Cupcake Picks, Covered Baby Wipe Boxes & Glow-in-the-dark Necklaces

I have tried two new things this week so far and my kids have discovered a love for making glow-in-the-dark necklaces. It seems like everyone around me is having babies or they know someone having a baby. I decided to research some crafty projects related to babies. I choose to custom covered my first baby wipe box. It was successful. Of course, I went to youtube.com to search for instructions. I learn best by seeing and hearing :) There are a lot of different techniques but at least I had an idea of what I was doing before I went in. I cut my fabric a little bit bigger then each side and I must say I will get the exact measurements next time. Once you have hot glued the fabric on you will go around the edges with an xacto knife. This part I found a little frustrating trying to get the edges perfect. The ribbon was not that hard to get on either but be careful as to not spread on too much because you don't want it to ooze out the sides on to the fabric. I finished my box off with a decorative fabric flower and cute button on top. There are many things you can do to jazz up the wipey box. This makes a great gift!

My little man turned 7 this week and we will be having his party on Saturday. We are having a skate party at a local outdoor skate park. We have invited all of our friends to bring their scooters, skateboards, skates or bikes. I love this idea because the kiddos will get some physical activity in along with all of the sweets! I will be making the cupcakes for the party and I needed so picks for the tops. I searched high and low and could not find any locally so I am making them myself. I found some cool clip art online for free. I am using a skull and cross bones and a skateboard. I have printed out all of the tags but now I need to assemble them.

My kiddos have been busy crafting themselves. We made glow-in-the-dark necklaces!!! You can get an inexpesive bag of beads at Wal-Mart for around $3.00 and I think the black hemp was about $2. So that is $5 for this project and we have enough to make several necklaces, bracelets or anklets. After we strung up the beads we laid them outside on the sidewalk to soak up the sun so they would by extra glowy in the dark! My 10 year old loved them some much he wants to make them again tomorrow. The other night I also made a few cards. So tonight my 7 year old wanted to replicate one of them that I had made. He said he wants to make cards tomorrow. So it sounds like we will all have a busy day crafting tomorrow.