This butterfly craft is so fun and it's super easy to make! Kids of all ages will love watching the paper butterfly flap its wings just like a real butterfly. The mechanics of the moving wings also add a fun lesson in engineering, making it a great STEAM project. Butterfly Craft We used drinking straws to create the moving wings of our butterflies. It's SO COOL how the butterfly flaps its wings. It really looks like it's flying! This butterfly craft is the perfect activity to go along with a butterfly or insect lesson at school. It's also a great spring

Make beautiful bubble painting Hydrangea flowers! Fun DIY dish soap paint recipe. Great kids art activity & easy beginner watercolor ideas!

This fire breathing dragon made from a toilet paper roll is an easy kids craft that uses simple craft supplies. When you blow into the end of the tube the tissue paper looks like flames coming out of the dragon's mouth! Fire Breathing Dragon Craft Add this activity to your crafty bucket list, because it's SO MUCH FUN! And it's ridiculously simple to make. Kids, toddlers and preschoolers will love to see the dragon blowing fire! The photos make me smile, just looking at them. Watch the Video Tutorial Here: (Or scroll down for the step-by-step photo tutorial and printable

Check out the coolest printable ever! Grab one, color it and glue together to make a totally awesome flextangle!

Learn how to make a bouncy ball using 3 simple ingredients! These DIY bouncy balls are SO COOL! It's such a great craft that also doubles as a science experiment! Kids and adults can make a homemade bouncy ball toy in just a few minutes. They're so easy to make and a whole lot of fun to play with! This post contains affiliate links. If you use these links to buy something we may earn a small commission which helps us run this website. How to Make a Bouncy Ball Learn how to make a bouncy ball in less than

Spring is finally here! Maybe it's been spring for awhile where you are, but I live in Canada, so it takes a little bit longer to warm up where I am. And my oh my, have I ever missed the flowers and the leaves! I love walking my 6 year old daughter to school each morning and seeing the magnolias just ready to bloom, the buds on the trees just ready to burst and the bright yellow forsythia flowers highlighting our backyard. I love this time of year! And since I've been in such a wonderful spring mood, I decided to make

Did you know that you can make a beautiful paper flower in the same way that you make a paper snowflake?! It's so much fun! Learn how to make paper flowers by following our easy photo and video tutorials below. These kirigami flowers are SO PRETTY! And all it takes is a few simple folds and cuts to transform a single piece of paper into a beautiful flower. Design your own flower shapes or use our free PDF templates. (We have 9 different shapes to choose from!) This post contains affiliate links. If you use these links to buy something

Learn how to paint fireworks with acrylic paint and paper rolls. The perfect kids craft for the summer holidays, these fireworks paintings are absolutely gorgeous, and they're SO EASY to make! How to Paint Fireworks with Acrylic Paint Who knew that a cut up paper roll could create such beautiful fireworks?! These firework paintings are so colourful and impressive looking, yet they're incredibly simple to make! We chose seven different colours for our fireworks, but you can make it even easier by choosing three or four of your favourite colours - they'll still look awesome. Try red, white, and blue to

It's SO EASY to make a q-tip flower painting! Dip a bundle of q-tips into paint and stamp them onto cardstock to create these quick and easy flower paintings. It's so fun to use an every day object to paint, and this q-tip art is also such a cheerful craft for spring! Hang your artwork on the fridge or turn it into a card for birthdays, Mother's Day, or just because. This post contains affiliate links. If you use these links to buy something we may earn a small commission which helps us run this website. DIY Flower Q-Tip Painting

Yesterday I shared some fun ways to DIY paper flowers And now I wanted to show you all the fun ways to decorate or use them!! And holy cow...so many amazing ways! Paper flower backdrop

Discover your inner artist with easy polymer clay ideas! Get crafting and create amazing jewelry and decor. Learn more now!

Fairy playdough recipe smells amazing and uses only 3 ingredients. Great for sensory and fine motor development and imaginative play.

