One of my favorite movies of all time is Mary Poppins. Proof being that when I visited New York City a few years back it was on the top of my list of shows to see on Broadway. I went, I saw, I loved. So, now that we’ve been working with the Grand Rapids Civic […]

Here is the FIRST LOOK at Golden Globe® winner Emily Blunt as Mary Poppins in MARY POPPINS RETURNS. This film is the all-new sequel to Disney’s 1964 classic

Anything can happen if you let it! SEP 5-21, 2014 Original Music and Lyrics By Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman Book by Julian Fellowes New Songs and Additional Music and Lyrics by George Stiles and Anthony Drewe Co-Created by Cameron Mackintosh Music, magic, and a spoonful of sugar! The beloved family classic, Mary …

An all time classic returns to the big screen and now as our printable Mary Poppins coloring pages. There’s magic at your fingertips and the end of your crayon. Bring it to life with color. If coloring is one of your favorite things, these will be extra special. Fly a kite, sing a song, play […]

Let's go fly a kite! Or at least make one. Check out how easy it is to make a paper kite craft and pretend you are Mary Poppins!

Maggie Scott as Jane Banks, Taylor Stanger as Neleus, and Cairo McGee as Michael Banks

Mary Poppins wears a white button down shirt, a long blue Victorian styled coat, a matching blue skirt, white gloves, a red bow tie, black mary jane shoes with white socks, and a white flower decorated hat. Bert costume is a brown button down shirt, a black cardigan, black slacks, and a black hat.

Prepare yourself for fun-filled adventure involving chimney sweeps and kite flying in my Mary Poppins paper lantern. Download the SVG template for FREE!

Here's a selection of quotes from the timeless children’s classic books Mary Poppins and Mary Poppins Comes Back by P.L. Travers.

Pieces almost as famous as the starlets who wear them.

This Mary Poppins-inspired hue brings iconic beauty to everyday life.Our beloved color returns, based on the actual lip color used in the beloved 1964 film. This rich red was meticulously researched and created for our 2020 Mary Poppins Collection, resulting in a timeless shade that looks lovely on a wide range of skin tones. Plus, its long-wearing satin finish stays put — even while you're enjoying a spoonful of sugar. Triple Pigmented, Feather Proof, Long Wearing Satin Finish Subtle Vanilla Flavor Enriched with Vitamin E and Squalane Encased in a Gorgeous Gold Metal Tube Meticulously Formulated for Sensitive Skin

