Go ahead, let your child have lots of candy this Halloween. What? Am I crazy? No, but instead of fighting the candy horde, embrace it and use it for good. Let your child eat a designated amount, stash your favorites and then unwrap the rest and store for baking, all the while carefully saving the ...
Have you collected dozens of old magazines you just can’t get rid of? Maybe you’ve had some crafty ideas you’ve wanted to try, and haven’t gotten around to. Or maybe you’ve drawn a blank, but the magazines keep piling up. Before your stash begins to take over, try these twenty crafty ways to use up ...
This is a fun project I used to teach shapes, improve manual dexterity skills, and give us an opportunity to start introducing the concept of money. My kids had a lot of fun making these and I think yours will too. Start with a balloon and blow it up until it is around 8 inches ...
Piñatas can be expensive, especially if your child wants a specific type of piñata or one to match a specially themed party. It is very easy, however, to make your own piñata at home with simple easy to find materials that you probably already have laying around. You will need one large cereal box, acrylic ...
Planning a little girl’s birthday party? How about an Aloha – Hawaiian Island event? This party is reasonably inexpensive, but it is always a huge hit with any number of young girls. This party is best suited to little girls (preschool through 3rd grade), although the ideas could certainly be adapted for older girls. Children ...
This is a craft recipe to make salt paper mache (papier mache). Salt paper mache is a paper mache that can be molded like clay. This is a very easy paper mache mixture to make and it can be used to cover any base such as a blown up balloon or scrunched up paper or ...
Markers and crayons Pencils and erasers Ink pens and charcoal Lots of colored papers: Tracing and transparent Posterboard and cardboard Matboard, scrap, construction Lots of supplies to hoard! The materials for sculpture Wire, newspapers, wood and clay Papier-mache and ceramics To be done another day Staples, glue and masking tape And a little duct tape ...
