MAKE: Paper Turkey Pinata

Here is a festive little craft for Thanksgiving. It will brighten up your table and add a little fun to the season. How to make it:

1. Fold a piece of brown paper and pinch together at the bottom (creating a "drumstick"). You can fill your drumstick with candy, toys, and confetti if you're a fun person. If not, just leave it empty.

2. Hot glue a strip of freezer paper around the bottom, then hot glue a piece of scrap tissue paper around that. The freezer paper makes the leg sturdy and the tissue paper adds a color.

3. For the body, simply fill a brown paper lunch bag with candy, toys, trinkets and confetti. Roll the bottom together creating the shape of a turkey. That's it! The kids can cut it open and feast on all the goodies inside. You're welcome.

COSTUME IDEAS: 2013

MAKE: Burlap Owl

These little owls are festive and so easy to create! Wrap the burlap around a paper towel roll (cut in half... or toilet paper roll). Hot glue down the back. Attach googly eyes and construction paper triangle (for nose) and semi circles (for wings) with hot glue. Pinch your owl at the top and hot glue together. That's it! See? I told you... easy! Your kids will love making these!

MAKE: Kitty Mask Shirt

What you need:

Freezer Paper

Pencil

Scissors

Iron

Shirt

Fabric Paint

Paintbrush

Make it:

1. Draw your design on the dull side of freezer paper (not shiny side) with pencil.

2. Cut out design.

3. Iron onto shirt (shiny side down) 

4. Paint inside ironed down design. Let dry for one hour or longer.

5. Peel paper off and iron inside out to set paint.

MAKE: Cinnamon Latte

TO MAKE:

Stir 1 teaspoon cinnamon with 2 teaspoons local honey then stir in freshly brewed hot espresso.

Stir until cinnamon is dissolved.

Add a splash of organic heavy whipping cream and another splash of water. Stir.

Fill to the top with Almond Milk.

Add ice if you want to enjoy it cold.

Sip until your heart's content!

MAKE: Homemade Almond Milk

To make 4 cups of almond milk:

1. Soak 2 cups raw almonds in 5 cups water in a bowl for at least 2 hour or overnight.

2. Mix the almonds and water in a blender on high until frothy and smooth, about 5 minutes. It will seem like a really long time... just keep blending!

3. Line a strainer with 4 layers of cheesecloth; place over a bowl. Add half of the almond mixture and let sit 10 minutes. Squeeze out the liquid. Discard the solids, repeat with remaining almond mixture. 

MAKE: Notebooks

Are you looking for a perfect way to recycle paper bags and magazine pages and notebook paper and tape? We have the perfect solution for you! You'll need 4 to 6 sheets of paper for the inside of your book (cut to desired size of your open notebook). Then cut your cover (using paper bags or magazine pages or fabric) to fit your inside pages. Fold your book in half. You can hand stitch the binding or use a sewing machine then add decorative tape and doodle away!