Have you checked out the price of costume props? Eeke! Why buy what you can easily make? All you need is some creativity and a glue gun! Check out how I easily made the Mary Poppins' bird umbrella and her iconic daisy boater hat out of felt. I'll start with the hat first. I initially planned to buy a hat and stick some flowers and red balls on it. But for the life of me I could not find a toddler sized small boater hat in black or any other color that would arrive before November (they were all coming on the slow boat from China). So then I decided that since Mary Poppins' hat is quite wonky itself I would just make one out of felt and not worry if it didn't look perfect. Check out this amazing close up I found of Julie Andrews on set for Mary Poppins! Source To make the hat I bought one large piece of black felt, a bunch of white daisies and a sprig of red ball Christmas flower thingies (sorry I forgot to read the tag for what they're called). You'll also need some black thread and a sewing needle. I measured Carolyn's head and then found a plate with the same circumference (17.5"). Let me tell you, measuring the head of a sleeping toddler should be easy, but dude does she toss and turn that was tricky! Then I used a larger plate to make the brim, about 2" bigger. The inside circle will be the top of the hat and the big O is the brim. Then I cut a 2" tall strip along the edge of the felt to be the sides of the hat. And that's it, all you need are these three pieces to make the hat! I whipped stitched the sides of the hat to the inside circle of the brim, even if you're not good at sewing this is so easy to do, you don't even have to worry about it looking ugly! If you're wondering what whip stitching looks like it's literally going through both piece of fabric repeatedly from the same side so that the thread wraps around. Around and around we go until the whole thing is connected, then go up the center seam. Next, whip stitch the top circle in place, remember Mary Poppins' hat is not flat it's brim is very wavy! Then I plucked the flowers off their stems and stuck them around the hat until I liked their placement. I used wire cutters to snip off the red berries leaving 1" of their wire to have something to glue. Then I just hot glued everything in place and it was done! Boom, I literally made this in under an hour after getting home from an afternoon/evening at Disneyland! Because mom of the year award, I realized as we were on our way to the "Happiest Place on Earth" that the kids were supposed to wear their costumes the next day to music class and I hadn't made this, the bird or the skirt yet, WHOOPS! Sooooo she didn't get to bring the bird with her to music class, but really who wants a toddler running around class with an umbrella? Yeah, happy mistake! But for the sake of pictures she still needed the bird umbrella, more felt please! For the bird umbrella I grabbed my childhood umbrella (so it's a little bit shorter) and some more felt. I used neon green, yellow, grey and white. Ignore the black, I didn't end up using it. I also bought some teddy bear plastic eyes at the craft store, I made sure to buy the ones that are more slit-like, like a cat's. I used the green as my base for the whole shape and I folded it over the umbrella handle to confirm that it would fit. I traced my handle shape onto a piece of paper so that I would know the size I needed. Then looking at online pictures of the bird I sketched the bird over the umbrella shape. I traced this onto my felt and cut it out. For every piece I folded the felt over and cut two of each shape. Then I traced my bird shape onto a second piece of paper and cut out the pieces separately. I used these to trace out the different pieces of the bird. First was the white portion. Then I did the same with the grey for the beak. At this point I realized that I wanted my pieces to hang over the sides of the green, so I decided to trim down my whole green piece by 2mm so that it would be slightly smaller and the sides of the white and grey would touch when I went to sew it all together, otherwise I would have had this large gap with green showing the the middle that you see here. Then I cut one layer of green feathers and another of yellow. Once I had all my pieces cut and fitting I glued them all using Tacky Glue, but you could also totally use hot glue. Apparently at this point I forgot to take pictures, if I recall Carolyn had woken up from her nap and I was trying to hustle it all along. I used an awl (or anything sharp and poky will work) to poke a hole on each side to insert the eyes, and attached the provided backing. Then I glued little have circle pieces of white felt on to make the eyelid. Next I took black thread, doubled it up so it would be thick, and went around they eye in a large oval shape to add that extra touch. At this point I noticed that part of my felt was not staying glued so I added some more glue and gave it some temporary stitches to hold it in place while the glue dried. Here's a side-by-side of the finished bird and the outline I drafted. Don't mind the scribbles, that's just my sweet toddler's handy work. The final step was to use a blanket stitch to sew the two sides together, I did this by hand but you could totally do this on a machine, or if you really want to just glue both sides together along the edge (leaving the center open to stick your umbrella handle in). A blanket stitch is a lot like a whip stitch only when you come back up you go through the loop your thread has made, which then makes a nice outline along the edge. If this seems tricky check out YouTube for a tutorial, that's where I've learned almost all of my sewing skills! Simply slide your umbrella handle into the bird puppet and you're good to go! Now that you have your Mary Poppins accessories, it's time to get dressed! Check out how I cheaply assembled my two year old daughter's costume here! These accessories were super easy to make and hardly cost me anything, especially compared to buying them pre-made! What have you made for your own costume or for your kids? Update: Carolyn still passionately loves Mary Poppins so I decided to make her the white dress too, you can read all about how I hacked that together here.

