Shhh...can you keep a secret

So I am lettin' you all in on a couple of secrets, here are some gifts that I made. So if you are a teacher at my kids school, look away now so you don't spoil the surprise. The other one is a gift for my daughter, so if you see her don't mention this gift.

so the first one is the teacher gift.

I got a canister from a dollar store, then painted chalkboard paint on the lid. Made coloured popcorn, and added some jelly beans. Attached a card and done! 

Sorry Mrs. Buekert if you are still reading this, just act surprised when my daughter gives this to you.

 Now for gift #2. This one is for my daughter. She loves horses. For her birthday she was given the barbie horse, as well as my old barbie horse stuff from many moons ago. All I hear is the sound of the horses hooves on her laminate floor above my room. She makes her own jumps out of anything, quite creative actually. So I thought I would make her some "real" horse jumps from scraps of wood we had.

My son did the painting of hem. He was quite excited about this project as  we both know how much she is just gonna love these. And is was great to see him so into it.

So these are all the ones we made. I really like how the Canada flag one turned out. And she loves butterflies and flowers.

These 2 represent her favourite colours. The pink/white/brown one is how her room is painted.

So the supplies used was:

1"x1" scrap wood

coffee stir sticks for the base

wooded shish kabob skewers 

wooden dowels

wood glue

hot glue

craft paint

paper

punches

Tools used:

Drill to drill holes into the stands to put skewers in to hold up the poles

tin snips to cut off the pointy end of the skewers

glue gun

punches for butterflies and flowers

paint brushes

Really this project only cost me about $8 and most of that was buying new paint as mine had dried out.