Teacher Appreciaton DAY 1

It has been forever since Stephanie or have blogged. Life has gotten in the way and we have gotten busy with our  families, work, etc. What a better way to jump back into it though than Teacher Appreciation!  I am on the PTO at my girls' school so I am in charge of doing gifts for all the teachers in the school and the IA's. I also have to come up with gifts for my kids to take to their teachers. It is challenging to come up with so many different ideas but I think I was able to do it this year!

From the PTO I sent in these cute little pudding cups with the saying Thanks for pudding your heart into teaching ( or being an IA depending on who received it).

 From my girls I had them take in these vases filled with Hershey kiss roses. What a pain they were to make but they turned out adorable!

Check back tomorrow for more ideas!

Plastic Bag Holders

Here is another great craft to make with a small piece of fabric. Everyone needs a pretty place to store their plastic bags. I made a bunch of these for my craft show next week to!

Supplies Needed:
1 fat quarter
thread
1/4 in elastic about 6 inches long

Press your fat quarter so there are no creases. Next fold in half long ways.

Sew down the side leaving about a 4 inch opening at each end.

Fold the end of the fabric over and pin down. Repeat on other end of fabric.

Sew down .

Where the 2 pieces of fabric meet is where you are going to put your elastic through. The best way to do this is to use safety pins. Put a safety pin at the edge of your elastic.

I also pin the the other end of the elastic to my fabric so I don't lose it.

Work the elastic all the way around using the safety pin to hold on to. Sew the ends of the elastic together..

Repeat at the other end but sew your ribbon on first so you can hang it on the wall.

After the elastic is sewn on both sides turn inside out and your finished! So simple but so useful!

12 days of Christmas for teachers (Day 2)

I was afraid we weren't going to get Day 2 in  because of all the snow we got here in Indiana but we lucked out with a 2 hour delay. We got about 4 inches this morning and we have snow coming down again!! I hope it clears out before my craft show tomorrow.

Anyways, both girls came home excited and said their teachers thought this was neat and asked if they were going to bring them a present every day! Of course they got to say yes!
Here is the poem for day 2

Did you miss Day 1? Here it is

Purse Tissue Holder

I have a craft show coming up on the 19th and I was trying to figure out what to make with all this scrap fabric I have. I finally decided to make some of the tissue holders. They are simple to make and don't take a lot of time. Best of all it will use up some of that fabric that you have kept because it was to big to throw away but yet still to small to make a lot of projects with!

First you need to cut 2 squares of fabric that measure 6 3/4 in by 7 1/2 in. Pin together with the right sides facing together ( which means the fabric that are you are looking at is the wrong side)

Sew around all 4 sides but leave a 2 inch opening on one side to turn inside out.

Turn inside out and press with iron if needed. Sew opening shut.

Bring the two ends of the fabric ( your short side) together, overlapping slightly. Pin and sew the edges of the fabric together.

Turn inside out and you have a tissue holder!

Girl Scout Fall Festival

Saturday I hosted a Girl Scout Festival. Both my co-leader and I have planned many events for Girl Scouts but nothing quite like this. An event this size took lots of planning( we worked on it for months!) and quite a few volunteers ( that was the hardest part!)
We were very lucky that my co-leaders sister is very talented and made numerous displays for us. It gave the gym such a carnival fill!
The games were mostly made although a few were store bought. This helped us keep our cost down and made some of the games more unique!
We started the day off by setting up the entry way. This is where everyone checked in. After checking in the received a brown lunch bag that had all their tickets in it. The brown bag collected all the goodies they would collect.

Once we got them checked in into the gym they went. We had 15 games to play, a cake walk and a silent auction. They also got a bottle of water and a bag of popcorn. Extra tickets could be bought inside also.

The cake walk was right in the middle of the gym and the games lined the walls.

We had lots of photo ops sitting around to.

These were all hand painted ( not by me though lol).
We had some really fun games

 Lucky cups ( guess what cup has the ball under it) Hug A Mug ( ring toss with the hug drinks)

 Plinko and Paratrooper Landing ( the guys with the parachutes had to land on a plate to win a prize)

 Sucker Tree and Chews Wisley(a bubble gum machine and the gum balls were made out of felt. Some of them had P's on the back and if they picked that one they got a prize)

 Bottle stand and Frizbee Toss

 Flip a Frog, Penny Pitch

 Bucket Toss

 

Feed the Elephant

Fish Bow, Tic Tac Tor and Can TossWe sold extra tickets

The Silent auction turned out to be huge!

We had 57 items!
My favorite part was the big box of popcorn!

I think everyone had a good time!

We ended up raising a nice amount of money for our Service Unit and it was worth all the hard work, If you have any questions about the games just let me know and will be more than happy to give you some more details!