Chimney Sweeper Prop (Like in Mary Poppins): UURGH It's done it again, where when I go into edit something it deletes the text on the intro page... oh well nevermind Here is a short sweet and simple I'ble to showe you how I made my own Prop Chimney sweep brush for this years Gang show If you…

I have been talking about Halloween for months now. Seriously, since before Frankie was born. Halloween has always been one of my favorite holidays (you get to dress up in costume AND you get free candy??? There is no down side—every part of this holiday is awesome), but Frank didn't grow up celebrating Halloween and was kind of wary of the whole concept. So I figured I could get him on board by talking NON-STOP about how excited I was to dress up for Halloween. (I know, lucky Frank.) I'm pretty sure every one of our friends has heard me mull over possible costumes at some point in the last 6 months. We finally agreed to a compromise about the whole dressing-up-in-costume thing. I could understand him not wanting to dress up for trick-or-treating, since we are kind of definitely too old for that, but what if we were invited to a costume party? "Ok, fine," Frank said, "I'll agree to dress up if we get invited to a costume party." So once we got that settled, I began crossing my fingers that we'd get invited to a costume party. Oh yeah, I'm pretty sure we had this conversation back in August. Nothing wrong with being prepared, right? Luckily, our friends pulled through, and we were invited to TWO parties requiring Halloween costumes. The first was last Friday. I was more than a little gleeful when I reminded Frank of our deal, and he was more than a little eye-rolly at my excitement over coming up with costumes. Pretty much every costume I suggested, he vetoed (or I vetoed his suggestions). He didn't want to be Star Wars characters or animals or fairy-tale characters, and I didn't want to be historical figures. I mean, Irish pirate queens sound cool and all, but who even is Grace O'Malley? The party involved a costume contest, and call me crazy but I didn't think Grace O'Malley would be a guaranteed winner. Finally, it was the day before the party and I was frantically googling couples' costumes, most of which were too cheesy or involved props we didn't have. On a whim, I texted Frank, "What about Mary Poppins and Bert? We already have almost all of the stuff for it" and I sent him this picture: via Luckily Frank's favorite Disney movie growing up was Mary Poppins, and I always liked channeling my inner Mary Poppins during my babysitting days, so we had a winner! The great thing about this costume is that we already had most of it in our own closets. Here is what you'll need if you want to recreate it too: Bert: dark-colored long-sleeved shirt dark pants dark vest suspenders duffer cap black dress shoes red bandana around the neck black eyeshadow smudged on the face (optional) some sort of broom Mary Poppins: black A-line skirt opaque black tights black heels white button-down shirt, buttoned all the way to the top red belt red bow tie (or a red bow safety-pinned to the collar) small black hat with some white flowers a large bag an umbrella with a printed parrot head taped to the handle (optional) white gloves We went to Goodwill Thursday night, where I found a plain black felt hat and a little wreath of white flowers. I cut up the flowers and glued them all around the hat brim, with one sticking straight up in the back. The whole family was getting in on the costume-planning fun—my mom found a red bandana for Frank and lent me the hot-glue gun, while my little sister dug up a black umbrella—but it was my dad who had the genius idea to make our own parrot head umbrella at home. He found and printed this image for me to tape to the umbrella handle: via With that, we were set. We dressed Frankie as a mini-chimney sweep in dark-colored clothes and his duffer cap. The next night, we were so excited when we won the couples' category of the costume contest! One of our friends said, "It was the parrot umbrella that did it!" and I couldn't wait to tell my dad. Such a fun night, and such a fun costume. Now the only question that remains ... will we come up with different costumes for the next Halloween party, or stick with this tried-and-true winner? (Or really, how many different costumes will Frank tolerate?). What's your favorite easy, throw-together-stuff-from-the-closet Halloween costume?

Download the free printable DIY instructions, so you can make your own Mary Poppins kite craft. You can print it or you can

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"Let's Go Fly A Kite"

Have a supercalifragilisticexpialidocious time making these Mary Poppins inspired kite sun catchers.

Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious! (Considering we put these costumes together at the last possible moment, I think they turned out alright! We took […]

Prepare yourself for fun-filled adventure involving chimney sweeps and kite flying in my Mary Poppins paper lantern. Download the SVG template for FREE!

