Mommy’s crafts or DIY projects Archive

Wipe case for crayons!

Wow, when I saw this I thought brilliant!!  I got the idea here http://madisonshafer.blogspot.com/2012/02/organized-car.html.  I had an old wipe case we do not use anymore and I have been thinking of donating it, glad I didn’t!

Teacher Appreciation Gift: strawberry baskets

With Teach Appreciation Day coming up I set out to make something for my sons teachers.  I came across a few sources of inspiration and came up with a strawberry basket with these adorable printables from Eighteen 25  I had the perfect gift for

DIY cleaner “tub and shower magic”

I got the recipe from Food. Com .  I was excited to try out my first diy cleaner.  I have found this works great in my stainless steel sink and bathroom sinks, tub , and toilets.  I do not recommend it in your shower

Shoe organizer-storage for anything!

Take a shoe organizer and add it to any closet to give you extra room to organize or just store more things.  I loved this idea when I saw it on pinterest.  I now have one in almost every closet we have! This is

Homemade Bubbles Recipe & Snake Maker

  I pinned a recipe for homemade bubbles some time ago and today we just got around to trying it out. Daddy was home so I had a few extra minuets to read the blog and get the stuff together.  We also got to

Homemade Hand Sanitizer Recipe

I love trying out diy products.  So when I came across hand sanitizer that was great for kids and nursing mom’s I was excited and ready to try it out.  I would like to try the one with alcohol one day but haven’t gotten

Indian headband

We are making rain sticks for Earth Day and I thought we should have Indian headbands to go with it.  This way we can go outside with our rain sticks and headbands and do a rain dance!  This site Kidscraftzone has the feather template I

Decorating lids of jars with paper

I got this idea from this site http://www.designsponge.com/.   I used a recycled jar.  I took my pizza sauce jar and washed and removed the label.  I put puff balls in this jar to store. What you need: jar, paper, pencil, scissors, mod podge(mp), and

Fun ways to decorate plastic eggs!

My inspiration behind this came from http://www.parents.com.  This site has tons of great egg decorating ideas.  Not all plastic some are real egg decorating ideas. What I used:  plastic eggs, sharpies, google eyes, puff balls, paper, hot glue or craft glue could work?, scissors,

DIY foam hand soap

I got the direction for diy foam soap at this site http://www.onegoodthingbyjillee.com/l.  This is an awesome site for lots of things.  What you need:  empty hand foam soap bottle, dish soap( I used scented dial soap), and water. What to do: Put 1Tbls-2Tbls of soap into bottle,

Let’s clean the mircowave(the easy way)

Does your microwave ever get really dirty and have the hard to get off stuff?  Well sometimes mine does.  Like today food exploded in there and by the time I got back to clean it, the food was good and stuck!  So I put

Bunny Envelopes-stuffed with Easter treats

I was looking at Martha Stewart’s website and came across this Bunny envelopes craft, how cute!  I decide this would be a great idea to use for my son’s Easter party at his preschool.  We could give these out to his classmates. They are

Mustache straws-just for fun

I saw a mustache themed party picture and they had mustache straws.  How much fun would that be to do with my son, just for a laugh.  I love to find simple ways to make our days extra special. These Fun Drinking Straws would

Totoro sock doll

My son loved Ponyo by this directer.  So when he saw the preview for Totoro he had to have it too.  I came across a site that gives you directions on how to make a Totoro out of a sock.  I made this for my son