My Frugal Baby Tips: Crafts

Image: Baby Splashing the the Tub, by StockSnap on Pixabay

Honeysticks Beeswax
Bath Tub Crayons

Here's how to make soap crayons for bath-time fun and easy quick clean-up!

I am wondering if we could use cookie cutters or somehow get them into better shapes than just the ice cube tray, but I haven't tried it myself yet.

Ingredients:
🖍️ 1 3/4 cups Soap Flakes (powder)
🖍️ 50 drops food coloring
🖍️ 1/4 cup water

Directions:
🖍️ Mix water and soap flakes together.
🖍️ Add food coloring.
🖍️ Put mixture into an bottle stick ice cube tray.
🖍️ Allow to harden.
🖍️ Break or cut into pieces.
🖍️ Fun to write with on the tub when bathing as well as your face and hands!

Image: Boy with Paper Airplane, by Victoria Borodinova on Pixabay

Image: The New World Champion Paper Airplane Book: Featuring the World Record-Breaking Design, with Tear-Out Planes to Fold and Fly | Paperback: 160 pages | by John M. Collins (Author). Publisher: Ten Speed Press; Csm edition (March 26, 2013)

National Paper Airplane Day
-- Paper airplane day celebrations typically include social gatherings at which participants create and fly paper airplanes. These events often feature contests in two basic flight categories: distance and time in the air. As of 2012, Takuo Toda holds the world record for the longest time in the air (27.9 seconds). The distance record (226 feet, 10 inches) was set by Joe Ayoob, with a plane constructed by John Collins, in February 2012

Read: The New World Champion Paper Airplane Book: Featuring the World Record-Breaking Design, with Tear-Out Planes to Fold and Fly, by John M. Collins
-- Anything is possible with The New World Champion Paper Airplane Book, the newest collection of designs and theories of flight from John M. Collins, the man behind the Guinness World Record-breaking distance plane. Featuring twenty-two unique airplane designs with step-by-step instructional photos, plus tear-out models printed on regulation-weight paper stock, this entertaining and informative guide promises hours of flying fun. A collection of easy-to-fold paper airplane designs and innovative theories of flight, including the author's Guinness World Record-breaking airplane. Features 16 tear-out model planes.

Image: lutz Book of Paper Airplanes Craft Kit, by Klutz | 10 different Planes with a large variety of patterned papers

Klutz Book of Paper Airplanes Craft Kit -- Forget everything you know about paper airplanes! These aren't paper toys. And they're only technically paper airplanes. These are high-performance, blow-the-competition-away flying paper machines. The ten planes in this book are for people who think they've seen a good paper plane or two. They're for the hard to impress, the playground veterans - the kid at the next desk who thinks he and his plane will get sent to the principal's office first. These are the planes that can prove him wrong.

Image: Klutz Star Wars Folded Flyers: Make 30 Paper Starfighters Craft Kit | by Klutz

Klutz Star Wars Folded Flyers -- For the first time ever, you can fold Star Wars flyers that fly with the force. Star Wars Folded Flyers will speed through the living room as well as they do in outer space. That's because each of the six-starfighter designs has been rigorously tested by the Klutz Aerodynamics Team. And they look as great as they fly because they are made from full-color, custom-designed papers – representing galactic vehicle exteriors, authentic to the last bolt. With five copies of each design, kids can have a fleet of Y-wings and X-wings at their command.

✈️ Paper Airplane Coloring and Activity Books

Paper Airplane Book For Kids

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✈️ Birthday Airplane Cookies

✈️ Airplane Cake for an Airplane Themed Party

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Paper Airplane Kit

Free Printables, Coloring Pages, Activities, and Crafts:

✈️ Paper Airplane Contest: Building and Scoring Instructions

✈️ How To Make Paper Airplanes | Exploratorium Magazine

✈️ The Paper-Airplane Collector | The New Yorker

✈️ Egret Paper Airplane - LearnAlberta.ca

✈️ Paper Airplane | crayola.be

✈️ Disney Paper Planes | Create Disney's PLANES character paper planes

✈️ Airplane Coloring Book Printouts and Free Paper Airplanes Arts and Crafts Activities

✈️ Paper Airplane Templates

✈️ The Super-Easy, Best Paper Airplane Ever

✈️ How to make a giant paper airplane

✈️ Let's build and try flying it! Paper airplane

✈️ How to make a paper airplane to challenge your assumptions

✈️ How to Make the World's Best Paper Airplanes

✈️ How to Make Paper Airplanes

✈️ Create Your Own Paper Airplane | How Things Fly

✈️ Paper Airplane Activity - NASA Glenn

✈️ Alex's paper airplanes

✈️ Paper Airplane Factory Instructions

✈️ Use your phone to throw Paper Planes around the world

✈️ Secret Paper Aeroplanes

✈️ Paper Plane Templates and Videos - PowerUp Toys

✈️ Paper Plane Throwing Game - Flight

Kangaroo's Paper Airplane Kit

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Image: Cookie Monster, by Skeeze on Pixabay