It's SO EASY to make beautiful yarn art! Create a colourful yarn 'painting' by gluing leftover yarn onto a dollar store canvas. It's such a fun craft to experiment with colour and texture! Yarn art is the perfect art project for groups at summer camp or sleepovers. You can make a picture of a landscape, like we did, or create a simpler, abstract design. Either way, it's so much fun to make this unique fiber art! This post contains affiliate links. If you use these links to buy something we may earn a small commission which helps us run this

These DIY wind chimes are so beautiful and they sound so cheerful ringing in the breeze. Made from a few simple supplies, this summer craft is really easy to make! DIY Wind Chimes Beaded wind chimes are such a beautiful decoration for your porch, patio, or gazebo. They're perfect for placing in the garden and make a lovely gift for Mother's Day, Father's Day, or a summer birthday. I love the soft clinking sound of the beads brushing against each other and the subtle chime of the bells when the strands move back and forth. Learning how to make a

These are the absolute most adorable painted rocks! If you love the painted rock trend you are going to love these fun ideas.

15 best painted rock ideas: creative arts & crafts for kids & family. DIY home garden decorations & gifts by painting beautiful designs on stones & pebbles!

These coffee filter hydrangeas are SO PRETTY and they're super easy to make! Transform regular coffee filters into these beautiful flowers that look surprisingly realistic! These DIY coffee filter flowers are inexpensive to make, and it's such a fun craft for both kids and adults. It's almost magical to watch the coffee filters change colour as the liquid watercolour paint spreads across them. Then watch the colours fade and change once again as they dry! This post contains affiliate links. If you use these links to buy something we may earn a small commission which helps us run this website.

A perfect kid craft. This paper project is just a fun kid activity to do at home. Have fun make these children crafts on the cheaper side and make crafting an activity to enjoy with the whole family.

These 30+ easy paper star decorations are perfect for any event! Check out these amazing ideas and tutorials now. #paperstar #diy #homedecorations

Looking for an easy ocean animal craft to do this summer? This paper jellyfish craft is a perfect craft activity to keep your kids busy on a lazy summer day. It is a great under the sea craft to make with preschoolers, kindergarteners, and school-age kids. It comes with a jellyfish printable template that you

24 Gorgeous fall leaf crafts & easy DIY decor ideas such as colorful wreath, garland, kids art prints, Thanksgiving table centerpiece, etc!

This pressed flower craft is SO PRETTY! Make your own pressed flower lanterns that are beautiful, and really easy to put together! With a bit of mod podge and dried flowers you have a gorgeous candle holder that's super inexpensive to make. Pressed Flower Craft Making this pressed flower craft is so simple, and the results are so pretty! These pressed flower lanterns provide a pop of colour from the dried flowers and a soft glow from the tea light candles inside. If you're looking for a table decoration for a summer wedding or party, these pressed flower lanterns are

These coffee filter flowers are SO PRETTY! This simple craft is beautiful enough for adults, but easy enough that kids can make them too. They make beautiful party decorations and are also a great gift idea for teachers or Mother's Day. Easy Coffee Filter Flowers It's hard to believe these flowers are made out of coffee filters! For pennies you can make a beautiful flower bouquet that won't wilt or fade. Best of all, these coffee filter flowers are SO EASY to make. They're made from simple supplies (coffee filters painted with liquid watercolor paint and tied together with a

Use this easy DIY clay recipe to learn how to make air dry clay for kid's crafts. Household ingredients are all you need- no cooking or baking required!

Make your own worry dolls; tell them what is worrying you just before you go to sleep, place them under your pillow, and let them do the worrying for you so you (or little ones) can get a good nights sleep.

Galaxy Jars DIY, easy way to create a galaxy in a jar and all its wonder in your hands, use tutorial to make Nebula necklaces and other sensory calming jars

Fun and easy crafts and DIY for teens with step by step project tutorials. Cheap creative DYI room decor and gift ideas to make at home.

Discover new ideas and easy-to-follow tutorials on innovative button crafts you can do at home. Get creative today!

POM MAKER TUTORIAL How to make a pom pom love bird Learn how to make an easy pom pom birdthat will carry your love message to your Valentine! This is a cute Valentine’s Day craft project suitable for beginners and kids. POM MAKER TUTORIAL How to make a pom pom love bird Learn how to …

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Aren't these no-sew sock worms adorable!? And they're super easy to make! Seriously, if you have mismatched socks lying around the house, this is such a fun way to use them! You only need a few simple supplies that you can easily find around the house or at the dollar store and in less than 10 minutes you can make a cute little crawling creature. I can't decide if these little guys are worms or caterpillars? My first thought was worms. But my kids say they're caterpillars. And they have a good point because worms don't have antennae? Whatever you

the birdhouses are my favorite!

