2017 Ornament Exchange & Blog Hop!

Welcome to the 2017 Ornament Exchange & Blog Hop! This year, there are 47 amazing bloggers participating in the exchange. The rules of the challenge were simple: be partnered with a fellow blogger, create a handmade ornament for $15 or under, create a tutorial, and ship the ornament off to a new home!

I was lucky enough to be paired up with the lovely Megan from C’Mon Get Crafty. If you like DIY and crafty stuff you have got to follow her on Pinterest, Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter for some great ideas! We are long distance mailing between countries but I will be posting my ornament when I get it.

Meet the 2017 Ornament Exchange Hosts

Erlene ⋅ My Pinterventures Kim · Made In A Day Amanda · The Kolb Corner

Shirley · Intelligent Domesticatons Michelle · Our Crafty Mom

Beverly · Across the Blvd. Christene · Key to Inspiration Pili ⋅ My Sweet Things

Nicki · Sweet Parrish Place Megan · C’mon Get Crafty

Hilary · Raising Fairies and Knights Emily · Two Purple Couches

Tina · One Crafty Mess Marie · The Inspiration Vault Debra · Shoppe No. 5

Trisha · Rosewood and Grace Jeanie · Create and Babble Katrin ⋅ Kreativ K

Terri · Christmas Tree Lane Maureen · Red Cottage Chronicles

Toni ⋅ Small Home Soul Ula ⋅ Lulu & Celeste Sue ⋅ A Purdy Little House

Pamela · Home On The Corner Lorelai ⋅ Life with Lorelai Cindy ⋅ DIY Beautify

Debbie ⋅ Tweak and Style Stephanie ⋅ Swoodson Says Chelc ⋅ Inside the Fox Den

Susan ⋅ Super Mom – No Cape! Molly ⋅ Just a Little Creativity

Roseann ⋅ This Autoimmune Life Angela ⋅ Simply Beautiful by Angela

Vicki and Jenn ⋅ 2 Bees in a Pod Joanne ⋅ Our Unschooling Journey

Tylynn ⋅ Bitterroot DIY Sam ⋅ Raggedity Bits Mary ⋅ The Boondocks Blog

Cyn ⋅ Creative Cynchronicity Dione ⋅ Clever Chameleon Quilting

Erica ⋅ Erica Ever After Chelsea ⋅ Love Paper Crafts Evija ⋅ From Evija with Love

Samantha ⋅ Little Bits of Home Hope ⋅ Hopes Crafty Niche Anne ⋅ Orange Bettie

Pam · P.S. I Love You Crafts

Dried Citrus & Cinnamon Ornament

Materials Needed:

Clear fillable ornament (I got mine from Micheals)
Ribbon in your favourite colour, possibly two colours
Cinnamon Sticks
Citrus Fruit
Use of your oven, knife and a baking sheet
Glue gun and extra sticks
Extra charms if desired

How to make:

Part One: Dry the Fruit

First slice your fruits into thick slices. I did lemons, mandarin oranges, and limes.
Preheat your oven to the lowest setting.
Assemble your cut fruit on a baking sheet and bake for two hours, turn over, then back in for another three hours.
I found it still needed to dry for a few days on my stove to be completely dry. I did not want them moist at all and attracting fruit flies or smelling, that would not go on a tree well.

Part Two: Assemble the Holiday Ornament

I filled the ornament with the citrus fruit.
Inserted a cinnamon stick. I was lucky that the sticks were short enough to fit inside the ornament without needing a trim.
Take some pretty ribbon to use to hang the ornament.
I made three different versions of the ornaments.
One version was plain with just a pretty ribbon. The second one I used patterned ribbon to glue around the ornament. For a different third option I tied a ribbon around the cinnamon stick before inserting it inside.

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Hil

A mom of two trying to stay sane while running a household, working part-time from home and looking after her baby, toddler and husband.

How to Make a Portable Altar

Do you have an indoor altar space? What about an outdoor altar space? Do you have a travel altar? Here I will give you tips on How to Make a Portable Altar for yourself. It is nice having one that can go inside or outside, travel to festivals, classes, and rituals with you. It is so easy to bring everywhere once you are organized!!

