Growth Chart & Noodle Beads

Growth Chart
We used to mark the kids' height on a 2x4 downstairs in our furnace room. Norah was less than impressed with this and since we don't plan on living in this house forever.... something had to change.

I found this Pottery Barn knockoff growth chart tutorial at 517 creations and knew we needed one. So we made one for the kids' room... then we made three for our church's craft sale! The tutorial is so easy, give it a try.:)

We used walnut stain on the boards then, Joel measured and marked off the lines. Finally, I added the numbers and went over the lines with a paint pen. The boards aren't very heavy so Joel just added a sawtooth hanger hook on the back. We might need to reinforce ours a little, Henry likes to to walk and swing it like a pendulum.

If we ever have a "play-room" I think this chart would look great in there but, It looks good in the kids' bedroom too.

 Here are the three for the craft sale. We just tied a ribbon around the rop with a tag including the price and hanging instructions. Hopefully someone thinks they're as cute as I do!

Noodle-beads

I think I got this idea from pinterest. Joel picked up a black rope and two swim noodles from the hardware store($0.99 a piece) and I just used a serrated knife to cut "beads" between 1-2 inches in length. I think the rope is 15 feet in length, if I remember correctly.

Norah LOVES activites like this so, she will enjoy many hours taking the beads off just to put them back on.

I'm always on the look-out for easy good projects I can make and enjoy with the kids. Today we melted our old broke up crayons(some were from Joel's childhood!) in muffin tins and they turned out awesome. More on that soon!