Lunchbox Love Notes…Wednesday Windings 08/31/2011
We’re back in school again. Which means extra laundry, extra chores, early bedtimes, and packing lunches.
Which means more lunchbox notes!
This year I’ve got to make even more of them, since Speedracer’s off in school now too. I had stockpiled enough for one each day of the first week ready when they started last Monday. Yes, that’s 15 of them! It was about 2 hours of bustle in my workshop to get them done.
They go really fast once you get started. It’s a great way to try out different techniques too, because if they don’t turn out quite right no one is going to complain. The ribbon on Speedracer’s dino note was a little odd because I started with one idea and changed my mind.
This one was a piece of paper I had already punched the circle out of.
It made a perfect frame for the dinosaurs smiling face!
I stockpile stickers all year round if I find them for a good price. That cute W sticker was in a sheet of 12 different “W”s clearances for $1! I really like to find anything textured or dimensional. The kids love glitter, jewels, fuzz, or google-eyes.
I've got a whole sheet of 3D snake stickers to use up.
If I can’t get enough pop from the stickers, then I can add buttons or ribbon for that extra bling. I love using just a scrap of ribbon for some texture or extra color since most of my paper scraps tend to be solids ( I use the pattern scraps on my full sized cards).
I found a whole set of puffy knight and dragon stickers somewhere and the "shield" is just a tag punch layered upside down.
I know the kids enjoy them because they save them in the pockets of their lunchboxes and pull them out and look through them later. Speedracer pulled his out the other day and was playing fighting with them. “Oh no! Dragon! Ah! Crash! Monster truck run you over! Roar! Ah!”
This was another leftover punch scrap. I fit the star in there to fill the space with some color. That tiny ric-rac was leftover from a school scrapbook page. This card is only 2.5 x 2 inches.
And if you’re thinking “What about the Ladybug?” well, head on over to the Fresh blog and check out everything pink, purple, and flowered for my girl!
Do you have any special Back to School projects up your sleeve?
These are so adorable – and what a sweet idea for them!! How creative 🙂
you are such an awesome mom!
Thanks!
You must have more than 24 hours in your day to get all these extra things done! I really just want to know what you pack to eat in your kiddos lunch boxes. I need ideas!
I’m not too exciting on that front. LOL. I have tons of ideas bookmarked, but mostly we just do sandwiches. My kids are not adventurous eaters (especially the littlest one!) so they don’t complain about getting the same thing every day. I’ll mix it up with soup and leftovers for the Ladybug because she likes stuff like that, but we just do fruit, sandwich, chips, and dessert.
What a sweet thing to do your your little ones Ÿ I ♥ that idea. Thanks for visiting me over at Pittypat Paperie and leaving the sweet comment. Drop by again one day.