Crafty and Creative things that you can do yourself to give as gifts or just brighten up your home. Copied as found on facebook and shared here. I do not claim the photos or ideas as my own. These have been shared on facebook and copied here to find easier. :)
Ingredients for assembly: - Plain Omelet (blanket) - Cooked Brown Rice (bear) - 1 Sausage link (body)
Instructions:
Step 1- Mold warm rice into balls. Two small balls for the ears and one
larger one for the head. You can also mold an arm if desired. For
snout, you can use either white rice or a small piece of mozzarella
cheese. Step 2- Cook your sausage link. Once fully cooked, place sausage under Teddy bear rice head.
Step 3- Cook up omelet. Once done to satisfaction, gently lay atop
sausage up to the “neck”. You can also use a piece of the omelet for
the egg.
1/2 cup salt, 1/2 cup flour and about
1/4 cup water (I used a little more, about 3/8 cup) knead it (roll in
ball and flatten out repeatedly) until it is all held together, flatten
it out (can make one big one, two medium ones or three small ones),
push your LO's foot onto it and pop in the oven at 200 degrees for three
hours.
Round non-stick cake pan (You could also use a heart-shaped pan) Vaseline Contact paper Old plates or saucers that you don’t need (I got mine at the thrift store) Glass gems sea glass (optional) concrete marine varnish Mosaic Glass Cutter (Optional. I did not use one of these, but if you want more precise cuts, this is the way to go.) chicken wire or other type of wire mesh safety glasses rubber gloves dust mask hammer bucket trowel water
Put your safety glasses on. Place a plate or saucer inside a cloth bag
or cover with an old sheet or towel, and smash it with a hammer. If you
have a mosaic glass cutter, use it instead. Repeat until you have all
the pieces you need. You’ll probably want a variety of sizes.
Place your cake pan on your contact paper, and trace around it.
Cut out the contact paper circle. Remove backing and place inside pan
sticky side up. Add your mosaic pieces to the contact paper with the
desired design facing down. Press each piece down so it is firmly stuck
to the contact paper. Leave enough space between the pieces so that the
cement can fill the spaces in between – but don’t leave too much room.
(When I make my next stepping stone, I will move the pieces a bit closer
together.) Carefully lift the piece of contact paper and view your
design.
If you are happy with your design, place the design
back into the pan with the sticky side up. Head outdoors, put on your
dust mask and mix up your concrete according to the instructions on the
bag. It will be the consistency of porridge when it’s ready.
Meantime, cut a square piece of chicken wire or wire mesh to fit inside
the stepping stone. This will help to support it. Also, line the inside
rim of your cake pan with Vaseline for easy releasing.
Don your
rubber gloves and spoon some concrete into your cake pan. Spread so it
evenly covers your design, about an inch thick. Place your piece of wire
mesh onto the wet concrete. Spread another one inch layer of concrete
over the wire.
Let sit for two days. (I set mine in the shed.)
When it’s ready, turn it over and tap on the back of the cake pan. It
should release easily. Slowly remove contact paper.
If there
are holes, you can fill them with cement. You can use sand paper to
smooth grooves in the cement. I took a wet sponge and cleaned the entire
area after removing the contact paper, then I varnished it with marine
varnish.
