napkin whale

Auggie just sat down and cut this out of a paper napkin. He told me it's a whale shadow puppet. He's taped it up over his bed with purple washi tape. I really love it!

bright snowflakes

I put up a simple tutorial for paper snowflakes up on windy today. We had a lot of fun making these yesterday, as school was cancelled and we were footloose and fancy free.

honeycomb

Bloesem kids has sources for honeycomb paper — I never knew you could buy plain blocks of it — and a nice little honeycomb pear tutorial. Image detail from een nieuw avontuur via bloesem kids.

Snufkin hats

Snufkin, the vagabond and philosopher, arrives each spring to Moominvalley to set up camp, fish, and comfort the small creatures of Moominvalley. He is always wearing a green hat, sometimes decorated with flowers and sometimes with feathers.

If you would like to make your own Snufkin hat, you can use this Pilgrim's hat template, using green paper instead of black. Then decorate. Instead of gluing the headband, we cut notches like this.

Star delivery truck

The lucky stars are the perfect size for the Augs' new delivery truck, so it is now a star delivery truck. There are stars popping up everywhere.

Elephant paper punch

Dressew has loads of paper punches with different shapes for 99¢. They each have a little box on the bottom to catch the punched paper, so you can make confetti! This has caused a mild amount of excitement and many small elephant-shaped holes all over  the house.

Happy day

It's cinco de mayo tomorrow...

You could make a fruit balloon garland, oh happy day via pinterest

Make a pull piñata garland, love + cupcakes via pinterest

My favourite piñata by lieschenmueller flickr, via pinterest