Fridge Magnet Design Tutorial

My 6 year old wanted to make a gift for her grandmother. She decided on making a Fridge Magnet. She used a Plastic Fridge Magnet that you can buy in craft stores that you can place either a photograph inside or a piece of artwork/fabric.

This is a really quick and easy craft project that young children as well as older children or even adults can do!

Requirements:

• Plastic Fridge Magnet Case
• Felt (or other fabric)
• Fabric paint/Pens

Instructions:

Step 1: Cut out a piece of Felt/Fabric the correct size for the magnet.
Step 2: Apply your design onto the fabric using fabric paints or pens.
Step 3: Allow the design to dry
Step 4: Once dry place into the magnet and close securely.

The magnet is now ready for use or to be gifted to someone!

Matching Quilt Covers

I made some matching quilt covers for my daughter's Bunk Beds! I had originally made them some matching quilt covers for different sized beds as my youngest still had a toddler size bed! However as she is 6 now we recently had some bunk beds put in their room. This made a huge difference to space in their room but meant i didn't have any more matching quilt covers!

I managed to purchase at a very good price some second hand (charity shop/thrift shop purchase) tab top curtains which had enough fabric to make 2 duvet covers and the colour was a great match to the curtains already in their room! Below is a photo of the original tab top curtains.

This was a really easy project, as all I had to do was remove the tab tops and go over some sewing again and cut down to the size of the quilt and do some extra sewing down the sides and leave a gap at the bottom to insert the quilt! The curtains were fully lined which meant I had a back cover for the duvets so didn't need to purchase any other fabric!

The photo below shows the quilt covers I had previously made for my daughters' different sized beds.

I did a post previously about the other bedding project here is the link: matching-bedding-for-different-sized.html Below is an old photo (from previous blog post) of the curtains which have a very similar colour to the bedding and match perfectly!

I love upcycling things and this is the second time I have upcycled fabrics to make the girls' bedding!

Painted Pine Cones Crafts

My children brought home some lovely pine cones after we had visited a park recently. We decided immediately that these would come in handy for some crafts!

For this craft all we did was use some normal craft paint and painted them all lovely bright colours! The photo shows my 6 year old having fun painting one of the pine cones.  Once they were painted we allowed them to dry which actually didn't take very long.  Young children will have so much fun doing this.

Once painted you can use these as a lovely decoration, maybe on a nice plate or in a bowl on a table.  For older children or adults you could also try spray painting pine cones to make a lovely decoration.

handmade gifts for hospital patients

For those who follow my Facebook Page you may already know that my grandmother is poorly in hospital at the moment after falling and breaking her hip! When visiting her in hospital we noticed that some of the elderly patients didn't receive any visitors and that some had come from Nursing Homes and possibly didn't have any family or friends who could visit.

My young daughters decided to make some lovely handmade cards to give to the ladies in the same ward room as their great grandmother and also some lovely gifts too! They each made a card for each patient including their great grandmother and we also went out to buy some boxes of chocolates and an imitation flower to give to them.

The Hospital staff were so touched by my girls' thoughtfulness and generosity and said how lovely it was for them to think of others! The photo below shows both my daughters busy designing each card by hand. I was so glad that through our crafts we were able to do a good deed for others. The ladies were so thankful to receive their gifts and it really made their day!