Disney•Pixar's Finding Dory FREE Printable Activities

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Are your kids as excited as mine for the new Disney•Pixar movie?  Finding Nemo is already one of our favorite family movies, so we already know we're going love this one too.  We're less than a month away from it's release and I have some really fun downloadable activities to share.

One reason we're especially looking forward to this movie is because we went to Disney World over spring break in April.  We didn't tell the kids about the trip until Easter morning, so they only had a week to wait until they were checking into our All Star Resort.  As you can imagine, it was a magical trip!

One of the most anticipated rides for the whole family is The Seas with Nemo & Friends.  I definitely recommend using a FastPass+ for this popular attraction as the wait time can be quite long.  Don't forget to stop by the really fun photo spot my kids are at in the photo above, and get a picture with your favorite underwater friends!

This trip my little guy selected a Squirt plush as one of his souvenirs because turtles are his favorite animal.  He had a really amazing experience with some sea turtles at The Seas with Nemo & Friends Pavilion at Epcot after the ride.  Three swam by right on the other side of the glass and the look of amazement and joy on his face was priceless.  He was so in awe that he sat watching them for almost ten minutes.  Anyone with an active four year old boy knows that's really something!

After such a memorable experience, we can't wait to see our favorite forgetful blue tang again as she goes on a search for answers about her past in Disney•Pixar's “Finding Dory”.  Joined by her friends Nemo and Marlin, Dory will be looking for the answers to: What can she remember? Who are her parents? And where did she learn to speak Whale?

I can't wait to see the film!  Here is the official trailer, followed by the FREE"Finding Dory" activities.  I hope your kids have as much fun doing them as mine!  Click on each link to download the PDF and print!  (Let me know if you have any problems accessing the PDFs.)



Finding Dory - Memory Match Game

Finding Dory - Coloring Pages

Finding Dory - Connect the Dot Pages

Finding Dory - Maze

Finding Dory - Weekly Calendar

Finding Dory - Character Mobile

Don't forget to mark your calendars!  “Finding Dory” swims into theaters June 17, 2016

A Cupcake Poncho for My Sweetheart

Remember the easy children's fleece set I shared mid December? I mentioned at the time that I was working on a second project with the same yard of fleece. Here it is! A snuggly warm poncho with a fun pom pom trim. Do you love? ER certainly does. She's been wearing it around the house as an extra layer during play time.

I have a few scraps leftover and I'm trying to figure out a way to make a matching doll poncho. I think I'll have to take out the sewing machine for that, but this was certainly one no sew project that turned out well! The only hiccups along the way, were a few hot glue gun burns I got while attaching the trim but other than that, it was a simple and quick project.


Shared At: Sugar & Spice at 733, Whatever Goes Wednesday at Someday Crafts, and Show & Tell at Blue Cricket Design, Craftomanica Monday at Craftomanic, Craftastic Monday at Sew Can Do, Market Yourself Monday at Sumo's Sweet Stuff, Motivate Me Monday at Keeping It Simple, Craft Catwalk at Embellishing Life, and

Lady Bug Hair Clippies

ER's 3rd birthday is this week and I've been busy putting together these lady bug hair clippies to put in her party favor bag this week. You may remember that on ER's party invitation is a lady bug so I thought these would tie in nicely with the the party theme. I've put together a quick tutorial on how to make them and shown how I packaged them up in envelopes and the favor bags at the end of this.

Materials:

• Prong hair clippies, sold in a package at hair supply stores or in the jewelry section of some craft stores, mine came from Hobby Lobby
• Ribbon
• Craft Foam
• Hot glue gun and glue sticks
• Ladybug Sizzix die and die cutting machine, this die is no longer made

Begin by cutting lengths of ribbon to fit your clippies. I do a rough estimate by simply wrapping one in the method shown below, without gluing. Hold it place while wrapping and then note approximate length. Cut and check for fit again. Cut a second lengh of ribbon to same length. Try hot gluing first length on to a clippie in the order shown below. Make adjustments to lenth as needed and then adjust the second length you already cut reflect any changes. Use this length as your pattern to cut addition ribbon as needed. I made twenty clippies or ten sets of two clippies so I needed twenty lengths of ribbon. Note that the total lenth will be about 3.5 inches.

