What face does Seppo have today? Draw new facial expressions for Seppo. Maybe somebody ate all his Halloween candy or maybe he found a secret stash of bananas buried in the snow.
Download your copy of Seppo, the SnowyMonster.
Once you’re done, submit your creation to blog@teacollection.com for your chance to win a $100 Tea gift certificate! Every month, Tea staff will pick one artistic little citizen to win! Honorable mentions will also be uploaded into their own featured blog post. Let your creative juices flow and show us your inner artist!
Bundle your little guy up in Seppo today before he becomes extinct!
Seppo the Snow Monster Outfit
Have you ever seen a woolly mammoth? Now is your chance to see him before he disappears. Connect the dots to see just how big he really is. Did you know he can grow to be 10 feet tall?
Connect the dots to see the mammoth
Download your copy here of the Woolly Mammoth.
Once you’re done, submit your creation to blog@teacollection.com for your chance to win a $100 Tea gift certificate! Every month, Tea staff will pick one artistic little citizen to win! Honorable mentions will also be uploaded into their own featured blog post. Let your creative juices flow and show us your inner artist!
Catch your own mammoth before he goes extinct with our Woolly Mammoth tee.
Catch them before they go extinct!
As fall makes its way upon us, bring some colorful flowers into your life! Create your own little garden today.
Create your very own modern flower garden today!
Download your very own printable copy here: Fantastic Flowers
Once you’re done, submit your creation to blog@teacollection.com for your chance to win a $100 Tea gift certificate! Every month, Tea staff will pick one artistic little citizen to win! Honorable mentions will also be uploaded into their own featured blog post. Let your creative juices flow and show us your inner artist!
You can bring your modern flower garden to life in our Moderni Banded Dress.
Catch them if you can! Look at those foxes race through the forest. Color them before they run away. Maybe in pops of neon!
Slippery foxes in the Finnish forest.
Download your copy of The Fox and the Forest.
Once you’re done, submit your creation to blog@teacollection.com for your chance to win a $100 Tea gift certificate! Every month, Tea staff will pick one artistic little citizen to win! Honorable mentions will also be uploaded into their own featured blog post. Let your creative juices flow and show us your inner artist!
Dress your little guy up in our Forest Foxes Tee.
Fox Tea outfit.
Put your glasses on boys and girls, can you find the critter in the picture below? After you see him, color in him in.
Can you see the hidden animal?
Download your own Find the Critter Activity page.
Once you’re done, submit your creation to blog@teacollection.com for your chance to win a $100 Tea gift certificate! Every month, Tea staff will pick one artistic little citizen to win! Honorable mentions will also be uploaded into their own featured blog post. Let your creative juices flow and show us your inner artist!
Inspired by our Wood Moose Oufit.
2012 Summer Olympics
Feeling lost without the Olympics? We were feeling a bit lonely as well. Never fear, backyard Olympics are here! On a recent family vacation, we had our own Olympic fun. Since everyone can’t be Michael Phelps or Gabby Douglas, we played games from Minute to Win It. This was a great way to introduce the real spirit of the Olympics to the kids while literally laughing our socks off. The Olympics are not only about winning medals and breaking records, so much more lies behind the five rings than meets the eye. While the spirit of competition is palpable across the world, many forget about the sense of unity and respect amongst the nations that partake in this grand ceremony.
To play, we had the kids pick teammates and countries to represent. As soon as we had the kids pick their country of choice, I could see a light bulb went off in their heads. Things started to make sense. No longer were the Olympics only about winning the gold medal but about representing your country with pride.
We played a total of 4 games: homemade Ring Toss, Face the Cookie, Shake your Tail Feather, and a Hop Off.
Team United Kingdom's best effort at the Olympic Ring Toss.
The ring toss was so simple to make. I used an empty paper towel roll, wrapped it in colored tape and attached it to a piece of cardboard. I cut the rings out of paper plates and painted them in Olympic fashion.
Tyler concentrating on getting the Oreo into his mouth.
Face the Cookie was by far the funniest game. All you need is a few Oreo cookies and a chair. Have your contestant tilt their head back in the chair. Place the Oreo on their forehead and begin. The object is to move the Oreo down your face into your mouth using only your facial muscles all in under a minute.
Shake the ping pong balls out as fast as you can.
Shake your Tail Feather required a little more preparation. Save those empty tissue boxes and attach a belt to it and fill it with ping pong balls. Attach the box-belt concoction to your waist just above your rear end. The object here is to shake out all the box’s contents as quickly as possible.
Which country can outlast the rest ?
Last but not least, our Hop Off displayed each country’s ability to stay hoping on one foot for the longest.
Olympic Medal Ceremony
After four games, Botswana won gold, France won silver, and the United Kingdom came in third with bronze.
The last days of summer were highly creative for our Tea fans as we saw some of our best entries yet to our Activity Book Contest! As always, it’s hard to pick just one winner.
However, we couldn’t help but love Audrey’s robot! Her attention to detail and decorative flair on her robot won us over.
With all the awesome entries, we wanted to take the time to also highlight some honorable mentions. Check out the colors in Zaid’s robot below- how cool?!
We also loved how Claire brought to life the Finnish foxes in her picture below.
Thank you everyone for entering and be sure to submit a new picture for September’s contest!
Browse all the entries on our Flickr page.
Interested in entering the contest for next month? Take a picture of your child’s completed activity book picture and send it to us at blog@teacollection.com with “Activity Book Entry” in the subject line. We pick one winner each month to receive a $100 Tea gift certificate. We’ll also post all honorable mentions on our blog page and all submissions will be posted on our Flickr page.
Download all of our activity book pages by visiting our activity printouts blog tag.
Blair Stocker is a mother to Ian and Emma, wife to Peter, and maker of things, living in Seattle, Washington. She believes that the best of days involve making something and enjoying the process whether it be sewing, spray painting, cooking, or creating things with her kids. She blogs about her creative pursuits at wise craft.
diy finger crochet tutorial
I’m so excited to share a project today on Studio Tea! This is an easy project for kids of all ages (and adults too). When my kids were smaller and we were out and about, I would use this to keep their little hands occupied if we were waiting in line and had time to spare. All you need to finger crochet is a ball of yarn. In fact, the hardest part is choosing a yarn color. My daughter and I did this the other night and found the whole process very meditative and enjoyable. Give it a try!
Print out your own Finger Crochet tutorial.
My daughter and I used lengths of finger crochet to create a necklace (try adding large beads or bells). We also held 2 yarns at the same time to crochet new shoelaces. See what you can come up with.
Get your crayons ready to color your own Copenhagen cityscape.
- Color Copenhagen your way.
Download your free Copenhagen Cityscape Activity Page.
Once you’re done, submit your creation to blog@teacollection.com for your chance to win a $100 Tea gift certificate! Every month, Tea staff will pick one artistic little citizen to win! Honorable mentions will also be uploaded into their own featured blog post. Let your creative juices flow and show us your inner artist!
This activity was inspired by our Copenhagen Tee.
Sport your own Copenhagen tee.
Skate into the new school year in style with our little friend. Dress him up for his first day of school.
Color your monster for his first day back to school.
Download your very own monster skater here.
Once you’re done, submit your creation to blog@teacollection.com for your chance to win a $100 Tea gift certificate! Every month, Tea staff will pick one artistic little citizen to win! Honorable mentions will also be uploaded into their own featured blog post. Let your creative juices flow and show us your inner artist!
Be your own little monster in this tshirt.
Happy coloring!