Fun and easy craft idea for kids and teens to make at home when bored! They are going to love this simple project using beads and a hot glue gun. These DIY beaded sunglasses are great for parties and photo booths. They're cute enough to make and sell!

Looking for easy pipe cleaner crafts for kids? My girls love making these beaded dragonflies! They are so cute for any spring project. A great boredom buster for when they are stuck at home. Cute little gifts, too.

These handprint lilies are so beautiful and surprisingly easy to make! They'd make such a thoughtful handmade gift idea for Mother's Day if you make a small bouquet and tie them together with a ribbon. Or you could make a bouquet of handprint Easter lilies if you use white paper. Can Easter lilies be pink? I think they're just white? Either way, they're adorable for spring and they're a wonderful low mess craft to make with the kids! I had such an awesome helper when I made these paper handprint lilies! My spunky 5 year old loves crafts, and she

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Today, I thought I would share one of the biggest resources that has ever been created for you. This post contains enough arts and crafts ideas to get you through the summer, fall, winter, spring... and many more rounds after that! I decided to have this resource include both art ideas AND craft ideas. The

We love Arts and Crafts for Kids and Salt Painting does not disappoint. Salt Art is so pretty and kids will love glue painting. It's inexpensive and so fun!

Arts and craft ideas for teens and tweens. From yarn crafts to painting and slime!

