Kids Crafts
Kids crafts provide a great opportunity to teach children, allow them to express and develop their creativity and to make crafts to save for years. Find kids craft ideas and projects, as well as tips on working with kids to make crafts.
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Celebrate Easter by creating a special Easter egg finger print painting with your child! This easy to make art activity will inspire your young artist to show off her creative talents while she designs a holiday decoration that can displayed in the home or given to a friend or family member.
Earth Day is on April 22. This year, celebrate our planet with a special environmental craft for your child. This eco activity incorporates nature, the environment, and a bonus literacy lesson.
Finger painting is a favorite art activity among many young children. The same can not be said for many moms. The set up, the mess, and the clean up can be overwhelming.
If you have an empty cereal box, you have the perfect base material to create an Easter bunny mask. This mask is simple to make and a great project for green crafters.
If your kids are anything like my kids, they love stuffed animals. We decided that it would really be fun to make our own stuffed pets.
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Hearts can make great Valentine's Day cards, but they also can be used to create animals and bugs. You can make a lot of interesting decorations using different sizes of hearts and a few extra paper scraps. Get creative and make your own heart critters to give as special valentines. Most of these little creatures are made by folding a bigger heart in half to use as the body and a smaller heart to use as a head. Butterflies, mice, birds and cats are all animals that you can make by simply folding a heart in half to form a body.
Read more: Heart Animals - Turning Heart Shapes into Fun Animal Decorations
You can take the "chill" out of a long winter day with a little fun. Throw a Snowman party with your local playgroup, class or own children right at home.
Valentine's Day is all about letting someone special know how much you love them. It is fun to make your own valentines for your mom, your grandmother, your sister, or someone else who is very special to you. After you spend all that time making the perfect card, though, it seems a shame to just stick it in a plain envelope. Why not make a beautiful cardholder purse to put your card and a few candy kisses in instead?
As you open all the gifts under the tree this year, you'll probably notice that at least some of the wrapping paper is just so pretty that it seems a shame to throw it out. Why not save the paper and use it on a project that will help you get a head start on next year's homemade Christmas presents?
Read more: Homemade Christmas Presents - Recycled Wrapping Paper Beads
People who love to cook can always use a nice new oven mitt. Why not make this special handprint oven mitt craft to give to your favorite cook for Christmas? The craft is very simple and fast to make because it uses a store bought oven mitt as the base.
Read more: Homemade Christmas Presents - Handprint Oven Mitt
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