Egg cartons brought double inspiration our way at Charlotte’s 9th birthday today. Knowing she loves owls inspired crafting them as the party’s “ice breaker” activity when kids arrived for party fun.

I knew just how we would create fabulous little owls using egg carton parts thanks to a lovely owl that hangs in the tree at CReATE made by a very crafty Meg earlier this spring. 

These little guys were so easy to make! We Dissected the carton into two halves, then used half the top for the body and cut two side by side cups from the egg side for eyes, if you lay the egg section face down the cups look especially like eyes and a beak! the party girls embellish with their favorite owlry goods for cute and crafty friends!

Owl Buddies

Charlotte’s 9th Birthday Gang

Dream…

When you have a message in your heart you want to share it, remember it, live it.

Sophie loves to dream and thinks it is a natural match to displaying it’s message in her room. Speaking of natural, she sought some of the more natural looking materials in the studio to help convey her beautifully simple message beginning with an artfully bowed branch.

With the branch as her anchor she began seeking scraps of burlap, linen, felt and sheet music helped to convey her message. The suede string was perfect for hanging  her message from and little metal office clips were just the right twist of real life in her natural story.

Thank you Sophie for reminding all of us to add that lovely idea to our everyday.

Dream

Sophie, 9yrs

Sebastian wanted to make a spider with his MOM earlier this week so they began searching through bins for the perfect parts of an arachnid. Stumbling on plastic easter eggs in the seasonal bin during the process Sebastian was inspired in a new direction, on more closely linked to the egg- a Humpty Dumpty!  He put a fresh spin on his eggy character by  layering up the egg parts to make a much stronger body as well as creating a new twist to an old story, no falling down here!

Hip Humpty Dumpty

Sebastian

5yrs