Image: appy Birthday, Cookie Monster (Step into Reading) | Paperback: 32 pages | by Sesame Street (Author). Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers (May 12, 1986)

Cookie Monster's Birthday
-- Even though the Muppets officially like to recognize Cookie Monster's Birthday as November 2nd, it looks like it is also recognized on May 25th, the birthday of Frank Oz, one of the famous Jim Henson puppeteers.

Read: Happy Birthday, Cookie Monster!, by Sesame Street
-- Cookie Monster plans a party to celebrate his birthday, but before the guests arrive, he can't resist a tiny taste of the cake. It isn't long before the cake disappears. Fortunately, Cookie's friends help him solve his party dilemma in a story that makes learning to read a piece of cake.

Image: Sesame St Boys' Short Sleeve T-Shirt

Sesame St Boys' Short Sleeve T-Shirt -- Super soft short sleeve tee. 100% Cotton. Made in the USA and Imported. Machine Wash. 100 percent officially licensed

Image: Marshmallow Furniture, Children's Transforming Flip-See-Do Cookie Monster Foam Chair, by Spin Master

Cookie Monster Foam Chair -- Your child will be excited to sit and watch their favorite Sesame Street episode in the Cookie Monster themed Marshmallow Flip-See-Do foam chair. This new fun and versatile seating option is designed just for kids to help turn their favorite chair into so much more.

🍪 Cookie Monster Coloring and Activity Books

Cookie Monster'S Best Bites

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Cookie Monster Recipes:

🍪 Cookie Monster Cookie Dough

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🍪 Ultimate Cookie Monster Cupcakes - Baking Beauty

Sesame Street: The Cookie Thief

Cookie Monster and You

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Image: Baby Happiness by the Water, by CourtneyLeahBliss on Pixabay

I Will Always Love You

May 2nd is Baby Day
- Today marks the day we celebrate our adorable, precious babies. Parents, especially new parents, can celebrate this day by spending extra time with your baby. After all, they will be babies for an all too short time. If there are no babies in your life, maybe spend the day with someone else's baby and give mom a break. Baby Day reminds you babies are wonderful, but they can also be a lot of work.

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Global Babies

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Infant Beanie Cap

Newborn Little Brother Hat
-- Adorable newborn blue white striped hospital hat. The same hat used by hospitals, only cuter! Perfect for your baby boy' s homecoming. This super-soft fabric is stretchy and made to help newborn infants regulate their body temperature.

👶 Babies Coloring and Activity Books

Babies

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Baby Recipes:

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👶 Master List of Baby Food Recipes

👶 15 Healthy Teething Biscuit Recipes for Babies

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👶 75 Best Baby Food Recipes (Stage 1, 2, 3) - Baby Foode

👶 Homemade Baby Food Puree - Delicious on a Dime

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Baby Meets World

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👶 Free 'Your Guide to Breastfeeding' Magazine

👶 New Baby Coloring Pages

👶 61 Free Printable Baby Shower Games

👶 Baby-Friendly Initiative Printable Resources

👶 Printable Childproofing Checklist by Age

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👶 Activities to do with your infant or toddler | Department of Education

👶 Milestone Checklists - CDC

👶 Printables for Preemie Families and NICUs

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👶 20 The Boss Baby pictures to print and color

👶 Baby Printables

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FREE Amazon Baby Welcome Box

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13 Free Baby Crochet Patterns

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Image: Diaper Change on the Fountain Bench, by Sean Dreilinger on Flickr

Need a diaper cover in a hurry, and they're all in the wash!?

I used to keep nylon pull-on pants around for just such an emergency!

They are all in the wash too?? Use a plastic bag!

Cut a T-shape out of a grocery bag for a baby under about 16 lbs., or a kitchen garbage bag for a bigger baby.

Cut the bottom part of your T about 10" (25cm) wide on the bottom fold of the plastic bag.

This is the crotch part of your emergency diaper cover.

Photo credit: Catherine McDiarmid-Watt

Cut the top part of your T across the width of the plastic bag. This will be the waist ties.

Make your T about 8" (20cm) high for small, 10" (23cm) high for medium or 13" (33cm) for large.

Cut the sides of your T curved, for better coverage. Cut open the waist ties, so you can tie it on over baby's diaper.

