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Make a Chicky-Egg
If you made the felted spring bunny, and you’re up for the next wool craft challenge, here’s another spring project that’s just stinkin’ cute. This is a fuzzy colored egg that nestles a baby chick inside. It’s like an adorable Marshmallow Peep you can’t eat. (Wait, that doesn’t sound like a good thing…) You basically wrap felt around a ball or a spherical rock, and then massage it with warm soapy water, shrinking the…
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Make a Spring Bunny
Spring is very much here, and although so much about this one feels different from springs past, the magnolias outside are dutifully in full bloom and first tulips are appearing like a dependable friend who always shows up on time. These sweet little bunnies are a celebration of spring. Soft, fuzzy, and made out of 100% wool, they’re a cute addition to nature tables, baskets, puppet shows, or just for having around as a…
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Meet Chompy
There are days when you just need a quick-fix project — something you can just slap together and let entertainment happen on its own. (I’m looking at YOU, quarantined-parents-working-from-home.) For little ones, here’s a project that takes little time to make, and skews high on the work-to-amusement ratio. With no further adieu, I introduce you to Chompy. He’s cardboard, he’s hungry, and he’ll eat all day long. When we made him 6 years ago,…
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Fave Item: The Wavy Chopper
Forget the pea protein and the mocktail trends predicted for 2020. Quarantine Cuisine is having its moment now, and if you’re like most during this dark and surreal moment in history, you’re probably getting creative with handfuls of elbow macaroni, canned salmon, frozen artichokes, and an errant tube of tomato paste right about now. While one downside to all this quarantining-with-kids is the time spent in the kitchen (the dishes, OMG THE DISHES), the…
