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Crafty Critterz: Lillipop Butterfly


Submitted by: Missa with Jen

What you need:
•Red & pink craft foam
•Pink card stock
•Scissors
•Glue
•2 googly eyes
•Round op Lollipop
•Black tissue paper

What you do:
•Cut out hearts from foam in alternating colors in various sizes.
•Cut out a butterfly shape from the pink cardstock
•Cut two slits with scissors along the middle of the butterfly cutout
•Wrap the entire lollipop with black tissue paper, securing in place with glue.
•Glue googly eyes onto the lollipop
•Glue the hearts in alternating colors and size to the wings of the butterfly.
•Thread the stick of the lollipop through the slits to form the butterfly body.



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Crafty Critterz: Old Fashioned Apple, Apple Pie

 

Submitted by: Bell with Lissa

What you need:

  • 1 9-inch pie crust for the top
  • 1 9-inch pie crust for the bottom
  • 1/2 cup all-purpose flour
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 1 tablespoon ground cinnamon
  • 1 teaspoon ground nutmeg
  • Dash of salt
  • 4 tablespoons butter
  • 8 cups sliced apple
  • Pie Plate


What you do:

  1. Preheat oven to 425 degrees F.
  2. Stir together the sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg, flour, and salt. Mix in the apples.
  3. Place 1 pie crust in pie plate.
  4. Pour apples into pie plate and dot with butter.
  5. Cover with top crust. Pinch the edges together to seal the two crusts. Cut out slits at top of crust to allow steam to escape.
  6. Bake 50 minutes, when the crust is brown and juice begins to bubble through top.



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Crafty Critterz: Night at the Movies Super Bed

Submitted by: Tin with Asha

What you need:

  • Box (for the base of the bed)
  • For the “Reels” of the movie bed:  2 small and 1 large empty ribbon spools (optional for 3-D effect)
  • Cardboard (about one empty cereal box’s worth)
  • 2 sheets of orange construction paper
  • Math compass and pencil (for drawing circles; optional)
  • Gold paint and paintbrush
  • Glue
  • Gold ribbon
  • Ruler
  • Red marker
  • White fabric
  • Red fabric
  • Tiny amount of stuffing for pillows
  • Needle and thread (or sewing machine)

What you do:

1.  Make the “reels” (circles at ends of bed) of the bed: You can make the “reels” of the bed either 3-dimensional (using empty ribbon spools) or flat (using only cardboard).

To make 3-D reels: Cut four small circles and two large circles out of cardboard.  Attach a cardboard circle to each side of the empty ribbon spools so that you have one large reel and two smaller reels.  By attaching cardboard to the spools, you can make them whatever size you want for your bed.

To make flat reels: Cut two small circles and one large circle out of cardboard.

2.  Decorate the reels: Cut out two large and four small circles of orange construction paper.  They should be the same size as your cardboard circles were.  Use gold paint to decorate the orange circles to look like movie reels.  Draw some faint circles in between the gold paint to mimic lines in the movie reel.

3.  Glue the decorated circles to both sides of the “reels.”

4.  Glue or tape the “reels” to the bed.

5.  Glue white fabric and red fabric to the bed base.  Fold the red fabric down at one end to make it look like the red blanket is folded back.

6.  Draw lines on the gold ribbon using ruler and red marker.  Cut the ribbon in half.

7.  Roll the ribbon around the reels.  Half goes from the right front reel to the back reel.  The other half goes from the left front reel to the back reel.

8. Make the front of the pillows from gold ribbon.  Decorate the front with a red star using the marker.  Use red fabric to make the back of the pillow, sew the pillow and stuff it.

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Crafty Critterz: Webkinz Pinball Machine

Submitted by: Aro with Austin

 

 

 

 

 

 


What you need:

  • Scissors
  • Tape
  • Crayons
  • Markers
  • 1 Cereal box
  • Construction paper
  • Ruler
  • 1 Toilet paper roll (for the legs)

 

What you do:

1.     Cut the back off the cereal box, leaving on the top and bottom flaps.

2.     Fold the bottom flap of the cereal box down (this is your base) and the top flap up (this is what you will attach your pinball sign to).

3.     Cut a smaller square portion out of the front of the leftover cereal box (for your sign) and tape this square to the top flap.

4.     Cut the toilet paper roll in half and tape to the backside of the cereal box, underneath your sign.

5.     Measure and cut out pieces of construction paper to fit over the cereal box and sign.

6.     Decorate the construction paper to create the front of your pinball machine.

7.     Tape the construction paper onto the cardboard to finish your new Webkinz pinball machine!



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Crafty Critterz: Far North Sleigh

Submitted by: hoo with Bella

 

 

 

 

 

 


What you need:

  • One tissue box
  • Red paint
  • Cotton balls
  • Dice or squared shaped beads
  • Green confetti
  • Aluminum foil
  • Tape
  • Duct tape
  • Scissors
  • Glue

What you do:

1.     Take the tissue box and cut a curved line along both sides leaving the top of one end uncut.

2.     Paint the box red.

3.     Take a piece of aluminum foil and roll it.

4.     Then curve the ends of the foil to make the sled runners.

5.     Once the paint is done drying, flip the box over.  With an adult’s help, duct tape the runners to the bottom of the sled.  Then flip the sled back over.

6.     Next glue the pieces of confetti on top of the dice or beads to make present boxes.

7.     Glue the cotton balls and the present boxes onto the uncut end of the sleigh.

8.     Sit your reindeer in it and have them try out the reins!



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