I start by placing a bit of hot glue on the ribbon and then opening the clippie as wide as possible. Slide the ribbon in between open clip prongs, the side with hot glue on it should be facing up. Close and ribbon will attach itself to bottom of top prong. Continue as shown. Some people find attaching the ribbon in the opposite order easier, do what's comfortable to you. While making my twenty clippies I messed up on three and had to recut four lengths of ribbon. So if you make a few goofs, know that I did too! I always have to have extra supplies on hand☺ Other tutorials for covering a clippie can be seen here and here.

Here are my twenty ribbon covered clippies; now it's time to make the ladybugs. I die cut mine out of craft foam. They make all kinds of really cute foam stickers and precut shapes that come in packages and are inexpensive at crafts stores. If you do not have a die cutting system capable of cutting through foam or felt I suggest you look into using those; it would be a big time saver too. Foam shapes are nice because they're waterproof and hold up to little hands handling them. You can also use small silk flowers, buttons - be sure to cut the shank off first, or bows to decorate your clippies.

After you've die cut your shapes, in this case lady bugs, assemble them if they are layered like mine. I did not use hot glue for this I used white clear drying Aleene's tacky glue that comes in a gold and white bottle. It's great stuff and works really well on craft foam. After the lady bugs dry, hot glue them onto the clippies.

In hindsight I wish I'd used a cute checked or polk dot ribbon, but when I was choosing the ribbon I thought any kind of pattern would look too busy. I think they're missing a little something, but I decided Miss Perfectionist would have to let it go☺ I really don't have time to remake twenty clippies but I am type A enough to have wanted too!

To package them up I put them in little coin envelopes that were part of giveaway I won from Cathe. I stamped a message and attached a sticker. Ideally, I'd have used a graphic from the digital kit I used to design the birthday invitation to make a sticker, but this was much quicker and easier.
I did however, make coordinating tags for the favor bags. I created a new document in Photoshop Elements, dropped my digital paper backgrounds in, and then added graphics from the kit on to the paper. Then printed them out and punched out the shapes. I think they came out really cute and I love how they tie in and coordinate with the party's theme and match the invitation. The rest of the favor bag was simple to put together. I put the clippies and some other goodies into a purple paper lunch bag and then closed it with some ribbon.

Monthly Craft Challenge: Featuring Monograms

The official beginning of the challenge is tomorrow, when we're all going to link up what we've done. However, my Thursdays are devoted to the Summer Prize Picnic through August, mine is a day early. Stop by after then, to see all the other great monogrammed projects at Heidi's Blue Eye'd Blessings.
This month for Heidi's Monthly Craft Challenge, our assignment was to make something and incorporate a monogram. I ♥ monograms, so I knew I'd be participating. You might have noticed from the ribbon challenge, that we were quickly running out of space to store all of ER's hair clippies. I decided to remedy that situation, by making a new monogrammed princess clippie holder for her with the letter E. This was a quick and easy project; I really happy with the way it came out.

You'll need:

wooden plaque
paint
pencil
Mod Podge or other decoupage medium
foam brush
scrapbook paper
stamping ink
wooden letter(s)
varnish ~ or other sealer
wooden crown or other coordinating decoration
hot glue sticks and hot glue gun
craft felt
ribbon
staple gun and staples

Begin by painting the edges of your wooden plaque a color that coordinates with the scrapbook paper you've chosen. Let dry. If you letter came unfinished like mine did, paint that too.Lay wooden plaque right side down on the back side of the scrapbook paper. Lightly trace around the plaque onto the paper. Cut out shape from paper.

Apply a thin layer of Mod Podge onto the plaque with foam brush. Carefully position paper on top of plaque. Smooth down with fingers to eliminate any air bubbles. Let dry.

Apply another thin layer of Mod Podge on top of paper and plaque and let dry, so that it is not longer tacky to the touch.

Ink edges of plaque with stamping ink, if desired and let project dry for a few hours. Coat front with varnish to seal.

Trace backside of plaque on to felt, cut out and set aside.
Use staple gun to attach ribbon to the backside of the plaque.

Position wooden letter and wooden crown on top of plaque. When you like the arrangement, hot glue into place. I was really excited to find the one dollar wooden crown I used at Michael's. It's layered with felt and rhinestones, gaudy goodness for a two and half year old:)

Originally I wanted an oval plaque and I intended on putting the crown completely on the plaque at the top with the E underneath. I had to compromise with this plaque but I ended up liking how the plaque kind of looks like it's wearing the crown.
Hot glue felt onto backside of the plaque, this will protect the wall surface from getting scuffed up by the staples.Hang up and admire you handiwork. Be sure to brag to your friends about the custom clippie holder you made yourself!

