Category: Make Art

  • Cool Duct Tape Ideas: Cover Your Furniture

    Cool Duct Tape Ideas: Cover Your Furniture

    Yes, I am completely obsessed with kids’ bedrooms. Especially the open, individualistic creativity that sprouts behind closed doors. Fen’s bedroom undergoes complete transformations every month or so, and in between times, it morphs and evolves in smaller, more subtle ways. Decorations are changed, mini-shrines are erected and dismantled, furniture is adorned with the soft-and-fluffy-item du…

  • Sharpie Shoes

    Sharpie Shoes

    When I was strutting around Target the other day with my main man Beckett, I spied something that stopped me dead in my tracks. A whole bunch of boxes of white canvas Converse All-Stars, right next to packages of Sharpie fabric markers! This is some brilliant marketing I must say. I’m just surprised this setup…

  • Blue-Mania: 5 Kids Crafts Exploring the Color Blue

    Blue-Mania: 5 Kids Crafts Exploring the Color Blue

    Hey, all! I have a lovely guest-poster today who will give you ideas for exploring the color blue with your kiddos. It’s fun  to focus on different shades of one color to explore its lighter and darker versions, which is a great introduction to learning about tints and shades. In any event, please welcome Kelly…

  • Color Wheel For Kids: Make A Cool Clock

    I’ve been wanting to do a color wheel for kids project. I’ve also been wanting to do a clock project for a long time. In fact, we have a few different sets of clock hands and an old Ikea clock floating around the house, but I didn’t get truly motivated until I found a blank…

  • Easy Texture Collage Project

    Easy Texture Collage Project

    We made a really easy texture collage project using lots of different materials- papers, cardboard, cork, burlap, etc, all in muted colors. Beckett, Fen and I each made one, so it’s a fun and quick project to make together. With snacks, of course. Some of the materials we bought at Michael’s, some were found in various bins of…

  • 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…

  • 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.…

  • 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…

  • Chihuly-Inspired Cups Project

    Chihuly-Inspired Cups Project

    Welcome, Pinterest people! I’ve had so many questions regarding my Chihuly cup project. I made these with cups I bought at our local grocery store, and since then have had trouble finding. Boo. I used the cups with the little #6 on the bottom inside the recycle symbol. I can’t seem to find them at grocery stores…

  • Circles and Glue Make a Fun Art Project

    Circles and Glue Make a Fun Art Project

    When one stays home with one’s small child, sometimes one needs a few minutes of alone time. Enter the magical project that will keep a young child occupied for more than 5 minutes while you sneak in a cup of tea in another room. Alone. Not talking to anyone. I thought this project would be a…