May 17, 2012

Craft Hope For Haiti

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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 [...]

Rainbow Salt Bottle

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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 [...]

Homemade Finger Paint Recipe

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Quick, easy and homemade, this Country Living City Style recipe does the trick!  Full recipe with instructions and a pretty way of wrapping them up for presents.

Children’s Felt Wallet

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Adorable little felt wallet for children,  a simple craft that takes very little time. Country Living, City Style. Incoming search terms:felt wallet kids

Etsy Artist Find: birdshaveflowers

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Along with thousands of others, I love browsing Etsy and looking at everything that is available. It sometimes gets a little overwhelming since it has grown in popularity, weeding through all the sellers can be quite the daunting task. There are many, many blogs about Etsy sellers but I thought I would profile my finds [...]

Easy Morning Craft : Styrofoam Airplane

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This…was….so….easy…that it shouldn’t even qualify as as craft, but the serious entertainment value here is worth posting. Kade played with this silly little thing until he broke it, he thought it was the greatest thing ever, and, it was his idea. I had kept some styrofoam trays for them to craft with, with my idea [...]

Easy Morning Craft : Everything Bracelet

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This crafty idea came from the Children’s Museum in San Jose when Mike took the kids there. It personifies a simple craft, yet its so entertaining for the kids. All you need is tape and imagination! Take a piece of masking tape, and put it sticky side out around your child’s wrist. Then let your [...]

Easy Morning Craft: Mirror Art

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This was SO easy, yet so entertaining for the kids to do Take a piece of paper, and fold it in half, or, draw a faint line in the middle. Get the kids to paint on one side, using quite a decent amount of paint, then when they are done, fold it over and squish [...]