{Technically monograms are supposed to be two or more letters interlaced to form a symbol, but Heidi's really nice so I think she'll still let me play along☺}

Monthly Craft Challenge: Featuring Ribbon

I like to do a lot of things with ribbon, I use it a lot of my scrapbook pages; it's probably on 3 out of 5 pages. I use it on tags, as a decorative border, to hang embelishments off of, and to make flowers or leaves. A lot of projects looks much cuter with a little ribbon tied on☺

My plan was to have a fun ribbon pillow made for the craft challenge but I've been too preoccupied with planning the Mother's Day Tea Party we had yesterday. For those of you still waiting for my paper bag tutorial, thanks for your patience. I'm planning on working on that this Saturday and hope to have it ready for next week.

Okay back to this craft challenge! Now that I'm a mommy of a little girl, and a little fashionista at that, I've noticed that I use it an awful lot to make coordinating hair clippies. I've suffered a few hot glue burns, but they are so worth it. I love it when someone asks me where I got her hair accessories from and I'm able to say, "I made it!"

I find myself holding up ribbon at the craft store thinking, hmm...would this make a cute clippie? I also love shopping for fun embellishments for them, and have found shaped buttons work really well because if your child wears her clippies through, oh say the sprinkler, they'll dry off and be fine. They have them for all sorts of holidays, you might have to cut the shank off the back first, but it's inexpensive to get a whole package of themed buttons. Then you make a bunch for gifts too! Rhinestones and felt shapes and flowers also work really well. Check out the dollar section of Target, they often have scrapbook embellishments that work really well.

I've put together a bunch of my favorites for Heidi's Monthly Craft Challenge. Check out her blog, Blue Eyed Blessings for more ideas on how to get crafty with ribbon. She gives us a new crafting material to work with each month, and we'd love for you to join in too!I mainly use alligator clips to make mine, but sometimes I use snap barrettes, like the pair I made above. The sky blue matches so many of her outfits, especially the strawberry line she wore all last summer.
These were also worn a lot last summer, and I love the bright colors! The flowers on the top one and the pink one on the bottom are all from a package I found in Target's dollar section. Those are rhinestone brads in the center of each flower.

This one uses a button from a package all themed in red, white, and blue. She wore it on Memorial Day at our town's parade.

I used scrapbook embellishments I bought years ago and had sitting in my stash on these. I made three sets and gave them to my friend's two daughters when they came over our house on the Fourth of July. The Halloween clippies on the left matched her fall outfits and the ribbon came in a set with four ribbons all for a dollar from Target. Each spool had just enough to make one set and now my daughter has clippies for fall, Halloween, and Thanksgiving. The spider clippies, I made two sets of and were gifts. The pumpkins, spiders, and webs all came in the same Halloween themed button pack.

This is another Halloween clippie I made her to match her brighter Halloween outfits. The ghost is a button hot glued on.

This is one of my fancier clippies, that looks like a little evergreen tree. I just love it, and I found the directions online for free! There is so much great information out there! You can see my post with the sources for the tree clippie and the box template used for the ones below here.

It also has links to my favorite online resources and clippie making tutorials, so check it out if you'd like to start making your own too! It's really fun and there are a lot of different more advanced techniques shown on those websites too!

These are little sets I made for my friend's daughters, we gave them as part of their gifts. Each girl got a set with the holly berries and a second set. I also made the mini Chinese take out style containers.

I didn't make this clippie holder, I bought it at a craft fair before I got all into making things on my own but it would be very easy to make. It's just a wooden hanger with the long ribbons hot glued to the other side. She's got fabric flowers hot glued on the front. The ribbon around the metal handle is actually another ribbon clippie. I am just now running out of space and plan on making my own very soon. I think decoupaging on some pretty scrapbook paper on the front would make it even cuter!

I hope you liked my examples of how I've been using ribbon lately! Don't forget to check out the rest of this month's craft challenge participants!

Felt Peony Flower

UPDATE: 2/9/09, Finally decided what to do with one of the flowers, I attached it to the headband with a few little stitches so it could be removed if I change my mind later. I thought it'd be too big for this, but I really think it turned out cute.

