Category: Easy Crafts to Make
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Creative Christmas: What I’m Making This Year
Christmas is coming, and I’m going back to my creative roots this year. For so many Christmases in the past, I happily made most of my gifts: mixtapes/cds, ornaments, knitted scarves, and stitched onesies for the babies in the family. But gradually as the years went on, I bought more and more until I only…
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February is Love Month
“Mommy, February is Love Month!” I looked at my eight year old’s sparkling eyes directed at me waiting for an equally enthusiastic reply. I couldn’t think of any reason why we couldn’t celebrate all month long, so Love Month it was. With my watchful apprentice at hand, I cut out small pink and red hearts…
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Creative Play for Your Little One: Christmas Edition
I love open-ended creative play. This year, for Christmas, instead of pulling out our plastic nativity set with the fat little people and animals, I pulled out the Lincoln Logs, a tray that has a lip (it’s really a tray you use to eat in bed!) and an assortment of stones, sand, and Douglas Fir…
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Art All The Time—Create Opportunities for Your Child to Create
We love to make art projects of all kinds around here. But I’ll be honest, sometimes I don’t want to deal with the clean up (and the set up) part. So I’ve made it a point to make art accessible—to create opportunities for my child to easily create all day long. Get a Clipboard Some…
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Make a Hand-painted Quote Frame
This hand-painted quote frame was one I liked so much, I ended up making one for me too. (Don’t tell, :)) Christmas is just around the corner, so I’ve been pulling out all of my art supplies to make treasures for my family and friends. I originally purchased this blank frame from Target, but you…
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How to Paint an Ocean Waves Canvas
Oh, how I love this ocean waves canvas painting! It is simple enough for a child or novice to make and it’s also quite therapeutic. 🙂 This painting idea came to me several years ago when I was working on some larger canvases. As I painted, I would swipe the extra paint off of my…
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How to Make a Spa in a Box (Care Package 101)
Want to make your friend’s day? Make her a spa in a box care package! Here’s how . . . Can I tell you how excited I am to share this DIY spa kit with you today? I recently bought a stack of small boxes to use this year for gifting and immediately thought how…
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10 Watermelon Craft Ideas
It’s summertime and the watermelon craft ideas are popping up everywhere. I’ve noticed that many of these tutorials are for watermelon crafts for preschoolers, but I think we grownups can get into the summer watermelon fun too! I thought I’d put together a post of some of my favorites that I’ve had bookmarked. From homemade…
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How to Make a Painted Candy Dish
I received paint from DecoArt for this post on how to make a painted candy dish. The tutorial and opinions expressed are my own. This painted candy dish tutorial started off as a glass coaster tutorial. I thought it would be fun to use DecoArt’s glass enamel paint on the bottom of glass coasters but…
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How to Make a Felt Bunny
Learn how to make a felt bunny with felt scraps and thread! So cute! Why is it that the simplest of projects tend to make little kids the happiest? As I pulled out my felt stash to make this craft, my daughter bee-lined it over to my side and immediately began assembling the bits of…