April Showers Bring May Flowers

Hooray!  Spring is almost here!  April showers may seem far off, this being early March, but it's really not.  I started out today wanting to have white, daisy like flowers on the wall around March on our wall.  I wound up with a few clovers around the month and making flowers and raindrops for the mirror in our eating area. 

I made a PDF template to share with you of simple flowers that I made from circles in three colors.  You can print them on white paper or card stock and simply cut them out.  I also used left over bits of green construction paper for the stems and folded a light blue piece and cut out rain drops. 

You can find the template for the flowers by clicking HERE.  Please let me know if you have trouble and I can email it to you. 

HAPPY SPRING!  It may still be cold but we are definately on the down hill slide from Winter!

Pay no attention to the girl behind the mirror!

Spring Bulletin Board

Sometimes I change the look of our bulletin board on a monthly basis.  Sometimes I change it just because I get the hankering for something new.  Spring is always something that inspires me and today it did just that.  Plus I thought it was time to retire the little snow men. I think it is important to keep happy, brightly colored decor everywhere you look and today this one did the trick.

First, I made a bunch of clovers out of hearts on my computer and printed them out.  I gave the kids several shades of green to color the clover with.  Then during nap time I cut them out.  I had quite a lot.  Enough so that I can use them in other areas of the DC once March gets here.

Next I broke out the freezer paper and cut the length of my bulletin board.  The board is bigger than the paper so I have to cut an extra strip at the bottom.  Then I push pinned it all down. 

I did the painting part by mixing a little bit of water with light blue for the sky and three shades of green paint with water for the grass.  I was worried about the grass because while I was painting the lines of grass I felt I should have painted a green background first, but nap time is only so long so I proceeded to paint.  Each of my strokes of paint seemed to fill in more and more until I was happy with the result. 

For the buttercups I simply folded a piece of yellow construction paper in half and drew pointed ovals then cut them out.  The paper had been colored on before on one side.  Personally I think it adds to the glamour of a kid's world. 

When the paint was (semi) dry I used Modge Podge glue to put them in place and added a yellow cupcake liner for the center of the flower.  I also used the glue to affix the cut out clover in the grass. 

Lastly, I had to add some glitter glue stems to the clover, pink glitter blobs here and there for clover blooms and gold glitter glue for the flower centers.  It seems a bit sloppy but looks great and adds a piece of Spring to our play room.

Little Table Re-Do

This little table came from my Mom's house.  She has had it as long as I can remember.  Sadly, I did not take a picture of her lovely version of covering this table.  She had covered it in a country blue and pink tablecloth with a sweet ruffle all the way around.  The table had been stored in my parent's garage where for years my Dad has done wood working.  Needless to say it had some serious saw dust buried in the ruffle so it was best I took it apart outside.  What you see first is the before...before picture... before her redo.

I chose a vinyl table cloth that I bought on clearance for one dollar the the Wal-Mart a little while back.  I adore the cowboy theme it has.  I left the original "before" table the way it was and simply covered it with the new tablecloth.  I like using vinyl, picnic type tablecloths because it wipes easily when crayon marks and spills happen.  I laid out the tablecloth on the floor, print side down and turned my table upside down on top of it.  Next I came out about four inches all the way around and traced the shape of the table and cut it out.  Then I used a handy dandy staple gun and pulled and folded and stapled underneath the table to get it tight and cut away any excess.  Lastly I hammered in detail upholstery nails all the way around the edge just for looks and just because I already had them.  It turned out precious and fit in perfectly with the rest of the modge podge decor. 

Looks like she paid two dollars for it at some time.  Nice duct tape!

This table has a good wooden frame for stapling to.

Yee Ha!

Tacks in place.

Cute as a button.

I saved some of this tablecloth and made a matching changing table cover.  Also easy to wipe off!