Most kids love the idea of decorating. While making a craft can seem overwhelming knowing that you can use your creativity can be both fun and freeing for your child. If you are looking for fun crafts that stretch yours …[Continue]
Why You Should Learn Crochet
Crochet has become one of the hottest crafts today. Everyone from celebrities to regular Joe’s and Jane’s are doing crochet. While some people still have the delusion that crochet is strictly old school the truth is that it has never …[Continue]
Create an Alphabet Collage in 5 Easy Steps!
Creating an alphabet collage with your children can be a fun craft as well as a learning tool. It’s not only a fun, creative activity for you and your children, it’s also a great interactive learning tool that can help …[Continue]
Amazing Assemblages
An assemblage (also known as a diorama) is a sculptural arrangement of objects (usually everyday ones) with bits of wood, paper or fabric. There is a lot of art history that you can cover with your child concerning this type …[Continue]
Fun, Practical Placemat Ideas
Children love to create crafts and see their finished product, especially when you display it proudly in your home. Making placemats is a wonderful craft activity that you can share with your children. They’re easy to create and you only …[Continue]
Where You Can Learn Crochet
Crochet has become a hot craft! Everywhere you look you can see busy crochet needles working their magic. You may wonder where everyone got their start with crochet. While crochet has been around for decades just recently it has had …[Continue]
St. Patrick File Folder Games
File folder games are simple, affordable and incredibly diverse ways of teaching lessons, keeping kids occupied and expressing creativity in productive ways. St. Patrick’s file folder games are as simple to make as finding St. Patrick’s themes you like and …[Continue]
5 Great Questions About Decoupage
Decoupage is a wonderful way to add character and new life to anything. Old furniture, shoe boxes, a plain Jane vase, even jewelry can be decoupaged. The fact is, for centuries it was considered the poor man’s art. It is …[Continue]
Four Fun, Fabulous Ideas for St. Patrick’s Day Bulletin Boards
Creating a monthly bulletin board is a great way to engage young minds in a classroom setting. For the month of March, consider a fun, appropriate St. Patrick’s Day bulletin board theme. St. Patrick’s Day is March 17th. Here are …[Continue]
Cave Painting
Whether you are looking for a fun way to fill those hours after school or want to help your kids get back in the school groove these crafts can be both fun and provide some learning opportunities. Best of all …[Continue]
A Brief How To Guide for Decoupage
Decoupage is a fun way to decorate ornaments, paper, glass, boxes and almost any other object you can think of that paper and glue will stick to. Using paper cut-outs, you can create a unique and original piece of art …[Continue]
Things You Can Make with Crochet
Crochet has risen to a new height in popularity. Today crochet has crossed from being just a cute craft over into mainstream fashion. Even the top couture designers have been found incorporating crochet into their fashions. But even if you …[Continue]
