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Kids Craft: Pipe Cleaner Penguins

Karlynn Johnston — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 17:18:34 +0000

These absolutely adorable pipe cleaner penguins are sure to be a hit with your little ones! A quick trip the craft store and you have everything you need for a great project when the kids are home during teacher’s convention!

Step by step instructions can be found at Disney Family Fun.

Children’s Craft: Printable Lovebird Valentines

Karlynn Johnston — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 03:24:46 +0000

These absolutely adorable Valentines can be found at The Long Thread. I can’t get over how cute the saying “tweet tweet, I think you’re sweet” is!

Out of this World Valentines!

Karlynn Johnston — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 15:44:32 +0000

This nifty idea for homemade Valentine can be found at The Frugal Crafter blog, complete with a print and cut pattern that you can download. The rocket is glued together with a lollipop in the middle, sweet and unique!

SewnNatural Eco Organic Valentine Gifts

Karlynn Johnston — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 10:00:36 +0000

These bibs are absolutely beautiful and would make such a lovely gift for someone this Valentines Day.

And the kid-sized messenger bag pictured below is beautiful and would make a divine present for that little girl in your life!

Visit SewnNatural’s Etsy shop to purchase and peruse her other wonderful creations!

Children’s Craft: Printable Rocket Valentines

Karlynn Johnston — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 10:00:02 +0000

These are absolutely adorable rocket valentines by the Cottage Industrialist blog that you can print out and have your child give to their friends.

Click here to go to the PDF file and have fun! There are more to be found on the site, check it out!

Valentine Craft: Stained-Glass Hearts

Karlynn Johnston — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 12:00:19 +0000

This beautiful and incredibly easy craft can be found on the Disney Family Fun site.

Star Wars Craft: General Grievous

Karlynn Johnston — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 03:10:56 +0000

This is from the Star Wars website, where you can find activities galore for kids to do! Since I know tons of little boys who are mad about Star Wars, this is the perfect site for craft ideas, art and more.

Bulletin Board Circle

Sat, 23 Jan 2010 04:56:02 +0000

There are days when it is simply too cold to play outside with the kids. And since I am always in search of things to keep me organized here is something to keep you organized and the kids entertained! And the best part is that the supplies are minimal and you will end up with a cute place for those notes.

For step-by-step instructions with photos please see the post on the Nico Designs Blog.

This post was submitted by Erika at Nico Designs.

Craft Hope For Haiti

Karlynn Johnston — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 23:32:54 +0000

If you are looking for a way to combine your love of crafts and help out the disaster in Haiti, then you must go and visit the Craft Hope Etsy Store. Craft Hope is a faith based, love inspired organization, with their current project being an Etsy store full of donated items from crafters around the world to benefit Doctors Without Borders/Haiti Relief work.

There are two ways to help; you can send donations of crafts that you made to the Etsy store, or you can go and browse the amazing, AMAZING crafts these ladies have created.

Craft Hope is rapidly approaching the $10,000 mark! Congratulations to all of those involved!

Click here to visit the Etsy Store.

Click here to read the Craft Hope blog.

Rainbow Salt Bottle

Sun, 17 Jan 2010 23:02:25 +0000

Not only does this activity finish with a beautiful product it has the child practicing several skills in the process, spooning, grinding, pouring and learning about colour mixing. The finished bottle can also make great gifts for grandparents.
What you will need:
*small glass bottle with a lid
*funnel
*salt
*sidewalk chalk (small chalk pieces will break too easily)
*spoon
*jug
Have all the equipment set out on a tray, working on a tray will help with clean up. First measure 2 spoons of salt into the jug – you can adjust the amount to suit.Take the chalk and grind it into the salt, the salt will change colour. Using the funnel, pour the salt into the glass bottle, then repeat with another colour of chalk, keep going until the bottle is full. You can suggest to the child that try mixing two colours to see what happens.
One tip when colour mixing – this or other mediums, suggest that the child starts off with the weaker colour, so in this case he coloured the salt yellow first then added the blue (you only need a bit of blue to make it turn green).
Then when you have finished you will have a pretty bottle like the one pictured.

This post was submitted by jo ebisujima.