It's school time again! In today's post, I am going to share 4 fun and colourful back to school paper crafts for kids of different ages! I know, for some of you, the holidays might have just started. The good news is, these are perfect craft ideas for the holidays too! 4 FUN BACK TO
If you are looking for a fun camp craft idea for scouts or a summer craft for tweens, then this soda straw weaving bracelet is perfect! Read on to see how to do straw weaving. Your child will love making colorful yarn bracelets.
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
I love finding unique ways to craft with recyclable materials. This week with the Chinese New Year on our mind, we created this fun egg carton dragon craft. Some of the steps are bit advanced for
41 Easy DIY projects that are fun and simple to make. Quick craft ideas that make cool homemade gifts and home decor on a budget.
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Last fall I planted over 100 tulip bulbs in my front yard and I waited anxiously all winter long for them to emerge from the ground. Guess what? They are all
Do you remember the first time you held a real crystal in your hand? Wasn't it magical? I remember it well! We bought one at a souvenir shop at a campsite where we were camping. You would have thought that I was holding the Hope Diamond! Well, that love of crystals has never left me,
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Wood Whittling 101: This instructable covers basic wood whittling technique. You will learn a little bit about tools, wood, technique, and safety. Hopefully it will be enough to get you interested in learning! Wood carving is not something you pick up over night; it r…
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I've been a bit down in the dumps lately. I'm not sure why. Maybe it's because of all of the transitions happening in my life... or lack of sleep... or both. Hopefully I'll feel better once summer starts. In the meantime, I've been doing quite a bit of crafting to cheer myself up. Recently I took my love of rainbow crafts and combined it with my love for paper plate crafts to make... tada! This lovely rainbow paper plate weaving craft! Let's Weave a Rainbow! This post contains affiliate links. This means that I make a teeny tiny bit of money from any purchases made through the Amazon links below. Thank you for your support! For my full disclosure policy, click here. A Little Background and some Tangents... This craft was inspired by Cassie Stephens' awesome woven tree art projects that she did with her 3rd graders. (If you haven't seen this art project, you need to check it out. Seriously. These kids did some gorgeous work!) Instead of doing trees, I made myself a rainbow. Oh! It's time for 2 random tangents: 1) At my son's preschool they have this lovely poem that they say every day with the kids: Chase a few rainbows Swing on a star Keep your face to the sun And be the best that you are. (Lovely, isn't it? Good advice for kids and adults too.) 2) And... if you are like me and always on the lookout for good books... here are our 15+ favorite books on rainbows: A Rainbow of My Own Planting a Rainbow The Magic School Bus Makes a Rainbow The Rainbow Goblins The Rainbow Book Elmer and The Rainbow My Many Colored Days The Day the Crayons Quit Moonbear's Skyfire Mix it Up A Day With No Crayons Red: A Crayon's story The Crayon Box that talked Mouse Paint Little Blue and Little Yellow A Color of His Own Quest Ok! Let's Weave a rainbow! First, I cut a paper plate in half and painted it with tempera paint to look like the sky. Notes: Usually I encourage using cheap paper plates for crafts, but this time you need to use nice thick sturdy ones. I added clouds later on. It made the sky look nicer that way, I think. Then, I cut out 7 slits on top of the plate and 1 slit on the bottom. Then, I created my loom with some yarn. (I tied the two ends in the back.) Then, I started weaving the rainbow, starting from purple first. I tied on the purple strand to a grey one. Then, I wrapped masking tape around the other end of my purple yarn to help me weave faster. To weave, I simply went over, under, over, under, etc... To change colors, I tied on the next color yarn. Once I finished, I tied on the red strand to a grey one. And that's it! I really hope you enjoy making this craft with your kiddos too! Looking for more fun weaving crafts? Leaf Sewing Woven Baby Turtles Woven CD Dream Catchers Looking for more rainbow crafts? Printable Rainbow Board Game Rainbow Paper Slinkies Color Theory Fans 20+ Unique Rainbow Crafts Happy making, friends!
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The origins of this art lesson came from a pin that I found on Pinterest connecting to the blog B Art Z - Elementary Art. I have been SO excited to blog about my new and improved cup weaving lesson! So last year I attempted to do cup weaving with my some of my students.. and while I loved the results.. the process was infuriating! For some reason I thought it was a great idea to weave with plastic cups - which made sharp jagged edges when cut by children. When that didn't go smoothly I thought myself sooooo clever to switch to styrofoam cups - which ended up making spokes (warp strips) that snapped off when pulled on to much. FINALLY I figured it out - PAPER CUPS!! These work PERFECTLY!! It is easy for the kids to cut the strips themselves AND they are surprisingly very durable. **Get them in bulk here! The first thing I had my kids do was write their name on the bottom of their cup with a sharpie. Then they placed their upside-down cup onto a template I created and made a tick mark on the rim of the cup everywhere where they saw a triangle poking out - this gave them evenly spaced points to cut from. When cutting out the spokes/warp strips, it is extremely important to remember to cut out an odd number of strips so that when you are weaving your AB pattern, the pattern alternates each consecutive time around. I found that with the 9oz cups my kids were using, 9 strips turned out to be the perfect number. Once the strips were cut, students double-knotted a piece of yarn to one of the strips, then began weaving! This particular class worked for 5 days straight on this (they really are a wonderful group).. and I had a few students who even completed 3 very well done cups in this amount of time (a couple even got pulled for our county art show)! :)
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An inexpensive and highly engaging process art experience for young children.
