The Annotated Ankle Biter

A couple of years ago, I got a really cute play tent made by Bazoongi for my daughter’s birthday. The kids loved playing with it, and I was wishing I could use it this year for the kids to play in at her birthday party. Unfortunately, leaving the tent out in the sun destroyed the material. It looked like a perforated, papery sort of material, similar to tea bags but much thicker. When I picked up the tent to move it, my hands were covered in a fine dust from the material disintegrating. I threw out the tent cover, but kept the tent poles thinking I’d make a new cover for it.

That was two years ago, but I still have the tent poles. I just did a search on the internet to see if there are any cute ideas for making play tents, and I stumbled on this blog article for making a canvas tepee style tent without any sewing. It looks like a fun project. The author has the kids decorate the tent with craft paint. My tent is shaped like a house, so I don’t know if using grommets and ties instead of sewing will work for me, but I like the idea of the craft so much, I wanted to post a link to it.

Looking a bit more, I saw an article called “Princess Tent for Zoe” which describes making a house-shaped tent. I already have my frame, but making a frame out of PVC doesn’t look that complicated. I can use the help in measuring the frame to make a pattern for my tent and sewing it together.

This was my first attempt at making an Easter Egg Tree. I used pussy willow branches, and I coloured my eggs with an Easter Egg kit that had dye tabs you dissolve in water (and vinegar) instead of food colour. I’m going to try food colour next year because the tabs didn’t dissolve completely. There were little lumps floating around in the water, and the eggs came out a bit spotted from lumps of dye that settled on them.

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