For something amazing as the Olympics, we need an Olympic DIY, right?? I love watching them ans my whole family is counting down to the opening ceremonies. And as always, I love to combine things
A simple tutorial for making paper pinwheels from the fabulous new book, The Artful Year.
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Recycling Paper at Preschool - A hands-on look at how paper is made. Perfect way for preschoolers to see (and feel) how paper is recycled into new paper | you clever monkey
8 More Earth Day Crafts for Kids
Make sure you follow our STEM board on Pinterest for more ideas. We do a lot of science-based activities but not many that full More
Grammy's Nalesniki (Polish Crepes): Nalesniki (nah-lesh-NEE-kee) are thin crepe-like pancakes filled with various fruit or sweet fillings. When filled with a cottage cheese filling, they are often called blintzes.Don't be crushed if you can't get your Nalesniki to look picture perfect…
It's so fun to make a DIY spinner toy! These spinner toys are so bright and colourful, and they're so cool to play with! Watch the colours combine as the string spinner whirls through the air. This is such an easy craft to make, especially when you download our free spinner templates (find the links below!). Decorate and colour your spinner disc however you'd like, and create hours of fun for mere pennies! 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 Spinner
How to fold an Origami Tulip Flower.
This is the BEST paper tube Koi Fish, and one of several other Lunar New Year Animal inspired art lessons that we offer. This fun DIY craft is an original idea from ART CAMP Studio. It's a great year round project for all ages.
Winter solstice has been celebrated all over the world for thousands of years. It occurs on the shortest day and longest night. Although this is often the first day of winter, it also promises the return of the sun after an extended period of darkness.
Learn how to turn an ordinary paper plate into a colourful woven bowl to store trinkets and treasures in. (Video tutorial included in post).
How creative and beautiful is this idea? I think you’ll like this fun craft. Head over to the LIVEJOURNALfor the full instructions.
Advanced Paper Snowflakes are simple to create and give your DIY snowflakes a unique and interesting look!
Have you seen the flying carp streamers in Japan? They are known as Koinobori. (Admittedly, I just learned that term.) They are typically made from a woven fabric and flown during the Japanese celebration known as Tango no sekku. This celebration is dedicated to children and also referred to as Children's Day. This is a celebration of the children of Japan in the hope they may grow up to be strong and resilient like the carp that swim up the waterfalls. Read more about the festivities here. I'v
Oh how I love spring time and watching mother nature spring to life! One of my favorites is seeing trees start throwing out pretty pink and white blossoms. To
This STEM Index Card Tower Challenge is one of the easiest to prepare and the most challenging to complete! It's a perfect challenge to get all kids involved in problem-solving and practicing perseverance.
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It’s always fun when you can make a project that you can then customize with your own art or your kiddo’s art. Being that this project uses tracing paper you can trace all sorts of thin…
Happy Handmade - 115 pages of fun projects to make with, and for children. Includes Paper & Cardboard Crafts, Felt & Sewing Projects, and Handmade Toys!
Learn how to turn an ordinary paper plate into a colourful woven bowl to store trinkets and treasures in. (Video tutorial included in post).
Make this paper toy and be mesmerized by the colorful action! Get the template and instructions on Babble Dabble Do.
Your kids will love making this toilet paper roll leprechaun king, and a group of his leprechaun friends, for some Leprechaun shenanigans!
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Make this paper toy and be mesmerized by the colorful action! Get the template and instructions on Babble Dabble Do.
Learn how to make beautiful paper lavender flowers with our easy step by step tutorial. Lavenders are such beautiful flowers with pleasant scent and vibrant colors! These DIY lavenders look so realistic and it is super easy to make them. They make adorable gifts for Mothers' day, Grandparents day and Teachers' day and they are
For this paper structure engineering challenge you just need paper and scotch tape. Then, give your kids time to be creative and innovative! Kids learn from taking items from their everyday life and using them in new ways to do simple things. It helps them understand the world around them and how things work.
