Friday Fun Project

Both of my girls are home with me on Fridays, so it is our let down day after a busy week. It's so nice not to have to get up and get lunches made and Maddie out the door by 7:40! It's nice to stay in our pjs and relax. I usually try to plan a playdate Friday mornings, but my favorite thing is starting a craft project in the afternoon with the girls. 

So here is our latest project - burlap door hangers. It was so fun and easy.  Here's how I did it. Let me preface this with I am crafty not artsy - so I have to trace or look at a picture to draw anything and there is always a lot of erasing that goes in to get the shape right.

I started by drawing a pumpkin and a football shape out of crate paper and then traced it onto some extra burlap I had.

 

I folded the burlap over (so I would have a front and back) and cut the shapes out. And then it was onto the girls favorite part - painting!

 Once again I'm not artistic - so I printed out a font I liked from the computer, cut it out and traced around it for the letters. I used the edge of a paper plate for the laces and the white stripes (there probably is a name for those and my husband would be most disappointed that I don't know - but that about sums up my football knowledge) :).

I used a hot glue gun to glue the front and the back together and stuffed it with plastic grocery bags. 

I glued some orange ribbon on to hang it with and....

 the finished product hanging on the front door. 

 

 I'm still working on the pumpkin - maybe next Friday afternoon!