I found it interesting to pay more attention to the blogs I write that get regular traffic and one of my more popular ones was on making an Inuit diorama with my daughter last year. I remember when we started the project we looked online for ideas. I didn’t see many or any photos that I remember so when we finished my daughter had so much fun and did such a good job I took photos and did a little blog. Lo and behold it gets hit several times a week. So… I decided to do another crafty type blog on an adorable craft I did for a class I taught this winter in our lovely log cabin nature center.
Racoon mount, Nature Center
Pocket the corn snake
The photos should be self explanatory but it is a super simple craft. I called my local elementary school and asked them to save me a garbage bag full of used milk cartons. That was the hardest part, it took me well over an hour to wash them out and dry them well. I left the cartons open so they would dry out inside as well. All the kids need to do is cover the carton with icing, I used vanilla and let them spread it on with a popcicle stick. I stay away from plastic stuff if I can. All they do after that is use pretzel sticks to cover the “cabin”. I gave each of them a couple of small tootsie rolls to use as chimneys. If you want to get fancy I suppose you could do more like buy square pretzels for windows. We kept it simple (cheaper) and the kids had a blast.
Pretzel Log Cabin
creatively done by 5 year old
