Toddler Summer Bucket List

There are all sorts of posts out right now with things to do with your kids over the summer. One thing that seems to be popular this summer is to make a bucket with clothes pins or popsicle sticks that each have an activity on them. We made one of these in MOPS today, and it got me thinking of all the great ideas I've pinned on Pinterest and seem to forget about when I need an activity.

 

We can now pull out a stick each day and have an activity to do.

15 Minute Twirly Skirt

My big girl loves to wear twirly skirts, especially in the several hours a day that she asks for music so she can dance. When I came upon this post on Pinterest I knew that not only would it look super cute on Turbo, but I could make up several in different patterns very quickly to satisfy all of her twirling needs. 

Car Seat Emergency Info

Just a quick, but extremely important, project for today's nap time. A car seat emergency label.

 

Minnie Mouse Birthday Wreath

Between bed rest, birth, and having a new baby around, I have been seriously slacking on posting my crafting. So now that Snow is 2 month old, I figure I should catch up a little.

Turbo will be turning 2 in April. Since I want to make most of the decorations myself, and I'll be going back to work before then, I've started to slowly put some things together so that I don't go crazy at the end. I decided that we needed something on the door for the party, so I came up with this Minnie Mouse ribbon wreath that will hang in her room after the party.

Click below for directions

Toddler Christmas Tree

Ok, so I know it's not even Halloween, but since I'm anticipating having to go on bed-rest in the next 2 weeks thanks to all of these contractions I decided to bump up a few busy projects I had planned for Turbo.

Toddler Christmas Tree

 This $4.00 project kept her busy for 45 minutes this morning! That is an unheard of amount of time to keep this little 18 month old occupied.

Butterfly Mobile

After seeing this on Pinterest when Turbo was a baby, I really wanted to make it for her, but I just never got around to it. Now in preparation for Snow, I've finally completed it!

 I liked the more rustic, natural look of leaving the wooden embroidery hoop exposed instead of covering it with ribbon like in the tutorial. I also used 3 different colors of scrapbooking paper with the vellum in order to tie in some of her bedroom colors.

See the instructions here

My Little Rapunzel

Turbo is going to be Rapunzel for Halloween this year, so I found a pattern online that I adapted to make the dress.

Crayon Wallet Tutorial

I hadn't planned on this being a tutorial, so I don't have pictures as I went, but here's a pattern and tutorial for a very cute crayon wallet that saves us when we go out and need to keep Turbo busy for a few minutes.

Crayon wallet to keep toddlers busy

 

Animal Finger Puppets

While working on an animal themed baby shower for a friend I decided that we needed some cute finger puppets to be part of the decorations. Unfortunately for me, everywhere I looked, all I could find for patterns were ones that you had to purchase. I knew that I could design some myself. So after looking at lots of pictures of finger puppets online, I started drawing and cutting.

Attached are the patterns that I designed for these cute little guys. See full instructions after the jump.