Cricut: A Mom's Best Friend!

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Owning a Cricut machine offers opportunities to create adorable, fun creations that will keep your kids content, exploring, & learning. With just a little imagination and creativity and a Cricut machine by your side, you can turn a dull summer into one to remember! Kids love to use their imaginations to play pretend and what's more fun than pretend play food? In no time at all, you can create an endless amount of different play foods for your kids. Your kids can set up a supermarket, restaurant, picnic, and petting zoo just to name a few. Below I've listed a few ways to create pretend play food. This post contains affiliate links, which means that if you click on one of the product links and make a purchase, I’ll receive 12% per sale.

ADORABLE FELT FRUIT

Materials Needed:

• Cricut Explore® machine

• Cricut Preserves Cartridge Set

• Cricut Design Space™ software

• 12" x 12" Strong Grip Cricut® mat

• Assorted 100% wool felt

• Sewing Machine

• Hot glue gun

• Pillow filling

Instructions:

1. Cut

Cut felt fruit shapes

1. Assemble

Sew shapes together and fill with pillow filling. Use hot glue gun to adhere leaves and stems. If you cannot sew, just use hot glue to put the shapes together (just make sure that the hot glue is completely dry before filling.)

PRETEND CANNED FOOD LABELS

Materials Needed:

• Cricut Explore® machine

• Cricut Pretend Canned Food Labels Cartridge Set

• Cricut Design Space™ software

• 12" x 12" Standard Grip Cricut® mat

• Cricut Printable Sticker Paper

• Tomato Paste Cans

Instructions:

1. Print

Print then cut labels from sticker paper

1. Assemble

Adhere labels around tomato paste cans

MARKET BERRY BASKET

Materials:

• Cricut Explore® machine

• Cricut Spring Cottage Cartridge Set

• Cricut Design Space™ software

• 12" x 12" Standard Grip Cricut® mat

• Cardstock

• Craft glue

Instructions:

1. Cut

Cut basket from cardstock

1. Assemble

Adhere basket together with craft glue

Right now Cricut is having a awesomely huge flash sale online and select cartridges are only $8.99! Hurry though because the flash sale ends tomorrow 7/28!

Leave a comment letting me know what kind of pretend play food you plan on making! Feel free to post pictures of your creations in the comment box as well! Happy savings, and have fun!!

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