Create a chain of paper dolls by cutting multi-folded paper strips. Learn this basic paper cutting technique with paper dolls then let your imagination run wild. Cut paper chains with themes for every season and every special event. They make great decorations for parties, classrooms and your home.
Recipe video above. Vietnamese Rice Paper Rolls are incredibly fresh and healthy. The Vietnamese peanut dipping sauce that accompanies this is sensational and completely addictive!
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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
These adorable Dancing Princesses are the cutest Pipe Cleaner Craft for kids, are mess free, great for imaginary play and make sweetest room decorations.
It's time to set sail for a classic crafting adventure with this easy-to-do paper boat… all aboard!
Learn how to fold these beautiful origami Carambola Flowers from a single sheet of paper — design by Carmen Sprung, video tutorial by Sara Adams.
It is helpful for your client to have an art therapy supplies kit that they can use when seeking coping strategies through art therapy activities.
Christmas is all about expectation, excitement, joy, good feeling and of course, tradition. A Scandinavian Christmas is about as far from an Australian Christmas, that you can get - yet Handmade Scandinavian Christmas, by Hege Barnholt, is a wonderful resource which can be enjoyed anywhere in the world. Handmade Scandinavian Christmas is a beautifully photographed book, filled with wonderfully natural ideas, inspiring the reader to gather their family and create their own Christmas traditions. It is filled with Christmas crafting and ways to get everyone involved in spreading joy and enjoying the excitement of the lead up to Christmas. Handmade Scandinavian Christmas is divided up into sections: Preparing for Christmas, Cut and Glue, Light and Warmth, For the Birds, Perfect Presents, For Little Hands, Almost Christmas, Advent Calendars, Christmas Flowers, Tasty Presents, Sweet Christmas, Wrapped with Love, The Scent of Christmas, Cake Galore. There are over 120 projects and each is beautiful, yet achievable. Easy-to-follow instructions are accompanied by stunning photographs and full size templates to guide the reader through a creative and crafty Christmas celebration! My favourite section is Wrapped with Love. It’s filled with gorgeous ideas on wrapping gifts and making them look as special as the gift inside. It is divided up into colour themes which a section devoted to making labels and cards. Wrapping symbolizes the excitement and anticipation whilst the presents are sat under the tree. The wrapping can be just as exciting as the present itself showing both love and care. Cake Galore completes this book, with delicious recipes which can be made with (and eaten by) the whole family. Cakes and biscuits incorporating dried fruits - sweet bites of yumminess which everyone will enjoy. Christmas muesli, marzipan hearts and even chocolate truffles. Handmade Scandinavian Christmas is a book which will be kept and opened each year, guiding the reader in creating a handmade Christmas, filled with excitement, inspiration and family traditions. Available at Booktopia and CanDo Books. ISBN: 9781446303610 Format: Hardcover Language: English Number Of Pages: 160 Published: 1st September 2013 Publisher: DAVID & CHARLES Disclaimer: I received a copy of this book to review. All thoughts and images are my own.
