A Wish For More Creative Time

          Another week gone and still very little time spent crafting!! I love weekends and don't we all live for them,but they seem to be a blur of activities that rarely include crafting. It's as if my eyes open up on Saturday morning with the wide eyed excitement of a leisure day of sewing and crafting in my sleepy pants (sweats mostly but sleepy pants sounds cozier). Then before you know it some evil bad guy hits the fast forward button....and ZOOM it's bed time Sunday night! As I shut the lights off and head to bed my eyes look over at all the unfinished projects just waiting for that next magical Saturday..............from another dimension.
Okay enough whining I did complete a new item for my shop a few weeks ago.I need to set aside the time to put it on the shelf of my shop. But again it's been the whole time issue....okay I promise not to go there again.

A little flower pot with a felt poppy from my imagination. The bloom is removable and comes with a seed packet and a plant sprout for a more realistic learning process. Kids can pretend to plant the seeds and then plant the sprout and before long a pretty flower is born!Since I don't have the greenest of thumbs this is one flower I can grow. I think play and learning should go hand and hand with kids. Learning where our food comes from or the process of growing flowers is important for kids.

 

 My Felt garden provides another opportunity for kids to learn about where their food comes from. It comes with soil to again plant seeds and then play as if the plants have grown from small seedlings. There are tomato plants,cabbage,leaf lettuce,radishes,snow pea plants with removable pea pods,carrots,and a strawberry plant. It also has a watering can,a garden shovel,a seed packet,and a scarecrow.

Watering can,garden shovel,seed packet

Snow Peas plant with removable pea pods

A radish,carrot,leaf lettuce,cabbage,and a plant sprout

Strawberry Plant

 I love creating for kids. Fun unusual items that could spark imagination and make learning fun. I guess we all make things that spark the little part of us that just hasn't grown up and I hope never does.