What is your favourite tool to have on your altar?

Considerations to make when making your Portable Altar

First thing you need to decide is what vessel or container you are going to carry everything in? It needs to be sturdy and durable. Be able to hold everything securely so it does not break when transporting, but be easy to store at home and not take up a lot of room. I also like it to not cost a lot of money, frugal is essential! Then you can spend the money on other more important things.

Another consideration is how are you going to safely store all your tools to ensure they do not clink together and scratch or break. I will show you my method below.

What to have in your Portable Altar

Next thing you need to consider is what tools you want to put in your portable altar. These tools will be in storage most of the time so not ones you usually have on your altar or use in general magick practice. Since you will be travelling around with them you do not want ones you are attached to immensely and will be upset about if they get lost, stolen, or broken. Which of course can happen when you take your tools out of the house. Also along the lines of frugality, if you can use items you have already (but do not use often) they are great to put in your portable altar. Otherwise hit up sales, the dollar store, or make items if you are crafty.

How to Make a Portable Altar

Preparing the bin

I went through a cross stitch phase and made a beautiful triple moon piece. I thought it would be beautiful to display on my bin and show people what it was, in a nice way. Using a glue gun and felt, I lined the box with light blue felt and glued it down in the bottom of the bow. Then glued the triple moon stitch to the lid with some ribbon outlining it and felt on top. I believe the felt is important for a little bit of padding. I also didn’t want the contents easy for people to see so it was a little private. You never know when non-pagan friendly folks are around or in your house (I don’t tell everyone so unless they are reading my blog they may not know!) and they never know my portable altar is sitting next to them in the living room.

Preparing your tools

I also made little bags for all my tools out of felt. I used a glue gun to glue the bag, and used a hole punch to make holes around the top to loop a ribbon through and hold the contents in. My sister made a fancier one using the sewing machine, and a double ribbon around the top to hold it together. I feel confident between the felt lining of the box and the felt bags my tools are all kept as safe as possible.

Now you are ready to assemble!

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What is in my Portable Altar

A rose quartz stone wand
A few types of incense
A Wiccan prayer book
Sea salt
Four glass corner bowls with their corresponding emblem on them.
Tea lights
the Sacred lighter (aka only used for magick not used for smoking)
God & Goddess Candles
Saffron to use as an offering
Tarot Cards

I combined them all together in my altar bin and now they are ready for me whenever I want to go outside with my children and do a rit. I also like to bring it with me camping and to festivals, easy to transport, won’t break, and perfect for on the go magick!

What items would you want to have in your portable altar?

You may enjoy some of these related posts below:

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Hil

A mom of two trying to stay sane while running a household, working part-time from home and looking after her baby, toddler and husband.

Pete The Cat – Monthly Crafting Book Club

This month in the Monthly Crafting Book Club we are focusing on the Pete The Cat series by James Dean. A big hit in this house. All my kids love to read the Pete The Cat books. I also grab them up for books for kids birthday parties as they are big hits with everyone. They teach a lot of good lessons to the kids and really embrace individuality. Which was a big reason of why I chose this series, I like to read stories to my kids with good messages.

We chose to do, Pete the Cat: A Pet for Pete, because it had some fun craft ideas in it. I love crafts that take a bit of time and are super interactive, which is why I love doing this one.

Materials needed:

Fruity O’s or Fruit Loops
Mortar & pestle (I had two, one for each kid, but use what you have on hand)
White glue
Paint brush
Construction paper
Pencil
Pete the Cat: A Pet for Pete Book

Instructions

This is a three part activity. It’s a perfect activity to use late in the afternoon to keep them busy while you start prepping dinner, or they start getting hangry. It’s a snack and activity all in one. Perfect for working on colour recognition, fine motor skills, and patterns.

Part One:

Grab a bunch of different little bowls and a big large bowl. Poor the fruit loops in the big bowl and have your kids separate them by colour. Yes, they WILL snack, so do this right after a meal, or in lieu of snack time as no one can resist these!

