Edible Pilgrim Hats

We had a thanksgiving play group at our house today, so for a little treat I made Pilgrim hats. These are the ingredients you will need:

First take you chocolate and melt them on low heat over the stove.  While the chocolate is melting lay the cookies that survived the trip in the grocery store, from your children fighting over who got to hold them.  You will want them facing down.

Take the marshmallow and cover 3/4th of it with chocolate if you want you can cover it all with chocolate, but I wanted to have a little "belt" so I left a little bit of the marshmallow showing.  Use a little bit of chocolate to "glue" it to the cookies.  Use your yellow frosting to draw a square for the buckle.  I did around 30 of these and it took me about 20 minutes!  Happy Thanksgiving

Name Tags

If your in charge of Thanksgiving, here is a great idea for name tags.  I found at our local craft store some little pumpkins, in fact I think they were squash because I think they were greenish colored originaly, but anyway they looked liked pumpkins to me.  I sprayed them gold to match my other decorations, and printed out names on cardstock, and tied it to the stem of the pumpkin.  You could make these pumpkins any color to match your table settings, very fun, and very easy!

Hats Anyone?

Last year I made these cute pilgrim hats, out of felt.  They turned out really cute.  I don't have step by step pictures so I will try to explain as best as I can.

Boy Pilgrim Hat:  I measured the head and made a circle that size.  Then draw a circle two to three inches bigger.  You now will have two circles, the smaller one inside the bigger one.  Then you cut out the smaller circle,and cut around the big circle, so you will now have a ring, two to three inches wide.  You will now made a rectangle that has the long side the same length as the circumference of the head, plus enough for the seam.  So for example I measure my kids head and it is 22 inches.  I would now cut a rectangle 23 inches long, which gives you 22 inches, plus a half an inch seam for each side.  You will now add your embellishments, like the belt strip and the buckle, then you will put the rectangle right side together and sew down the short side-it will now look like a tube.  Right side together sew the tube top to the circle base and turn.  I cut down the back side of the hat so it looked a little more "pilgrimy" instead of a top hat. 

Girls Pilgrim Hat:  Measure the girls head from cheek to cheek and any extra length you want to hang down the sides.  Then cut a rectangle.  Make a casing on both long sides of the rectangle. For the casing on the back you can make it little-it just needs to be wide enough to fit the elastic in.  Pull the elastic tight so that it will gather and make a little "pocket" for the head.  

If you have kids coming to your thanksgiving this is a fun thing to have!

Turkey Placemats

I made these turkeys with a bunch of friends.  I wasn't the one with the pattern, and I am not sure where the pattern came from, so I can give credit.  But I thought they turned out so cute, and it would be a simple thing to copy, even without the pattern.  The shapes are very basic.

What you will want to do is get heat n' bond aka wonder under.  You will want to make all your shapes on the heat and bond, cut around them, and then iron it on to the back of the fabric you want to use. Then cut out the actual shape.  After you have all the shapes cut, peel off the heat n bond, and layer them how you want on to a piece of fabric.  I used just a simple muslin.  Make sure you hold the iron on long enough to make them all stick. Then cut the turkey out, so you can't see any of the backing.

 For the stitching I hand stitched using embroidery floss around the feet, face, gobble and eyes. Then used my sewing machine and a basic zig-zag to do around the body and the feathers. 

These were super easy and went together fast, they only thing is the hand sewing, but I just took it when I sat and watched my daughter at the gym.

I plan on using them at Thanksgiving with a fun tablecloth and accessories, but for now they are enjoying our table.