Craft

Spring Art: How to Make a Bunny Garland

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Yesterday I shared how to make watercolor paintings with kids. And from those paintings, I cut out these cute little bunnies. This was all my daughter’s idea. She mapped out a plan for Spring decorating, and one of the things on her list was “a bunny garland, with bunnies that are the same shapes as the ones [...]

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Origami for Kids: Origami Rabbit

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We’ve been making and testing little floating boats (post coming soon) for the San Francisco Children’s Creativity Museum, and digging through a fun stack of origami paper (from Daiso) to make sails. While N was busy making a fleet of boats, I folded a family of origami rabbits. When I was in grade school, I [...]

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Valentine Garland + Some Other Stuff

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It’s February! And you know what that means? Valentine’s Day is right around the corner and we get to geek out on hearts, pink, and glitter. I’m over at the Kiwi Crate blog today, sharing this Valentine garland that my three year old and I made together. It’s so simple and turned into an excellent [...]

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Last Minute DIY Gifts To Make With Kids

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Okay, so we’re down to the last holiday minute, and if you’re in need of a little something for your lovely neighbors or visiting cousins, this might just do the trick. My 3.5 year old actually helped me make everything here (in various ways), you might already have all or most of the ingredients/materials, and [...]

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Rolled Paper Snowflakes

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When I saw this toilet paper tube star garland on Creative Jewish Mom, I knew my 3 year old would enjoy it. We didn’t have any toilet paper rolls on hand, so I improvised with what we had. We made them from a chipboard box (very sturdy, just like toilet paper/loo rolls) and from construction paper (not [...]

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Hanging Holiday Stars

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I was invited by Elmer’s (the glue people) to join in their Look for Less challenge. If you know me, you probably know that I like a good challenge, and I’m a huge fan of Elmer’s, so I said YES! The challenge was to create a magazine-worthy product with Elmer’s products, for a fraction of [...]

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Salt Dough Ornaments: Part 2

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We painted out salt dough ornaments (recipe and instructions can be found here) and just wrapped most of them up for gifting to my daughter’s playmates. I love how they turned out, and how my 3 year old can proudly share gifts from her heart with her friends. Less you think everything comes together like [...]

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Salt Dough Ornaments: Part 1

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Raise your hand if you’ve made or plan to make salt dough ornaments this season! Yep, I see a lot of you out there. It seems we’re not the only ones, but in case you haven’t committed to this yet, I have one piece of advice for you: Give yourself some time! I used this [...]

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Acrylic Painted Pumpkins

I’ll keep this short since I’m gearing up for the holiday and I know most of you are busy yourselves, making travel plans (perhaps with small kids…no small feat!), shopping for basters (don’t wait too long — they will run out!), and making Thanksgiving crafts. Speaking of which, I just spotted these nifty pumpkin place [...]

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