Mustache - Hoping for Delayed Excitement

Mustaches. So cute, in a 70's kind of way.

I intended this mustache for Clayton, but he refuses to wear it. I chase him around the house giving him "mustache kisses" while I'm wearing it and he hates it. So I am hoping in a few months he will have new found excitement for it.

Until then....Cora is my mustache model. She loves to wear it (or eat it)!

• Materials:

1. Black Felt Square - $0.29
2. Embroidery Needle - borrowed from my mom
3. Black Embroidery thread - borrowed from my mom
4. Black oval elastic - $a few dollars (I can't find my receipt)

• Total Cost: $4.00
• Craft Source: I found this idea at 5 Orange Potatoes.
• She said her 7 year old finished this in 30 minutes. This took me embarrassingly way more time than 30 minutes, but it was the first time I had picked up a needle and thread in over 10 years.

Easy Nature Sign

Our simplest project, cheapest, and we get the most compliments on it.

• Materials:

1. Miscelleaneous nature items: pine cones, acorns, leaves, corn husks, etc.
2. Sticks that easily break
3. Elmer's glue
4. Scrap piece of cardboard.
5. String.

• Total Cost: FREE - Or about $2.00 for me since I had to buy the Elmer's glue ($0.75) and the string (dollar store)

• It was fun to break this project up over a week, spending several days gathering nature items on hikes.
• Then it started to get cold and we had to bundle up to go in search of some sticks and get going on our project.

• Clayton with the dog running in the background. Baby Cora is in my Gypsy Mama wrap under my coat!

• No, Clayton, those sticks are too big!

• I copy cat'd this idea from the Family Fun website.
• Ideas for doing this project: Camping trips, fall, spring but with flowers instead, tree house, club house, play house, play kitchen sign.