Monster Soda

I totally blame this project on my three year old son who likes to watch The Muppets over and over again.  He kept pointing out to Nicole and I as we decorated the bottles, which monster he loves and "does not" love.  Of course, the monsters that closely resemble Beaker and Animal are his favorite.

Nicole and I made Rootbeer Reindeer a couple years ago and thought it would be funny to make scary sodas for Halloween to hand out to friends.

We started with a couple different varieties of soda in monster colors.  

We used everything from feather boas to googly eyes to create the monsters.  The pipe cleaners with stripes are especially fun,  Hobby Lobby has a great selection.

 Printed labels cover the original soda labels.

We love the quote "EAT, DRINK, & BE SCARY"!

A little black fur makes the perfect uni-brow for this soda monster.

We love a craft that makes us laugh!  

Nicole and I have a couple more things to share with you this week so stay tuned....

Ruldoph the Red Nosed Root Beer!

When our kids were in preschool together, one of the moms used to bring the most adorable gifts to all the classmates.  For Christmas she brought root beer reindeer and we almost died with the cuteness! 

She used IBC root beer bottles , they make the perfect body for a reindeer.  Perfect to give one root beer as a gift, or a pack to friends and neighbors.  Who doesn't love root beer...well maybe some of you? We have also seen this done many times with other types of soda bottles. 

Here's what you need and a little tip of how to make the antlers.  Why you ask.... would you need a tutorial for pipe cleaner antlers?  I thought I didn't need one and took them to boy scouts for a craft project.  Well, the antlers ended up looking like this.....

Cute, but could be better.  Nicole came and worked her cute magic on the antlers and I thought they were perfect.

You will need a bottle of IBC root beer, ribbon, two googly eyes, and any size of red pom-pom.  We went with the BIG size with sparkles, and I kinda think he looks like Beaker from the Muppets!

We also used red pipe cleaners, the preschool mom used brown on hers. Whatever you prefer.

We used hot glue to attach everything.

Who wouldn't want this as a gift? :)