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Handmade Giant Tissue Flowers Birthday Decoration for A Craft Birthday Party of 8 year old Girl

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My daughter is now 8 years old and she wanted a CRAFT PARTY for her birthday at our new home. We had a fantastic time together, planning the details. It was wonderful to see her to be so sure and articulate about what she wanted in her party. Apart from making cake at home, the must do was to have some handmade birthday decoration. She wanted it to be colorful and unique.After a little research and brain storming we ended up making Giant tissue flowers. Many of you might remember the tissue paper pom-pom ball we made a while back. Using the same technique , we came up with these flowers. Since, she was turning 8 , we made 8 flowers. Different sizes made the wall display more interesting. Variations in step from the Pom-Pom ball as mentioned above : -4 sheets of full size of tissue paper and 3 sheets of half size of the tissue paper. -Once you do the accordion folds together, separate the smaller size and bigger size tissue paper. -More closer cuts for the smaller size. -Make the acco...
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Melissa and Doug Decorate your own Race Car Bank Craft for a toddler

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My son who is about 2.5 yrs old loves to paint. Not so long ago, a good friend gifted him "Melissa and Doug- Decorate your own race car" kit. It was a very cold day in Chicago and I wanted my little boy to be busy. He was insisting on painting so I gave him the kit. He has a 7 year old sister, who was super excited that her brother is big enough to paint a race car. Here is how they did it. After a lot of requests from our followers, we are introducing video to our tutorials. This is the first one. We hope to add more. It is a great opportunity for talking about colors and cars. It is a wonderful activity for improving hand eye co-ordination. Supplies : Melissa and Doug Decorate your own Race Car Bank kit (A race care bank ready to paint, paints, brush, stickers) Painting Brush(optional, kit has one) Some wet wipes Paper Towel No spill paint cups Art smock High Chair (optional) How to : Let the child have all the supplies and explain him what to do. He should be sitting in a ...
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Handmade Tree Topper for Christmas Tree

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I made this Christmas tree topper with my 4 year old son last year. It was the first year we were decorating our Christmas tree with handmade ornaments made by  him ( of course with a little help from me). We used red card stock but you can use any color you like. We used 4 inch squares for the cones and 3 inch circle for base.  You can choose the size of the square card stock for the cone based on the size of tree topper you want to make. Supplies :  - 4 inch square card-stock ( 20 nos.) - 3 inch circle for base ( 2 nos.) - Glue    Follow the following steps for making the  tree topper : Here is our Christmas Tree topper on our tree.  We added a punched snowflake in the center. You can also use buttons or rhinestones. You can also add a loop in the back and use it as a decoration  in kids room. My son was very happy after making this and kept telling everyone he made the tree topper. He still remembers the tree topper and told me yesterday we nee...
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Handmade Fall Silk Flowers Arrangement perfect for Fall Decor

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I made this beautiful fall color theme Silk flowers arrangement specially for my Mom. Usually, I am not a big fan of silk flowers as I prefer to make them myself (paper or clay). For a change I thought when I know I am short of time, and still want to splash some newness and color I decided to use silk flowers this time. I wanted to make something for my Mom during her visit to US, so that she can take it back home to India and have something to decorate. So this is what I came up with. I loved the way it turned out. In the process I bought one vase and some flowers for myself too. It was fun making this. I could not take the pictures of the steps as it was a last minute thing I was putting together. But just to give you some idea. Material needed: -Floral Stems in co-ordinating colors. Big flowers and small flowers and some fillers. -Green and brown floral tape -pliers -Floral Foam -Craft knife -Vase Basic Rules of Flower Arrangements ------------------------------------ Basic steps o...
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Fun Plastic Egg Crafts by kids on Playdate

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Easter is around the corner, everyone is getting ready with Easter preparation.As far as we are concerned, we have always associated Easter with lots of fun and egg hunts and egg crafts. Sometimes the Easter crafts or Spring crafts start a week before and sometimes on the day of Easter and at our home it usually continues till a week after at least. This year my daughter wanted to do something with her friends who were coming on a play date. From past years experience I realized this craft needs to be quicker than what I am used to. I hope you agree that patience usually runs out pretty quickly when 5-6 year old kids get together and do crafts. I think this will be the easiest and probably the best DIY Easter Egg Craft I ever blogged about. Supplies you will need : -Plastic eggs -Sharpies permanent markers various colors -Pipe cleaner -Scissors (optional) To make it interesting I let kids do a little egg hunt in the basket filled with some eggs. Only few had something inside it. Once a...
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Spring flower sketch- Birthday Card inspired from Book illustration

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I am very proud in sharing this beautiful card made by my 6 year old daughter. This was inspired by an illustration in the book "The Owl and the Pussy Cat" by Edward Lear and Jan Brett. Recently, she did an author study on Jan Brett. She came across a lot of Jan Brett's books and was particularly impressed by the illustrations. Inspired from Jan Brett, she wishes to write books and do the illustrations herself too. In order to make this lovely card- her first attempt to make something similar from a book,she used Supplies- Blank Card Pencil colors Pencil Eraser Book as mentioned above Personally I thought she will save this card in her treasure box,as she was so excited she could do it so good. In her words- "Almost like the one in the book".She found a better use. She gifted it to one of her best friends. Always, encourage and inspire your kids to do crafts or sketching or painting. You never know where their imagination takes them.
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Handmade Valentine's Day Favor for Preschool Kids, Caterpillar Valentine's Day Craft Tutorial

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" You Make My Heart Wiggle"   I made these adorable Caterpillar Pencil Favors  yesterday for my son's preschool classmates.  They will be celebrating Valentine's Day today in their class and exchanging little treasures with each other. He loves Eric Carle's Book - The Very Hungry Caterpillar so I decided to make this Caterpillar. I also added Finger LED lights as pencil toppers though that is totally optional.  The earlier post with butterflies is similar but my son was more excited about this one. Here are supplies I used for this making the Caterpillar : - Green , Red and White card stock -  Martha Stewart Scoring Board ( Its not necessary. You can do simple accordion fold but since I had to make multiples (25) it came in real handy. - 3/8 inch circle punch I used one from Recollections. You can use file or hand hole punch but I found the hole little small to insert pencils easily. If you find a  hand hole punch like this one ( 5/16 inch) it might wo...
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