Part Two:

Take each colour separately and use the mortar and pestle to grind them to a fine dust. A few chunks are fine, I think its more important to have your kids do it than be perfect. I usually help at the end to make them finer.

Part Three:

Use the Pete the Cat: A Pet for Pete book to free draw his goldie picture. A bunch of horizontal lines with an orange fish in the middle. Using one colour at a time spread the glue on it, then take the colour and sprinkle over it to colour it. You could copy the picture exactly, or if your kids want to experiment it’s up to them. Repeat with all the colours until your picture is full of colour.

For younger children, like my two-year-old, he needed a lot of help with it. He was enthusiastic to paint with glue and only too happy to sprinkle the fruit loops on. He needed help shaking off the access for sure. My four-year-old was much more independent.

That’s it! There are so many different things you can make with this. Any pattern you want or seasonal picture, you could even just take out pages from a colouring book and colour those one at a time.

Have you seen what the other blogger’s came up with for Pete the Cat too???

https://mixedbagmama2013.blogspot.ca/2017/10/monthly-crafting-book-club-sir-pete.html

Have you seen the other crafts this year for the Monthly Crafting Book Club?

January –Ladybug Girl Wings

February – Giraffe’s Can’t Dance Craft

March – How do Dinosaurs

April – The Hungry Caterpillar

May – Camping Themed

June – Pinkalicious Series

July – Back to School Themed Books

August – Apple Related Book Crafts

September – Pumpkin Books & Activities

October – Pete The Cat Themed Books

Join us next month for non-denominational Holiday Books!

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Hil

A mom of two trying to stay sane while running a household, working part-time from home and looking after her baby, toddler and husband.

DIY Cheap Fall Centerpiece

I love everything Fall. It is for sure my favourite season. I love being able to decorate my house for Fall. It’s sad that it’s the end of summer and means -40 degree weather is on it’s way, but it’s like nature’s consolation before Winter.

My daughter was asking for glitter crafts, and I am happy to oblige!! I wanted a new centerpiece to display Fall items like pine cones, acorns, etc. Maybe later on a candle holder for on the table during a holiday meal. I hit up Dollarama and found a beautiful plain glass jar, some plastic leaves, glitter, and mod podge. I even found the decorations for the inside. I love making crafts, but I prefer to do it on a budget so I can make more crafts for less.

Materials Needed:

Plain glass jar
Plastic leaves
Glitter
Mod podge
Glue gun
Optional: Decorations for the inside

How to Assemble:

Heat your glue gun and assemble your materials.
I wanted to keep the leaves at the base of the vase. I used the glue gun to glue the leaves as a border around the bottom of the vase. But it’s your craft so if you want it at the top, middle, or even all over it’s totally up to you.
After you have attached all the leaves you can use the mod podge to glue it down against the vase and add glitter on top.
That’s it! You are done. You can choose to fill it with Fall items, or put a candle in. Totally up to you!

Where do you put your decorative vases? Fireplace mantle? Kitchen table? Coffee table? And do you prefer to fill with candy? Fall items? Candles? Sand? What is your favourite filler?

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Hil

A mom of two trying to stay sane while running a household, working part-time from home and looking after her baby, toddler and husband.

DIY Nature Placemat

Fall is the best time of year for crafts. Especially Nature crafts. I love exploring with my kids and getting up close and personal with the great outdoors. We started doing Forest School last Spring and fell in love with it. This Fall it was perfect to go exploring in the woods during my own version of Forest School and then come home and continue on by making these DIY Nature Place mats.

The kids had so much fun exploring nature and picking up treasures to put in our bag and bring home for a craft. It also kept them busy for a while in the afternoon assembling the perfect place mat. We use them to decorate our kitchen and set up a beautiful table for our harvest feast.

