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DIY String Art

Today we’re sharing a super cute DIY that has been popping up all over Pinterest (how cool is this extra-large installation?!). String art decor is a great project for a rainy day and a name plate like this one would make a great gift!

Supplies: a piece of wood (anything from pallet wood to unfinished wood), nails, a hammer, printed letters, and colorful embroidery floss.

Directions:
1. Place the letters (or whatever design outline you choose) on to the wood. Keep them lightly in place with a piece of tape or a pin.
2. Add nails around the outside perimeter of the letters, equal distance apart.
3. Remove the paper letters and discard.
4. Tie a piece of embroidery floss to a nail and begin wrapping! Use a haphazard approach to wrapping so the string stays in place. When it looks like the picture above, you can stop, or keep wrapping to make the letters even more full. Have fun with it!

Tags Arts and Crafts, crafts for kids, decor, DIY, embroidery floss, letters, name, Personalized, string

DIY Holidays Kids

Turkey Handprints

Post author By vickybarone
Post date November 26, 2014

Is your Thanksgiving Eve rainy or snowy like ours? If this weather keeps you stuck inside, try this easy (and messy) craft for kids!

We used paper, acrylic paint in brown, red, yellow, and orange, paint brushes, markers, and googly eyes.

If your child is old enough, they can paint their own hand with each of the colors! My boys are 5 and 2, so I helped them out with this step. Paint the palm of their hand and thumb with brown paint for the turkey’s body. Paint the four fingers red, yellow, blue, and orange (or any colors they’d like!) for the feathers. Once their hand is covered, have them press it down on the paper and lift up their hand carefully. Once the paint is dry, use markers to add legs, a beak, and a gobbler, and a little dot of glue to add the googly eye.

Before adding the googly eye, I scanned each turkey into my computer and printed multiple copies. Add names with a gold paint pen and these make great place cards for the Thanksgiving table!

Tags Arts and Crafts, crafts for kids, DIY, kids crafts, paint, thanksgiving 2014, turkey

DIY Holidays Kids

Chick & Lamb Easter Craft

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While looking for Easter crafts for the boys, we stumbled upon this adorable paper plate baby chick. We loved that little guy so much we decided to make him a lamb friend! We think anything with googly eyes is hysterical, so of course we had a lot of fun with these silly Easter characters.

Materials for the Chick: A yellow paper plate (we had white paper plates so we painted one yellow with acrylic paint), orange scrapbook paper, yellow feathers, googly eyes, craft glue, and scissors.

Materials for the Lamb: A white paper plate, cotton balls, gray or black scrapbook paper, googly eyes, craft glue, and scissors.

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Directions: Check out Simple as That for the original directions!

Directions:
1. Glue cotton balls to the paper plate until it’s covered.
2. Cut out four strips of scrapbook paper for the legs, an oval for the head, and two little oval ears.
3. Fold the four strips accordion-style and glue to the back of the plate.
4. Glue ears onto the back of the lamb’s head and googly eyes to the front.
5. Glue the lamb’s head onto the cotton ball-covered plate.

We hope you and your little ones enjoy making these as much as we did! What other animals could you make with a paper plate, googly eyes, and some accordion legs? We’d love to see!

Tags Arts and Crafts, chick, crafts for kids, DIY, easter, googly eyes, lamb

DIY Holidays Kids

DIY Thumb Print Shamrock

We are loving all the thumb print shamrocks we’ve seen on Pinterest, so we tried our own! This is a simple and sweet craft that’s great for kids. You can even frame your favorite like we did!

Materials: Paper, a green ink pad, a green marker or pen, scissors, and a small frame (optional).

Directions:
1. Dip your thumb (or any of your finger tips) into the ink pad.
2. Press each thumb print down diagonally from one another and slightly overlapping.
3. Keep practicing! We made tons of practice shamrocks until we got the hang of it.
4. With your green marker, add a stem to the shamrocks.
5. Cut out your favorites and frame them!

These thumb print shamrocks make a great addition to a St. Patrick’s Day card. Tell your loved ones you feel so lucky to have them!

Tags art for kids, Arts and Crafts, crafts for kids, DIY, Gift Ideas, green, ink, kids crafs, marker, st. patrick's day

DIY Kids

DIY Olympic Gold Medals

Post author By vickybarone
Post date February 17, 2014

In honor of the 2014 Winter Olympics, we made our very own gold medals! This is a fun and easy project for kids. They can write their names in the medals or even paint them after the medals are baked and cooled.

Materials: Polymer clay in Antique Gold, ribbon, scissors, waxed paper, a rolling pin, a straw, a toothpick, and a round object to cut a circle in the clay.

Directions:
1. Roll out the clay on waxed paper with a rolling pin. Put waxed paper between the clay and rolling pin or use a glass jar in place of a rolling pin. Do not mix cooking utensils with clay!
2. Use a circular object to cut a circle into the clay. We used the lid to an old tupperware container that we then threw away.
3. Use a straw to make a hole in the top of the clay circle for your ribbon.
4. Use a toothpick to draw a name or the number 1 into the clay.
5. Bake the clay medals on a cookie sheet lined with aluminum foil according to the baking directions on the clay packaging.
6. Once the medals are cool, cut the ribbon to size and thread it carefully through the holes of the medals and tie a knot.

Tada! Now you and your kids can be Olympic gold medalists!

Tags Arts and Crafts, crafts, crafts for kids, DIY, easy, gold medals, Kids, olympics, olympics 2014

DIY Holidays Kids Things I Love

Things I Love: Valentine’s Day Crafts for Kids

Post author By vickybarone
Post date February 12, 2014

With Valentine’s Day this Friday, and a couple of snow days on our hands, it’s the perfect time for arts and crafts. Keep your kids busy this week with these seven fun projects for Valentine’s Day!

Tags Arts and Crafts, crafts for kids, DIY, hearts, Kids, Valentine, Valentine's Day

DIY Holidays Parties and Events

DIY Felt Heart Cake Toppers

Post author By vickybarone
Post date February 5, 2014
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We made the sweetest cake toppers for Valentine’s Day! They are super easy to make and would make a nice touch to any Valentine’s Day treat. Try them in your heart-shaped pancakes, use them as a drink stirrer, or have them top off any cake, pie, or cupcake!

Materials: Felt, cake pop sticks, a hot glue gun, and scissors.

Directions:
1. Cut your felt into different sized squares.
2. Fold one square in half and cut out half of a heart, with the fold as the center.
3. Unfold the square and trim the heart you just made!
4. Place the heart on top of another piece of felt in the same color and cut an identical heart underneath, using the top heart as a tracer.
5. Put a line of hot glue down the middle of one heart and place a cake pop stick on top.
6. Outline the heart with more hot glue and place the matching heart on top.
7. Repeat with different sized hearts in different colors.

Use your multi-colored hearts to make different color combinations!

These cake toppers aren’t just for Valentine’s Day! Make them to match your birthday party theme, or cut them into shapes other than hearts! Show us what you make! We would love to see it.