Archive for the ‘Crafts’ Category


Make Your Own Snowflake Craft

Friday, February 18th, 2011 in Crafts, Friday: Play!

My mom dropped off these packets for making our own snowflakes. They were such fun! Make Your Own Snowflake Craft Supplies: Pipe cleaners Wire Plastic Spoon Large Plastic Cup Borax Directions: 1. Create your snowflake shape with pipe cleaners. Make sure you trim it so it will “dip” into your container. 2. Attach a piece of
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Re-Run Week: Clay Necklaces

Thursday, January 27th, 2011 in Crafts

My camera is broken…so basically the universe was telling me to take a break…so this week is “Re-Run” week of my past posts. Enjoy! P.S. Don’t you think you could do these for V-Day? I think so!! Kids Clay Necklaces These Kids Clay Necklaces were so easy and fun for my young girls to make.
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Re-Run Week: Be My Valentine Bracelets

Tuesday, January 25th, 2011 in Crafts

My camera is broken…so basically the universe was telling me to take a break…so this week is “Re-Run” week of my past posts. Enjoy! These “Be Mine Valentine Bracelets” are AMAZING (in my humble opinion)! How clever is this? You could even tie one of these around a lollipop to bulk it up as a
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Valentine’s Day Photo Cards

Tuesday, January 11th, 2011 in Crafts, party time

I know Valentine’s Day is a while away…but listen, it is freezing cold and I have cabin fever. And we needed to do something to take our minds off being stuck inside way too much. I saw this idea about three years ago and it has been on my to-do list since then. I wish
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Holiday Floral Gift Idea

Friday, December 17th, 2010 in Crafts, party time

During our night out at Thanksgiving Point the lady at the floral section of the Emporium showed us a great holiday gift idea. I think this would be an awesome gift for a teacher, extended family member, neighbor, or small gift exchange. These are pictures of the 30 I made at my house yesterday for neighbor
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Silhouette Thanksgiving Table Runner

Wednesday, November 17th, 2010 in Crafts

I wanted to make something out of the girl’s silhouettes this year and decided to do a Thanksgiving table runner. NOW! I am not the one to come to for exact instructions and a list of supplies for sewing projects. If you are interested in doing this just use this post as a very, very
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Turkey Kid’s Craft

Friday, November 12th, 2010 in Crafts

So last year we did the ever popular “Grateful/Thankful Tree” which is always cute and fun. Then the year before we did a “Gratitue Can” which I still love to use for decoration. This year I wanted to think up something new, something that the kids could mainly do on their own. Introducing….Thankful Turkeys, a
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A New Take on Jack-o-Lanterns

Friday, October 8th, 2010 in Crafts

This was a fun new way to do some of the pumpkins this year.  They look cute stacked inside but the felt and paper probably wouldn’t do well outside. The girls thought it was hilarious that they were painting the pumpkins bright colors and it was super easy to do too! Supplies: Pumpkins Bright Colored Craft Paint
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Last Art Group: Hand Trees

Thursday, September 30th, 2010 in Crafts

I have done a neighborhood art group twice in different neighborhoods and both times I ended it in September. Since I host them outside, the poor kiddos are just freezing while they play with paint if I do it any later than that. So for our LAST art group we made a “Tree.”  It was
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Art Group Monoprinting

Wednesday, September 8th, 2010 in Crafts, Thursday: The Importance of the Arts

After this, I only have one more Art Group for the “season.”  I only do them during the warm months since kids don’t have any fun standing out in the cold with wet paint! This month we did monoprinting, which was actually quite a bit of fun and super easy to set up. Supplies: Paint Little rollers (you
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