Materials Needed:

Sticky contact paper
Duct Tape or masking tape in pretty colours
Nature treasures

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How to Assemble:

Measure out the contact paper to your desired place mat size. I used an old place mat to model it after. Make sure you cut out two for front and back. Or make sure it is double the width so you can fold it over.
Take the backing off one of the sides (or half if you did a big one) and tape it down onto a table.
Help your kids assemble their treasures and spread them out on the contact paper.
Adult job: peel the other side/half and gently press it down slowly pressing out any bubbles.
Using the duct tape or masking tape (and please do not buy that pretty thin tape from Dollarama that breaks or it will take you an hour to tape it) line the edges of the place mat. This helps keep the contact paper shut and give it some durability and decor.

Now get your kids to help set the table and admire their beautiful place mats.

What is your favourite nature craft to do? Comment below and tell me!

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Hil

A mom of two trying to stay sane while running a household, working part-time from home and looking after her baby, toddler and husband.

DIY Dollar Store Fall Wreath

I was so excited to try my own version of this DIY Dollar Store Fall Wreath. I love Fall, it’s my favourite season, I cannot wait to decorate for the next season as soon as school starts. My daughter is a big glitter fan (what four-year-old is not right?!?!) so she is always looking for glitter crafts to do with me. This was a great compromise!

I hit up the Dollarama for some supplies and then came home to craft it up! I suggest you check out your local Dollarstore for your favourite Fall items.

Materials Needed:

Dollar Store wreath- I found a wooden/wicker one
Leaves – real or fake from the Dollar Store
Red glitter (or yellow, orange, or brown, any leaf colour really)
Mod Podge & paint brush
Glue gun & stick

How to Assemble:

I heated up the glue gun and my kids helped me pick leaves (I alternated colours). They handed me each colour and I used the glue gun to stick it on, they helped press it down.
Working around the wreath I glued all the leaves on until it was completely covered.
Now for the fun part using Mod Podge (or even regular white glue) the kids painted it on the leaves then sprinkled it with red glitter. They loved this part!
You can thread a ribbon through the top to hang it. Or lean it on your fireplace.

I put it on my front walk leaning against a bale of hay for some pretty Fall decorations. Just in time for the Autumn Equinox!!

What are your favourite Fall items to decorate your house with?

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Hil

A mom of two trying to stay sane while running a household, working part-time from home and looking after her baby, toddler and husband.

Pumpkin Books & Activities for September’s Monthly Crafting Book Club

This month our focus is on Pumpkin Books & Activities for September’s Monthly Crafting Book Club. If you have not heard of the Monthly Crafting Book Club we focus on a new book, series, or topic each month to do a craft on. It’s a lot of fun and a great way to further your children’s love of reading by incorporating a craft along with a book. I used to love the Berenstain Bears Prize Pumpkin book growing up by Stan & Jan Berenstain. Since we are celebrating all things Fall this week for the Autumn Equinox, otherwise known as Mabon, this is the perfect time for a pumpkin craft.

We had a big family Harvest Feast yesterday and decided to make some pumpkin name cards to help everyone find their seats at the table. Plus it gave a little decoration to the festivities. It was my first time hosting a big holiday dinner and I loved this extra touch that showed everyone to their seats without the awkward “where shall I sit” while everyone hovers around the table.

Have you seen the other crafts this year for the Monthly Crafting Book Club?

January –Ladybug Girl Wings

February – Giraffe’s Can’t Dance Craft

March – How do Dinosaurs

April – The Hungry Caterpillar

May – Camping Themed

June – Pinkalicious Series

July – Back to School Themed Books

August – Apple Related Book Crafts

September – Pumpkin Books & Activities

Join us next month for Pete The Cat series!

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Start off by reading the book The Berenstain Bears & The Prize Pumpkin by Stan & Jan Berenstain with your kids. Get excited about all things pumpkin.

Materials Needed:

Orange & yellow construction paper
Green pipe cleaner
Glue stick & scissors
Sharpie marker

Assembling:

I folded a piece of orange construction paper into quarters.
Trace or free hand draw an orange onto the paper.
Use your scissors to cut it out.
Fold the pumpkin in half and cut little slits along the folded edge, being careful to leave a few centimeters at the edge.
Use the scissors to cut narrow yellow strips.
Time for your children to help! Get them to help weave them in and out of the orange strips .
Use as many yellow strips as possible, the more strips, the prettier the pumpkin, and nicer the weaving.
Glue down the edges with the glue stick.
Cut the pipe cleaner into pieces about an inch and a half long.
Poke the end of the pipe cleaner through the top of the pumpkin and fold it up a bit on the backside to stay put.
OPTIONAL: Write everyone’s names on the pumpkin to show them where to sit.

