Fall Frenzy Craft Project

This project is so easy, it will knock your socks off.

If you are a fan of QOTC on FB, then you may have seen this picture from earlier this morning:

I found these cute socks at Walgreens last night - they were 2/$6. I picked them up because I saw this on Pinterest. I thought it was super adorable and clever. But, I am not ready for winter just yet (it's still 105+ here, people). So I decided to make a gift my son's Kindergarten teacher, now that school is in full swing, and she's acclimated. Perhaps it's an "I'm Sorry!" gift. :)

I opted for the more current fall pumpkin theme.

I literally did my pumpkin in less than 15 minutes, while multi-tasking (listening in on a conference call). Remember, my office & craft room share a space.

I got all my supplies out...and made sure I had what I needed (or worked with what I had).

1) Scissors
2) Socks
3) Needle & Thread
4) Rice
5) Silly Eyes and miniature wooden dowels
6) Glitter Sticky Sheets
7) Wraphia (the brown paper string)
8) Hot glue gun
9) T-Pin or Pushpin

First, I cut off the ends of the socks. The top of one and then the bottom and top of the second one.

Then I used my brown rice to fill the plain sock.

Once I filled the sock up - I moved the rice around a little into the shape of a "pumpkin."

I then proceeded to add a little more rice to the second part of the sock (from where I sewed it shut) to create a stem. Using leftover sock (from the argyle one), I made a little hat. I hot glued the googly eyes on, used a small wooden dowel (dipped in orange paint) for the nose.

To ensure there was no guessing that lil' dude IS IN FACT a pumpkin, I cut out two leaves using the self-adhesive glitter paper and used a t-pin to secure it (to help the sticky stuff stay).

Finally, I wrapped wraphia around his neck and made a bow. That's it. Super easy and super cute. The teacher can use it as a decoration or even as a paper weight on her desk!

I highly recommend you checking out Then She Made... it's a cute blog and there you will find the instructions on how to make the snowmen. You know, for when it's colder out.

Anyone else feel like they have to bribe their students' teachers?!