Fire Hose Girl Scout SWAP

Hello all!  This isn't a paper project....well kind of if you count the fire hydrant but, this is a SWAPS that I made for our Girl Scout troop's trip to the Fire Station. SWAP's are Special Whatchamacallits Affectionately Pinned Somewhere.   The Girl Scout troops make them when they go to special events/field trips and then they trade with other troops when they are at larger, regional events.  The idea is to make something to remember the event but, to make it as cheap as possible and recycle if you can.

For this one, this was a 'fire hose' that I made using a couple feet of white rope, some $.19 brass plumbing fittings and a blue grocery store back that I cut to look like water coming out of the hose.   I cut the Fire Hydrant's using the Create a Critter cartridge at 1" and I added the troop information on the back, used an eyelet on the top and hung them from the pin that is hot glued to the back of the rope.  We were really happy about how these turned out!

Lego Party Extras

We're nearing the end of the Lego Party posts. This post is for the 'extras' that I put together for the party, NOT using the Cricut. This is the first thing that I made for the party.   I bought juice boxes and wrapped them in colored duct tape.   Two tips here.   #1, remove the straws before wrapping.  #2 use a strong hole punch to punch a hole in the duct tape that goes across the top of the juice box and line up the hole in the duck tape with the hole for the straw.

After you've wrapped the juice boxes, you can reattach the straws with some ATG tape and then use some foam pop dots to add paper circles on the front of them.   Now you have lego drinks!

  The idea of these paper cones also came from Pinterest.  They were black and white superhero cones.   These are color copies of the Lego instructions, filled with Cheetos.

I used my cupcake 'trees' to hold the cones.   As you can see, I hung plastic table covers on the walls and added the same color paper plates, to look like large legos.   I also wrapped many boxes an stacked them and added circles to the tops.

The food table included a white lego man border that was the backing for another project that I will show you tomorrow.   I just taped them in line to the table cover.   I also took some DUPLO lego blocks (the larger ones) and holders for the silverware and napkins.   One of the foods on the menu were sub sandwiches, that I displayed the cardboard tray (to the left) that I wrapped in solid blue wrapping paper and then covered with the 'lego' logos that I saved from my son's boxes of lego's that he got for Christmas and Easter.

As you can see, I hung some honeycomb balls form the ceiling and used more of the wrapped boxes for the table centerpieces and well as some wall sized legos'.  

Lego Party Favors

This is just a quick post with the party favors from our lego party.   The containers are from the Target dollar bins and they were 3/$1 and have holes all over them.   I filled them with a lego birthday man, lego builder card, lego tips and tricks (these all come in the sets from lego.com and I got them on sale for $20/box).   I also added some lego man crayons that I made using the lego.com silcone mold and I added a rice krispy treat that I put mini marshmallows on and covered with green melting chocolate.   Those turned out a little messy but the point got across.  

The tags that I made for the favors were using the Creative Imaginations paper and just mounting a solid yellow rectangle and then the child's name printed onto red paper.   I pop dotted on some individual cut out blocks, to look like the building process. 

Lego Man Crayons

These were the crayons that I made for the lego party.   I bought the silicone mold at lego.com and then collected up all the worn down and broken crayons in the house.   I slit a line down each crayon with paper and then peeled the paper off.   I broke all the crayons into small pieces and then put them in the mold to bake for about 15 minutes on 250.

TIPS:  my first batch didn't go so well because I wasn't using enough crayon.   You want to almost fill the mold so that you can push the crayon out from the backside.  When you take them out of the oven, put them in the freezer for about 15 minutes and then you can get them out of the mold easier...without snapping their heads off.  Also, the darker color crayons are OK if you only use one with lighter colors.   If you use several darker colors together, they pretty much melt together and look black when they are re-hardened into new crayons. 

Mussels in a Melon

Today's post is not a paper related one, it's a RARE food related one.   I took a seedless watermelon and cut off a small portion of the one end and then used a melon baller to remove the watermelon fruit inside.  

When I was done, I used a vegatable peeler and peeled back the edge around the 'mouth' and then used the Pampered Chef tool to cut the 'teeth' on this guy.   Once at the party, I filled it up with fruit and then added some eyes, using toothpicks and grapes.   This was such a hit and really was quick to do!

Rocket Favors

With my son's Robot/Outer Space themed party, I was trying to come up with something cute for the favors.   I considered the 3D Robots from the Robotz cartridge but, I didn't want to get in over my head.  So, I was thinking a tubed filled rocket.   I got the tubes from my mom and then covered them in scrapbook paper that had gears all over it.  I knew that I would make cone tops but, didn't know what I would do to stand them up.   When I had almost decided to lay them down, my son took some magnetic clothespins I had and put them on the bottom of one of the tubes.   A 6 year old genius!

So, I cut the top cones using the circle on George and Basic shapes, cut at 6" and then I cut them in half and glued them together.  I bought some standard clothepins and then covered them with the leftover paper from the circles that I cut.  I added the 'loot' and some yellow, orange and red plastic Easter grass tied together, hanging from the bottom, to look like flames of the rocket.   They turned out Super Cute!!!

I entered this in the Decorate to Celebrate Challenge this week as well as the Getting Cricky with K Andrews challenge!

End of Year Thanks!

The end of the school year is fast approaching and I am in charge of the kindergarten graduation slideshow.   I altered a mini metal lunchbox (I had several of these left over from a birthday party a few years back).   I traced the lunch box onto some cute paper from the DCWV stack and then glued it on the front and back.   I also glued a strip of paper around it (to cover the logos) and then a strip of AC 'thank you very much' ribbon around that.   On the front, I added an orange strip of paper and stamped Thank You onto it along with a couple chipboard stars.   I put a gift card and some tissue paper on the inside!   I am really going to miss my son's teacher.   I loved her almost as much as he did....I hope my daughter gets her next year!  :)

Bunnies Multiplying

HAPPY EASTER (A little late on this but, I just noticed I didn't post it)!!  This isn't a Cricut project but it is a project.  I bought these plastic bunnies for my son's teacher, teacher's aid, student teacher, principal and bus driver.  I filled them with pastel wrapped Easter candy and then tied a blue and pink polka dot ribbon around their necks.   I made tags for each one with stamped Easter sentiments.

Utensil Caddy

My next project was a quick one. I picked up this wooden caddy for $4, thinking 'great for napkins & silverware'. I covered it in pink paper that I get in 22" sheets from a locally owned paper store. I used repositionable glue dots to attach it so that I can remove the cover and recover it for my next party theme. I cut a bunch of crown shapes using the Martha Stewart punch that I used for the loot bags and then I glued each one to the front and sides. I added some paper to the corners and used a punch to make it more decorative. I was pleased with how it turned out, it went with the theme and was very functional!