Ties can be about 20" (51cm) long for small, 23" (58cm) for medium or 27" (69cm) for large.

Trust me, it sounds more complicated than it is . . .

When you open up the cover, you should have a giant H shape.

Place a folded prefold diaper inside, place baby on top, and tie at each side of baby's waist.

If you really like this style of diaper cover, you can cut some more out of waterproof, rip-stop nylon for no-sew, indestructible, washable tie-on diaper covers.

Thanks to Catherine for this Frugal Baby Tip!

Diaper How-To Photo credit: Catherine McDiarmid-Watt
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Disposable Changing Pad

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👶 Diaper Quick Change Emergency Kit

👶 Safety 1st Oh Sh*t Kit

👶 Johnson's Tiny Traveler Baby Gift Set

👶 Daddy's Diaper Duty Apron

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👶 Disposable Diaper Changing Kit to Go

👶 Maki's Disposable Diaper Changing Kit to Go

Do you have any old, shrunk and matted wool sweaters?

Then you can make two excellent diaper covers per sweater. The more matted the sweater - the more waterproof the covers!

To Make: Cut equal-sided triangles from old, shrunk and matted 100% wool sweaters, and zigzag-stitch edges to prevent unraveling (optional).

You can usually get two small "baby bum sweaters" from one adult sweater, or one large baby bum sweater.

Sizing as follows:
Premie.....cut three sides of triangle by 10 inches (26cm)
Newborn....cut three sides of triangle by 12 inches (31cm)
Medium.....cut three sides of triangle by 16 inches (41cm)
Toddler....cut three sides of triangle by 20 inches (51cm)
Super......cut three sides of triangle by 24 inches (61cm)

Image: Cut along cutting lines for one baby bum sweater. Set aside the wrist-bands for use as leg bands on your baby bum sweater

Picture one

Picture one: Cut along cutting lines (red dashes in picture) for one baby bum sweater. Set aside the wrist-bands for use as leg bands on your baby bum sweater.

Image: This is what your pattern should look like - using the sweater's waistband as the baby bum sweater waistband

Picture two

Picture two: This is what your pattern should look like - using the sweater's waistband as the baby bum sweater waistband.

Image: Fold up the material towards the waist band. Bring waist-band sides together at front

Picture three

Picture three: Fold up the material towards the waist band. Bring waist-band sides together at front.

Image: Sew along lines, about halfway along sides to form leg-holes. Be careful not to sew the leg-holes completely shut. You can adjust the leg hole openings, larger or smaller, to fit your baby's legs

Picture four

Picture four: Sew along lines, about halfway along sides to form leg-holes. Be careful not to sew the leg-holes completely shut. You can adjust the leg hole openings, larger or smaller, to fit your baby's legs.

Image: Your bum sweater should look something like this. Now take the wrist-bands you set aside earlier, and sew around the leg openings

Picture five

Picture five: Your bum sweater should look something like this. Now take the wrist-bands you set aside earlier, and sew around the leg openings.You can thread a crochet tie through the waistband.

To use: Multi-layered or double diapers work best with these covers. Pull-on over diaper and tie in front.

TIP: Check out your local Goodwill, second-hand stores or other thrift stores for second-hand wool sweaters to use - very cheap!

Thanks to Catherine for this Frugal Baby Tip and instructional pics!

Image: zefen Reusable Baby Diaper Cover/Knit Co | Natural, so soft, breathable, waterproof. Perfect with prefolds for hot climate

Reusable Diaper Cover

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🚼 Frugal Diapering: Free Crochet Wool Soaker patterns

🚼 FREEBIE: Knit/Crochet/Sew Soaker patterns

🚼 Frugal Diaper Sewing: Free Diaper and Cover Patterns

🚼 Frugal Sewing: Make your own diaper cover pull-ons

🚼 Diaper Sewing: Making a fleece pull-on pant

🚼 Frugal Diapering: Make Your Own Baby Bum Sweaters

🚼 Diaper Sewing: More Free Wool Soaker Patterns

🚼 Diaper Sewing: 2 layer fleece soaker

🚼 Diaper Washing: Washing Wool Soakers

Knitting Baby Soakers

Shopping Suggestions:

🚼 Knitting Baby Soakers - features 13 vintage soakers, 2 shirts, and a bib.

🚼 Pea Patch Diaper Soaker Knitting Pattern - This pattern is for a knitted wool cloth diaper cover much like your grandma or great-grandma may have used!

🚼 Unisex Diaper Cover Pattern - This adorable knit diaper cover is perfect for baby to wear anytime, or for pictures.

🚼 PATTERN PDF - Little man diaper cover and bow tie set -- 2 sizes From CrochetMyLove