MOMS Club® of Madison - Southwest

This week several of our MOMS Club members took a tour of Babcock Dairy Hall and the Dairy Cattle Center at UW-Madison. Everyone loved meeting "Betsy" the cow! It's hard to say if they enjoyed eating Babcock ice cream or seeing all the cattle more. Fun fact: When we stepped on the giant scale in the dairy barn, we learned that our combined weight was still only 2/3's of that of the largest cow in the barn. (Photo credit: Babcock Dairy Plant web site)

Sometimes you just need to make something! This craft is fairly quick with only a few needed items to complete it. Items Required: Piece of wood (you can purchase at any craft store - we mainly used 5x5 blocks) Paint (if you wanted to paint your wood) Floss Hammer Finish Nails Shape or Letter (I printed off shapes and letters to use) Instructions:  First, paint your board your color of choice. Then, decide what shape, pattern or letter you'd like. We had a lot of initials and Wisconsin shapes! Use the printed shape you've chosen and start hammering the finish nails around the edge of the shape. There is no magic spacing, but I typically space them out about a pinkie width or 1/4 inch. Remove the paper from your board and select your floss color. Tie a double or triple knot the floss on one of the nails, leave a tail and start stringing! There is no right or wrong way, just string. If you need to push down the floss so that you can string more, g...