Felt Car Mat

DIY Felt Car Play Mat

T..G..I..F..!! The weekend is almost upon us..Whoo Hooo!

Last year I made this DIY Felt Car Play Mat for my youngest son...let me tell you..It's still in excellent condition and we've rolled it up and taken it numerous places..it has been played with A LOT!

I got inspiration from my favorite blogger Kimbo over at A Girl and a Glue Gun

SHE IS AWESOME! 

If you don't already follow her blog..you really really should. You will find lots of fun stuff to make and she will make you laugh your heart out with her witty charm :)

Here is the link to her Car Mat she made..and she's made several other designs as well.

So here's the mat that I made...P.S. She featured my mat on her blog once..I was so excited!!

All I used was Felt..and my Glue Gun

I had SOOO much fun making this. 

Those black squares at the bottom are actually little pockets you can put your cars in and use as a garage

I had to have a McDonalds..I think most kids would recognize it..

Also we have the Police Station with parking spaces..my son wants to be a Police Officer so we had to have that.

Here we have the Garbage Dump..He also loves Garbage Trucks

Added the ER and OMSI (it's a local museum and it's way awesome!)

Notice how I put all the corresponding Hot Wheels next to the businesses..yeah it was fun :)

The Toy Store..of course..with the Mommy Mobile parked out front

The Hubs work..it's always fun to incorporate Daddy's Business

The Fire Dept..of course, couldn't leave that bad boy out

The School and Construction Site..Didn't mean to put them THAT close together but I ran out of room

I REALLY suggest you make one of these..if not for your own children but even as a gift for another.

It is so much fun and you can customize it to your child..boy or girl...

Some helpful tips:

• Make sure you have lot's of Glue Gun Sticks
• You can buy sheets of felt at the Dollar Store but the green piece I got prepackaged at a craft store (it's 36 x 36)
• Use train tracks (Thomas plastic or wood tracks ) as a stencil when making the roads, if you have them

Enjoy your weekend & Happy Crafting!

MoNsTer Popsicle Snuggies

MoNsTer Popsicle Snuggies

Alright...it's that time of year when your kids come flying in from outside, red cheeked and sweaty asking "Mom can I have an Otter Pop???"

I don't know about you, but I get sick of waisting napkins just to wrap around their Popsicle and not to mention having to track them down to make sure the napkins make it into the trash...

So I broke out some felt and made some fun Popsicle Snuggies for the boys!

Aren't these fun?!! I love them..not to toot my own horn, but my boys freaked out when they saw these!

So I cut out strips of felt with my Pinking Shears.  

Sewed some button eyes, and other facial features.

Then Hot Glued them closed along the sides and bottom edge.

The Otter Pop style Popsicle slides right in the top :)

Ta Da!

No more cold hands or wasted napkins!

Happy Crafting!

Travel Tissue Holder

Homemade Felt Travel Tissue Holder

I don't know about you...but when I have those little tissue's in my purse they always end up coming out of the plastic packaging...next thing you know there's fuzz and what not on your tissue..ewww

So I made this tissue holder out of grey and white felt.  Travel size tissue fits right inside.  It's a much cuter case then the plastic it comes in :)  And the tissue will not fall out!

The whole craft, including the tissue cost under $0.50!!

Happy Crafting!