2017 Topic 7: Found Objects Ali Clifford Well hello everyone, Darcy here with the latest topic, this time we are scavenging, recycling, treasure hunting and re-purposing. Our new challenge is all about 'found objects' and using them in art. This means not not using things that are intended for art, but instead looking around you and creating art with what you can find. Interest in found objects is not new, but instead can be traced back to the 16th century. Items were displayed in private 'curiosity cabinets' these items were not used in art though until the 19th century. The name is a literal translation from the French, objet trouvé, this referred to objects that had non art functions that were then transferred into an art context. This led to a small art movement known as 'the readymade' Picasso used bits of a woven chair on his canvas, Degas used real tutu fabric on his ballerinas. Scour your attics, old toy boxes, sheds and garages, keep an eye out when walking in the park or the beach. You would not believe how many lost shoe buckles I have picked up in car parks! Maria Fantastic papers can be made by stamping with found objects, we will look at a few examples, but I wonder, what have you got in your cupboards and drawers that you could try stamping or painting with? As for painting, why use brushes? what could you use instead. Embellishments too can be found, broken jewellery, disassembled clocks, ornaments, clothing. Pretty soon your eye will be caught by any little object left behind by others, looking at it in a new light, wondering what you can make. So much fun can be had trying to make things fit, so who is up for a bit of Wombling? Before we start, let's see who won the Topic 6: Resin and UTEE Challenge... The winner of Resin and UTEE is: Claire from Claire's Crafty Makes Email Darcy to claim your prize. [email protected] So, to begin any project we need to create a base, with paper crafts we generally start with painted or patterned papers. So let's see some fabulous examples of how those can be created with all kinds of weird and wonderful objects. Just look at these beautiful delicate flower prints, made with real flowers! Robin Clement There are lots of packaging elements that can be used with ink and paint, bubblewrap is a great one but I adore these hearts, who knew the humble loo roll tube could print so well. Tammy Have you tried bubble art? washing up liquid and inks and a straw can all be 'found' in your house, blow some bubbles and create gorgeous paper. Yaser What about food printing, the thought of this always makes me smile, and takes me back to childhood potato prints. This corn on the cob makes a great repeating pattern. This next one is stunning, I can't believe it is a vegetable print. BTW I have no idea what Treviso radicchio is but I feel the need to find one! Martha Stewart Watch how this painting comes to life just using cotton buds. Now you have your painted backgrounds, time for some embellishments. A really effective and inexpensive way to make embellishments is to use clay, specifically paper clay. However you usually need a mould, but what about instead of pressing the clay into a mould, you just press something into the clay? Glue buttons to the end of corks and you have ready made stamping tools, they are really effective in clay. Martha Stewart Now you can cover your cards or canvasses, wrap boxes and begin to build. use your embellishments and found treasures, what amazing creations can you come up with? Remember that walk to the beach, look at this lovely arrangement of seaside memories. Are you ever lucky to find sea glass, the prettiest things can be made from those little pieces of tumbled glass. Crafting timeout I adore these hanging pieces, found glass,, pieces of driftwood and twine, simple and effective. Eliza Martinez A quick trip to your garage can yield some special trinkets, combine these with your hand made embellishments, perhaps paper beads made with your printed papers and create jewellery. Joan W For something a little smaller how about a mixed media playing card, paint it with found objects and then arrange more 'treasures' on top. You will never see a paper clip in the same way again! Claudia Neubacher Perhaps you wish to just display your found objects, printers trays are perfect for this, but on a smaller scale a box frame works really well. Julia Mckenzie How about something a little fishy? how cool do those reclaimed, rusty washer look! Jackie Or go all out and create a masterpiece by recreating a classic painting. You really need to open this image up, when you see what is there you will be amazed. Jane Perkins I have to end with this one, it really made me chuckle. From a distance it looks great, really detailed, colourful and intriguing.. and obviously a coral reef. until you get closer... Lynn Aldrich ...and you see it is made from kitchen scrubbies! Follow the link in her name to see lots more. So much fun don't you think? so many ways to use found objects from colouring your paper and fabric to making embellishments right through to creating full pieces of art. I can't wait to see how you transform your carefully hoarded rubbish treasure into works of art. Don't forget to follow Darcy and Leandra's Pinterest boards if this topic pushes your buttons, you will see plenty more examples to whet your appetite there! I am really looking forward to seeing what you create over the next 2 weeks! ~ Darcy We hope that you learn something interesting from our blog. Our bloggers deeply appreciate your comments so much, so please take time to let them know you've been inspired! Why not join our challenge by blogging your interpretation of the current topic and link it here? The current topic link will close 17:00 (London Time) Sunday, May 7th 2017, and the winner will be announced 2 hours later at 19:00. All links go in the draw to win a £50 voucher to spend on products of your choice from the PaperArtsy online store. Challenge Guidelines The challenge is a for you to show how you are inspired by the current blog topic. We encourage you to play with us and explore your personal creative style. Please mention which PA blog post inspired you and and why (link directly to that post). Please don't link to the home page of your blog because then no-one can track back to easily find the original post. We prefer your challenge blog post is created exclusive to our challenge, but if our topic fits perfectly with another challenge, then you may link to both if appropriate. You are most welcome to use stamps/ products/ substrates you have to hand from a variety of companies, we do not expect you to exclusively use PA products - it's lovely when you do though! You can enter as many times as you like. We don't want to restrict your creativity! NB. Link closes at 17:00 Sunday May 7th (London Time) Prize: The winner will receive a £50 credit voucher to be redeemed on the PaperArtsy Website. The credit voucher includes VAT and postage. We request that one of your purchases is an A5 rubber stamp. You can add any other items to your basket, but the final total should not exceed £50. It's your responsibility to claim your prize coupon from Darcy. email: [email protected] NEW Challenge/ winner: Each fortnight on Sunday, the winner will be announced at 19:00 (London time). In the same post, the link for the next fortnight will be posted. Good Luck! If you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask!

Looking for nature crafts? I have a list of 25 beautiful nature crafts to do indoors or outdoors with your kids!

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These coffee filter hydrangeas are SO PRETTY and they're super easy to make! Transform regular coffee filters into these beautiful flowers that look surprisingly realistic! These DIY coffee filter flowers are inexpensive to make, and it's such a fun craft for both kids and adults. It's almost magical to watch the coffee filters change colour as the liquid watercolour paint spreads across them. Then watch the colours fade and change once again as they dry! This post contains affiliate links. If you use these links to buy something we may earn a small commission which helps us run this website.

DIY Yarn Art | Easy Tactile Canvas 'Paintings': I've always liked simple, bold and colourful designs....and it just so happens I also have a rather large collection of yarns...so I thought I would combine the two! This Instructable shows you how I made a collection of mini artworks out of stretch…

Printing with leaves, flowers, and other found objects allows you to create decorative patterns and works of art that capture the beauty of nature. Photo © Adam Mastoon. You can make beautiful stat…