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Slime Advent Calendar

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We all know slime is here to stay and what better way to fill an advent calendar than slime? Slime is best when it is ready-made, certainly a lot less mess for parents to clean up. This advent calendar delivers a different slime each window. Making it the perfect tactile, HANDS ON activity.  Being able to PLAY with slime in your fingers is great for fine motor skills. A skill that is being used less and less as we cruise into technology-based learning. I love tactile creative play for my children and I highly recommend this slime advent calendar. Perfect advent calendar for tweens and teenagers who are often so hard to buy for.

Looking for more DIY Slime recipes? Check out these other Slime posts we wrote.

Slime is a great stress reliever as well as an educational tool, not only does it teach science but it is hands-on , which means children are using their fine motor skills to make and or play with slime.

Check out our Amazon gift guide for kids who love slime, we basically sourced all the best Slime gifts, Slime kits, Slime supplies and Slime merchandise and crammed it all into one gift guide.  Slime Lovers Gift Guide.

Check out these advent calendars from our very own sister site Craftbits.com –  you can make yourself at home. Homemade advent calendars allow you to customize the design and size to suit the gifts you wish to use.  Want to buy a ready made calendar instead? Check out these Advent Calendars ready to go on Amazon.

No-Sew Muslin Advent Calendar — CraftBits.com

Advent Calender – 12 Days Of Christmas — CraftBits.com

Advent Calendar Using Brown Paper Bags — CraftBits.com

Recycled CD Advent Calender — CraftBits.com

Magnetic Advent Calendar — CraftBits.com 

Want more ideas for Advent calendars? We have a dedicated Pinterest board here for DIY Advent Calendars. 

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I feel like it’s been a while since I’ve shared any patterns for our circular knitting machine users. I know these devices aren’t for everyone but even though I much prefer knitting by hand, it is kind of fun to crank things out on these machines.

One of the most common early projects for a circular knitting machine is a scarf. Which makes sense, because it’s just one long tube and you can make it as long as you like.

One problem that comes from knitting scarves on the circular knitting machine, though, is that it can be hard to know how to finish the ends of the tube so that it looks like a finished scarf and not a tube of knitting.

If you’re not a knitter or crocheter, the most basic way to finish a circular knitting machine scarf is just by cinching up the ends and maybe adding a pompom to each end to cover up any hole that might still be visible at the end.

But if you have a little knitting or crochet skill or are willing to learn, there are a lot of different options for closing up the ends of a scarf. And this would also be true if you hand knit a tube scarf!

I recently wrote a post over at Our Daily Craft that includes five different ways to close up the ends of a tube scarf:

  • the simple cinching method mentioned above
  • sewing the stitches together
  • three needle bind off
  • grafting
  • crochet bind off

Grafting is my favorite because I feel like it gives the cleanest, closest to a seamless look. If you’re a knitter you may already know how to do it but even if you don’t it’s not that hard to learn.

Do you knit tube scarves by hand or machine? I’d love to know how you like to finish them!