Monday, February 14, 2011

Farm animals on a stick

My cousin turns 1 on Saturday. I wasn't sure what to get for him but then I remembered this from Make It & Love It and decided to do something similar. I found a cute lift-the-flap book about farm animals in the dollar spot at Target. Instead of making the animals stuffed, I decided to put them on popsicle sticks (because apparently kids LOVE things on sticks!). Here is the line up...
Mr. Sheep
 Mr. Rooster
 Miss Pig
 Mrs. Duck
 Here they all are partying together.
 The sheep is my favorite. Here he is next to the sheep from the book.
Want to know how I got him to look so similar the the drawing? I traced the animals out of the book onto tissue paper and used it as a template for cutting out my felt! If I had tried to free-hand the animals they would have looked like blobs...or aliens...or some sort of giant mess.
Let me know if you are interested in a more in depth tutorial because I'm pretty sure I'm going to have to make more (even though Madie knows these are for baby Jack, I don't think she realizes that that means she no longer gets to play with them come Saturday).

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  1. LeslieFebruary 14, 2011 at 11:33 AM

    Great idea! I wish I'd seen this two weeks ago, I just made some felt barnyard animals for a party last weekend. These would have been so adorable to have lying around for the kids to play with!

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  2. AmandaFebruary 16, 2011 at 6:18 AM

    These are so cute, thanks for sharing

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  3. Laurel {Make and Takes}February 16, 2011 at 6:36 AM

    These are really adorable! I'd love for you to submit this to the M&T Spotlight at http://www.makeandtakes.com/spotlight

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  4. Stacy RisenmayFebruary 16, 2011 at 2:30 PM

    I teach music to the kids at church and this would be perfect for the tiny one in nursery!

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  5. JodieFebruary 16, 2011 at 7:03 PM

    Very cute! I bet my daughter would love to have some of those!

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  6. nicolette {momnivores dilemma}February 17, 2011 at 11:07 AM

    make a barn too! this could be such a cute puppet show.

    please share this with my readers @
    Creative Juice Thursday

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  7. nicolette {momnivores dilemma}February 21, 2011 at 12:29 PM

    Thanks for linking to Creative Juice! Hope to see you back this Thursday.

    <3
    nicolette

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