Reindeer and Tutus!

This holiday season was full of crafts, cookies, and my first attempt at making a gift or two myself. Im not the craftiest person around but thanks to sites like Pinterest I am slowly getting better! :) One of the crafts we did were these reindeer spoons. My sister in law saw this on the Michael's website and we got the kids together one morning and gave it a whirl!

Here is what you need:

wooden spoons- we sell a pack of 4 at BBB for $2.99.

paint- brown or a metallic brownish/gold will work.

construction paper

plastic eyes

ribbon

mini silver bells

red balls

vase and glass beads

In all we made all 3 of the reindeer for about $10 bucks. The dollar store had a lot of what we needed. Of course I didn't take a picture of the finished product which was all 3 reindeer in a clear glass vase with red gems in the vase. We gave this to the Grandparents as a little gift from all the grand kids. The spoons came in different sizes so we used 2 smaller ones for the girls and a bigger one for my Nephew Carson since he is the oldest.

TUTU'S!!!!

The girls are really getting into dress up now and I was shocked to see how spendy dress up clothes can be! $30 for one dress! No thanks! A few of my friends had made similar tutus and it seemed easy enough, so I gave it a try.

Things I used:

Satin ribbon

Tulle

THATS IT! Of course you will need a measuring tape and scissors! I followed a tutorial on you tube for quick instructions. Just type in no sew tutu and use the you tube tutorial that pops up.

I decided to make them matching ones so there would be no fighting! They only took about 45 minutes to make. Perfect project to do during naptime! I only made two but probably got enough tulle to make 3 so I spent a little more than I probably needed to.

Total cost for both tutus, tiaras, and wands=$25.00! (wands and tiara's came from $1 store!)

The girls loved them! They were a little puffier than I expected but thats ok! I liked using the ribbon rather than elastic because as they grow you can just adjust the bow to make it bigger/smaller.