It's called Making Do With Whatcha Got.

Who says you can't make turkey crafts after Thanksgiving?

Draw and cut out a body, and use some old scrapping paper for the tail feathers
Assemble it all on a separate piece of paper using tape or glue.

And this, folks, is the candy man. I don't know about you, but we came home from trick or treating with way more candy than we could ever eat....so we decided to put it to good use:


Here's Mom's Dream house.


Presenting T's candy land: a man, a house and even a tootsie roll train.


You can see we made a gigantic mess.


If you have even more candy to sneakily get rid of, make a reindeer, using hand prints for the antlers, and candy for it's clothes. Because we all know reindeer wear clothes.



Here's a funny looking tree we made. And HEREare the instructions for it.


And follow THESE instructions to make this awesome tree topper.


Around here, 'Christmas' means 'Time to make chocolate truffles!'

The recipe is so easy.
2/3 cup whipping cream
One 12 oz pkg of semi sweet choc. chips
and 2 tsp vanilla.

Bring cream to a boil in saucepan, then remove it from heat and add the choc. chips. Stir until melted, then add vanilla.
We pour our mixture into a pie pan and stick it in the freezer (unwrapped) until it gets nice and firm. Once it's set up, spoon some out and drop it onto a cookie sheet covered in wax paper. Put back into freezer for a couple of minutes and once stiff, form them into balls with your fingers. Roll them in crushed crackers or nuts, hot chocolate mix or sprinkles. Let them use their imaginations with the 'toppings'. Put them back into the freezer for a few minutes until firm again.


Too much fun, I tell ya what.

You've never even seen a craft like this...

Only kidding. But do read on.

This week we went to the zoo and we all agreed that our favorite part was the cool aquarium....


So then we decided to make one of our own...

And whaddya know, it turned out JUST like the ones at the zoo!!

My girls were way too excited about the final product, and made me feel like the coolest and craftiest mom ever. If you too, want to fit into the cool crafty mom category, try it out.

1: Cut out the inside of one paper plate and color the inside of another paper plate blue.

2: Use hot glue to stick a piece of plastic wrap to the inside of the plate with the hole in it.

3: Stick paper cutouts of fish and other sea animals onto the blue plate, then glue the plates together.

4: And Done!!

The coolest. The craftiest.


And here's a good one for the whole family. My husband was definitely the one most amused by this activity. All you need is a little 'Moolah'....and who doesn't have that just lying around? :)


Enjoy.