A gift with Love: Pillow Heart.

Applique is one of favorite things to do with my little boy.This time I'm going to share couple ideas that can be used as a gift or just a great way to spend with your little one.

Pillow heart.

 
This is a no saw pillow. You will need:
- felt
- fabric glue
- scissors
- needles
- stuffing/ cotton
- a sheet of paper
- pencil

1. Fold the sheet of paper in half and draw a half of heart . Also draw desireble decorations, like flowers. Cut out the templates.

2. Using needles, attach templates to the fabric.

I attached 2 red sheets of fabric together. I fold the flowers too to save time.

3. Cut out.

Felt is very easy to cut, I did not stencil but you can. Any little mistakes can be fixed with scissors.

4. Ask your child to help with glue! Apply the glue around the heart but leave the space to fill in with stuffing later.

5. Glue decorations.

6. Waite untill everything gets dry.

7. This was the most interesting part for my son - put the stuffing in!!!!

8. Glue the bottom and let it dry.

9.  The pillow heart is ready!

                                    



Airplane.

An airplane is great toy for a pretend play. My son enjoyed the propeller the most!

Things I've used:

- large size juice box
- small knife
- scissors
- brass fastener
- stapler
- cereal box

1. Cut out the body leaving the base for wings:

2. Cut  the wings and the propeller out the carton from the cereal box:

3. Using stapler attach wings.

4. Attach propeller.

5. Find a pilot and you're ready to fly!

Simple crafts.

Caterpillar

The inspiration came from an egg box. I simply cut out the body for the caterpillar, then I gave my son paint and brush to keep him busy. While the paint was drying, we made eyes and antennas and we attached them using a play-dough. That's it!

Car

It is so easy to make a car like this! I only used 2 juice boxes, scissors and tape. The first box is the body then cut out the wheels from the second box.  My son used tape and glue to attach the wheels

Castle

This castle was made out of 3 milk or juice cartons!