crafts

Classic Kids’ Craft: Paper Weaving

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Do you remember making woven paper when you were a kid? It’s a classic craft project – simple, inexpensive, and fun. Paper weaving is a low-mess activity I like to pull out on busy days or when friends are over. After a quick lesson, most kids are weaving like pros. I’m sharing the how-to over [...]

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Foil Pendant Craft

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Here’s a craft project for the big kids – creating shiny, embossed foil pendants with a few simple materials. Making these requires a gentle touch, but they are simple and addicting to make. My girls and I made piles of them! I’m sharing the supply list and how-to at Make and Takes today. See you [...]

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My Favorite Resource Books: Art & Creativity

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We’re big fans of “process” creating around here – enjoying the doing and not necessarily worried about the finished product. We also enjoy making crafty things for holidays and gifts, but for the most part it is all about the experience! Besides browsing Pinterest and my favorite blogs, I have a small selection of books [...]

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Groovy Gobblers

Remember all those painting tools we played with yesterday?  Now we have turkeys!  The girls basically did these themselves – I did cut out paper turkey bodies and felt beaks and waddles at their request.  Here’s their instructions, more or less…. First step – cut up all your artwork into small pieces and throw them [...]

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Tissue Paper Vases

Need a sweet and simple handmade gift?  We love re-purposing glass bottles and jars into lovely little vases.  All you need is Mod Podge (or watered-down white glue) and colored tissue paper. Paint an area of your jar or bottle with the Mod Podge and start sticking on tissue paper pieces – you can cut [...]

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Paper Plate Panda Puppets

The girls have been learning about pandas as part of our animal studies.  We do a lot of open-ended art exploration, but they also love doing craft projects.  I promised I would add a panda craft to our school work!  We made these cute (and simple!) panda puppets using paper plates and construction paper. The [...]

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Night Sky Art

My girls loved staying up late on our recent camping trip, waiting for the sky to fill with stars.  They have since been inspired to create piles of beautiful night sky artwork. With a stack of black construction paper and any (or all!) of these materials, have fun exploring and creating – my girls love [...]

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