[Sherryh]

Homemade "toys"

I don't know about other kids... but Tyler loves refrigerator magnets. He carries them around and sticks them to the fridge, oven, filing cabinets, doors, radiators, anything he can!

Last night I made him these cute Sesame Street magnets with frozen juice lids. He was so excited when he woke up and saw them! What a smile.

I had an old Sesame Street magazine here that came with some coloring books I bought at the thrift store awhile back. I used elmer's glue to attach the pictures and then mixed a little water with glue and painted it on top for a decoupage type of thing. For magnets I used an old advertisement magnet that I got in the mail from an insurance company, just cut it up into small pieces and hot glued it to the back. You may have to rough up the magnet a little with a nail file if they are real shiny ones to make them stick better.

The picture isn't to good, but you get the idea...

 

[mommy2three]

wow! cool idea! you did a great job! they are adorable!

 

[Sherryh]

Thank you

 

[captclearance]

Very creative !! I love to see trash turned to treasure and you did a great job ! Thanks for the idea.

 

[Sherryh]

You're very welcome
I have also made these with pictues of Tyler. I scan a photo and have my graphics program size it to a circle the size I need. Then just cut it out!
You could also decorate them with lace and such to dress them up.

 

[Sara Noel]

those are so cute! I saw a craft with juice lids and pictures and magnets, but then they took a dowel with string and a magnet on the bottom so it was like a little fishing pole.

Sara

 

[Sherryh]

Where did you see that Sara? I'd be interested since we are fishermen around here.

 

[Sara Noel]

I can't find it. Basically it was what you did, but then take a wooden dowel and just add a string to it and a magnet on the end. I'll keep looking, maybe I'll come across it again.

Sara

 

[seadream]

Those are so cute, great idea

 

[Sara Noel]

This is weird. I swear I posted this reply yesterday. LOL
Anyway, I found directions that are similar to the craft I posted the other day.

http://www.hummingbirded.com/number_shape.html

FISHING GAME
Supplies:
Dowel
Narrow
Ribbon
Magnet
Juice Can Lids
I used a dowel (cut in half) and tied a piece of narrow fabric ribbon around one end and tied a magnet to the end of the ribbon ... to make a fishing pole. (I used string at first, but they kept tangling their lines, so the ribbon works a lot better.) Then I took a bunch of the juice lids and colored fish, shaped, letters, numbers, and their names on them. What they do is sit on the couch and fish into the carpet(water) and then identify the fish they caught (I caught an "L", or, I caught a red fish).

 

[Sherryh]

You posted it under one of my other posts... LOL
I found it.
Thank you, Sara

 

[captclearance]

Thank you for posting it here too. What a cute project !! Both of them.
Thank You
Sara & Sherry

 

[qponfanatic]

Sherry!!! That is such a cute and great idea!!! I get so many juice lids with my boys! Actually, I get about one a day! Can you imagine how quick juice goes here and I do try to limit them!

I'm going to do that for my nephews...:clap:

 

[Sherryh]

My Tyler drinks almost one a day on his own! I have been trying to limit him be he is just always asking for it. THe doctors say he drinks too much, but I don't know what to do. He won't drink water.

 

[Sara Noel]

You posted it under one of my other posts... LOL
I found it.
Thank you, Sara

D'oh, I am awake really I am. LOL
Lead me to that darn post, so I can delete it.

*wonders if it's under the emu post, all that talk of bare chested guys* LOL

Sara

 

[hoppinmom]

What a cute idea! I might make some with photos for the grandparents refrigerators. Thanks.

 

[captclearance]

Sherry, about Tyler's juice, try thinning it down a little more each week, then it's less sugary juice and more water.......

 

[Sherryh]

I have been diluting it some.
I'll try more though.

I was thinking last night maybe I could get him to drink Yo-J, That yogurt/juice stuff. Its calcium at least. I don't know. He won't even drink chocolate milk. Maybe I'll try strawberry or banana syrup.

 

[captclearance]

There are a lot of juices on the market now with calcium. old orchard apple juice is one of them and it's usually a good deal, I just got it at Meijer for .79c........

 

[Sherryh]

Started a thread in homespun tips for our milk/juice discussion.