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Ball run fun!

When craft day arrived a few weeks ago and I didn’t have anything planned Master D and I jumped on Pinterest *smile*

We browsed through the collaborative board, A Toddler’s World, that Jode from Mummy Musings & Mayhem started, until Master D spotted this pin of a ball run from A Happy Wanderer.

                                                               Source: a-happy-wanderer.blogspot.com via Kelly on Pinterest
And with such excitement asked, ‘Oh Mum! Can we make that?!‘
 
So we collected a pile of ‘one day possible crafting items’ (I’m sure lots of us have a collection like this!), together with the hot glue gun and some tape.

We decided to use the styrofoam corners to start our runs off. Once we hot glued them into place we rolled a marble off them to see where we should place the next bit of our run *smile* 

 We continued on in this fashion, of gluing on and testing until our run was complete.

Along the way Little Miss Q had fun throwing our supplies around and laughing at our efforts {cheeky girl!}

  
But I have to admit that playing with our ball run is a bit addictive! We’ve tested it out with wooden beads, marbles and bouncy balls. And we’ve played with the angle of the ball run itself ~ all with different results!


Even the Wookie dog is interested in this activity and tries to catch the balls at the end *smile*

Happy crafting, Kelly

(If you are interested in what other fun pins I have you can check them out here)

May 4, 2012 by

Giant height ruler

I remember fondly how my Grandma often checked how much the grandkids had grown. The skirting around her kitchen door was the ‘height ruler’ and we would all happily take our turn to see who was the tallest.

{I used pine, some rulers and permanent markers}

When Grandma moved house the ‘height ruler’ moved with her *smile*  It now happily sits in the kitchen at their new home at Nowhere Creek (and isn’t that the most fabulous name for a place ever!!).

{getting ready to stain the ruler}

So when I came across this height ruler at 517 Creations back in September I knew I had to make one for us *smile*  Although for some reason it’s taken me about 6 months to do it! When really it could have been done in a few days…

{finally… ready for action!}

Mind you, I did have to start over after getting distracted and writing the same number twice in permanent marker on the wood – d’oh! Anyway, we turned it over and started again.

And finally it’s finished and ready to record my little ones’ growth.

Joining in with Keep Calm Craft On at Frontier Dreams.

Happy crafting, Kelly

May 1, 2012 by