Glitter Bird Card Kit from Martha Stewart

I found these card kits by Martha Stewart at Walmart. From the package photo I wasn't all that impressed with it. I thought the cards looked a little boring, but the kit was marked down to $2. I figured that the cards and envelopes alone were worth that price. So I bought 2 kits. Each kit included 4 cards, 4 envelopes, 5 small bottles of glitter, and bird cutouts. The finished product is much prettier than the package leads you to believe. In one evening, my friend and I created 4 cards each. We used the glitter provided, but used our own color design on the birds, even mixing some the glitter colors together for a different effect. We also added patterened paper behind the birds to jazz them up a bit. Other than having glitter go EVERYWHERE, this was a fun project. I think our finished cards are quite lovely.

Robyn's Cards












Erin's Cards

Paper Bag Puppets

In looking for "boy" craft projects for my nephew (which is not easy by the way), I found these puppet kits at Walmart, on clearance for $1.00 each! Got to love that. All the pieces came already cut and ready to assemble. My nephew is three. I thought for $1.00 I would try it and figured he would rip them to shreds. But he didn't. He needed help with gluing a few of the pieces, but overall did a pretty good job and he actually played with them instead of tearing them up! A great afternoon project.

I did find a couple of websites that give instructions on how to put together your own paper bag puppets. Give them a look.

Martha Stewart paper bag animals

Enchanted Learning paper bag puppets

ABC Teach puppets

Puzzle Maker

I just purchased this nifty little gadget. You can take any photo and turn it into a puzzle! You adhere a photo to a foam backing. Then punch out each piece. I was pleased with the ease of which this worked. I originally thought it would be cool to make puzzles for my 3-year old nephew. But he was more fascinated with the actual punch then the finished product! Another idea is to make party invitations into puzzles and mail them disassembled. The recepient would have to put the puzzle together to read the message. The puzzle punch is made by Ecstasy Crafts.