Tag: diy
DIY Angry Bird Easter Hat
This coming Thursday, April 13, Marshall will have his first Easter hat parade at school. Parents are encouraged to work with the kids to create their own easter bonnet or hat. Hurray to DIY! …and to our old surprise eggs! Since we also have Angry Birds eggs, we decided that we should go for an Angry Birds Theme.
These are the materials:
*old surprise eggs
*glue gun (with glue stick, of course)– parental guidance is a must đ
*small pompoms
*felt cloth (black, white, green — to go with our theme)
*pair of scissors — again, parental guidance is a must đ
*felt hat (which we bought from K mart.. It was actually a frog felt hat, so we just made some changes to make it an angry bird piggy.)
First, we cut out a green oval to form a nose of the angry bird piggy.
and stuck two tiny black felt for the nostrils. 
Then, we also cut out two round white felt and stuck tiny black felt on both to form a pair of eyes.
After that, we prepared piggy eyebrows using a cut out black felt cloth.
This is how it looks after sticking them on the felt hat using a glue gun. Thereafter, we glued the egg surprise on top of the hat.
I made a grass out of the green felt then glued around the felt hat.
Lastly, we added yellow pompoms on the grass tips.
Tadaa! :))
In total, we only spent $2 for the felt hat since we already have our supplies from our not-so-quiet books. And we made this easter hat in just 15 minutes. It’s that simple! đ
Yey! Ready for the Easter Hat Parade! đ
I bet you can also do your own easter hat using old stuff!
Here’s a short video of our DIY Angry Birds Easter Hat. Happy Easter everyone! :))
Zoo-themed party! (Marshall @ 2)
November 07, 2015 was Marshall’s 2nd birthday. And yes, again this was a super late entry considering that was a year and a half ago. Anyway, he’s birthday at that time fell on a weekend, and thankfully, he was with us in Singapore! Hurray! Nevertheless, I still did an open letter for him đ
Considering it’s a foreign country, we knew that it would cost a leg and an arm to throw a kiddie birthday party unless we would be frugal enough to just celebrate it at home. On the other hand, we will be leaving Singapore at that time, for good, so might as well consider it as a despedida too.
We surveyed and researched various venues to held the event and then we figured out that there’s no better place to paint the town red other than he’s favorite playhouse which is Happy Willow.
Upon checking their packages, we opted for the standard pixie and fun party. It wasn’t that costly so we called to book right away and we were lucky enough to get the exact day we wanted which is his actual birthday. We were also blessed that we met one of the staff there, Majoy, who is also a Filipino. She was very accommodating and tried to grant all our requests for the party. The package includes 2 hours use of the party room, party balloons for all children, free flow of Ice Water for kids, customized email invites and cards for guests. But she actually handed over hard copies of the invites. yey!
and what’s super cool is the Unlimited Playtime Fun in the play garden. It was also nice to know that her sister, Hazel, has a catering business, Kitchen Therapy, so we also got the contact from her to order our food and our cake. Right there and then we already hit two stones at a time.
We wanted a zoo themed party but not to the extent of spending too much. Hence, we decided to do some DIY decorations, props, and souvenirs.
We printed some images and letterings for the decors.
Dada and I were both hands on with the preparation.
Even Marshall was also lending a hand. Good job! đ
Remember these souvenirs from Marshall’s christening? There were few more left, so we decided to just change the photo and give it as a souvenir. đ
We cut out animal images and stapled it on brown bags to make it our loot bags. Yey to DIY!
Since the venue is a play house, there were already some decors, but we added some more animal printed banderitas that we cut out.
Busyng-busy ang mommy đ
We also provided socks for the guests, and of course, it was animal printed. Remember these photo accessories? These were the same accessories we used on Marshall’s 1st birthday! 
The food were sumptuous! đ
We bought animal-shaped paper plates, party hats, and tissue for the kids to make it more fun! đ 
Marshmallows that we also decorated by putting a toothpick with a giraffe image. đ
Our DIY loot bags đ
This is actually a yema cake from Kitchen Therapy. Lovely! đ
Chocolate cupcakes also from Kitchen Therapy! It’s so cute right? đ
Feeling may birthday! đ
Marshall with Nanay đ
We didn’t prepare for a program. It was just a free and fun event for everyone!
