Olaf Sock Puppets! O.M.G.

Every month we have two children aged 5 and 9 stay with us and I'm always scrambling to find something to keep them entertained. They get bored very easily. I stumbled across a fantastic blog that gave very detailed instructions on making Olaf Sock Puppets.

I stopped by my Dollar Tree and Walmart to get the supplies needed. Instead of making felt eyes, I used googly eyes and apparently there is NO white felt squares to be found in Virginia .

I bought a package of 2 pairs of white socks from the Dollar Tree, and black felt, orange paint and googly eyes at Walmart. Total price for three sock puppets? About $4.46. And I have felt left over for other projects and a ton of orange puffy paint that can also be used, enough googly eyes to make about fifteen dozen other animals and so on.  I already had stuffing.

Here is the link to Playtivities for the Tutorial.

So we stuffed them, I tied everything with string and the kids LOVED it, they had a blast. They carried them around for a week, slept with them and got them dirty, they washed well, just make sure that you double knot everything, we had a few mishaps that required Olaf to need new feet.

We made three. The 5 year old girl made the pink buttoned Olaf, the blue Olaf was made the 9 year old boy. I made the red buttoned Olaf for my 16 month old nephew. I took the photo before I had to repair two broken feet. lol.

Book Page Wreath

I had seen a few tutorials on Pinterest that showed a few steps on how to make a book wreath, I fell in love with the idea, and wanted to make one of my own. I didn't want to put a lot of money into it however.

I bought a foam wreath at the Dollar Tree and picked up a .10 semi-damaged book at the Goodwill. Now I'm not one to damage a book, in fact I love books and feel they should all be kept around for as long as possible. This one however had some pages that were stuck together and some water damage, it was bound for the recycling bin so I gave it my own brand of recycling. I also used some pink streamer as well. I had the streamer already from a party I had thrown so I didn't have to purchase that, and it was a last minute addition.

The first thing I did was pull out all the useable pages from the book. The rest of pages including the cover went into the recycling bin. 

I HATED the green foam wreath and that's when I dug around into my craft bins and found the leftover pink streamer. I wrapped the whole wreath in the streamer...twice. It was so dark it peaked through. 

I then rolled each page, folded it in half and glued it to the wreath. I did this with each page and the end product looked great. The book I had chosen was pretty old and the pages had yellowed with age so it gave the whole book a shabby chic look that I adored. 

Something was still missing though. It was too plain. I needed some bling. I took the pink streamer and rolled it into pink roses. 

Roses are pretty easy to make, you just roll and fold, roll and fold and then in the end pinch the back and hot glue it down. 

I used a few roses, I didn't want to go too far out of the realm of what I was making. 

And this is my end result!

The pages did photograph a bit darker then they are in person because of the yellowing.

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