Cut And Assemble My Sanity

As a child I mostly played puzzles, books, and crafts. One of my favorites was Cut and Assemble books. You got a book, say the Neuschwanstein Castle, and inside were pages and pages of pieces you were to cut out. Glue was applied to the tabs and, with careful manipulation, you created your castle. Or Taj Mahal, or sailing ship, or working clock.

I loved those books. I remember feeling so empowered when my mom got me my first X-acto knife.

I was three.

Kidding! I was 29.

Hee!

What I Made:

All I can say is thank you Canon for having the coolest Cut and Assemble projects online. Free ones!




I printed this guy up and made him during a car trip into the mountains. I was able to do this without the instructions so I have to say these are very well designed though most of them are too complex for my brood. I would recommend printing in color if you can.

Someday I'll let the kids have all the fun.

Monster Truck Party Invites

You know how kids are. For the last 48 months, Yummy has been planning his birthday party. He had a deadline to decide on a theme. As soon as he said "Monster Trucks!" he started planning next year's party, 13 months away.

Which leaves me two weeks to plan a Monster Truck Party.

I've booked a picnic area and made invitations. I didn't think I would need to make invites--I figured Monster Trucks would be everywhere--but I hunted in two party stores and decided to stop wasting time and went to the craft store.

What I We Made:



ETA: Click here to learn how to make these. Thanks for stopping by.

Monster Truck invitations. Yummy found the truck stickers and I found the cards, envelopes, scrapbook paper and sandpaper. Yummy ripped, I glued, Yummy stickered, I wrote. Then I realized all this blogging has destroyed the tiny bit of legibility my handwriting used to have so I used my printer, then ripped and glued some more.

The best part was running lego tires through paint and then driving them on the envelopes to make tracks.

I think they're darned cute. Better than anything the party store could sell.

Of course next year there will be a whole wall of Monster Truck party stuff and Yummy will want an underwater space monkey theme.