Disney Tip Envelopes

My family is planning a fall vacation to Walt Disney World.  We are so excited and getting started plenty early with all the fun!

I made a planning binder last week that I will be posting about soon.  I love crafting, so I plan to post lots of projects and ideas over the course of the next several months.  Some will be my original ideas.  Others will be my take on various projects I have seen others create.  I hope all will be worthy of The Happiest Place on Earth!

Today, I made Mousekeeping tip envelopes / pockets for each night of our stay.  I opted for pockets, rather than envelopes, simply out of personal preference.  I like the idea of the Mousekeeping staff being able to identify it easily as a tip.  

I used various scrapbook papers and cardstock, a couple stickers and 2 small pieces of ribbon.  I hand cut the Mickey heads and letter M's.  

 Here is one with money in it so you can see how they actually work.

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Easy DIY Alphabet Matching Game

I was recently at Dollar Tree and happened to look through the school/office section.  I didn't expect to find anything exciting mid-year, but I found these adorable classroom decorations and immediately knew what I wanted to use them for.  

Super Tot and I are working a lot on learning the alphabet right now, so I thought doing an uppercase/lowercase letter match with them would be perfect.  I didn't want 26 (x2) pieces spread out all over, so I decided to make them attach to each other when he matches them.  Here is a simple tutorial for what I did.

I present these to Super Tot in two bowls - one with the worms and one with the apples.  He lays out all the apples (uppercase) and places the correct worm (lowercase) in each one.

I also purchased a second set with frogs and lily pads, which I intend to use for something similar.  Additionally, I have enough of the apples and worms left to do numbers 1-10, which I am excited about, too!

A week in the life of a scout elf...

All I know is that we are all going to miss Snoodle in a few days!!  

Playing Pacman

Snoodle switched out our stockings with little tiny ones and brought a HUGE one for himself!

 Relaxing on a picture frame.

Making little pancakes.

 Paper snowflakes: