Let's make Toadstool Ornaments.

We have arrived safely in South Africa after a very long 39 hour journey. It is so wonderful to be surrounded by all the familiar familial things from my childhood. And, so fantastic to see my family again. We have new family members arriving from around the world daily and it's so meaningful to be reunited after years of being apart. I am going to share our adventures with you soon but, for now, I wanted to share a craft we did together as a family before we left home. A Good Man (daddy) has stayed home and will be joining us in a week, so it was really great for us to work together on these sweet toadstool ornaments before we parted. We have seen them on some of our favorite blogs and knew that they'd be such fun to make.

To make our ornaments, we needed:

* little half round wood bits (from a craft store)
* little wooden pots (from a craft store)
* string
* a glue gun
* permanent markers or paint
* a drill

We began by drilling holes in the little wooden half rounds. We will be threading string through these holes to hang our toadstool ornaments on the Christmas Tree.

Then, Daddy used the black permanent marker to draw the round circles for the toadstools.


Teddy and Kitty colored around the circles in color... Kitty colored them red but Mr T wanted his toadstools to be blue!

A Good Man finished off when the kids were too impatient and wanted to move onto the next step.


They started to look a lot like toadstools!


We threaded string through the little holes and tied them into loops.


We used our hot glue gun to stick the miniature wooden pots onto the toadstool tops.


And, Voila! The sweetest little toadstool ornaments around!


We have brought them with us to hang on Granny's tree. It's super to have little treasures from home to share.

Merry Blessings and magic,
Donni