Chimney Sweeper Prop (Like in Mary Poppins): UURGH It's done it again, where when I go into edit something it deletes the text on the intro page... oh well nevermind Here is a short sweet and simple I'ble to showe you how I made my own Prop Chimney sweep brush for this years Gang show If you…

Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious! (Considering we put these costumes together at the last possible moment, I think they turned out alright! We took […]

Have you checked out the price of costume props? Eeke! Why buy what you can easily make? All you need is some creativity and a glue gun! Check out how I easily made the Mary Poppins' bird umbrella and her iconic daisy boater hat out of felt. I'll start with the hat first. I initially planned to buy a hat and stick some flowers and red balls on it. But for the life of me I could not find a toddler sized small boater hat in black or any other color that would arrive before November (they were all coming on the slow boat from China). So then I decided that since Mary Poppins' hat is quite wonky itself I would just make one out of felt and not worry if it didn't look perfect. Check out this amazing close up I found of Julie Andrews on set for Mary Poppins! Source To make the hat I bought one large piece of black felt, a bunch of white daisies and a sprig of red ball Christmas flower thingies (sorry I forgot to read the tag for what they're called). You'll also need some black thread and a sewing needle. I measured Carolyn's head and then found a plate with the same circumference (17.5"). Let me tell you, measuring the head of a sleeping toddler should be easy, but dude does she toss and turn that was tricky! Then I used a larger plate to make the brim, about 2" bigger. The inside circle will be the top of the hat and the big O is the brim. Then I cut a 2" tall strip along the edge of the felt to be the sides of the hat. And that's it, all you need are these three pieces to make the hat! I whipped stitched the sides of the hat to the inside circle of the brim, even if you're not good at sewing this is so easy to do, you don't even have to worry about it looking ugly! If you're wondering what whip stitching looks like it's literally going through both piece of fabric repeatedly from the same side so that the thread wraps around. Around and around we go until the whole thing is connected, then go up the center seam. Next, whip stitch the top circle in place, remember Mary Poppins' hat is not flat it's brim is very wavy! Then I plucked the flowers off their stems and stuck them around the hat until I liked their placement. I used wire cutters to snip off the red berries leaving 1" of their wire to have something to glue. Then I just hot glued everything in place and it was done! Boom, I literally made this in under an hour after getting home from an afternoon/evening at Disneyland! Because mom of the year award, I realized as we were on our way to the "Happiest Place on Earth" that the kids were supposed to wear their costumes the next day to music class and I hadn't made this, the bird or the skirt yet, WHOOPS! Sooooo she didn't get to bring the bird with her to music class, but really who wants a toddler running around class with an umbrella? Yeah, happy mistake! But for the sake of pictures she still needed the bird umbrella, more felt please! For the bird umbrella I grabbed my childhood umbrella (so it's a little bit shorter) and some more felt. I used neon green, yellow, grey and white. Ignore the black, I didn't end up using it. I also bought some teddy bear plastic eyes at the craft store, I made sure to buy the ones that are more slit-like, like a cat's. I used the green as my base for the whole shape and I folded it over the umbrella handle to confirm that it would fit. I traced my handle shape onto a piece of paper so that I would know the size I needed. Then looking at online pictures of the bird I sketched the bird over the umbrella shape. I traced this onto my felt and cut it out. For every piece I folded the felt over and cut two of each shape. Then I traced my bird shape onto a second piece of paper and cut out the pieces separately. I used these to trace out the different pieces of the bird. First was the white portion. Then I did the same with the grey for the beak. At this point I realized that I wanted my pieces to hang over the sides of the green, so I decided to trim down my whole green piece by 2mm so that it would be slightly smaller and the sides of the white and grey would touch when I went to sew it all together, otherwise I would have had this large gap with green showing the the middle that you see here. Then I cut one layer of green feathers and another of yellow. Once I had all my pieces cut and fitting I glued them all using Tacky Glue, but you could also totally use hot glue. Apparently at this point I forgot to take pictures, if I recall Carolyn had woken up from her nap and I was trying to hustle it all along. I used an awl (or anything sharp and poky will work) to poke a hole on each side to insert the eyes, and attached the provided backing. Then I glued little have circle pieces of white felt on to make the eyelid. Next I took black thread, doubled it up so it would be thick, and went around they eye in a large oval shape to add that extra touch. At this point I noticed that part of my felt was not staying glued so I added some more glue and gave it some temporary stitches to hold it in place while the glue dried. Here's a side-by-side of the finished bird and the outline I drafted. Don't mind the scribbles, that's just my sweet toddler's handy work. The final step was to use a blanket stitch to sew the two sides together, I did this by hand but you could totally do this on a machine, or if you really want to just glue both sides together along the edge (leaving the center open to stick your umbrella handle in). A blanket stitch is a lot like a whip stitch only when you come back up you go through the loop your thread has made, which then makes a nice outline along the edge. If this seems tricky check out YouTube for a tutorial, that's where I've learned almost all of my sewing skills! Simply slide your umbrella handle into the bird puppet and you're good to go! Now that you have your Mary Poppins accessories, it's time to get dressed! Check out how I cheaply assembled my two year old daughter's costume here! These accessories were super easy to make and hardly cost me anything, especially compared to buying them pre-made! What have you made for your own costume or for your kids? Update: Carolyn still passionately loves Mary Poppins so I decided to make her the white dress too, you can read all about how I hacked that together here.

