Five engineering challenges for kids – with wooden clothespins, binder clips, and craft sticks! It’s a simple STEM activity that kids of all ages will love. Move over, expensive building sets! These simple materials were a huge hit with my boys. The first time we got them out, Owen (almost 7) spent well over an […]
Zelf een knikkerbaan maken is heel eenvoudig en hoeft niets te kosten! Kinderen vinden het prachtig en zullen zich niet snel meer vervelen!
Family movie night is a weekly tradition in our house, and the kids have been counting down the days till we could get our hands on the new SING movie. SING is the perfect movie
1°- la demi-clé avec X La demi-clé est une liaison en trois points, elle utilise les deux parties du tour du panier et la partie basse de l'anse. La partie haute de l'anse n'est pas tressée. De ce fait elle est utilisée notament dans les corbeilles. Avec...
Learn how to make adorable leaf envelopes with or for your kids. Perfect for letters to fairies and letters from fairies!
San Diego-based artist Seyo Cizmic works within the realm of the surreal. From hammers that droop to knock nails into their own bodies to wooden pencils
Five engineering challenges for kids – with wooden clothespins, binder clips, and craft sticks! It’s a simple STEM activity that kids of all ages will love. Move over, expensive building sets! These simple materials were a huge hit with my boys. The first time we got them out, Owen (almost 7) spent well over an […]
Looking for a fun project to keep the kids busy? This DIY newspaper kite is a classic childhood activity that your kids will love.
I've noticed that many different projects can be made with wire hangers. Inexpensive and fun, these hanger crafts are perfect for the classroom!
We're sent hundreds real weddings every month to consider for publication so I'm sure you can imagine it's quite hard to narrow them down sometimes... However there was no question in our minds when we clapped eyes on Alexa and Andries' two day celebration in South Africa. They decided to split the wedding in two, with an intimate church ceremony for just close family and a big reception for everybody else three days later.
Esta diy se conoce como God´s eyes o los ojos de Dios, para nosotras enredando hilos 😂. Aunque es muy sencilla de hacer, para las personas mayores es un poco más costosa, porque es trabajar mucho la psicomotricidad en sus deditos y en la muñeca.... les cansa mucho y por eso lo trabajan una hora al día. Los materiales : palillos largos y madejas de hilos de muchos colores La Imaginación Vuela...!!! -El principio es lo más costoso, para nosotras nos fue más fácil unir los palos en vertical y más o menos calculando el centro empezamos a enrollar el hilo. -El segundo paso fue abrir los palos hasta tener la forma de cruz, y pasamos el hilo unas buenas vuelta en el lado que no tiene..... reforzamos. -A partir de aquí empezamos a coser, pasamos el hilo por encima de uno de los palos y le damos la vuelta y pasamos al siguiente..... esto lo repetimos hasta cambio de color. Con los niños y las personas mayores tenemos que estar pendientes, o bien porque: lo hacen flojo y la hebra queda colgando, o porque aprietan demasiado y los palos se nos parte. Luego podemos decorar de cualquier manera, porque dan mucho mucho juego: Hemos aprovechado y en la esquina de nuestra carpa hemos colocado un par de ellos. En los árboles nos encanta. Podemos añadirles cuentas. O formar figuras geométricas con ellos y colgarlos... Lo que sí sabemos es que nos encantó realizar esta actividad, super creativa y muy muy llamativa. BESOS Y SONRISAS
I got home from my disastrous show in Columbus Ohio last week and set to work assessing the damage. One common problem was dye from the yarns leaching into the silk thread used to stretch out my pieces in their frames. Unfortunately, silk picks up colors beautifully, so I ended up having to restring several pieces. I also found a lot of damage on the frames, although most of it was minor. I’m lucky there, but I will need to re-sand and freshly paint some of them. I did some aluminum frame bending and re-shaping, but for the major structural pieces I just couldn’t trust the integrity of the repaired pieces. I called up a very friendly and helpful artist representing Light Dome Canopies and ordered a few replacement pieces. I also bought some new bars to enhance the strength of the structure and a vinyl repair kit. Things are looking up! After a couple of days of triage and repair, though, I really felt the need to create some fresh art. I continued working on a piece I decided to call BFF (best friends forever). It features a beet, a carrot and a yellow onion sitting on a cross-section through dirt. That translates into working with my chocolaty brown yarn. The dirt sits beneath a cloudless, rainless, windless blue sky! I spent some time needle felting my friendly veggies for the piece. I had just the right color for the yellow onionskins, a fleece that I dyed using—you guessed it—onionskins! That really made me smile, and onion-dyed onion gives the sense that I’ve completed a circle. This week marked the end of the school year. That means I need to transition into my summer mode, and I have two friends to play with each day. Yesterday we went to the Monroe County Historical Society’s garage sale, an annual event for the three of us. It’s the biggest garage sale in all of Bloomington and serves as a major fundraiser for them. I go looking for treasures and it never lets me down. My big find this year was a Singer steam press iron that’s in excellent shape. I’ve been eyeing them for a while. I’m thinking that when I needle felt a bunch of leaves I can press them all at once, or I can press my scarves without the ironing board. I can almost hear the big shhhhhhh! as the top comes down and steam pours out! Summer mode also means time at the pool, so I spent time with the boys and their friend Claire at the Bryan Park Pool this afternoon. I swam a little, but I spent most of my time needle felting broccoli florets. I decided that after I sold my ‘Fruit Salad’ piece at Columbus I needed to create a vegetable salad. Broccoli is something new for me, but I’m pleased with how it turned out. All my vegetable creations remind me that I haven’t been able to get to the Farmer’s Market for a while, a problem I hope to resolve Saturday morning bright and early. I read in the paper that it’s blueberry time, and blueberries make a great pie! I bet if I just buy waaay too many to eat and put them in the fridge in front of the milk - Jim will have no choice but to bake me one! Until next week… Martina Celerin
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Cardboard Play Dome: I wanted to make a small play house for the kids, but I didn't want to spend money. Aside from a $3 pack of hot glue sticks, everything I used here is stuff I already had. I searched online for geodesic domes so I wouldn't have to do all the …
full photo tutorial - how to make a pretty paper orb
Baby Kimono Slipper Booties Crochet Patterns + Video: Crochet Baby Kimono Slipper Booties Pattern: Crochet Kimono Shoes for babies and adults with one free pattern available
Check out 3 different ways to make your own DIY Kumihimo Disk out of foam, cardboard, or chipboard. Braiding friendship bracelets has never been so easy!
☞ Mobile en papier coloré : Lyndie Dourthe est artiste-plasticienne à Nice. Elle nous propose dans ce Micro-tuto, de fabriqu...
Create some gorgeous frosted paper celestial wall art with gold metal hoops, our star and moon template, and embroidery floss.
Are you hosting a sleepover? Pack your child’s overnighter with a fun science craft! Here’s a fun and safe way to grow rock crystals during the night when your child and their buddies catch some ZZZ’s.
Decorating letters by wrapping yarn (or twine) around them is a super easy yarn craft idea that are not only fun to make, but the decorative lettering looks amazing on the wall in your house...
Great craft for tweens or teens and fun for littles too! Personalize your space with these yarn-wrapped letters, or make a set for a friend!
