Autumn People- DIY Acorn Figures Tutorial

You will need:

• Acorns, buckeyes
• Toothpicks or wooden matches
• Hot glue gun
• Permanent marker
• Something to poke holes with, like an ice pick, or knitting needle

What to do:

• Decide what creature you are making: an ant, spider, acorn person, bird, sheep, Winnie The Pooh,  etc. 
• Decide where you need to make holes and poke a hole in correct area. 
• Insert toothpick or match. 
• Continue poking holes and inserting sticks to make your desired creature. 
• Draw eyes
• Glue on other details. 

 Make up a story and enjoy your funny, eco-friendly Autumn creatures. Our 4 year old loved gathering the acorns, and buckeyes and making these with Daddy. 

 This is Ziluks, the main character from one very cute cartoon over here in Latvia. My husband says they made these cute people and animals in school when he was a boy in the Soviet Times.

New Items

Too much time has passed and I have been very absent from my blog. I have been extremely busy. I have a ton of visitors coming this summer and the fun keeps building as they keep drifting in. My sister and her baby and my sister's friend just arrived this week.

We have been busy running around town, taking in the sites and walking around Old Riga- a beautiful old city in Europe- too much kept hidden from the world.

But I have also slowly been getting some items finished and listed. Here are a couple: