I wish I had a tutorial for you, but it’s hard to craft with a 2-year-old – let alone draw it out by taking pictures of each step.

With pom-poms flying across the room and Elmer’s glue exploding all over the refrigerator, a mom has to work fast!

Plus, this craft came together so quickly that it’s kind of a no-brainer.What you will need to make your own tree:

  • An empty toilet paper roll
  • Brown paper
  • Green paper (ours was some scrapbook paper I found in a stash somewhere)
  • Red pom-poms
  • Glue

Directions:

Step 1 – Wrap the toilet paper roll with the brown paper and glue to seal.

Step 2 – Cut a small slit in either side of the toilet paper roll.

Step 3 – Cut a bushy tree shape from the green paper.

Step 4 – Glue pom-pom apples on the green paper and allow to dry.

Step 5 – Slip the tree top into the slits on the toilet paper roll.

Voila!

Johnny would be so proud!

And here is a picture of the tree the Happy Buddy made for Mom-Mom.He wanted her apples to be rainbow because she is so magical.

Happy Apple Tree Craft-ing! :-)

*Want more Apple Ideas?  Last year Happy Home Fairy hosted an Apple Extravaganza!  5 days of apple crafts, recipes and creative Happy Home fun! 

You can check it out HERE!*

Craft – Caterpillar Clothespins

31 Aug

When I was teaching, I knew that my students brought home a lot of paperwork.

But now that I am on the receiving end, HOLY SMOLIES!

I don’t even know how to keep up with it all – and we’re only in PreK-2! :-)

All that to say, you Moms are AWESOME for having to sift through and discern the daily Do I keep, toss, hang on the fridge, etc. question.

Here’s a cute little craft for those papers you decide need some Fridge Praise.

Caterpillar Clothespin Magnets!

Isn’t that just the happiest little crew you’ve ever seen?

What you need…Pom-poms

Clothespins

Adhesive Wiggly Eyes

Adhesive Magnets

Glue (after doing this project I think that Hot Glue is a much better choice for getting those pom-poms to stay in place!)Step 1 – Cut a piece of magnet and attach it to the back of your clothespin.Step 2 – Run a line of glue (use Hot Glue for best results) along the other side of your clothespin.Step 3 – Add pom-poms!

This is the fun part!  I think the Happy Buddy had more fun just saying the word Pom-Pom over and over than he did doing anything else!Wait for the glue to dry.Step 4 – Add googly eyes to your caterpillars.This is the Happy Buddy trying to pull the eyes off of our caterpillars.

Step 5 – Hang on your fridge!

*Read about our Cute Paper Plate Turtle HERE.*

And feature your Happy Buddy’s written accomplishments!

Happy Caterpillar Clothespin-ing! :-)

Pete the Cat

27 Aug

Our Happy Home has grown rather fond of a little feline friend named Pete the Cat.

Have you heard of this book????

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It is AMAZING.

It’s all about this cool blue cat who loves his white shoes so much that he sings a song about them.

Then he steps in a pile of strawberries and his beloved white shoes turn red.

Does Pete cry?

Goodness, NO!

He just keeps walking along and singing his song.Pete the Cat has a bright outlook on life – and it never changes.  Even when he continues to step in a mountain of blueberries, a puddle of mud, and a bucket of water.

Pete the Cat teaches Happy Buddies how to stay positive even when unexpected things happen.

And I love that it is filled with repetition so that even my 2-year-old has pretty much memorized the whole story!

Not to mention we have watched this You Tube video (see below) of the author and illustrator reading Pete the Cat aloud to a live audience – complete with song and dramatic expression – about 12,568 times. :-)

Since Pete the Cat has become such an important part of our everyday lives lately, I thought the Happy Buddy and I could do some fun activities to celebrate him.I printed off this great Pete the Cat Matching Game from Harper Collins Children’s Books website.The Happy Buddy had fun trying to find all of the matching Pete the Cats!

*Note:  Do you see the disaster in the background???  This 1st trimester stuff is no joke.  I don’t think our Happy Home will see the couch or the floor or clean clothes/dishes again until October.*Then we made our own Pete the Cat out of construction paper.

He is modeling all of his different colored shoes.

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I am thinking about buying one of these Pete the Cat stuffed dolls for the Happy Buddy’s half birthday.

Yes, I celebrate any opportunity I can. :-) We finished our Morning of Pete off with a ‘Pin the Shoe on Pete’ game printed from here.The Happy Buddy kept asking if he could put one of the shoes on Pete’s eye.

