Every family has their favorite traditional foods they make for Christmas. In Michelle’s house, Christmas breakfast always includes a birthday cake for Baby Jesus. Although pancake men are not a part of our holiday celebration, the children enjoyed them just the same 🙂 In the book Christmas in the Big Woods, “For Christmas breakfast Ma …
Gnome Love Tote Give Away Winner
We drew a name at random for the Gnome Love Tote Bag Give Away and the winner is… Submitted by Lindsey on Sat, 12/11/2010 – 01:43. I love this design! We love gnomes at our house, my 5 year old son says that I don’t have to be afraid to go outside at night because …
Advent Week 3 – Christmas in the Big Woods
WEEK 3 – Celebrating With Family The book: Christmas in the Big Woods The craft: A Gingerbread House The recipe: Pancake men The applique: a log cabin Over the years I’ve made this observation… the way people celebrate the Holidays is almost as unique as their own fingerprints. Oh, sure, there are many family traditions …
Gnome Love Tote Give Away!
EDIT: This give away is now closed. Thanks to everyone that entered. We will announce the winner shortly. Good luck to all! This is a spur of the moment give away!!! The other day we told you about our Gnome Love design on Cafe Press. Originally, it wasn’t our intention to sell these products… …
Poinsettia Coloring Page
Print out our Poinsettia Coloring Page on regular or water color paper. Instructions for water coloring can be find HERE. The Poinsettia Coloring Page can be found HERE. Enjoy! Check out our complete collection of FREE Coloring pages HERE. https://www.weefolkart.com Copyright © Wee Folk Art 2008 – 2010. All rights reserved. All photos, text …
Mock Sopapillas Recipe Dessert
For this week’s Advent Activities we made this Mock Sopapillas Recipe. Yum! In the book, The Legend of the Poinsettia, by Tomie dePaola… “At home Lucida helped Mama clean their casita-their little house-and pat out the tortillas for their meals.” We did not make our own tortillas, but we used flour tortillas to make “Mock Sopapillas”. …
Wear Your Gnome Love
My mom made a request, actually it was more of a passing comment… she wanted a Wee Folk Art tote bag to carry around some of her crafty supplies. So I went off and designed a logo to have printed on a tote bag for her. Before ordering the bag I ran it past her …
Advent Poinsettia Applique Block
I realize that I shared a Poinsettia Applique Block a few weeks ago. Basically, for that block I simply took the poinsettia I made for the Christmas Poinsettia Garland and “flattened” it. I think I would have preferred the applique block better if I had 2 more contrasting felts, but I know our readers make their …
Mini Blanket Weaving :: Cardboard Loom Directions
Mini blanket weaving is a fun activity for children. Weaving is a great way to introduce children to yarn crafts and this mini blanket goes along wonderfully with our Advent Activities. In The Legend of the Poinsettia by Tomie dePaola, a little girl named Lucida lives in a small village in Mexico. Her family is …
Doll Clothing for 12″ knit doll
I was hoping to get a pattern up before the holidays for the sweet pea sleepers I made for the girl’s dolls. Unfortunately, it seems that all 12″ knit dolls are not the same. Every time I make a sleeper, I have to make them different because the sizes and shapes of the doll are greatly affected by …
Advent Week 2 – The Legend of the Poinsettia
The complete list of our Advent Celebration activities can be found HERE. Poinsettias and candy canes, mangers and evergreen trees are all symbols that have come to be associated with Christmas. Some symbols are pulled from history, others from fantasy, and some have been borrowed from other celebrations. Just like learning about how Christmas is …
Living Crafts
It is finally here… our Winter 2010/2011copy of Living Crafts magazine! We have been eagerly awaiting this issue… as some of you may have already noticed… we have a featured project in this issue. We crafted a play-along set to go with the book The Mitten. We designed a felt mitten that can come apart …