Pumpkin Place Card

To use as place cards stick the finished pumpkin on the plates of those dining with you. Or weave it in between the tines of the forks.

Tomorrow we will make Pumpkin Muffins in preperation for the the Autumn Equinox this week. Then read more pumpkin books together!

Other than the Berenstain Bears Prize Pumpkin, what are your favourite pumpkin books?

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Monthly Crafting Book Club – September

Pumpkin Books & Activities

Don’t forget to check out what the other bloggers did this month!

Last October we did a pumpkin craft for September as well, but Happy Pumpkin Day Mouse.

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Hil

A mom of two trying to stay sane while running a household, working part-time from home and looking after her baby, toddler and husband.

Handprint Fall Tree Painting

I made this a few years ago with my son when he was a baby. He loved to do hand-print paintings with me. This Handprint Fall Tree Painting was a big favourite and I love pulling it out to put on my wall each Fall.

Supplies needed:

Canvas to paint (I buy mine from Dollarama), make sure it is large enough to fit however many arms/hands you are doing. I was doing two kids so this one was perfect for me.
Acrylic Paint: blue, green, brown, red, yellow, orange, and white.
Piece of a sponge
Paint Brushes
Sponge letters (again from Dollarama)
Ensure you are close to a sink or bucket of water with lots of soap for cleaning.

Method:

Step 1 – The background

I started off painting the canvas to look like the outside. I squirted some blue dots sporadically around the top 3/4 with a few white spots in between. The bottom 1/4 I put dots of green.
I moistened my sponge then squeezed out most of the water.
Using the sponge I lightly brushed it back and forth covering the whole top section making sure to get the sides of the canvas too.
Turn the sponge over to a fresh side and do the green, covering the bottom and sides as well.
I took another clean side and lightly melded the colours together so the canvas was completely covered.
Let that dry while you set up.

Step 2 – The tree

Toddlers/babies are MESSY with paint no matter how careful you are, make sure none of you are wearing clothes you don’t want ruined. Prep your clean up area and put a towel down.
Take their arm and starting at the elbow paint it brown all the way up to their hand making sure to cover their hands too.
Lightly take their arm by the elbow and press down from the elbow to the hands firmly.
CLEAN THEM QUICKLY BEFORE THEY TOUCH SOMETHING!
Do any remaining kids.

Step 3 – The leaves

Let it dry while you prep for the leaves, get a plate/lid/etc. and squirt a little red, yellow, and orange paint in it.
Carefully take child’s finger and dip in the colours one at a time and scatter around the finger portion of the “tree” to represent the leaves. No need to rinse hand in between colours and if they go rogue and paint elsewhere that’s ok, it’s a falling or blown leaf.
Repeat with any other children.

Step 4 – The words

Choose what colour you want to write your letters with. I chose silver.
Dampen your sponge and dip in your colour, blot it on the lid/plate a few times then carefully spell out F A L L one at a time repeating the previous steps with each letter. You could change it up and write Autumn, or Mabon, or any other word you wish.
Let it all dry.

You did it! An adorable keepsake to give to grandparents, aunt’s and uncle’s or add to your growing stack of adorable hand and footprint canvases that you are making.

What is your favourite messy craft to do with your little ones?

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Hil

A mom of two trying to stay sane while running a household, working part-time from home and looking after her baby, toddler and husband.

Fall ideas to Celebrate Mabon with your Family

It is starting to feel like Fall! It’s been 11 degrees here at night, the leaves are starting to fall. The Canadian Geese are starting to fly south. That means it’s time for Fall ideas to Celebrate Mabon with your Family. This is my FAVOURITE season! Pumpkin and apple everything time! Crisp weather, an excuse to wear my favourite sweaters and scarves. Pumpkin and apple picking. So much to do and celebrate the Autumn Equinox with my family.

