Art 1. Optical Design. Crafts: Winged Wonders | School Crafts - School-Age Crafts &Art Project Ideas | FamilyFun. Tutorial: Homemade Sidewalk Chalk | oh my! handmade goodness. By Michelle Vackar, Modern Handmade Child One of our favorite outside activities at our home is drawing with chalk on the driveway.
You can play hopscotch, four-square, and of course draw and create silly stories. My daughters and I were talking one day as we played hopscotch about how to make chalk and I thought to myself, let’s try it! It ended up being quite a lot of fun. What you will need: • Toilet paper or paper towel tubes • Scissors • Duct tape • Wax paper • Small bucket or disposable container to make the recipe • ¾ cup of warm water • 1 ½ cups Plaster of Paris • 2-3 tablespoons of tempera paint • Paper bag or a “mess mat” ** we made six tubes of chalk – we simply doubled the above recipe.
Step 1: If you are using paper towel tubes, cut each tube in half, so it is roughly the length of a toilet paper roll tube. Step 2: Cover one end of each tube with duct table to hold the contents within. Step 3: Cut as many pieces of wax paper as you have tubes. Starscape fibre optic star ceiling. Juggling With Kids: Butterfly Snacks. I've been wanting to make these butterfly snacks ever since I saw them in Family Fun Magazine...but I've had difficulty tracking down clothespins. Fortunately a good friend let me have some of her pins. =) I love these butterfly snacks because it's a cute way to pass out snacks in your child's classroom or for any sports team. Supplies: -Clothspins -Snack size ziplock bags -Googly eyes -Pipe cleaners -Glue -Paint, glitter glue, puffy paint (I only had the kids use paint, but any of these other options would be fun too) -Snacks (goldfish crackers, dried fruit, cereal, grapes, trail mix, blueberries, etc.)
Directions: For each bag, decorate one side of a clothespin with either paint, puffy paint or glitter glue. Glue two small googly eyes near the gripping end of the clothespin and let the glue dry. Put your snack into a snack-size ziplock bag until it's a little over half full. Next, fold down/curl the tips of a 6-inch length of pipe cleaner, then bend the entire piece in half. The Fun Cheap or Free Queen: You're Welcome Wednesday: DIY Ice Packs. Enjoy this guest post from my friend Lauralee: It’s handy to have ice packs around for various reasons. But the medical-grade ice packs can be VERY expensive! Have you ever considered making your own? This tip I learned from Dr Sears reciently on The Doctor’s. Save money on buying ice packs and take dish soap, pour it into a ziploc bag, select the size you want according to what you would use most, then freeze it.
The soap doesn’t solidify so it molds to the shape you need, it gets colder and stays colder longer and you can get your kids favorite color of soap so they are more likely to keep it on their injury. DIY Ice Packs 1. **Note: If you read the comments from this post, it looks like adding rubbing alcohol to the soap is recommended! Give it a try! There have been lots of comments and questions on this one. Double or triple-bag your ziplock. What a great tip! I'd like to make these / I HAVE to make these! Our New School/Craft Supply Organization. Home. How to Make Non-Obnoxious Alphabet Magnets. Okay, okay. Non-obnoxious isn’t a word.
But neither is unobnoxious. Not really, anyway. I’ve come to embrace this part of my life where I have a baby and a toddler. I can’t carry a nice handbag because sippy cups leak and goldfish crackers leave goldfish cracker dust on everything that enters my bag. I can no longer wear clothing that cannot withstand the heavy duty wash cycle.
There will be toys. A multitude of them. However, for the sake of my sanity, I try to make it look like we all share the space together – adults and tiny ankle biters – as opposed to Jack and me just unrolling sleeping bags in the middle of a Toys R Us. Enter alphabet magnets. Hard plastic. And the floor. Just kidding. But Rembot loves alphabet magnets. A win-win situation: non-obnoxious alphabet magnets. I picked up some flat wooden disks, magnet strips (these work really well, too), and rub-on letters. 1) Spray paint both sides of wooden disks. 2) Lightly spray paint one side with white spray paint. Like them? Chalkboard Wall Calendar. We love chalkboards lately and they’ve been popping up in all kinds of paint and paper to decorate your home and home office.
This is a fun idea to take strips of chalkboard contact paper and make a simple and versatile calender to stick to your wall to keep on schedule month after month. Chalkboard contact paper Exacto Knife Straight edge ruler Chalk Sticky tack (optional) Cut strips of your chalkboard contact paper 3” wide. FYI I bought my chalkboard contact paper online from amazon, sometimes it’s hard to find in craft stores. The roll I had was 18” long, so I started cutting squares 3” x 3”. 6 squares per row. Then cut one longer strip, about 3” x 8” for the month. Lay your squares out and start writing on them the days, and any events you want on your calender.
