Crafts for kids: Halloween fruit

I signed up to bring fruit to the Halloween party at school on Friday.

Crafts for kids: Halloween fruit

Thought I'd at least make the fruit cute.


Luckily I'm volunteering at the party so I guess I'll volunteer myself to peel all these little suckers.

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Unique food gifts: How to make an edamame stick

Unique food gifts: How to make an edamame stick 

This one is may not really be “kyaraben” food by itself, but it’s a great way to add green to your bento box.

This technique lets you put edamame together in one place without using a little cup. All you need is uncooked pasta! You can put it in the corner of bento box like in the Piggy & Gir bento, or use it as a divider like in myPortal bento.

Pasta gets soft enough to eat because the moisture from edamame in a couple of hours or when microwaved. But if you’re not sure about eating uncooked pasta, you can fry the pasta.

[edamame stick] (used in “Piggy & GIR”, “Portal” )
- edamame
- pasta

1. After boiling edamame, pop the beans out of the pods and peel the outer skin of the edamame.

2. Stick the soybeans on the uncooked pasta one by one.

Snap off the pasta on the both sides and done!

That’s it!

3. If you put #2 in a bowl of water and microwave it for a couple of minutes, the edamame stick becomes soft and bendy! Maybe you can use this as a necklace for a girl character food or have it surround other food. (be careful when you bend it. If the pasta isn’t soft enough, it might break off.)

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Food gifts for Halloween: milano ghosts

 
 Food gifts for Halloween:  milano ghosts
 On Saturday, Amelia and I made a little project for her preschool class Halloween party – Milano cookie ghosts. She had previously requested that we make a treat that she could help with. Happy to oblige, I came up with the following project, easy enough for an almost 5-year old.


Step 1: buy Milano cookies, melting white chocolate and mini chocolate chips.
Step 2: melt white chocolate in microwave.
Step 3: dip cookies halfway in chocolate and lay on wax paper.
Step 4: decorate with mini chocolate chip "eyes."

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Unique food gifts: halloween candy men...

Unique food gifts:  halloween candy men...  

while we were there, my little lu fell in love with these halloween candy men.

they were too cute!

i let her buy one, and told her we would figure out just how to make them so we could make some at home.

here's what we came up with:

we put the candy in bowls so the kids could create their candy men exactly like they wanted.

the kiddos loved these halloween treats!

these would be great for teachers, kids in your sunday school class, or close friends that will be trick-or-treating at your door!

make them, they are fun!

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Creative ideas: Goggles Umbrella by 25TOGO Design

For all you detectives out there! Spies and scuba divers alike will appreciate the secret, goggle-shaped window umbrellas.
25TOGO Design has crafted GOGGLES Umbrella that will have you smartly traversing the rain in stealthy style. Based in Taiwan, this forward thinking company offers a range of products that blur the lines between child and adult to create products that appeal to every age.

Creative ideas: Goggles Umbrella by 25TOGO Design

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Recycling art

A Chair Made of Old CDs

If you thinking of Are More creative Ways to reuse the Old CDs , 

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Table lamps hand made: more creative ideas

Ý tưởng trang trí cho đèn bàn

Trang trí đèn bàn ngộ nghĩnh

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