I guess everyone we’re tickled pink! Thank God for this blessing! đ
2017 Christmas in Oz preparation
This will be our first Christmas here in Australia. As much as we want to celebrate Christmas back home (Philippines), our air ticket budget was already used up on our holiday last October.
Nevertheless, there’s no reason not to celebrate this special occasion.
Speaking of budget, we wanted to have a  joyful yet not too expensive celebration. So this year, we decided to do some diys.
First is our Christmas wreath.
We used a round plastic and covered it with green felt paper. I still have quite a number of felt papers from doing Marshall’s quiet book. So rather than keeping it in the storage, why not use it.
Here’s Marshall helping me out. He actually felt the glue gun was hot so he was extra careful.
Here it is :))
Christmas is a time for giving. “Sharing is caring” as he would always say. We want Marshall to practice the act of kindness so I asked him to help out with the packing of some chocolate goodies. Turns out he ate some of it. haha!
These are what’s inside a goody. It’s not much but it”s the thought that counts đ
Made a few for Marshall’s friends.
Dada and I also decided to give a little something for our cenacle family as a gratitude for welcoming us in their group.
We bought some candles and we customized the designs.
A closer look to each design..
santa claus đ
snowman đ
rudolph đ
another rudolph đ
And here’s a video of us setting up our Christmas tree đ
spot mami and marshall đ
As for Marshall’s gift, we didn’t plan anything big, just like the previous years. We don’t want him to grow up being used to receiving splendor gifts from us. We want to teach him the value of frugality and contentment on little things. So this year, dada and I decided to recycle his eggs surprise for his Christmas gift.
We placed some small toys which are also not that expensive but he’d most likely be surprise when he sees these.
Not to mention, we added some twist on its packaging. hihi!
Can’t wait to see what’s his reaction! haha! labyu! đ
Have a Joyful Christmas and a Blessed 2017Â from our family to yours! :))
Leave a comment #1 not-so-quiet book (SHAPES)
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match the item on a designated shape and learn to button
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build a train by matching the shapes through snapping.
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DIY Playdough
I guess almost everyone, if not all children (and adults, too) have a soft spot for clay or play dough. Aside from the fact that it brings enjoyment to kids, it has a plethora of benefits. Some of it are fine motor skill development, hand and eye coordination, artistic and imagination progress, and a considerable number of other advantages.
These are the ingredients to make your own play dough:
- 4 cups flour
- 1 1/2 cup salt
- 2 tbsp oil
- food color
- 1 cup of water
Watch our easy and messy DIY playdough video here đ
E for elephant
This week is E week!
As you can see in the photo, we made our own version of Elephant craft.
It’s very easy as you just need to use paper plates and some art papers.
Check out more of our A-Z activities. đ
Here’s Marshall’s video of his elephant đ
Vday
good morning hug!
baby shower
September 09, 2013
Of course your parents are very frugal, so again, we decided to celebrate our baby shower.. where? at home. đ
It was just a simple yet fun celebration. We decorated the house. We cooked some foods. Some of our friends and colleagues were there to celebrate your upcoming arrival.
Yey! It’s a boy! Those are DIY decors and made use of mom’s stuff toys for additional design.
DIY souvenirs: These are Hersheys chocolates which we just covered the other letters with pen marker and left the letters “HE” just to reveal that it’s a boy!
We printed out some “wishes for baby” forms for our friends to fill out. 
This was a board for suggested names. Because at this moment, we haven’t finalized your name yet. haha
And everyone was so busy and having fun filling up the forms and thinking of names for you. hehehe
These were some of the names suggested for you. Unfortunately, none of them got it right! hehe
We had a lot of gifts, and of course, mostly baby items đ
There were baby clothes (from Fisher Price)
Some more baby clothes..
Baby towel,
Complete set of baby skin products from J&J.
And of course baby bottle from AVENT.
Baby clothes again, baby shoes..
Baby rocking chair..! Wow! We were very thankful for all these gifts!
You may also check Kokopax for more baby shower gift ideas. đ
And these were the wishes for you..
Dada and I enjoyed this celebration and we feel so blessed for all the love and support from our dear friends. đ