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I know Pete the Cat will be the purrrr-fect addition to your Happy Home (if he isn’t already).Happy Pete the Cat-ing! :-)

Family Magnets and an Announcement!

25 Aug

Here is a fun project the Happy Buddy and I have been working on!

The Happy Buddy really has a heart for his family.

Whether it’s Grammie or Mom-Mom or one of the cousins, he’s always asking to see them.

It got me to thinking that our Happy Home needed a little something to help him enjoy his family even when we can’t be with them.

Family Magnets!

What you will need…Full-length pictures of family members

Adhesive-backed magnets

Scissors

Contact paper (optional, not shown)Cut all of the family members out using the scissors.

If you would like your family members to have long lives, cover them with contact paper.

*I originally was going to have everyone laminated, but the gal at Staples told me that you can’t laminate photos.  The high temperatures make it bubble up, so I thought contact paper would be the next best option!*

Slap a magnet to the back of your family members.Stick everyone on the fridge!The Happy Buddy and I had so much fun at our Family Reunion! :-)

He kept pointing to each family member and saying his/her name.

Then we just sort of sat and stared at our family for awhile – enjoying their presence.At one point the Happy Buddy ran off with Mom-Mom and took her to his kitchen so that they could eat a cupcake together.Next we had the idea to use our Family Magnets in a game of Candy Land.I think the Happy Buddy really likes having the whole gang accessible at all times.

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And we can’t forget to add a magnet for the newest member of our family…We are due in April!

Happy Family Magnet-ing! :-)

Back to School Craft – Popsicle Stick Pencil

10 Aug

There is something about the Back to School season that makes me crave freshly sharpened pencils.

So when I saw this idea here, I thought maybe the Happy Buddy and I could craft one!It’s so easy!

Here is what you will need to make your own Popsicle Stick Pencil.Yellow paint

4 Popsicle Sticks (we used the large ones)

Pink paper

Tan paper

Cute ribbon

Paintbrush

Black marker

Glue (forgot to put that in the picture!)Step 1 – Paint your popsicle sticks yellow.

Or, in the Happy Buddy’s case, get distracted and paint the scrap paper underneath the popsicle sticks yellow.Step 2 – Once the yellow paint has dried, glue the popsicle sticks together.

I originally had 5 sticks for this project, but after gluing 4 I decided that it didn’t need any more.

And yes, I did sprinkle some glitter on our Popsicle Stick Pencil.

There is just no other way to craft, in my opinion. :-)

Step 3 – Cut out a pink square of construction paper and glue to the back of the popsicle sticks.Step 4 – Cut out a triangle from the tan paper and use the black marker to color the tip of the pencil.

Glue the triangle to the back of the popsicle sticks at the opposite end of the pink square.

Step 5 – Glue a piece of ribbon to the back and when it’s all dry, hang it on a doorknob and celebrate how SHARP you are for crafting something so cute.

Then have your Happy Buddy present your Popsicle Stick Pencil to his/her teacher on the first day of school.

Your Happy Buddy’s teacher will think it’s No. 1 -

Not No. 2.

Happy Popsicle Stick Pencil-ing! :-)

Play Dough Monsters

23 Jul

They’re only the greatest craft invention known to man.

Googly eyes.

You can always find googly eyes around our Happy Home.  In fact, I think the Happy Hubby found one in his lasagna one evening after a particularly crafty afternoon with the Happy Buddy. :-)

So when I saw this idea HERE, I thought – BRILLIANT!The Happy Buddy got a giant set of Play Dough for his birthday.

He is quite ecstatic about it and every morning after breakfast you will find us on the kitchen floor playing with the ever popular non-toxic reusable modeling compound*.

*I didn’t want to use the word Play Dough too much in this post, so I went to Play-Doh’s website and that is apparently what the pros call it.  I tell you this because it’s important to share these fun facts with your Happy Buddies. :-)

The other day we thought we’d kick the fun up a notch by adding some googly eyes to our Play Dough creations.There was quite a bit of giggling as our Play Dough Monsters came to life.We thought this would be a fun surprise for whoever opened the green can next.And I was stifling some serious laughter because the Happy Buddy had that on for a good 20 minutes before he realized that his foot was keeping an eye on things.

Plus, I knew you all would want to see a picture of those cute, chubby feet.

Happy Play Dough Monster-ing! :-)

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