Knitting Goldilocks

I have been thinking of little puppet stories to tell to my boys and others.
We have three great wooden bears.
Here Goldilocks is born:

Knit a rectangle:
Size 4 knitting needles
Cast On 12 stitches in skin color
Knit about 1 "
change color to dress color (pale pink) leave a long tail for use in sewing
Knit about 2 inches bind off.

Using tale of correct color thread gather top of head then sew down to neck.

Begin sewing with pink down to bottom of skirt. (tie knot but do not trim, if tail long enough use to close)

Stuff head with wool, then use yarn from neck and sew a running stitch to gather, then knot.

Stuff body then sew bottom shut with a running and gather stitch.

Add hair and hat or hood.

But Goldilocks turned into Violet the farmers daughter in our Harvest tail.

Two Dolls to Norway

These are the dolls I made to send to our friends in Norway.

One for big brother and one for new sister

Milk Paint

I recently saw a recipe online about making milk paint.  I could not remember if it used evaporated milk or sweetened condensed milk.  When I saw evaporated milk for 69 cents earlier today, I put it in the cart.

We are at Grandma and Grandpa's this week.  It was 98 degrees yesterday and very hot today.  When a storm came through we found ourselves on the porch enjoying a bit of outside.  I thought it was the perfect time to use our milk paint recipe and paint on the porch.  My boys loved it.

 We taped a few layers of old drafting paper on the porch.  Found three paintbrushes.

Then divided a 3 oz can of evaporated milk between three containers and added food coloring to our desired tint for green, blue, and yellow.

We painted until the brushes ventured off of the paper to Grandpa's porch. (We easily cleaned it off with soapy water).  I stored the paint in the refrigerator to use again tomorrow.