Category: Kids Crafts

  • Knitting For Beginners: A Perfect First Project

    Knitting For Beginners: A Perfect First Project

    Today we’re going to delve into knitting for beginners. Kids being the beginners- but maybe you are, too! Basic knitting is really easy to pick up, and you just need to figure out the casting on (getting the yarn on the needle), the basic knit stitch, and binding off (ending the project). Basic Knitting Project…

  • How To Draw Cool Letters: Kids Do Typography

    How To Draw Cool Letters: Kids Do Typography

    Do your kids know how to draw cool letters? I love exposing kids to design concepts. They’re aware of design, they like cool things, they are attracted to good design. Yet somehow, I think most kids probably don’t talk about design concepts all that much. Maybe I’m wrong. When we’re all sleeping, perhaps our kids…

  • Bean Mosaic: Fall Leaf Project

    Bean Mosaic: Fall Leaf Project

    Have you ever made a bean mosaic? I hadn’t, but I had seen them and kept the idea tucked in the back of my mind. Mosaics are fun to make- relaxing; rhythmic. I like to think they help promote patience in kids, but I have nothing to back that up with… Here I’ll show you…

  • 5 Easy Art Projects: Cardboard Prints

    5 Easy Art Projects: Cardboard Prints

    Hi! I took a quick break yesterday to switch blogs for a Hispanic Heritage Month post, but I’m back with day 5 of Easy Art Projects for kids. We made cardboard prints for this project. I’ll bet you have some cardboard lying around, am I right? Printmaking may be the best way ever to get…

  • 5 Easy Art Projects: Spray Paint T-shirts

    5 Easy Art Projects: Spray Paint T-shirts

    Hey! It’s day 3 of easy art projects, and we are diving into spray-painted t-shirts. We actually spray painted a cami top, but this can pretty much be done on anything, including pants or your pillow case or the wall or the car! Yay! Now, not all of you will want to let your kids…

  • A Toothbrush Fit For an Elephant

    A Toothbrush Fit For an Elephant

    Here’s what happened. One day, we were innocently perusing the internet when we stumbled onto Fun at Home With Kids, a way-cool blog by Asia Citro. And we saw that she and her kids had made elephant toothpaste. What the what?  It’s true, and we wanted to try it out, too. So we did, and…

  • Back to School Crafts: Glue Batik Lunch Napkins

    Back to School Crafts: Glue Batik Lunch Napkins

    We have a yearly tradition of decorating cloth napkins for Fen to take to school in her lunch. The first year we tie dyed, last year was fabric markers, and this year we faux batiked. Batik is a beautiful technique of wax resist on fabric. You use a copper tool, called a tjanting, to pour…

  • Architecture For Kids: A Primer

    Architecture For Kids: A Primer

    I’ve been wanting to write a post about architecture for kids for a while, but something kept holding me back. Maybe it’s because I really don’t know much about architecture! So I decided to ask somebody who is quite knowledgeable about the subject to share her thoughts with us. So excited. Read on! ***** Hi…

  • Duct Tape Bracelet Craft

    Duct Tape Bracelet Craft

    Velcro. Raise your hand if you have something in your home with velcro on it. I’m sure you all raised your hands enthusiastically, but do you know how velcro was invented? Neither did we, but we found out in a short story we read on GenZ Read Together. Since I read about the invention of velcro with…

  • 20 Beautiful African Art Projects For Kids to Make at Home

    20 Beautiful African Art Projects For Kids to Make at Home

    I love, love, love African art and find the colors, geometric shapes, and symbolism to be a perfect recipe for art projects that appeal to kids. I’ve gone and rounded up 20 awesome ideas for African art projects that you can do with your kids (or all by yourself), and included some mystery bonus links.…

  • A Big Old Moon Art Project

    A Big Old Moon Art Project

      We were pretty excited around here when the Super-Moon made an appearance. We couldn’t see it from our house, so Christian armed himself with his camera and ventured out to the park to catch the moon between clouds. It was huge and low and orangey and beautiful, and totally awe-inspiring. The other thing it…

  • 14,000 Blank Index Card Projects – Fun Ideas to Do

    14,000 Blank Index Card Projects – Fun Ideas to Do

    Okay, I may be exaggerating a tiny bit. I didn’t exactly compile 14,000 projects, but would you really want that many to sift through, anyway? Although there probably are at least that many projects you can make with blank index cards, I came up with 10 good, solid activities to begin with. We love blank…