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It’s hard to imagine that Tandy is two. On one hand, it seems like she’s been with us so much longer, but on the other hand, she doesn’t seem like she should be out of the baby stage. It was so much fun to celebrate her along with something she loves so much. Mary Poppins filled our thoughts and imagination for the day, and it was quite a jolly holiday. You’ve seen the outfits and the invitations, now here’s the rest. If you haven’t watched the movie in a while, you might miss some of the tie ins, but I assure you everything was inspired by the Mary Poppins movie. We started with a couple crafts. The kite decorating kits set up in a carpet bag came from Oriental Trading Company. We also made bird feeders similar to this tutorial. A carpet bag center piece was a must. Thankfully a friend of a friend had one we could borrow. It’s filled with a few items Mary pulled from her bag of tricks. The snacks included peanut butter and jelly sandwiches cut with a penguin sandwich cutter, penguin crackers (Walmart), umbrella cheese, popcorn, and lemonade. I used some of the painted cocktail umbrellas to make the number 2. The umbrella cheese is made from Babybel cheese rounds cut in half. I trimmed some black straws from Ikea to make the handles. The Ikea cart I’ve been using in my sewing room made the perfect paper goods station. The lower shelves housed musical instruments and vintage Mary Poppins books. Finally, we’ve arrived at the sweets table! I made the banner from copied book pages from our vintage Mary Poppins books. We had dipped marshmallow chimney sweeps. The Jell-O clouds were blue Jell-O topped with a homemade marshmallow dollop. I’ll have more on those in a future post. Can we pause for a moment and imagine those cute cups above adorned with one of the cocktail umbrellas like the photo below. Yep, somehow those got missed. Thanks for using your imagination instead! Well, it wouldn’t be a Mary Poppins party without a nod to the spoon full of sugar that makes the medicine go down. I bought these cute sundae spoons at Joann’s on clearance. I’ll try to do a quick post on the cake pop spoons in the future too. I added some washi tape accents to my cupcake tower and topped it with the same image I used for the invitations. My favorite lemon cupcakes were a hit with both kids and adults. The final table was home to the favors. The sugar cookie garland spelled out Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious. I used this letterpress cookie cutter set to make all 34 letters. Chocolate “tuppence”, bird whistles, and sidewalk chalk rounded out the favors. There’s the birthday girl eyeing the gummy penguins her grandmother scored at Trader Joe’s. Big Sis was ready to lead the musical parade. The older kids had a blast making their music while leading the younger guest around. All in all, it was a very happy day! Love this sweet photo of Tandy captured by Matt Bateman. Pinterest, of course, provided tons of inspiration, so check out some of the ideas I found and more here.

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