Making a baby shower gift or just trying to stock up for your own baby? I’ve rounded up 20 great baby gear tutorials and patterns from around the web:
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Wood Play Money (A Tutorial and Free Download)
If you’ve followed my blog for a while you know that there is a juice addiction in our house. One night I was so fed up at the “begging” for juice that I made “juice money” so that Boo would have to ration her juice herself. Guess what…..it worked! Every morning when Boo wakes up she gets 5 juice dollars to budget throughout the day (including her lunch juice) and she’s really good at it.
I’ve expanded to TV and Computer Time Money as well and the money has now been upgraded to these cute wood-nickel type pieces.
I’ve added a PDF version of my template that you can print off for yourself at the bottom of the page and it includes the following:
I used Citra Solv to transfer a photocopy to 1.5″ wooden disks (please click here for my FULL Citra Solv tutorial and an explanation of the photocopy or laser printer you have to use for the image).
I cut out each image from my template and placed them face down on the wood disk and used a paper towel to rub Citra Solv onto the back of the paper:
Using my finger I rubbed the back of the paper to transfer the image….
…..and peeled back the paper leaving the image behind:
Finished money! Ready for budgeting!
The PDF template includes graphics for juice, milk, TV/computer time, sweets, and video games! If there are others you would like mention it in the comments and I’ll see what I can do! Thanks!
The Underwear Box
We’ve spent the last few months casually potty training Sienna. She’s been REALLY great if I let her just run around the house naked, but she hasn’t had much interest in wearing underwear.
I told her on Tuesday: No more diapers. Well, that didn’t go over so well because she didn’t want to wear “big girl” underwear….and I can’t take her out in public without pants on!
Now she’s potty trained! So what happened since beginning of the week? Here is what worked for us! I made this pretty little box and we call it her “underwear box.” It holds all of her underwear and she gets to pick out which pair she wants to wear in the morning and after nap time .
I can’t believe how excited she is to pick out a pair of undies….it is hilarious. I know everyone’s kids are different, but thought I’d pass the idea along for those of you who are in potty training stage!
