A lovely new friend, Carole from Clementine Event Design, posted a round up of some of her favorite Canada Day finds, and awesomesauce, she included me in her list!
Oh yes, I took a screenshot 
How super sweet is that? Very sweet indeed, as is the sweet little table she put together for Canada Day! Hello yum!
Thanks for including me in your list Carole!
Well there I was away at the beach with my family for the Canada Day long weekend, when on a road trip to Bayfield, Ontario I was checking my mail and found message after message letting me know that my Happy Canada Day printable set was featured in a treasury. But not just one, five! Five treasuries over the course of two days! Needless to say I am humbled and grateful for the all the treasury love.
And yes, there are gratuitious screenshots below
Junquete’s 5 & 10 Variety Treasury
Wow! So humbled. Thank you ladies!
Did everyone have a fantastic Canada Day?
Happy Canada Day friends! Hope your day is filled with sparklers and fireworks!
One of my all-time favorite desserts is a big bowl of Jell-O smothered in Cool Whip! I have a serious preference for lime Jell-o, although I do have a stash of margarita Jell-O in the cupboard, mmm good!
For Canada Day it has to be Strawberry or Wild Berry Jell-O in wee little mason jars of course!
Simple layers of Jell-O and Cool Whip, red-white-red just like our flag. Neatly contained in a small jam jar with a little wooden spoon tied on with twine and sweet little bow to top it all off! One sweet little handful.
Display them on a plate with napkins and anyone at your Canada Day BBQ can grab one and eat while they mingle.
I picked up the wooden spoons at Michael’s from the wood crafts section. They are in the Woodsies line.
Phew, it’s a been a busy 24 hours of crafting. I’m going to grab one of those Jell-O treats before they’re gone!
I really hope this Canada Day craftapalooza has inspired you to get your Canada Day craft on! Whatever you are doing this long weekend, I hope it involves sparklers!
Am I the only one that saves tin cans in a variety of sizes? I have a growing collection of tin cans, much to my husband’s despair. Until he steals my cans for his gardening projects and then I’m his hero less one can. But I digress.
They come in handy for many crafts (punched tin candle holder anyone?) and when you are a crafty household, you need all the craft supplies you can get your crafty hands on! What if you have a group of kidlets coming for Canada Day dinner and you want to whip up some utensil caddies? You need tin cans! Well, and some scrapbooking paper.
For Canada Day, I filled our caddies with a bottle of water, a straw, utensils (decorated with my Canada Day printable collection), and way down there is a pack of sidewalk chalk for drawing on the driveway or sidewalk.
You can fill your caddy with anything you need to make meal time as easy as possible. Having hot dogs? Throw in the some condiment packages! Have a wait at the buffet line? Throw in some small toys to keep them busy. The possibilities are endless! Fill them up and set them up at each kidlet place setting on the table. It will give you a little more time to get things ready, and keep them busy checking out the contents of their can, win-win.
You NEED some tin cans now, don’t you?
What is everyone’s favorite Christmastime treat? Christmas crackers of course! A small tube of fun, filled with candy and toys. Well, I never could understand why they were only available at Christmastime. It still doesn’t make sense to me which is why these tubes o’ joy pop up around these parts more than once a year! I like to offer the kidlets a homemade party favor filled with sweets and treats and these are especially fun to make! Especially if you are putting some Pop Rocks in them, mmmm, crackle, crackle, pop!
Can you guess the everyday, in the bathroom item you need for these party favors?
Oh yes, the toilet paper roll! Don’t you always have a ton of them lying around for craft projects? Please tell me it’s not just me?
All you need to make thess party favors are toilet paper rolls, red napkins, ribbon, tape, and a selection of candies and/or small toys.
Stuff the larger candies or lollipops into the toilet paper roll, then wrap the roll in a red napkin and secure with tape. I always tape the napkin to the toilet paper roll efore I start rolling to help keep it in place. Trying to roll a sliding napkin, not so much fun, and these are meant to be fun!
Tie one end with ribbon. Make a nice bow, or if you are using the curling ribbon, curl it up nice!
Place any remaining candies or gum balls in the open end and tie closed with another nice bow.
Decorate (I used the party circles from my Canada Day printable) and leave out for the kidlets, or adults, to enjoy!
Yes, those are little girl hands. They had to help, I don’t blame them one bit, fun craft AND candy!
If you’re stuffing these with Pop Rocks and gum balls, feel free to invite me to your Canada Day celebration. No really, I’ll come! Crackle, crackle, pop!
Am I getting you in a crafty mood yet? I think this next Canada Day craft is sure to light your fire!
Anyone serving up some two-bite brownies or cupcakes tomorrow? I ate all the two-bite brownies last night, soI need to run off and grab some more for tomorrow, they are a holiday favorite around here. We like to light them up for Canada Day, make them sparkle with live sparklers, but we also like to dress them up with some kid-safe firework cupcake toppers!
All you need (besides the brownies of course) to make these firework cupcake toppers are lollipop sticks (you could also use long toothpicks), tape and tissue or crepe paper or paper napkins. I’m using red napkins.
First you want to open your napkin to make a large rectangle, cut along the folded edge, and put one piece aside. Fold the other piece with long sides together to create a long thin rectangle amd cut along the folded edge again, place one piece aside. With the remaining piece of napkin, cut along one edge to create fringe, leaving a .5 cm edge uncut. Fringe scissors would be very helpful at this stage.
