{"id":688,"date":"2011-11-29T01:49:00","date_gmt":"2011-11-29T01:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2011\/11\/a-quick-holiday-craft-idea.html"},"modified":"2011-11-29T01:49:00","modified_gmt":"2011-11-29T01:49:00","slug":"a-quick-holiday-craft-idea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2011\/11\/a-quick-holiday-craft-idea.html","title":{"rendered":"A Quick Holiday Craft Idea"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been contemplating holiday crafts for Dave’s squadron’s Christmas party.  I’m helping to set it up.<\/p>\n

(Oops, did I say “Christmas?”  I mean, um, “Holiday<\/i>“.)<\/p>\n

I recalled doing God’s Eyes<\/a> in Girl Scouts and Sunday school when I was growing up.  With all these remnants of yarn hanging around from my HAP afghan<\/a> rectangles, and a huge box of popsicle sticks in my craft drawer, this was an easy one for my kids!<\/p>\n

With standard craft popsicle sticks, these are perfect size for the Christmas tree! <\/p>\n

If you don’t have popsicle sticks on hand, just march out to the backyard and pick up two sticks!<\/p>\n

It’s fun to see my kids grow in dexterity and pick up on more difficult crafts!<\/p>\n

The kids “tested” out this craft with some multi-colored yarn, but I have a bunch of holiday colors for the party.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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Timmy’s alway been my “craft” kid, and he did most of one of these with a smile!<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n
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This one is Jacob’s completed God’s eye.  Hanging on the tree!<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve been contemplating holiday crafts for Dave’s squadron’s Christmas party.  I’m helping to set it up. (Oops, did I say “Christmas?”  I mean, um, “Holiday“.) I recalled doing God’s Eyes in Girl Scouts and Sunday school when I was growing up.  With all these remnants of yarn hanging around from my HAP afghan rectangles, and a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[],"tags":[75,26,54],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5ycQ0-b6","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1717,"url":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2013\/02\/happy-birthday-to-timmy.html","url_meta":{"origin":688,"position":0},"title":"Happy Birthday to Our Timmy!","date":"04 February 13","format":false,"excerpt":"This year Timmy asked for a Nyan Cat birthday party. So he got one. 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