Category: Make Art
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What is a Vision Board and How to Make a Giant One
What the What is a Vision Board? A vision board is: A visual reminder of what you want to achieve or manifest in your life Personal to you and what taps into your emotions Created by you, usually from images you find in magazines or online A daily reminder of where to place your focus…
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Crayon Marker Resist
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DIY Journal Covers
In addition to loving art supplies, I have a huge addiction to notebooks and journals of all kind. You can imagine my excitement at being able to use art supplies ON the journals themselves. The Moleskine Cahier Journals in Kraft are perfect to draw on, and if you haven’t tried these yet, you can choose…
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Texting is so Over – Send Really Cool Mail.
I don’t send mail all that often, and I was sitting around the other day, pondering whether or not I should revive the lost art of letter-writing in my house. Of course the answer to that should always be a resounding ‘yes’. I struggle with trying to keep myself off the computer, so I’ve recently taken up…
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Cool Craft: DIY String Bowls
Crafty collaboration alert! Okay, you guys. This is how my mind works: Maggy from Red Ted Art invited a group of bloggers to each do a post on a basic craft, and we’d all support each other, share each others’ crafts, etc. So immediately I FREAKED OUT, obsessing over which craft to do- Is it crafty…
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41 Crafts for Boys. No Girls Allowed!
Hahahaha, how mad did that make some of you that I so brazenly excluded girls from these crafts? What I’m doing here is rounding up a bunch of crafts that would appeal to my son and step son based on what their interests are/have been. I know that girls will like doing these, too, or maybe some boys would…
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7 Creativity Prompts for Kids
Can we all agree that kids are inherently creative little beasts? Yes, I think we can. Because they are, and they’re cute, too. And funny. Kids are funny. Anyway, since I like kids and I like creativity, and I write about creative kids all over the place on this blog, I am here to talk…
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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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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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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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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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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,…