Category: Kids Crafts
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Easy Art Project: Staple Art for Kids
Sometimes, those crazy kids come up with their own cool art projects. Usually they’re pretty simple, but capture attention enough so that they spend a while – or even a few days- making lots of the project they have discovered. Enter: staple art. When Fen was 6, she had a love affair with her stapler.…
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Making Soap With Kids
We made soap! I wanted to keep it fairly simple for our first foray into soap-making, so really all we did was submerge some dinosaurs. I mean, who doesn’t like dinosaurs in their soap, right? Have you tried making soap with kids? But keep reading, there’s a little trick to this I…
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Giant Paper Popsicle Craft
Sweet, sweet middle of summer. When meals are regularly replaced with popsicles and ants swarm your countertops to vie for a taste of the sticky melted nectar. We here at Craftwhack (actually, just me. I’m alone today. I have the WHOLE DAY TO MYSELF.) decided to create some giant paper popsicles because one of us…
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Kids Activities Blog Wrote the Book!
If you have kids, I will just assume here that you follow Kids Activities Blog. They are sort of the ultimate resource for fun activities for kids, thus the name. So naturally you would guess that if they write a book, it’s gonna be good. They did, and it is. You flip through the pages…
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I Spy: 6 Cool Kids’ Room Walls
Kids’ rooms make me so happy. I’ve written about kids’ rooms here and here and I really cannot get enough of them. With this post I gathered up 6 ideas for cool kids’ room walls that are positively inspiring. I’m loving the trend of using wallpaper in kids’ rooms, but I’m really not sure I could…
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15 Awesome DIY Lego Tables For 2022
Kids and Legos practically go hand in hand these days. If you are a parent of a Lego-loving kid, you will undoubtedly know the struggle to keep all those Legos organized and contained, while still giving your kids free rein to create Lego masterpieces at a moment’s notice. There are SO MANY truly ugly Lego…
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How to Make String Easter Eggs – Without the String Collapsing!
Here is why you need to make string Easter eggs: they are messy, they take a long time to make, and the balloons make the coolest glass-breaking/creaky noises when you finally get to pop them. It’s SO satisfying. Oh yeah, they’re also kinda cute, aren’t they? Supplies: Embroidery Floss Water balloons Balloon pumper-upper Elmer’s glue…
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Popsicle Stick Art – Trace ‘Em!
Popsicle sticks are a classic kid craft material. There’s something about these little wooden thingies that makes them impossible to use simply as frozen-treat-spines. I tried my hand at bending them to my will in this chalkboard drink tags post, but then they sat dormant in a plastic box for a while. I’m not really sure…
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Art Appreciation 2nd Grade: Distortion
This is an art history presentation the kids get excited about because it’s fun to look at how artists use distortion in their work- just check out that crazy Giacometti sculpture below, and see what they have to say about it! ***** Artists use colors, shapes and lines in their works; these are called the…
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Coat Hanger Weaving
Here’s another art project that Fen came home from school with- coat hanger weaving. I’ve been meaning to dive into some weaving up in this joint, and here it comes walking in our front door. She enjoyed it so much at school, she asked if she could show me how to do it. How cool…
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Art Appreciation for 1st Grade: Still Life
Still life paintings are something many kids have seen at this point, but not discussed. Here you get a wide range of paintings to chat about and compare with your kids. Which on is your favorite? I’m loving that crazy-dramatic light in the Cotan painting. Introduction: A “still life” is a painting or drawing of…
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Tape Art Projects and Activities Roundup
Tape is truly and absolutely one of the best art materials ever. You can use it as a means to an end, as in tape resist projects, or as the end material itself (tape collage). It spans so easily between art and craft projects and you can’t forget how functional it is. For instance,…