See below for Fall ideas to Celebrate Mabon with your Family including activities, crafts & recipe ideas.

Mabon Origins

Mabon has been called the Pagan Thanksgiving by some traditions. It is the time of year where we celebrate the second harvest festival, the changing of the seasons, and the coming of winter.

Mabon Story

A very common story to be read around this time of year is that of Persephone, Hades, & Demeter. Persephone was kidnapped and taken into the underworld by Hades (Lord of the Underworld), her mother Demeter (Goddess of Harvest & Agriculture) refused to let anything grow until her daughter was returned to her. Zeus tried to negotiate Persephone’s return but alas, Persephone had already eaten six pomegranate seeds (another reason to NEVER eat the food offered to you by the fae or in another world! You may get stuck there!). So Zeus bargained that Persephone could come to the earth at Spring time, when Demeter is so happy all the plants bloom and thrive. Then at the Autumn Equinox she returns to the underworld and the flowers and plants die until her return in the Spring.

Other similar holidays around this time:

Mabon is also similar to an ancient Greek festival in the Fall called the Eleusinian Mysteries, also based on the story of Persephone. Harvest Home/ Harvest Festival, Octoberfest, Thanksgiving, Rosh Hashanah, and Michaelmas are also holiday’s celebrated by different cultures and traditions around the world similar to this time. This is also a common time of year for fairs to celebrate the end of summer and harvest of Fall as well.

Ideas to celebrate Mabon with your Family:

Prepare for Winter, start stocking up on supplies, getting warmer clothes and prepping the house and yard for the end of the year
Have a Bonfire
Go Apple picking
Visit a Pumpkin Patch
Take a Fall walk
Drive to see the turning colours of the leaves (try and do two, a before and after drive to really appreciate the changing of the colours)
Visit a corn maze and have an adventure
Donate to the local food bank
Visit your local pagan pride events usually celebrated around Mabon
Read your tarot cards to see what the next season has in store for you
Do a ritual celebration solo or with family and friends
Go on a Fall picnic
Read autumn books on pumpkins, apples, leaves, etc.
Visit your local animal refuge (zoo, farm, sanctuary, etc.) and see the animals
Wear fall colours that correspond with Mabon – brown, green, yellow, orange, & red
Pickle, freeze, can, dry, bake foods to prepare for the winter
Take a hay ride or wagon ride

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Recipes and food ideas to host a Harvest Feast for Family, Friends, & Neighbours

Roast nuts and pumpkin seeds
Bake fresh bread & home-made brushetta to serve on top
Roasted beets, potatoes & carrots
Green bean casserole
Squash dishes
Scottish Bannocks
Chili featuring Autumn harvest foods
Tofurkey
Roasted pumpkin seeds

Don’t forget the desserts!! All things apple and pumpkin should be the star of the dish! Pie, squares, cakes, cookies, muffins, scones, turnovers, donuts, and lots more!

What is your favourite Fall dessert? Please comment below and tell me!

There are lots of Fall drinks to enjoy during your feast too, apple juice, apple cider (alcoholic and/or non-alcoholic), pumpkin juice (Harry Potter much??), Fall sangria, pumpkin spiced lattes, and more!

Why not bake some pumpkin muffins and bring them as a treat to share with your neighbours and friends. They need never know they were being offered a harvest treat to celebrate the Autumn Equinox.

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Crafts & Activities

Make a wreath and other decorations for your house and altar
Nature mural
Apple candle holders
Apple crafts – see below for lots of ideas
Corn crafts – see below
Fall leaves crafts – see below
Candle holder – glass jar – tissue papers in the shape of a leaf or real leaves (hope to do this soon stay tuned for my attempts!)

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Thank you so much for reading! Please comment below on some of your favourite ways to celebrate Fall with your family, and more importantly, what will you be eating to welcome in Autumn??

Hil

A mom of two trying to stay sane while running a household, working part-time from home and looking after her baby, toddler and husband.