Yesterday while the hubby was out doing guy stuff, I let the kiddo watch a video from the library because she ate lunch like a champion. Meal time is getting harder and harder, not because she's ultra picky but because she's a grazer. She'd like food left out continuously so she can drop in for a bite or two here and there. She loved getting a chance to eat popcorn with mommy on the coach all snuggled under the blanket.

While she was occupied I had a quite moment or two, for once. I saw this tutorial at yoonie at home awhile ago, and have been wanting to make them ever since. Her pictures show better, how cute it is. Her blog takes a moment or two to load, wait for it. I love them! They came out really well, require very little supplies, and are easy to make. All you need is the time to cut them out. I also plan on using her felt flower pin tutorial. There are more tutorials through out her blog along with some free printables here and there, so check the archives. It's a fun blog to read because she's from Malaysia so looking at her daily life can be like reading a travel log. She also helps with a lot of weddings and makes some incredible decorations.

I actually made a blue and a pink felt peony, but when I uploaded the pictures of the pink one I discovered, horrors of horrors a big cat hair on it! So maybe I'll share that another time. Today the plan was to finish adding the button to the centers of my felt peonies and then attach them to either clippies or headbands. Haven't decided exactly what to do with them yet, might add a pin back and make a brooch out of one to attach to my many tote bags for an extra bit of color.
I'm working on a cute birdie needle holder and a pin cushion, both from tutorials I found online. Now that I'm spending more time with my sewing machine, it's time to accessorize:) Spent over forty minutes cutitng out four 8x9.5 inch rectangles for a clutch, so hopefully I'll have some more pictures of completed projects soon. Working with my new rotary cutter and big clear plastic ruler took a lot more time than I expected. Hopefully that'll get easier as I get more practice.

Teddy Bear Trials

I have been working and reworking a "simple teddy bear" from Tilda's Sew Pretty Christmas Homestyle book. It has the most beautiful projects in it, I have that book as well as her Sew Pretty Homestyle, and they've finally given me the motivation to learn how to use my machine. But I think it's going to be a long time before any of my completed projects are on par with hers, as to be expected. I mentioned in a previous post that I used an old sweater because I thought that'd make it more cuddly. I had a lot of trouble with the stretch of the fabric; the first time the body got all stretched out. I tried a second time so the stretch wouldn't go from top to bottom but from side to side of the bear's body. I also had a lot of trouble as a novice sewer, with the curves and staying on the lines of my traced pattern. Ultimately, I think the teddy bear came out pretty nicely, except for the one arm which is a lot higher and thinner than the other. Hopefully, the bow tied around the neck camouflages it a little, I decided it looks like he's waving. I had to search through my other books for some help finishing off the embroidered details, and Alicia Paulson's book Stitched in Time, helped me with instructions for a knotless start and burying tails. Her section at the end of the book that helps you learn techniques is well written for the beginner.But I did have one moment of personal triumph yesterday, I've learned a little bit more about my machine and successfully wound the bobbin and threaded the top needle by myself. My mom had set up the machine for me previously. I don't know why on earth I was so scared to do it, I guess the diagrams in my manual looked too complicated, with all the go around this, over this, through that...etc. I have to say, it was really easy and now I feel silly for letting my machine collect dust for the past few years. I even figured out how to use the automatic needle threader, for some reason that took me the longest! Now if only I could figure out how to keep the seam allowances the same and sew around curves! Now I've got two projects completed and my new year's resolution was to finish three!

Felt Heart Cookies

I have been diligently attempting to sew on my machine over the past few days. The first few attempts were definitely not camera ready! I just ripped the seams out of a fleece doll; I attached the arms too low and it looks more like a monster than a cute new baby for ER. I also tried making a teddy bear, using an old sweater but it stretched a lot, not that I should be surprised by that! I have to finish it anyway, because ER saw it on my table and she's been asking for it all day. It just goes to show that your little one won't notice all the mistakes!

Today I practiced and got a few tips from my Bend the Rules Sewing book by Amy Karol, over Angry Chicken, one of the first blogs I started reading. I think my stitching straight is going well, so I started working on curves by finally making the felt cookies I planned hand sew for ER and her friends for Halloween. Some aren't too pretty, but over all I am proud of myself these are my first completed project made on my sewing machine; bringing me a third closer to meeting one of my resolutions!

I started by making a circle template by tracing the bottom of a glass, tracing it with my handy dandy disappearing ink pen, and cutting out several sugar cookie tops and bottoms for my felt cookie sandwiches out of cream by the sheet felt. This felt is super cheap, less than a dollar a sheet and often on sale at Micheal's or Joann's. You need two sugar cookie pieces per sandwich and one solid circle for the felt cookie filling for a total of three circle of felt.

