Wooly Wally Craft {tutorial}

Posted on March 28, 2012 by frecklescrafts

This is a great tutorial to make with your child this Easter season or anytime of year. This also makes a great craft to accompany pre-school lessons. Stories and Nursery Rhymes such as Ba Ba Black Sheep, Little Bo Peep and the bible story The Shephard and the Lost Sheep are perfect companions to this craft!

Supplies:

3 Black pipe cleaners cut into 6 inch pieces
Scissors
5 yards of black yarn
5mm Google Eyes
Tacky Glue or Glue Dots
Red Felt

Directions:

Fold the end of one black pipe cleaner into a loop to form the head and body of the sheep as seen in figure 1.

Figure 1

Take a second pipe cleaner and fold it in half over the body of the first pipe cleaner, squeezing the bent portion to secure it to the first pipe cleaner. Fold each end of this pipe cleaner into a loop to form two legs. See figure 2.

Figure 2

Repeat step number two with the remaining pipe cleaner. See figure 3.

Figure 3

Starting at the head of the sheep, begin wrapping the black yarn around the sheep head and body moving back and forth over the entire length of the sheep until it is full and fluffy (legs are not covered). Secure the end of the string with a glue dot.

Use two glue dots to attach the google eyes to the sheep’s head.

Tie the felt scarf around the sheep’s neck.

It’s hard to make just one! Before you know it you will have an entire heard of sheep!

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Hello Monday!

Posted on March 26, 2012 by frecklescrafts

Hello to another Monday! This is a special Monday because it marks the start of Spring Break at our house! Saying Hello to this Monday means goodbye to a week of rushing off to school in the morning, nightly homework, and making snacks and lunches every morning. Wooohooo!

It also means hello to a couple of days at the indoor water park! Hello to the first time I have worn a swimsuit in the last six months, and hello to starting a new workout plan this week

Hello to fun family time, and hello to visiting grandparents and cousins for a few days!

Hello to catching up on crafty projects, and hello to not getting dressed until noon everyday….or at all!

Hello to playing with the kids. Hello to being lazy. Hello to not cooking dinner a couple of nights this week.

Hello to a relaxing week!

What have you said hello to this week? I am linking up with Lisa Leonard for her Hello Monday series! Check it out!

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Easter Bunny Cut Up Cake {tutorial}

Posted on March 23, 2012 by frecklescrafts

Last year I wrote about the bunny cake that my mom used to make for my siblings and I at Easter. Today I am updating that post with the full recipe and tutorial details so that you can make one with your family this Easter season! Enjoy!

This recipe is adapted from the Baker’s Coconut Cut Up Cakes Recipe circa 1970-ish.

Supplies and Ingredients:

2 9-inch round cake pans
Yellow cake mix (use your favorite boxed recipe)
Two containers of white buttercream frosting
1-2 small bags of coconut flakes
Red food coloring
Green food coloring
Knife
Red and black licorice
Blue icing from tube
M & M candies
Foil covered cookie sheet
Two glass bowls

Directions:

1. Bake cake according to the directions. Choose the directions for using 9-inch baking pans.

2. Allow cakes to cool completely and remove from pans.

3. Place one round cake in the center of your cookie sheet. This will be the bunny head.

4. Use the second round cake to make the ears and bowtie. Follow the diagram below and cut along the red lines.

5. Place the bunny ears on your cookie sheet just above the head making sure the ends of each ear touch the head.

6. Place the bow-tie shape just below the bunny head making sure the cake ends touch (just pretend that is what is happening in the photo below {wink}).

7. Ice the entire cake.

8. Divide one bag of coconut between the two glass bowls.

9. In one bowl place a few drops of red food coloring and stir the coconut until well blended. Continue to add food coloring a drop at a time until you reach the desired pink color.

10. Repeat this process with the green coconut.

11. Add the pink coconut to the ears to make it look like the inside of a bunny ear.

12. Spread the green coconut on the cookie sheet around the bunny.

13. If you find that one bag of coconut is not enough for the ears or the grass then you can repeat steps 8-12 with the second bag of coconut.

14. Use the blue icing to draw eyes.

15. Create a mouth with the red licorice and whiskers with the black licorice.

16. Use M&M candies to decorate the bow tie.

Enjoy and Happy Easter!

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