Category: Kids Crafts

  • Magazine Collage Faces

    Magazine Collage Faces

    A favorite project for us to do around here is to rip up and reconfigure faces in magazines. It’s quick, easy and usually gives some pretty funny results. Sometimes we simply switch around facial features, which is the most hilarious way to do this.     However, if you want to take it to the…

  • Aluminum Foil Sculpture!

    I was watching the great and mighty television when what should appear but an ad for Reynolds’ Wrap. It was chock full of aluminum foil sculptures, and it reminded me of how we occasionally break into making cool things with foil.   This is a GREAT way to keep your kids busy when you are…

  • Great Options for Kids’ Art Room Floors

    I wrote a lovely post about kids’ art spaces/corners, so the next logical thing to think about is how to keep the floor clean. I was rapping with Twisterfish the other day about this very subject, because she is in the planning stages of moving her son’s art space from the kitchen into the unused…

  • Art Concepts Through Playdough?

    Glad you asked. One morning when I walked into the play room at my gym, all de-stressed and ready to pick up my son, I encountered 7 or 8 wee children playing with GOBS of bright blue playdough. They were entranced by the stuff. Naturally I asked for the recipe and thus began my love…

  • Birthday Card as Art Project

    Birthday Card as Art Project

      I always have Fen make her own card when it comes to Birthday presents. Besides being a great excuse to break out the papers and scissors, she gets to spend some time thinking about her friend and the colors/design/images that friend might enjoy. While there are a zillion ways to go about making a…

  • Art Corner Inspiration for Your Kids

    Art Corner Inspiration for Your Kids

    I love when people thoughtfully incorporate spaces into their homes specifically for kids to make art. As a child, we had a tall cabinet in our kitchen that I appropriated to use as my art studio. I would pull up a stool and hang out there while my mom made dinner. It was the perfect…