Make smaller heart template. Lay on felt cookie top and trace half of the heart with pen. Remove smaller heart template, fold cookie top in half. I pinned it so I could take a picture, but I just held it and cut the heart out. The cookie bottom and cookie filling will be solid circles of felt.

Make your felt heart cookie sandwich by layering a sugar cookie bottom, red felt, and sugar cookie top in a stack. Pin to help reduce slippage. Stitch around circle.
Enjoy how quickly your pile of zero calorie treats pile up. I made cherry red, blueberry blue, and grape purple heart sugar cookie sandwiches. I am going to give ER and my friend Margaret's two little girls each a set of four cookies as part of their Valentine's Day presents. I think I'll look for some small Valentine themed plastic Gladware containers with lids to give them in. I've seen them wrapped in cute printed Chinese take-out boxes, but I think for the two year olds the Gladware containers will hold up the best, give them something to store them in, and look cute in their play kitchens. I might also put a few running stitches in around the heart outline to secure them a bit better too.

Last Minute Holiday Gift - No Sew Fleece Blanket

Today we were pretty busy running around grocery shopping and stopping by Costco to pick up the last few odds and ends for the various Christmas celebrations we're going to. We stopped at one of my favorite stores, J. Jill but I still can't find anything I want to wear to the baptism and baby shower we have coming up the weekend after Christmas. Which means I'll be running around in a panic right before the event trying to throw an outfit together. This always happens to me, I wait too long and then can't find anything that fits and looks good. I can't believe how fast December has flown by, every year I say that and every year it goes by quicker. I finally started wrapping our gifts during nap time and got about halfway through so I feel a bit calmer about getting everything done.

I thought I'd share a quick craft I did a few weeks back. If it hadn't gotten so cold here in MI earlier this month, it would've been a Christmas gift for ER. It would also be a fun gift for anyone on your list when made with patterns and colors that the recipient likes. There are so many choices in fleece you can get patterns and colors to match anyone's interests or decor, and everyone can use a new throw for the couch. I finished mine during ER's nap time and still had time to do some cleaning. I think it took me maybe half and hour to forty-five minutes to complete. I bought all the materials at Joann's and made it in the same afternoon.

I'm actually glad we needed a "big kid" blankie sooner rather than later, because it was fun and interesting shopping with ER. I let her pick out the patterned fleece and was surprised by her choice. It's actually the one I'd have chosen, thought for sure she'd pick the princess themed one. I have a thing for fruit prints; she has a myriad of strawberry, apple, tropical fruit, etc. printed clothes. I just can't resist. I guess my love of strawberries has rubbed off on her!

Begin with two different types of fleece. You can do one patterned and one coordinating solid or two patterns. I think it might be fun to have two completely different looks in one reversible blanket, but I would try to get two different prints that have similar colors or colors that look good together because you will see both prints in the ties, which are seen no matter which side you're using. The important thing is to get two different types of flat patterned fabric. Don't make the mistake I did, the strawberry fleece we used is an embellished fleece, meaning the strawberries on it are like patches on top of pink fleece. Whe you cut through the strawberries there is some fraying. The strawberries themselves are not fleece material. I don't think my blanket will hold up to as many washings as it should because of this. Get the kind where the design is printed directly onto the fabric.

I got two yards of each fabric. I had the lady at the fabric counter lay the fleece down on the counter and then show me what one, one and a half, and two yards would look like. Then I chose the amount I thought I'd need to give ER plenty of space to lay completely underneath and still have room to grow. Lets just say two yards is plenty of fabric, I can lay under it on the couch with her and cover myself from neck to toes and I'm 5'2".

Lay the two fleeces on top of each other, wrong sides together. The lady at the fabric counter shared this trick with me, the end of the fleece will roll under toward the back or wrong side of the fabric. Not that it really matters with fleece, just pick the sides you want to look at and make sure they are on the very top and very bottom of the stack of fleece before you start.

