Send your child back to school with this fun, unique, and easy-to-make gift for their teacher. Mason jar tumblers are all the rage right now and any teacher would be thrilled to get one as a gift, especially when it … Read More ...
Back To School Tic-Tac Labels
Before you send your kids back to school, make up one or more of these personalized Tic-Tac mint packages to give to them as a nice surprise. Choose from 5 different designs that each offers their own cure for problems … Read More ...
Patriotic Paper Flowers
Gather together the kids and make a variety of red, white and blue flowers that can be used as decorations, turned into fashionable barrettes or brooches, and even hostess gifts. All you need is some fun paper and whatever base … Read More ...
Homemade Flower Rings
Discover how easy it is to make fancy rings using scraps of colorful fabric, felt, and chenille stems. These are perfect to make as a Mother’s Day gift or to exchange with friends and classmates. You can also easily modify … Read More ...
DIY Pencil Flower Bouquet
These little flowers are sweet and simple — and perfect to give to your favorite teacher in honor of National Teacher Appreciation Day on May 6th.
You might not be able to tell by this picture, but the flowers’ stems … Read More ...
Q-Tip Dandelion Craft
Where I live, with spring comes plenty of dandelions. Usually I hope to get rid of them before they reach the stage this craft depicts, but we all know that can be hard to do!
What is not hard to … Read More ...
Stamped Flower Craft with Corks and Buttons
Discover how easy it is to make lovely flowers using corks and buttons. No, you don’t use corks as part of the flower… You use then to make colorful prints that you turn into flowers!
Jacky from Happy Hooligans explains … Read More ...
Textured Easter Eggs Sensory Art
I love projects like this. where pretty much all of it is left up to a child’s imagination. You start out with a piece of adhesive-backed craft foam that is cut into a large egg shape. Give this to the … Read More ...
Daffodil Suncatchers
While many of us are waiting for Spring to come, why not at least bring spring to your home or classroom by making lovely daffodils!
Use yellow tissue paper and clear Con-Tact paper to create the flower pedals and a … Read More ...
Accordion Folded Spring Flower Collage
I love making collages with children – especially when you use a variety of different mediums. Their creativity can just be amazing when you give them a suggestions and a handful of supplies.
The flowers here are attached to a … Read More ...
Bee Theme Number Matching Game
These adorable bees, made out of chenille stems and pom-poms, will happily help your kids practice counting; however, I think they are adorable enough to use for other uses. Perhaps make them into magnets to hang on the refrigerator?
Carissa, … Read More ...
Mini Mardi Gras Parade Float
Is there a Mardi Gras parade near you? If not, why not gather together all your friends, family, neighbors, and/or classmates to hold your own parade?
Have everyone design their own miniature floats using a shoe box or something similar. … Read More ...
Mini Olympics – Ice Hockey and Figure Skating
If you have a family full of hockey fans, like mine, you can make your own miniature hockey rink and challenge each other to hockey games while you watch the Olympic hockey games. You can even make your own fans … Read More ...
Olympic Ring Collage
This is a great, Olympic-themed project to work on with a group. Cut rings out of thin cardboard, paint them the appropriate colors, and then have fun finding items to glue to each ring. Collage items can include tissue paper, … Read More ...
Straw Beaded Bracelets
February is International Friendship Month so what better way to celebrate than tomake friendship bracelets? These aren’t your traditional friendship bracelets made with embroidery floss and beads, these are made using colorful straws that are cut into small pieces and … Read More ...