paper and felt

Lighted Felt Houses

Claire Chauvin provides a tutorial for making these little felt houses, lit from within by led tealights.

William and Kate Paper Dolls: Wedding Outfits

If you printed out the William and Kate paper dolls a couple of weeks ago, you'll want their wedding outfits, too. Dover Pictorial is giving them away as a freebie today.

William and Kate Paper Dolls

 

William and Kate Paper Dolls You'll have to make your own wedding outfits. From today's Dover Pictorial Sampler.

Make Colouring Books From Family Photos

Photojojo shows you how to turn family photos into colouring pages with photoshop -- the Crayola site also has a feature like this that we've used before.

Peter and the Wolf Paper Puppet Theatre

The theatre is a free download (apparently it is just the right size for a cereal box) and the Peter and the Wolf puppets are $5.50 from Sarah Jane. She will be designing more puppets for this theatre, and some of them will be free.

Felt Crowns

Felt crowns from Pretty Little Things. (Aren't these little girls beautiful?)

Elsa Mora's Paper Cut Pop-up Book in Progress

Artist Elsa Mora often works in paper and in fact she has a whole blog devoted to paper cutting. Currently she is working on a paper cut pop-up book of the fables of La Fontaine for the French publishing house Editions Auzou and she is sharing her progress as she works on the illustrations on her blog. So beautiful and so inspiring! I'll be following this with interest and cannot wait to get my hands on a finished copy.

Make Some Paper Cranes and Raise Money for Japan

Modern Parents, Messy Kids provides a terrific paper-crane-making tutorial so that you and your kids can take part in a fundraising project for Japan by Students Rebuild. For every paper crane submitted by children, the Bezos Family Foundation will contribute $2.00 to Architecture for Humanity's reconstruction efforts in Japan, up to a total of $200,000. After they reach their goal of collecting 100,000 paper cranes, they will be woven into an art installation.

Or you could just do this on a smaller scale yourself, with your child's school.

Two Easy Paper and Felt Flower Crowns

Sylvie and I were in the dollar store this morning, where we picked up Easter grass and these adorable felt flowers on wire stems. I think they were $1.25 for five flowers. When we got home we spent five minutes making this flower crown. We cut a piece of green construction paper in half, taped two ends together, wrapped it around Sylvie's head and then taped it to fit. We removed it and used a glue stick to attach the grass. The wire stems of the felt flowers are taped inside the crown. Easy peasy, if a little messy-looking. (We had to take the photos in the bathroom because she wanted to look in the mirror.)

I also came up with a simpler one using a Goody headband we already had. For this, I had to bend the stems of the flowers to make them a bit shorter. Sylvie put the headband on first and then I simply tucked the flowers inside it.

As always, click on any photo for a closer look.

Felt Bunny Fingerpuppet Kit

Purl Soho sells a kit that makes twelve bunny fingerpuppets. I wonder if they'd fit nicely in an egg carton.