30 Days Of Creativity - Project 4 - Pineapple

Pineapple is my sons favorite fruit, with his recent 'fruit day' at school, every child in his class brought their favourite fruit which the children shared in making fruit kebabs. The theme was healthy eating and the aim - to introduce new fruits to their taste buds. Pity Dragon fruit wasn't in season as that's another favourite too.

For this #30DoC I wanted to create a craft using paper. I almost went with a pineapple origami but it is time consuming and my challenge is to try keep all crafts within a 30 minute time frame. I kept to both. Using yellow craft paper, I folded a simple gift box. Filling the box with green creep paper to top off our pineapple replica gift box. Perfect when transporting the prickly fruit by little hands. Yellow card stock gives extra support as a gift box too.

Happy Crafting

30 Days Of Creativity - Project 3 Iron.

Rattled my brain a little for this one. Couldn't quite find the inspiration I was looking for. While watering my herb pots, it came to me. Labels. Digging through my craft box I found a few A8 size sheets of pewter. Using my creative freehand, I made individual labels for each of my fresh herb pots. Using my glue gun to stick them on and there you have it. Fast, simple and creative.

30 Days Of Creativity - Project 2 Spiders

Project 2 theme is spiders. I love most spiders, with my favourite being the Jumping Spider. The most adorable, intelligent and beautiful hunter of them all. I can watch and play with one for hours. They have such character it's hard not to be smitten with them. My son's passion for tarantuls began about two years back - his favourite being the Cobalt Blue, can't blame him. It's a beautiful spider. His collection consists of a Mexican white knee, Mexican Rose, Curly hair and Mexican Red Rump. Three sons and a tomboy mum leaves no room for the scared. Not sure were my hubby got his fear for insects and hairy, slimy creatures from. The man becomes a pro-ninja when near anything creepy. Snake in the bathroom - call mom. Wasp in the house - call mom. Black Widows on the patio furniture - call mom. Thank goodness my boys enjoy crab and frog exploring and don't mind the odd visitors. However they don't like snakes. They are not afraid yet just don't like them.

For this craft we went with an Insy Winsy. Using a polystyrene ball, black tissue paper, black card stock, wiggly eyes and glue.

We began by covering our ball with tissue paper using the glue. Once that dried, we glued the eyes and legs on as per the photo. For added Glam, we finished off with black glitter glue. My son and I enjoyed crafting this together creating such special moments and memories. I love his imagination and creative thinking. Mr Winsy has spent time hanging from the garden tree to the bedroom curtain.

Happy 30 Day Of Creativity Crafting.

30 Days Of Creativity Project 1 - Toys

The first project for the 30 Days Of Creativity is a fun one - toys. Nice and simple with countless ideas. My son has joined me in these challenges as he is such a creative kid always stretching his imagination. He enjoys most construction toys like Lego, Bionicles and bricks. Never a birthday, Christmas or reward without a lego so our collection keeps growing. Three sons put them to good use too. Google games or toys in a jar and plenty ideas pop up. We made three toys for this challenge.

First - a water glitter globe.
2. A sugar jar with various shape and colour buttons. I photographed the contents of the jar, this is part of the game. Find the red heart, the blue square, and so the game goes.
3. A plastic jar with rice and little toys for a 'I Spy Rice Jar', the same concept as the sugar jar game. These were made with special mom/son time together. My son loved all the toys and games for this challenge.

30 Days Of Creativity 2013

I love pinterest, inspiration and ideas are never hard to find. Of course giving back is just as rewarding as a share. I came across two projects that I thought I would give a go at. The first being the #30DoC aka 30 Days of Creativity or @createstuff - which is in it's fourth year running now. A challenge to use your creative juices. Twitter and Pinterest are a buzz if you follow. I know I'm a little late in posting but being on my own timeline, I'm sure come the 30 days - I'll be on time to finish up.

For those of you not in the know, the challenge is to complete thirty crafts in thirty days. Each day has a new challenge and theme. Take a look at the calendar below. Good luck to all who partake. I look forward to the share. The second project is a similar concept only using your talents with a lens and a brilliant eye for photography. My niece will love this one as she goes into photography.

Good Luck to all Crafters

SunshineMac

Valentines Day, With Love.

As much as my hubby thinks Valentines day is nothing more than a cheesy money making fraud, it is what it is and I love Love. Having sons I use such an occasion to show them even more so that is it normal to show love for your love and that includes family. All my boys get a little something special from mum, ehem that's me. Other than the usual romantic evening dinner, hubby threw in a few things Ala 'love'. Practical but nonetheless, I received the cookie stamp I had my eye on, a lush warm gown for the penting winter season and a little love in the air with music. Thanks hun - mwah.





My middle son all of 6, loves 'love' and a really little charmer too. He had a long list of names to receive a little something. For his class mates, we made heart chocolates stuck on a heart shape card stock, decorated with a pink ribbon. We included all the boys too as a request for fairness by his school. His 4 teachers received a rose and a delicious home made chocolate cupcake. We made extra for the remaining staff. Being a special day, all the kiddies got to wear civvies so his 'mum's lil' valentines shirt was a hit. Teachers loved the gifts and showed much appreciation and thanks for all the efforts.



I believe strongly that as parents, it is important to show your children constant love and to teach love all year round. With the 5 love languages, it isn't hard as love is shown and received in many ways. Hope love was all around for you too.

Happy Baking
SunshineMac

Recycle Those Wax Crayons

I'm sure you have seen this somewhere on Pinterest. A brilliant way to recycle those messy and broken wax crayons. It would be very silly of you not to use a silicone mould. It sure makes for less mess and hassel. I like too how reshaping the crayons adds creativity with the element of fun to the boys crayon box.

I used a low heat setting to prevent burning. Once cooled it was an easy pop out and ready for the next lot of crayons. Plain or rainbow, my little one couldn't wait to try them out. Please do take caution with the heated wax. It can leave  nasty burn otherwise.

Keeping it simple and fun.
Happy Creating.

SunshineMac