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A Piece of My Heart Homemade Ornaments

Whenever I look at our Christmas tree, I have to smile. Slowly over the years, all of our beautiful glass bulbs have been being replaced one by one by homemade keepsake ornaments.  Our tree is filled with so much love and memories.

Pieces of my heart salt dough puzzle piece ornaments that kids can actually make. Christmas arts and crafts. This is a sweet handmade gift that your children can make for the family.

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My daughter has been insistent that our tree doesn’t have enough ornaments this year, so we have been working on filling it up. Salt dough ornaments are our favorite. With cookie cutters and paint, there are a million possibilities. We had an idea to press puzzle pieces into our clay to make these “pieces of my heart” ornaments.

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Puzzle Piece Spider

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If you have old puzzles with missing pieces lying around, instead of throwing them out, consider using your old puzzle pieces to make a cute puzzle craft . Here is a quick and easy craft for the kids for Halloween.

Puzzle Piece Spider Craft

Paint a puzzle piece for each spider that you would like to make.

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Dot on gray spots & let the paint dry.

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Use a hot glue gun to glue googly eyes on. (Use caution when using hot glue. Adults should operate the glue gun.)

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Cut 4 pipe cleaners in half for each spider.

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Bend the pipe cleaners & glue in place.

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Recycled Puzzle Piece Fire Engine

Recycled Puzzle Piece Fire Engine

 

A few weeks back we made a butterfly craft out of an old Doc Mcstuffins puzzle that had missing pieces. We still have several other pieces left & you all know how I hate to throw anything away, so please excuse me if I go a little crazy on puzzle piece crafts until I use them all up.

My daughter may be a little princess, but she also likes to play like a boy as well. She loves dinosaurs, bugs, cars & trucks. She had been asking to make trucks the last few days, so tonight we finally did,

We glued two end pieces together & let them dry.

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We decided on a fire truck, so Mai painted the pieces red. We painted the blank back side of our puzzle pieces.

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After the red dried, we added in our windows & other details using paint & markers for the finer details.

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We glued our pieces to a piece of construction paper & painted in our wheels & a ladder. These would make a cute wall hanging in a child’s room.

Recycled Puzzle Piece Fire Engine

 

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Recycled Puzzle Butterfly Craft & Sunday’s Best Link Up #14

Recycled Puzzle Butterfly

 

Yesterday we worked on our sight words using puzzle pieces. We worked on our sight word puzzles for a good portion of the morning. I have to admit that it paid off. I could not have been any happier when later that afternoon, Mai ran up to me with a drawing that she had been working on & said  “Look mama, I made mom.” She wrote it twice without any help spelling or writing the letters. This was her first written word other than her own name & practicing letters. My heart swelled.

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In the midst of our learning fun with the puzzle pieces, we found some other crafty uses for some of our old puzzles pieces. We flipped our Doc McStuffins puzzle over & found two similar pieces.

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I drew out a design in black marker on each piece so that they mirrored one another.IMG_0288

Mai colored in the pieces using crayons & markers. You can use paint as well.IMG_0289 IMG_0292

After coloring in the pieces, we used glue to dribble on random designs & then shook on glitter.IMG_0294 IMG_0295

While the glitter was drying, I drew a butterfly body to attach our puzzle piece wings to.IMG_0297

I colored in the wings & then used Elmer’s glue to glue the pieces into place. We made small & large butterflies using our old puzzles.

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The result was these cute little butterflies.

Butterfly Craft made out of recycled puzzle pieces

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Now on to the main event.

 
 
Welcome to Week 14 of  Mother 2 Mother’s Sunday’s Best Linkup We want to wish each of you a Happy and Blessed Easter. We hope you’re enjoying lots of peeps, chocolate bunnies, colored eggs, good food and having lots of fun with family and friends.  



We’re starting our April Showers theme this month. As they say, April Showers Bring May Flowers, but they also cause us to spend lots of time indoors. We’re looking for indoor activities for kids, Mother’s Day ideas, recipes, crafts, DIY, organizational tips, summer garden preparation tips, SEO and blogging tips. Anything that we can work on during those rainy days. Blow the dust off your old posts and link those too. Don’t have posts that fit into the theme, link up whatever post you would like to share. We would love to have parenting tips, DIY projects, homesteading, homeschooling, and your posts on family and life. Your linkups and giveaways are welcome here too. Anything goes, as long as it’s family friendly and you may linkup as many posts as you would like. 

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Kim U. selected Letter to My Girls About the Mean Girl from Confessions of a Mommyaholic  






I selected PB Knock Off Fur Trimmed Pillow from Do It Yourself Inspiration





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