Apple Related Book Crafts

This month for the monthly crafting book club we are doing Apple Related Book Crafts. With Fall coming it is time to get our apple on!! If you haven’t heard of the Monthly Crafting Book Club we are a group of bloggers who get together each month and focus on a book to promote for Children’s literacy. Then we create a craft to go along with the book to read with the kids. My children look forward to this each month. They love to read stories, we visit the library each week in the summer and get 20 books to read together with the summer reading program. It has been a great way to encourage my children to read as many books as possible this summer.

Apple Washi Tape Craft

This was a really fun craft that my daughter especially enjoyed. Something about playing with tape really appeals to kids. This was easy to do and I was happy with how much they still looked like an apple at the end of the craft.

Materials Needed:

Washi tape in colours to reflect apples (we used red, silver, and gold).
Construction paper to put the apple on.
Scissors for the adult to trim into an apple shape.
Brown pompoms for the stem.
Green buttons for the stem.
Glue gun & glue

How to create it:

Draw a rough circle/apple shape on construction paper.
Give your children pieces of washi tape cut to roughly the shape of the apple length.
Let them decorate it however they think an apple should look.
After they finish it you can cut it out and trim it to look like what you think an apple should look like.
Let the kids help you glue on the brown pompoms to look like an apple stem.
Then they can help you arrange the green buttons in a leaf shape.

Painted Apple Craft

I used to love making hand print crafts with my kids so couldn’t wait to try out painting with them. My son had just woken up from nap and wasn’t feeling his best so it was not the most successful, but he perked up soon enough and enjoyed himself. I hit up the Dollarama for all my supplies, no need to spend a lot, you may even have most of it on hand already.

Materials Needed:

Red paint
small canvas
paint brushes
green buttons
brown pom poms
glue gun

How to create it:

I drew a red circle/apple shape and had my kids help me paint it in.
Once it dried they chose out green buttons to shape like a leaf on the apple.
Lastly they helped me pick out brown pompoms to make the stem.

We borrowed every library book we could find on apples and read them together. It was a lot of fun! A very successful Apple themed craft session.

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Check out some of my other apple related posts below:

Here are some of my past Monthly Crafting Book Club activities this year:

January –Ladybug Girl Wings

February – Giraffe’s Can’t Dance Craft

March – How do Dinosaurs

April – The Hungry Caterpillar

May – Camping Themed

June – Pinkalicious Series

July – Back to School Themed Books

August – Apple Related Book Crafts

Let’s see what the other bloggers came up with this month for their Apple Related Book Crafts:

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Hil

A mom of two trying to stay sane while running a household, working part-time from home and looking after her baby, toddler and husband.

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Dried Citrus & Cinnamon Ornament

Materials Needed:

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Part One: Dry the Fruit

Part Two: Assemble the Holiday Ornament

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Considerations to make when making your Portable Altar

What to have in your Portable Altar

How to Make a Portable Altar

Preparing the bin

Preparing your tools

Now you are ready to assemble!

What is in my Portable Altar

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Have you seen what the other blogger’s came up with for Pete the Cat too???

Have you seen the other crafts this year for the Monthly Crafting Book Club?

Join us next month for non-denominational Holiday Books!

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Now get your kids to help set the table and admire their beautiful place mats.

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Have you seen the other crafts this year for the Monthly Crafting Book Club?

Join us next month for Pete The Cat series!

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Pumpkin Place Card

Monthly Crafting Book Club – September

Pumpkin Books & Activities

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Method:

Step 1 – The background

Step 2 – The tree

Step 3 – The leaves

Step 4 – The words

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See below for Fall ideas to Celebrate Mabon with your Family including activities, crafts & recipe ideas.

Mabon Origins

Mabon Story

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Recipes and food ideas to host a Harvest Feast for Family, Friends, & Neighbours

Crafts & Activities

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Apple Washi Tape Craft

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Painted Apple Craft

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Here are some of my past Monthly Crafting Book Club activities this year:

Let’s see what the other bloggers came up with this month for their Apple Related Book Crafts:

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