Attach one end of the fringe to a lollipop stick with a bit of tape.
Start rolling! Roll the fringe around the lollipop stick and secure the end to the lollipop stick with tape until it is quite secure.
Fluff your firework and place in a brownie!
I think these firework toppers work perfectly with the party circles and flags in my Canada Day DIY Printable Party Holiday Collection. But if you want to stick with fireworks, you can make them in a variety of different colours for a full firework display! They do look quite magical in sparkly paper.
Good morning! We are kicking off a day of Canada Day crafts! I was really feeling that us Canadians weren’t representing by way of fun Canada Day craft ideas. Our neighbours to the South definitely have it going on with the crafty patriotism for July 4th, but we were lacking in the craft department fellow Canadians, tsk, tsk. So I thought I would offer up some of my favorite Canada Day craft ideas, show Canada Day a little love, you know what I mean?
Hence last night was Canada Day craftapalooza in my studio! I didn’t have any tutorials ready to go for my fave July 1st party crafts, but now I do.
So let’s start off this day of craft with one of my favorite ways to serve beverages at any party, the classic mason jar party cup!
There are so many ways to dress up a mason jar for serving beverages, and I have done them all! I have a serious love affair with the jam jar. I started collecting them in highschool to store all my witchy herbs and craft supplies, like my 10 lb collection of buttons. Long love affair, true everlasting love. And this classic mason jar party cup is a lovely way to serve up lemonade at your Canada Day BBQ!
All you need is a stock of mason jars, some Canada Day themed scrapbooking paper (the paper I used here is in my Canada Day DIY Printable Party), a hole punch, scissors and a pen.
Unscrew the mason jar lid from the jar and remove the center from the outer ring. Use the center as your template to trace circles onto your scrapbooking paper.
Cut out your circles and using your hole punch, punch a hole as close to the center of the circle as your hole punch will reach.
Fill your mason jar with your favorite party punch, then wipe the rim clean and dry with a paper towel.
Place the paper circle on top of the mason jar (this will replace the tin center for the time being). You can cover the paper circle with clear contact paper to help reinforce and protect the paper from spills and drips.
Using your fingertip to hold the paper circle in place, carefully screw the outer ring onto the mason jar. Pop in a straw and sip!
It’s that simple! A simple craft that can add some punch to your punch! Which reminds me, what kind of punch are you serving Canada Day? I am always on the lookout for new punch recipes! If you have a favorite, leave it in the comments below, I’d love to try it out!
With Canada Day only two days away, my craft spree came a tad late! But I had some time and lots of inspiration and its amazing what you can do when time and inspiration line up!
Just in case you are inspired to get your Canada Day craft on, I’ve got a series of Canada Day crafts you can put together just in time for Friday’s festivities.
Canada Day just isn’t a celebration without a few Canadian flags to wave around. If you didn’t have time to run out and grab some, don’t fret, you can download them and 1-2-3 you’ve got a couple flags to wave around.
All you need is my Canada Day Flags DIY Printable which is available for free on Scribd, a couple lollipop sticks, dowels or length of bamboo, a bit of tape and a hole punch. Then you just need to follow this tutorial. It’s really quite self-explanatory.
See, super easy! I displayed my flags in a jam jar layered with red and white gum balls, well, because if I can incorporate gum balls you know I will! But gum balls keep the flags stable too. Yes, yes they do.
Put together a handful of these and use them as centerpieces on your tables, or just leave them scattered around your backyard for spontaneous flag waving urges or leave one at the front door so as you make your way to the fireworks, you can grab one on your way out.
You could also print out 20 of these flags and string them together to make a banner, decorate your house or backyard. They’re pretty versatile.
Head on over to Scribd and grab your easy DIY flags!
Happy crafting to you!
I can hardly believe what a busy week this has been! Geez, I can hardly believe it is the end of the school year on Thursday and Canada Day on Friday! So much to do to get ready for the long weekend and I’m not hosting a big Canada Day party!
How about you? Are you hosting a Canada Day party this year? Ive been seeing a lot of party printables and party ideas for Independence Day, but not so much for Canada Day! So I had to change that!
And with the last day of school back-to-back with Canada Day, I wanted to make sure there was a quick and easy party solution for Canada Day. So today I launched my new Canada Day Holiday Collection DIY Printable Party, just in time for Canada Day!
A quick and easy, just print off and decorate kinda party! Everything you need to get in the Canada Day spirit, minus the spirits and the fireworks, but I know you’ve got a handle on those, yes?
Party circles, party flags (for your straws or toothpicks), banner, bottle wrappers (which are perfect napkin rings), decorative papers (so you can get your craft on, if you have time) and food labels that are pre-filled with a variety of Canada Day food favorites, including: BBQ Chicken, BBQ Beef, BBQ Pork, Watermelon, Hamburgers, Hot Dogs, Ribs, Corn on the Cob, Water, Pop, Cake, Pie, Marshmallow Salad, Potato Salad, Macaroni Salad, Sweets & Treats. There’s also a sheet of BLANK tent cards for you to fill in just in case I missed something on your menu.
The Canada Day Holiday Collection DIY Printable Party is available in my Etsy shop for only $9.00!
So spread the news (and the love) my Canadian friends! Canadian party throwers now have a DIY Printable Party option, woot!
