Making girls happy

If you want to know some tricks to make nice sparkling boxes as a party favor, go ahead reading. These 'L 7' boxes we made as a treat for L's birthday and are a mix of this and this. Here and here you can read more on my blog about these boxes. In my case the pattern paper was made using these books. I did some photoshopping to achieve the desired colors, printed the paper and cut it into squares of 17 and 18 cm. But of course you could use any paper you want or even buy these kind of little boxes.

Because I wanted L (of 7) to be able to make her own treat, the tutorial can be used as a kids craft as well. We first made the bottoms of the boxes following this tutorial, using the 17 cm paper squares.

More and more

We made up this 'L 7' treat for school because L loves origami even more than M. She made quite a few of these boxes without any complain but wanted to play outside as well after a while ;) She was allowed. She joined again for the glitter topping. We made some photo's during the process, so I'll show you soon a how to.

The pattern paper I made with a Sinterklaas present. This and this book and two cd's full of nice patterns. Oh, there will be more pattern paper crafts!

We added a nut mix for her classmates and cookies after this afterlasting recipe (with the half of the sugar), found via Kristel, for the visitors at home. Inside I added a box of baking paper, which appeared to be a challenge to fold. Yes, I'm crazy, making about 50 boxes... But it worked like therapy for me, so it's fine.

Masu

Look what M treated her classmates on her birthday this morning: paper sheets printed by mama, folded into boxes by the two of us (we used squares of 18 and 17 cm)...

... filled with mmmm cookies (based on this recipe, without coffee and with or without chocolate), homemade by papa.

To rattle

Today L was giving her treats to her classmates. Lucky me was there! Thanks neighbours for all collected toilet rolls. We had a great family craft afternoon yesterday. L helped a lot, something I'm very glad about. The paper rolls were covered on the inside with bakery paper, that we also used for bottom and top. Different kind of nuts, some covered with chocolat, were put inside, so the kids were making some music together.

(As usual finished at darkness, so pics with flash.)

Just giveaway m&m treats!

Please take notice of this (earlier mentioned) great idea of Peppermint Plum. I like to share with you how to make a slightly different version: this stamped m&m treat necklace. If you like to read some more about this m&m treat, just go here, here and here.

This is what you need to make about 40 or less :) pieces:

1. a big bag flat (without nuts) m&m's
2. small letter stamps
3. a decorative stamp like in this nice stamp box of Djeco
4. an ink pad
5. colorful threads
6. colorful ribbon, 3 mm wide

And 4 large paper sheets of traditional Canson Mi-teintes. I used two pieces of light yellow for the backs, one green and one magenta colored sheet for the fronts.

Just couldn't stop...

.... photographing (because these, M's treats in school, are photogenic).

Festive

Our eldest daughter M got ten years old this week! We had such wonderful days and weather! Our teenager woke up, surprised by this birthday dress.
Reading blogs can make you enthousiastic. When you mix this incredible Boleo, this wow skirt of Oontje and this horse dress, you can imagine I came to this result. I loved the idea of buying a duvet cover of Ikea to use for sewing cloths. You can wait for some more items, since these's a lot of fabric left.

Thanks Sanne of Eloleo for the great pocket idea! It was great to puzzle how to make it.
Don't you think it's a stylish girl with the matching treats for school? I'll write about that later. Just let me know if you would like to know how to make these treats!

Again five fingers

This was L's school treat, four days later than planned. Again the piece of board with random holes was our servant, this time to serve cookies, sugared in different ways. We started with 5 cookies for each one, but it would have been far too much for those little bellies.

Treat idea

A colleague said to me: nice blog, but it's always about parties... To confirm, here's another birthdaypost ;). But to be clear, there's no party going on in our house at this very moment.
Making this treat for school some time ago was good teamwork: F was busy backing the cookies in three sizes, while I was sitting at the kitchen table to cut and model the paper cones.

L loves blue

This treat L gave to the toddlers when she got four. Because she was going to leave them, we wanted to give them a little L as a souvenir. I painted each little L by hand. Presented proudly on a gigant tangerine, which we wrapped in a festive paper. Through the holes you can peep at the bright orange present.

Wobbling nines

This summer my eldest turned 9. For years she (no, not at all my youngest!) wants to treat something healthy at school. She really loves fruit. The treat may not be too strange, too. We drilled skew holes randomly into a wooden remnant of our terrace. In our city people don't sell beads anymore (what do kids do nowadays? I loved to make necklaces for years as a child!), so I ordered beads on internet. Somewhere in the house we found the perfect brass thread to make the nines wobbling.
Ok, a strange treat, but she loved it.