This paper roll windmill is so much fun! And it's surprisingly easy to make! You can use the free printable template down below to get all the shapes, or you can create them yourself. It's totally up to you! It takes about 10 to 15 minutes to make one and you probably have most of the supplies at home already! My favourite thing about this paper roll windmill is that the blades actually spin. It's ridiculously satisfying to watch it spin when you're done! I worked as an engineer for 8 years before I started working on the blog full
We love flowers and look forward to the time we can plant annual flowers in the spring. Our love of flowers often shows up in our crafts like today's Paper Plate Flower Craft. We've also made
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Looking for a cheap, easy to use therapy material? How about paper bags? I love using paper bags for a variety of activities. Here are some simple ways I have incorporated paper bags into my therapy sessions. 1. Puppets My students love to use puppets to "eat" their articulation cards or other target cards. They also love to use them to tell stories. Making puppets from paper bags is a great, inexpensive way to engage your students in a variety of activities! You can easily make a puppet to match any book or story that you are using. Be creative- your kids will love it! I made these monster puppets with my son this week. They were so easy to make! We used a little paint, glue, and card stock with our paper bags. I found the idea for these cute monsters from this pin: Paper Bag Monster Puppets 2. Describe It To Me This activity is also super easy. I throw a bunch of items into a bag. My students reach in and grab something (no peeking!) to describe. The students remove the object and then describe it using a variety of descriptors. This is a great way to incorporate your Expanding Expression Tool (EET) with describing real objects. Sometimes I will even get really small, cheap objects that the students can keep if they give me a description using all of the beads on the EET. 3. What is in the bag? This is a great activity to work on a student's deductive reasoning skills. I put an object into the bag (students do not see- again, no peeking). Students need to ask questions about my object. This is similar to the game Headbanz. 4. Categories Place pictures of categories on the bag and collect items or pictures to place in each category. I used pictures from my Category Sorting activity. I like to put a piece of Velcro on each bag so that I can interchange the categories without having to get a new bag each time. 5. Collect in a bag Put any kind of card into the bag. My students love to decorate a bag and then collect their cards. 6. Paper bag books You can use two paper bags to make a book that will have two pockets. Simply fold two bags in half and then put the two openings touching each other to make two pockets for a book. Staple together, and done! You have a paper bag book that you can use to target a variety of goals. I used this one to put some of my new sequencing cards in for a student to take home. I have also made these Articulation Paper Bag Books. These are so fun to make with students and send home! Here is a link to a freebie that contains blank frames to use on your paper bags, as well as labels for What is in the bag? and Describe It To Me. Have fun using your paper bags!
Every once and a while, I seem to go through a paper roll collecting stage. I have no idea why, because I truly never have anything planned for them, but it happens none the less. When I noticed a little collection of them today during nap time, I decided we’d put them to use this…
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It's so fun to make a DIY spinner toy! These spinner toys are so bright and colourful, and they're so cool to play with! Watch the colours combine as the string spinner whirls through the air. This is such an easy craft to make, especially when you download our free spinner templates (find the links below!). Decorate and colour your spinner disc however you'd like, and create hours of fun for mere pennies! 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 Spinner
I've said it once, and I'll say it again. I've got a black, black thumb. And this saddens me because deep down, my heart is really green. I love looking at plants, I love eating plants, and goodness one year I was even a tree for Halloween! But I'm a plant killer. So this makes today's toilet paper roll craft perfect for me. These cardboard roll plants are pretty to look at, and impossible to kill. Make Toilet Paper Roll Flowers and Cacti Yup. Aren't they pretty? If you're interested in making yourself some everlasting recyclable plants, keep on reading! Materials to Make Toilet Paper Roll Plants (*Note: Some of the links in this post are affiliate links which mean I earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. Thank you for your support.) Cardboard Rolls Craft Paint Paint Brushes Scissors Pencil Steps to Make Toilet Paper Roll Plants 1. Sketch out your flowers and cacti onto your toilet paper rolls and paper towel rolls. then, use your scissors to cut out your plants. (Be sure to keep the tube completely uncut on the bottom so that your plant will stand.) 2. Cover your work area. Then, paint your cardboard roll plants! (Chuck painted the flowers and I painted the cacti.) Let them dry. And you're done! Now you have a garden of everlasting cardboard roll flowers.. and cardboard cacti that never need to be watered. And here's an up-close shot of Chuck's flowers... just because I love how colorful they look. Yup. I think these plants that will stand up against my black thumb. Happy crafting! Psst- Interested in other flower crafts? Check out these links below! Cherry Blossom Tissue Paper Flowers Print with Flowers Oil Pastel Flower Sun Catchers Egg Carton Flower Wreath Interested in other toilet paper roll crafts? Check these out! Toilet Roll Airplanes Cardboard Space Shuttle Toilet Paper Roll Bird Feeders Homemade Sidewalk Chalk Cardboard IPod Speakers
Mijn twee dochters hebben allebei een knutselverslaving. Zodra het even kan worden de knutselspullen uit de kasten getrokken en gaan de meiden druk aan de