Trim along all the sides to even out the edges. Make a five by five square template out of scratch paper. Lay the square down on each corner of the blanket. Cut out. Starting next to where you cut out the square begin making cuts five inches into and about an inch to an inch and half apart from each other. Cut through both layers of fleece at the same time. Your cuts will begin to look like fringe. How far apart you make your cuts will decide how big you want your ties to be. Go from one side of the blanket to the other. Then go back and begin to tie each top and bottom together. I double knotted mine to keep them from slipping out. When you wash your blanket for the first time it'll set the knots and make it hard to take them apart. Go all around all four sides, one side at a time. Give each of the four corners a bit of a tug to help the blanket regain it's rectangular shape. Then snuggle and enjoy your blanket on a cold winter's night!

Have a Clippie Christmas

Today we stayed in our pajamas all day. Truth be told, my fleece top and drawstring pj pants are way too comfy and I think all the early Christmas cookies are catching up with me. A newly reinstated daily exercise program has already begun to help with that.

I planned to be very productive today. It's Brad's last day of work before two weeks off for the holiday and we were going to make chocolate dipped peppermint candy canes and wrap his presents. But it snowed quite a bit; watching the snow falling was tranquil and didn't motivate me to do too much. Because of the snow we didn't go into Brad's work for the holiday party, so I declared it a lazy pajama day.

You need these every once is awhile. Even Brad joined in, well after shoveling the drive and walk ways for the second time in one day; we had pizza for dinner.

Since we didn't do any holiday prepartions, I thought I'd share some of the holiday clippies I've made for ER and her little friends. I really like doing ER's hair, but it's too short to do much but put clips in it. It's so short that you can really only put one in on one side. So she has a whole wardrobe of them, she almost always has a matching one for whatever outfit she's wearing.

I really like the ones they sell in children's stores like Gymboree and at boutiques but they can be pretty expensive. So I've done some research and found several free tutorials online. I am not going to recreate them here, just click on the links since they've already taken great pictures and taken the time to write up detailed directions. If for some reason they don't work, email me or leave me a comment and I'll try to fix them or email the websites to you directly.

I found a cute tutorial for a ribbon tree clip at Hip Girl Boutique, ER is wearing one in the picture above. They also have free directions on how to make bug, fruit, flower, and boutique bows besides some additional holiday bows. You can also buy hair clip making supplies through them. I am considering purchasing some embellishements like the hip scotties because ER is really into puppy dogs right now and I think she'd love wearing them. I saw a clippie made with one of those scottie dogs at a specialty children's store, one was six dollars and I know I could make several for that price.

I also like Girly Things: Making Riboons & Bows & Other Pretties which has a large selection of tutorials for a wide range of bows, themed clippies - I love the cupcake one, and other fun things like a bandana dress, tutu, and covering a diaper wipes case.

The last website I've used for instruction and inspiration is The Ribbon Retreat. They sell instructions but also have some basic ones for free. The link is in the box labeled Information and at the bottom of the page. I am planning on making ER some dragonfly bows and using their directions to cover snap clips, I already have the ribbon for that. That's a project for the new year.

I don't bother heat sealing or using no fray on my ribbon ends because I am not planning on selling them and ER is pretty good with hers. She doesn't pull on them. I do fold the ends of the ribbon I am covering the actual clippie with under, put on a little glue and then attach to the clippie.

I recently made some for Christmas gifts with bows as the embellishement, and I do wish I'd no frayed them. Previously, I'd only made the kind where you cover the clippie with ribbon and then attach an embellishment like a flower on top.

Now that I've shared my sources my friends won't think I'm nearly as creative, but that's okay! Happy clippie making and try not to burn yourself with the hot glue!

Below are some recent examples of mine. I made the mini Chinese take out boxes from a template from Victorine Originals, found under patterns and then 3D templates. I did manage to do one thing on my to do list, links have been added within posts! Brad showed me how, thank goodness I have such great technical support!

Wonder Pets, Wonder Pets, We're on Our Way...

If anyone's child is as crazy about those three little critters as mine is the words in the title to this post should be very familiar! We watch them on the Preschoolers' Channel Noggin run by Nick Jr. and after seeing the first few episodes ER was already singing, "What's gonna work, teamwork!"

They have a new holiday episode called Wonder Pets! Save the Nutcracker this year so Nick Jr. has a lot of tie in crafts for Christmas. The no-sew ornaments are even on a segment about crafting with your kids. I thought, okay I'll bite. No-sew sounds good to me.

I think these are best for children three and up, as I ened up doing all the work. ER has been itchin' to get her little hands on these since she saw them drying on the table. They did come out rather cute. I like Linny the Guinea Pig the best even though Ming-Ming is usually our favorite.