Check out the coolest printable ever! Grab one, color it and glue together to make a totally awesome flextangle!
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Why make borax crystal flowers? Well, do you love the look of freshly cut flowers sitting in a vase? I do. But I never buy them because of my cursed black thumb. While most people's cut flowers last for weeks, mine always start turning brown and wilting within a day or two. Boo, black thumb! Last week our craft store had a sale on fake flowers. I was so tempted to buy them, but they looked kinda cheesy and screamed, "I'm fake and I attract dust." But I ended up getting the flowers anyway, because I wanted to make something pretty with them. Here's what I came up with: Crystal Flowers Make Crystal Flowers! Yes. My fake flowers are covered with real crystals... that I grew from Borax. Lovely, aren't they? Would you like to make your own frosted-looking flowers? Read on! This post contains affiliate links. Thank you for your support! Materials to make Borax Crystal Flowers Borax Water Fake flowers Pencils String Tape Spoons Containers Paper Towels Directions: 1. Remove any leaves from your fake flowers. 2. Tie the flower stems to your pencils using string. Dangle your flower heads into your containers. Make sure that the flower heads don't touch anything else (like the container's bottom or side, or other flowers.) Adjust the placement of your flowers and string lengths as necessary. Then, remove the flowers from the plastic containers. (You don't want them to touch anything else because you don't want your crystal flowers attaching to other things.) 3. Boil your water. Pour it into your empty container. Then, dissolve spoonfuls of Borax one at a time until the Borax no longer dissolves. Then, place your flowers into your container and let them sit there for a couple of hours. Note: If your pencils keep rolling, use tape to keep them still. You may have some undissolved Borax on the bottom of your container. That's totally fine. 4. After a couple of hours, pull the flowers out and see how crystallized they've become. When you have enough crystals to your liking, set the flowers to dry standing up. Notes: If you're having trouble removing the crystal growth from the bottom or sides of the container, simply pour boiling water into the container again to dissolve the crystals. Enjoy your lovely and sparkly (fake) flowers! And if you enjoyed this project, here are three more fun crystal projects! Grow Crystals on Nature Mini Crystal Sculptures Check out these other neat science ideas! This awesome STEAM Kids ebook contains over 50+ STEAM activities My 30+ Favorite Flower and Plant Projects from over the years! (Special thanks to About.com's Chemistry section for inspiring today's science experiment and craft.)
When my boys were younger they used to love making little letters. I've put together an all-in-one envelope template and play stamps in the hope that it might inspire a little one that you know to create some snail mail too! You can make a little postbox if you want. There are some great examples
Are you one of those people who have a drawer or a box, maybe two of them, which is always full of "useless garbage" as you would think of it? Don't be
20 creative mason jar crafts to decorate your home. With a great rustic look, they're a useful thing that can be easily be repurposed into decorative items.
CARDBOARD TUBE RAINBOW BLOWERS - Kids love blowing this rainbow craft to see the streamers swoosh!
A Charlotte Mason Handicrafts Lesson Before we begin A Charlotte Mason Handicrafts Lesson … First, I explain why I’m focusing subject by subject. Also, I include Charlotte Mason quotes because I find her original lectures on education to be awe inspiring and helpful. Next, please keep reading to see the break down of implementing lessons, the schedule, […]
These painted cardboard and popsicle stick horses are a great way to gift wrap a small treat, like a handful of candies or any other tiny treasure!
Summer is here and I can't get enough! I made these quick Jute String Lanterns with mason jars to help decorate the backyard and patio!
Creating these jaw-dropping rainbow colored paper shamrocks is much easier than you might think. Make this fun St Patrick's Day craft for kids!
The days have been so gorgeous lately! We haven’t been encumbered by triple digit temps. Yay!! Glorious sunny days that beg to be played outsi…
Young children love crafts, but they're even better when they are useful and meaningful! Here are 100 handicrafts you can do with your young child.
As a kid, I did not like Thanksgiving. Not that I disliked it, I just didn’t see much in it for me. As far as I could tell, turkey could be served any Thursday, what was so special about this one? There was no decorating, no lead-up, no special task or activity unique to that...Read More
Make your own pressed rosemary candles using herbs harvested from your very own garden. They make great gifts or home decor.
This week we took a look at how flowering plants grow: The seed germinates, the plant grows, the plant flowers, the plant produces fruit and the seeds are dispersed. It was a simple introduction to plant lifecycle, we based our study off of our Exploring Nature With Children curriculum. As we studied about the lifecycle […]
If you are looking for a fun camp craft idea for scouts or a summer craft for tweens, then this soda straw weaving bracelet is perfect! Read on to see how to do straw weaving. Your child will love making colorful yarn bracelets.
Here's a roundup of some of the most brilliant space activities for kids to play and learn from. STEM crafts that children's can make and create to learn about space. Space Activities For Kids We
Can boys love handicrafts as much as girls? Absolutely! I have two girls and one boy and I can say without a doubt that boys can love handicrafts just as much as girls. I’ve also had thousands of families across the globe use the Rooted Childhood monthly collections to bring the joy of handicrafts into ... Read More about Handicrafts for Boys
