Hey Now, You're an All-Star!

Unless you've been living under a rock for the past few days, the Olympics are going on! That means that we needed to create some sports-themed projects this week.
Today’s project is a word book for your little All-Star.

It would be a great place to put some pictures of your athlete. Each page has either a spot for journaling or pictures. I’ve never been really any good with word books, no matter how much I try. Between making the letters match and all that, mine don’t come out that great, but I think this one came out good enough to share.

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Cupcake Saturday!

*Ok, so, this cupcake was accidentally posted early. We're kind of bummed about it, but here is this week's Cupcake Saturday. We'll have a new one next week, promise!*

We hope everyone is having a nice and relaxing start to their weekend. We have one more day of Christmas in July, and since today is Saturday, today's post is a cupcake! In keeping with the movie theme for this week, today's cupcake is comes straight from the North Pole, on the Polar Express. If you have never seen it, well, you're missing out!! Anyway, after a song and dance, the waiters on the train serve the children a cup of hot chocolate. While all of the other kids are drinking and enjoying their cup, Hero Boy decides to give his to Lonely Boy. 

Our cupcakes are peppermint hot chocolate.

They are a chocolate base, with chocolate peppermint candies inside. Fortunately (maybe??) the grocery store sells the peppermint mocha creamer, so we used some of that in our batter, as well. They are topped with whipped cream, sprinkled with chocolate shavings, and topped with a candy. These just remind us of the holidays!
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Kid-Friendly Friday!

Happy Friday, everyone! It's time for another Christmas movie inspired project for Christmas in July. I know there are a TON of kids' Christmas projects, but this is one of the cutest ones I've seen. Today's movie is Dr. Seuss's How the Grinch Stole Christmas. I love this original cartoon version of this movie. We will be making Grinch ornaments. I think every house has a little (or big) Grinch come holiday time... which is fine, and means every house should have one of these! And we're doing some recycling while we're at it.

Materials:
Burnt out light bulb
Green paint
Red paint
White paint
Paint brush
Markers
String
Scissors

(I used Elmer's Painters Markers for mine, but any acrylic paint will work. Also, Deco-Art has really cool snow-texture paint, which would be great for the trim of his hat. That was left behind in the move, sadly...)


Step One:
Paint your lightbulb green. Let dry.

Step Two:
Paint the connecting part red. This will be the Grinch's hat. Let dry.

Step Three:
Add the brim of the hat with white paint, Also paint the very top of the bulb white.

Step Four:
Here comes the hardest part, drawing in his face. I am not an artist, but I tried my best to copy this picture onto the bulb. I think it came out pretty good. Make sure you hold the bulb upside down, otherwise his hat will become his shirt! Use your paint to add details, like his eyes.

Step Five:
Since we don't have a Christmas tree to hang him up yet, I didn't add a hanger But you can just tie string around the hat brim to hang your Grinch up!

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Rudolph, With Your Nose So Bright...

Good morning, and thanks for stopping by! We hope everyone is having a wonderful week and I'm sure, looking forward to the weekend. Today's project is dedicated to a true Christmas classic. I'm sure you can guess which movie we're showcasing today... For today, we decided to make a little hostess gift set:

We were going to include some of the other characters from the movie, like the Abominable Snowman, Same, the snowman (narrator), and Hermy the elf, but decided to focus on the reindeer. We've included three things in our set. The first is a bottle of wine. OK, more the tag, but who doesn't love getting some wine?! Our tag features Rudolph, of course, along with his gal-pal, Clarice. It's not the holidays without some sparkle! 

The next thing we included were some gift tags. There are nine all together, one for each reindeer. It's always handy to have a few extra ones hanging around. Or they could be used as drink markers...

And when the last guest leaves, we included some home-made body vanilla-brown sugar body scrub. This is such a good idea for a gift. Not only does it smell really good, but it leaves your skin silky smooth and, unlike soaps, you don't have to worry about it getting in your mouth (it's made from things found in your kitchen).

 

 As we were making this set, it got us wondering about a few things. First, has anyone else ever wondered if any of the reindeer ever suffered a identity crisis? Like Prancer and Vixen?? Also, apparently according to the TV-movie, Donner is Rudolph's dad?? Who knew??
It might be too early for Rudolph to guide Santa's sleigh, but hopefully this gift set can lead you to some gift ideas for the upcoming holiday season!
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We have entered this into Bitten by the Bug 2's Christmas in July challenge.

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What Kind of a Tree is That?

Happy August! I can't believe it's already August...that's crazy! In theory, we should be done with our "Christmas in July" week, but since we started late, we'll finish it out in August. Who says Christmas can't be celebrated all year?!
So, yesterday I said we were doing a project based off of one of our favorite movies. Unfortunately, that project didn't pan out, so today's is based on an all-time classic. Can you guess what movie it is, based on the title? It's A Charlie Brown Christmas!

When Charlie Brown becomes concerned about how materialistic Christmas has gotten, Lucy suggests he should be the director of their pageant. When Charlie and Linus go find a tree for the show, they come back with the "Charlie Browniest" tree of all. Everyone involved in the show complains about it, because it "doesn't seem to fit the modern spirit". Like the good friend he is, Linus shows Charlie, and everyone else, the real meaning of Christmas, and tells him, "I never thought it was such a bad little tree. It's not bad at all, really. Maybe it just needs a little love."

And of course, Charlie Brown's best friend, Snoopy, makes an appearance! The inside of the card reads, "Merry Christmas, one and all!" 
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"This is SO Tinsel!"

Welcome to another Tuesday. I don't know about everyone else, but I spent the day thinking it was already Wednesday. That would have been a bummer...Anyway, going along with our 'Christmas in July' theme, here is today's project.

Today's movie is the Disney made-for-tv movie Prep & Landing. The movie follows Wayne and Lanny, members of an elite elf group. As members of this group, they work together to prepare rooftops and chimneys for Santa to land. Our project is based off of one of the promotional posters for the movie, where they are getting to work.
The project is actually a treat box/gift holder. There are three sections to it. The two parts on the side, where the garland is hanging from, have lids, which would be perfect for holding something small, like little candies. There is a bigger box, without a top,which could be used to hold some more treats, or cards.
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"What's Your Favorite Color?"

Hi there! Today's project is based off another of our favorite Christmas movies.  I love the Buddy-isms in Elf, like, "I just like to smile. Smiling's my favorite." (And who doesn't love Zooey Deschanel?!)
So in honor of Buddy, we made treat holders to look like his shoes. (Unfortunately, we didn't have any candy, candy canes, or candy corns hanging around... and syrup would make a really big mess.)

He wears yellow tights with a green tunic, so we added green and yellow on top of his black boots, complete with curly toe!

Remember, the best way to spread Christmas cheer is singing loud for all to hear.

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