You can simply peel off the back layer to stick it to the wall, or if you’re nervous about paint peeling off like I was, simply place a couple pieces of sticky tack to the back of each piece and leave the paper backing on. How an Engineer folds a T-Shirt. Chore Chart for multiple children. Are you ready for this?
… This is going to be the LONGEST tutorial you’ve probably ever seen, but don’t fret…it’s going to be worth it! An organized classy chore chart is headed your way. Can you even guess what this chore chart for multiple kids is made out of??? We’ve included a free pdf template for the chores too! It also has a subliminal message for my kids to read all week, “Chores are fun”…one day they will agree… If you missed the ever exciting tutorial on how to use a miter saw you are in luck…I just posted it earlier today.
Okay, on with the show: I cut with the miter saw 5 blocks of wood 4 of them were 3.5 x3.5 squares 1 of them was 8 inches long I drilled one hole into the top of each of the 3.5 by 3.5 blocks. I ended up sandwiching the block I was drilling in-between 2 others just so I didn’t end up with more band-aids. Then I had to put a little shoulder into it because I hit a knot and I had to make it work. The next hole I needed to make was a bigger one. AHHHHHH…it worked. Heart Break Kids - Blog - How to make a&tutu. Today I am going to teach you how I make a tutu. Here are the supplies that you will need: 1/2" elastic (I prefer the braided elastic)6" spools of tulle (found in any craft store, sometimes in the bridal section)1 yard of double faced satin ribbon (optional)needle and threadlarge book First, get your princess's waist measurement.
My daughter is two, and her waist is just shy of 20". Set your elastic aside, and get ready to cut your tulle. Ten inches is the standard length that I use when making a tutu. I am just noticing that it is a bit hard to see the orange tulle that I am cutting in this picture. Once you are done cutting, you are ready to start tying. Find the middle slide the tulle under the elastic start your slip knot pull the ends through pull the ends down (this is a loose knot) this is what the loose knots for a play tutu should look like this is a tight knot these are what your knots should look like for a fluffier tutu Finally, I like to add a ribbon to my tutus.
Go make a tutu! Creative Kismet & Blog Archive & little guiding stars. Since the new year has started I’ve been trying to think of ways to be more kind to my self. Especially when that nasty gremlins try to creep in and stump me. I remembered this origami star video on You Tube and had to get them involved in my plan.
I thought it would be fun to make a whole bunch with kind words and “you are….” phrases inside. I made 60 of them, enough to last me the whole year if I open one a week, plus a few extra just in case. I used 12 x 12 inch scrapbook paper and cut 1/2 x 12″ strips, then followed the video HERE*. *UPDATE! Be Sociable, Share! Toddler crayons... What does one do with a whole bag of old, unwanted, crayons... some that are perfectly good - just extremely illogical for small hands... and others that are broken and of no use to anyone?? Why, recycle them into toddler crayons, of course!!! Like most families with toddlers... no matter what the child's temperament. you always end up with a bunch broken crayons.... Fact of life. Those thin, elongated little buggers, are just not designed for a toddlers chunky hands, or their beautiful, spontaneous spurts of swirling energy & creativity! So what's the solution? These beauties... Here's how it works....
You’ll need: Crayons - (you can purchase them cheaply at the back to school sales.... or just use ones you already have! Preheat your oven to 250 degrees F. Peel off all the paper from the crayons... Break them into small pieces... & arrange them in each cup of the tin. (I did like colors together, but multi-colored ones would be fun, as well!) (^These^ are not quite there yet!) And Enjoy! Homemade Play Dough — Colourful Palate. Homemade Play Dough This week has been very special because my sister and her family have been visiting. My sister has a sweet daughter who is such a little honey! We’ve been having such fun playing together. After being here a week, they’re leaving tomorrow so I’m going to miss little Katy so much. When I was growing up I played with play dough quite a lot, make believing I was working a bakery or restaurant.
Homemade Play Dough 1 cup salt2 cups white flour2-4 tbsp. cream of tartar2 cups boiling water2 tbsp. oilFood colouring and flavour extracts of choice Mix the first three ingredients together. Look at those eyes! “Auntie Charissa, photo shoots are soooo tiring!” Hope your kidlets enjoy this as much as my niece did! What crafts do you do with your children (or little friends in your life)? Leave a comment...I'd love to hear from you! ↑ Back to top.