Knitting Childs Knitted Hat

Traveling again this time to South Carolina, visiting with family. We went to a charming dinning place, a reconverted old mill. in Pickens. Enjoyed eating a pulled pork sandwich, while watching the river flow by.
I had a little bit of time where I was able to knitt this quick little childs knitted hat, with a pretty little flower in the center.

1. 1 Ball Bernat Baby Sport Yarn Lavender,or color of your choice1 Ball 4 ply 100% cotton yarn yellow.
2. 1 Ball 4 ply 100% cotton yarn baby green.
3. Size 6 circular knitting needles 16 inches.
4. Large blunt needle.
5. 4 double pointed knitting needles size 6.
6. 1 sunflower button.

8. 1 crochet hook size H

Size: 18 months Circumference: 18 months
Gauge: 9 stitches +12 rows= 2 inches
Cast on 64 stitches on knitting needles.Row 1 to 35 knit stockinette stitch in a circular pattern
Row 36 to 48 knit 10, knit together 2 after every 10 stitch to decrease size of hat. After 48 rows you should wind up with 10 knit stitches. Cut yarn off leaving at least 6 inches. Take blunt needle and go through the center of the 10 stitches to secure them from unraveling.
To make flower:With yellow yarn.
Chain 4, join together, chain 2 more,to make double crochet, you will have a total of 2 double crochet. next make half double crochet. Slip stitch. This is your first petal. Do this 4 more times.






Last petal

To make leaves chain 4 with baby green yarn, double crochet, cut yarn about 3 inches long. With blunt needle attach the flower, and leaves to the hat. With regular thread and needle attach button to the flower.

Wedding crafts-Rose Bud Bridal Favor

This one is a good one, I made these rosebud party favors for my nephew Carl and Summers wedding, these looked so adorable laying on the reception tables. I got a lot of  positive feed back from the guests at there wedding. This would also be cute as a love bouquet, for someone trying to impress their sweetheart. Real easy to make. Let me know what you think.

Supplies:

Bag of Hershey Kisses silver or gold foil.

Bag of 12 inch wooden skewers.

Thread

Green floral tape.

Highlander red clearphane cellophane cut into 5 1/2 circles.

Floral leaves.

To make rosebud party favor. Cut cellophane into a 5 1/2 inch circle. Stack 2 Hersey kisses fat end to fat end. Wrap cellophane around the Hersey Kisses, and twist. Insert wooden skewer blunt side into the twisted cellophane to where it touches the candy. Do not puncher the foil. Tighten the cellophane around it again. Add the 2 calyx's made out of the floral tape. To make calyx cut floral tape diagonally twist at bottom. Wrap green floral tape around all of the calyx's cellophane, and wooden skewer, pulling tape and twisting. Midway add the floral leaves, Continue till you cover the whole wooden skewer. Watch my video, and let me know what you think. Thanks.

Childrens Crafts Christmas Star Ornaments

The Christmas Star ornaments are a good project for children. Just make sure an adult cuts out the stars, because of the precise cutting required to make the star shapes, but saying that, this is a good project for little hands to decorate.

 Materials
1 piece of poster white
sharp scissors
glue
glitter glue in red, silver, and gold
sparkling crystal glitter
pen
star shape to use as pattern

Draw stars on poster board.

Cut out star shapes.

Draw with a ruler draw a straight line from the tip of the star to the inside corner of the star. 5 times.

Turn over, use the lines to help fold the star. This way the pen marks won't show.

The folds should match this sample.

Place a line of glue a 1/4 of an inch from the cut boarder of the star.

Place folded star on flat star, hold for a few minutes til the glue holds.

I find if I press in the center it glues better, but do not press flat.

When dry cut away the extra paper.

Dry and ready to decorate.

Here you see my 4 year old granddaughter decorating her stars.

Here is the 3 year old painting her stars with the glitter glue.

Make sure to lay down newspaper in the work area, the glitter glue and glitter does tend to get all over.

The crystal glitter is tossed on top to add more shimmer.

Set them up to dry.

Arrange them on the tree the points help to nestle them into the tree.

Childrens Crafts Christmas Gingerbread Garland

 Here is another fun, and easy child safe project. These gingerbread cookies will  last you year after year. I live in the mountains of Virginia where there is a lot of humidity, and the cookies that I made from 2002 are  still as good as new. The cinnamon smell is no longer there, but they are as cute as can be. Adult supervision is required.


Supplies:
4oz white glue
Gingerbread cookie cutter
Cinnamon 3oz
Wire
3 colors of tulip slick  dimensional paint white, black, red
Ribbons with color of your choice, I also like to rip rustic fabric into strips

In a small bowl pour all the cinnamon, add 3/4 of the glue and mix, it should not be mushy, but more like cookie dough, mix till well incorporated.

Roll out, if sticky roll between 2 pieces of wax paper.

Place cookie cutter on top of dough, cut out gingerbread shape, make a hole at each side of gingerbread man arms.using thooth pick, set on flat board to air dry.

It takes at least 24 hours for cookies to be dry enough to decorate. They will shrink some. You will have a small amount left over that won't be large enough to make a cookie, I usually make rustic hearts out of that little bit of cookie dough it adds to the garland.

Using the Tulip Slick Paints decorate the gingerbread cookies. This paint goes on puffy and drys puffy mocking real icing.

Here is Marisa threading the metal wire through the holes at the hands.

Bianca threads the gingerbread hearts.

Cut ribbons to tie on the bare wires.

So very cute, I believe your young children will  enjoy making this project.

Childrens Crafts Paper Christmas Tree

HO ho ho Merry Christmas Tree Project. My granddaughters are 3 and 4 years old., and they really enjoyed making this project. Adult supervision is needed to make sure that they don't get glue all over the place. Ha ha..

Supplies:
Construction paper assorted colors , plus green.
Glue
Marker
Assorted beads
Glitter

Tear green construction paper into small irregular pieces.

Draw an outline of  a Christmas Tree with a magic marker. Glue the green strips on the inside line of Christmas Tree.

Add decorations on with glue, like beads, strings, and glitter.

This is the tree from the 3 year old.