I’ve spent the past month helping plan my daughters’ school carnival and it’s been a ton of work. Please remind me how to say no when someone asks me to volunteer! The event is this Saturday and really, it should be fun for the kids.
We’ve got kind of a happy monster/old school carnival theme going on and one of the crafts the kids will be making are these felt pencil toppers, which I made for the next book in the Australian Kids’ Crafternoon series: Felting. As far as I can tell, the book is not available in the U.S. right now, but you resourceful people may be able to find it.
Anyway, the kids will be making this modified version of the pencil toppers with inexpensive felt, wider cuts, no mouth and stick-on googly eyes. It’s one of those crafts that the kids need to be able to do in 5 minutes and we may have up to 200 kids making them. So we’ll see how that goes! We’re also making Ed Emberley inspired thumbprint bookmarks — I’ll share those with you soon if I get a chance.
So cute! The kids will love doing this craft.
I am forever volunteering for things too. Why do we do this to ourselves????
Those are super cute! I bet kids will love them. 🙂
I do volunteer, but I also know when to say no!
But come on how can you say no to something that the kids have so much fun at!
Could you… would you please do a list of some of the games etc that you have at your carnival. It would be great to see what other schools do – thank you much appreciated!
Thanks, Ellen for a great craft!
Awesome cool kid appropriate craft. Thanks for sharing.
thank you for this great idea will use it with my rainbows
thank again
Thank you for this amazing idea. I used it in one of my school fundraiser projects and I am hoping other people will like them as much as me.