General Conference Activity Bags

General Conference is less than a week away and I am so excited for it and so are my kids. I wanted to share with you what I do for my youngest child to keep him interested in watching all four sessions. I started doing this activity about a year ago when he was four and he absolutely loves his Conference activity bags. When I started them a year ago I used brown paper bags and taped the General Authorities picture to the bag and then put an activity inside the bag. When a General Authority spoke he would find the picture on the bag and do the activity while he spoke. He would continue this with each speaker. It helped him recognized who the General Authorities are. I wanted to prefect my bags, the pictures would fall off and the paper bags get pretty hammered with little hands. So I came up with some with something I think is perfect for our Conference activity bags, and I am going to show you how I made them.
I started out with two pieces of felt per bag.
I cut 2" squares out of each corner.
Take one of the felt pieces and measure 7 1/2" from the cut out piece to the top and make a mark. Do the same thing on the other side.
From the mark measure 1" in and then draw a curve for the flap of the bag.
Do that to both sides and then cut following your lines.
On the second piece of felt measure from the top of the square cut out pieces (like you did above) and measure 7 1/2" to the top and make a mark. Do that on both sides and then cut across on your mark. (see bottom left picture).
Take your two pieces and put them together. Sew down both sides and on the bottom as shewn below.
Now open your bag, put the two seams together.
Sew across where you put the two seams together.
This is what it will look like after you sew across your seams. Do the same thing on the other side.
Turn your bag inside out and this is what is looks like.
Next I added Velcro to the bag.

I then cut a piece of plastic and hot glued it to the front of the bag. I tried sewing the plastic on, but it was a pain and didn't look good in the end so I opted to do hot glue.
I then inserted a picture of each General Authority into each plastic piece on each bag (15 in case you didn't know) I also made a couple of extra bags for when someone other than a General Authority speaks. I will also let my little guy choose to do an activity that he has already done if he so chooses during those speakers also. I found the printable cards here.
I love how they turned out and my little guy is so excited for Conference and keeps asking me if it's Conference time yet.
If you want to see what I put inside the bags go here.

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Dinosaur Hooks

Have you all wondered if I have finished (forgot) the boy room makeover? Yell, it's not done yet. It's still a work in progress, just a few more details until I show you the big reveal. If you have missed the posts so far you can see them here, here, here, here, here, here, here and here.

I have to tell you that this project that I am about to show you, the idea came from my fifteen year old daughter. . . DINOSAUR HOOKS!!!! Brilliant!!

I started out with toy dinosaurs. Looked for the ones that had a "hook" like head and body. I bought them at Wal-Mart for $1.00 a piece.

Hubby took each dinosaur and cut it in half.
Hubby then traced the body onto a piece of wood to cut and put inside the dinosaur so we would have a way for the dinosaur adhere to the base. The base hubby made by cutting a square piece of wood and routered the edges.
I glued each piece of wood to the base piece and then painted the base.
We then took each dinosaur and put onto the small wood piece and nailed the dinosaur to the inside piece of wood and base.



They are now ready to hang on the wall.




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Mini Wreath Stand

I made this mini wreath holder from supplies I had on hand.
I used a 1" square dowel, a round base, a finial and a small hook.
I screwed the base to the dowel, screwed finial to the top of the dowel and then added my hook. The wreath holder is 15" tall.
I spray painted the whole thing and then sanded it. So easy and love how it turned out. Goes perfect on my little table.






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Ric Rac Valentine

Happy Valentines Day!!!!

I love Valentines day and am glad I was able to sneak in one more Valentine project. The flowers in this frame are made from ric rac and are super easy to make and I am going to show you how I made them.

I took my ric rac, cut it in half and then weaved it. I used medium sized ric rac.
I then cut it in half again. At the end I started rolling the ric rac.
Once I finished rolling I used hot glue to secure the other end to the bottom of the rose.
The front of the rose will look like this. Take your fingers and push the ric rac to the outside of the rose, opening the petals.
This is what your rose will look like once it has been pushed open.
I then took a frame I had on hand and put white card stock in it and then drew a heart to follow when gluing on my roses.
I have made rings, hair clips, and bobby pins using this technique. It was fun to make something for my home for Valentines day.
Thanks for stopping by. Have a great day!