A rain stick is a musical instrument that when “played” sounds like rainfall. To make this instrument you will need a long tube. Working with a paper tube may be simpler as there will need to be a way of …[Continue]
Birthday Party Topiary Prize and Game
Make a few candy topiaries to decorate the tables at a birthday party. Use the birthday girl or boy’s favorite treats to cover the balls of the topiaries. You can even incorporate your topiary into a game by having the …[Continue]
Soft Chicks
Using a paper plate as the body for a baby chick, use cotton balls and glue to cover the plate. Cut out a beak from construction paper and fit it in between two cotton balls towards the center of the …[Continue]
Paper Towel Roll Bird Feeder
Put glue on the outside of paper towel roll. You can use sponges or paint brushes to evenly coat the whole tube. Lay birdseed out on the table and roll the paper towel roll over it until it is evenly …[Continue]
Rocking Ducks
Start by having your child color a paper plate yellow. Fold the plate in half, then glue on a yellow circle on the left top side by the fold. Cut out and add an orange triangle for a beak and …[Continue]
Bird-Watching Binoculars
Glue two empty paper towel or toilet tissue rolls together to form binoculars. Punch holes at one end on the outside of the rolls and tie a string from one to the other so binoculars may hang around neck. Allow your child to …[Continue]
Simple Paper Birds
You can make a simple bird craft from construction paper. Simply cut two different circle patterns out of colored paper. Glue the two circles on a half sheet of construction paper. The smaller circle is the head and the larger the body. …[Continue]
Cereal Bird Feeder
Entertaining toddlers and young children can really be a chore. Their short attention spans and limited abilities some times make it difficult to come up with a variety of activities that will be both engaging and simple. Some of the …[Continue]
Fun and Easy Crafts
Crafts are meant to be enjoyable to do and affordable to make. Yet some people see crafts as needless and time consuming; for them, it simply makes more sense and, in their lives, is much more practical to buy something …[Continue]
Crafting For Beginners
Crafting can be fun and very easy, as long as you don’t try to take on too much project too quickly; if you don’t have the necessary skills for the particular craft you’re interested in, you can learn the necessary …[Continue]
Holiday Handprint Crafts
Handprint crafts make excellent holiday decorations. There are all kinds of creative creatures that can be made simply by using your child’s handprints. For example, a thanksgiving turkey can be made by taking multiple cutouts of the shape of your …[Continue]
Country Candle Crafts
Country crafts are often classified as such because of the homemade feel that they often evoke. The country style is very organic. The ingredients that are required to make such crafts are generally very basic, even household items. This can …[Continue]
