I made my niece a ballet tutu yesterday. Such a fun and easy way to delight a little princess...the best part is that you don't even have to thread a needle to make this! Simply cut netting into about 8cm panels and tie it around an already tied elastic waist band. You can finish it off with a satin bow...or with whatever you like for that matter - you can be as creative as you like (bells, ties, plastic packets, whatever you can find). 
...and she is staying with me till the the end of the year - so I currently have fruit on the brain! I did these with my 5 year olds this past week. Aren't they just amazing!!
My children started by drawing the outline of their mom's face with black pastel on a square piece of white cardboard. They then set off searching through magazines with a pair of scissors to find their features. We nursery-dyed the background and finished them off by adding touches of material, ribbon and sequence. The cards were then laminated with a poem and the child's handwritten name on the back. I told them to get dad to help them make mom breakfast in bed while popping this on the tray (with a handpicked flower from the garden) as a sweet surprise. So much fun!
The finished 'recycle art' piece on the night of our art auction. 
