Cassi from The Crafty Crow invited me over to post a book-themed craft for her A Book and a Craft series. I chose this beautifully illustrated version of Twelve Dancing Princesses, retold and illustrated by Brigette Barrager and published by Chronicle Books.
I made a fabric dancing wand and crown for my six-year-old. To see the full instructions, check out the post here.
Make a tiny weaving! Check out this miniature weaving project for kids that I made for Skip to my Lou’s Craft Camp. With some embroidery floss and chipboard, you too can create a tiny weaving perfect for jewelry or other itty-bitty crafts. Here, we made one into a pendant for a necklace. This is a good project for older kids or teenagers.
More Nani Iro fabric. Can you tell that it’s my latest obsession? This time I made a dress for my 6 year old. I started with Simplicity 3859, but of course made modifications.
First, I added the yellow gingham trim between the layers and then opted for buttons in the back instead of a zipper (wish I’d made this decision before I cut the back of the dress into two pieces). I also added some outline stitching for a bit of texture. Every time I make a dress from a pattern for my pip squeaks, I have to modify it. Granted, my kids are puny, but is everything made to fit a box-shaped child? I’d be willing to bet that the dresses pictured on the pattern package are pinned a good 3″ in the back.
Oh, and if you want to know about the butterfly garland pictured above, I didn’t make it. But you easily could. Just cut from paper and sew the butterflies together. This one has a felt pom-pom at one end to weight it down.
Another guest post — from another Jessica! This time Jessica from A Little Gray has stopped by with a great project to recycle your thread spools, get the kids involved in the process and maybe teach some counting and color identification as well. Jessica just had a baby three weeks ago, but was generous enough to come up with this tutorial for you! Thanks, Jessica!
Here’s another project from Jessica of scrumdillydilly — a yo-yo bot! If you’ve never made fabric yo-yos before, you will find them highly addictive. Reminds me a bit of Rashida Coleman-Hale’s new Cute-bots fabric? Perhaps you could make a robot bed and some matching clothes. You can find the full tutorial for the Yo-Yo Bot over on Jessica’s blog.
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Howdy, Jessica again from scrumdilldilly. Today I have a nifty old-school style yo-yo doll done up a la dilly-style! A yo-yo bot. Enjoy and thank you for dropping by!
