Makenzie and I were searching for a new craft project and I came across plarn. I'd NEVER heard of it before, have you? It's plastic yarn made out of bags, so it's environmentally friendly and gives you a use for all of your old Wal-Mart bags, or actually any type of bag, some of the crafters were using bread bags and they turned out great! I was wishing they still had the blue Wal Mart bags so we can make some blue plarn. It so easy to make plarn but I added a video so you can see for yourself just how easy it is!
Our first project was to make little dish scrubbers out of the plarn. I think our next project will be a plarn bag or purse. We plan on making water bottle carriers, doll clothes, and an outside rug. Just type plarn in your search engine and a LOT of thigs will come up!
Makenzie made a scrubbie and so did I, they are super easy!
Here are a couple of sites that have directions for plarn crafts
At least these girls just wanted to have fun. On Friday our coop had to cancel our homeschool meeting so we asked friends to come over and play. They built a fort in Kenzie's room, crocheted, sang and danced like crazy! It was a fun time and we can't wait to have them over again for more fun! Oh, I had video of them dancing and singing and it's too cute!
It really made us think about all the smells, sights, sounds and everything when Jesus was born in a stable, very realistic and something the kids will not forget!
The movie area
Storytime
The view
Kylan loved the "sheep dog"
The donated yarn
The beautiful red barn
On Saturday we headed out to Claremore to Shepherds Cross because we really wanted to see their living nativity. As we were leaving Dr. Diane donated a bunch of yarn to Punky Monkey Missions so Makenzie has a lot of crocheting to do now, her latest project is crocheting scarves for a homeless shelter in our area. If you have time drive out and check out Shepherds Cross, they have the living nativity, a store, a movie, refreshments and while we were there they had a story teller.
