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Make Your Own Cookie Monster Rug

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If you have a little one in your life that loves Cookie Monster (or maybe you do yourself), then this tutorial is perfect for your next craft project!  Making a Cookie Monster rug is so much easier than you would ever imagine it to be and this post from Instructables is a step-by-step guide for you to make one.  If you can use scissors and sew on a button, you can make this rug.  It really is that easy.

Read the post here: Cookie Monster Rug

 

Check out these other fun Cookie Monster ideas below.

Cookie Monster Party food and snacks or purchase these Cookie monster cookie-cutters. You could make your own cookies using the original published 1970’s Cookie monster cookie recipe.

Cookie monster Dolls you can crochet. 

Cookie monster floor rug you can make at home or make these Cookie monster baseball caps.

Looking for more Cookie monster items? Check these Cookie monster items out on Etsy.

Do you have more cookie monster ideas we need to hear about? make sure you comment below and share all your Cookie Monster ideas with us.

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Book Review: The Festival of Lights

As if Diwali weren’t colorful and fun enough, The Festival of Lights: A Lift-the-flap Diwali Celebration by Namita Moolani Mehra, illustrated by Darshika Varm, makes it even more fun to read about with flaps and things to lift and pull to see more information or details in the illustrations. 

The book is a story about a family getting ready for Diwali and what happens on the different days of the five-day celebration. There’s cleaning, shopping, crafting, food preparation and getting the home altar ready for the big day. 

It covers decorating the outside of the house with rangoli, diyas and lanterns, buying sweets to share with family and friends, the sights and scents of the mandir (home temple), getting dressed up in new fancy clothes, the story of Diwali and celebrations with relatives.  

Flaps (there are more than 140 in all) give you vocabulary words for different foods and definitions, as well as fun things like what’s inside the shopping basket or where the cat is hanging out. They also help illuminate the story of Diwali, which is the triumph of good over evil as Lord Ram defeated the demon Ravana to save his wife, Sita. 

This pretty and colorful book helps kids understand what Diwali is and how it is celebrated, regardless of whether they practice it at home. This would be a nice book to keep in a classroom (it’s rated for kids ages 3-7) or to have at home to teach kids about Diwali even if it’s not something you celebrate. Where I live there are a lot of people from India so we are probably exposed to Diwali more than some other regions of America, but it’s a nice holiday to know about wherever you live. 

Combine with the book Diwali and check out some fun lantern crafts and printables for kids to round out your experience. 

About the book: 24 pages, hardcover, published 2025 by Wide Eyed Editions. Suggested retail prices $22.99.