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Coloring Salt With Chalk: Jerusalem Scene For Tisha B’Av
Crafting with colored salt that you can make yourself is so much fun, especially for kids who are more process oriented than expressive. While home-made colored salt poured in layers into recycled jars is certainly pretty, and there are lots of oohs and ahhs as the layers are built, I wanted to give more meaning…
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Birthday Wreath From Cupcake Liners + Paper Plate Flowers
A birthday wreath made from cupcake liner flowers and paper plate flowers is the perfect decoration for your front door, and something you can certainly hang in the birthday girl's room afterwards as a nice reminder. Yesterday was my daughter's ninth birthday, and the last opportunity to make something like this, since double digits would…
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Welcome To Craft Schooling Sunday!
Welcome to Craft Schooling Sunday! Last week's party was a little bigger than usual and chock full of great projects, thanks so much to you all! And as you know, crafting is a great way for kids of all ages to use extra summer time productively. It certainly helps to have a few projects up…
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Paper Plate Flowers
Flowers from paper plates? Well why not, right? And very often one has a few plates left over which is the perfect excuse to make some festive flowers…..great for a birthday party or outdoor entertaining, or a fun gift topper. As you can imagine, it's possible to use a paper plate in many ways, three…
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Kid’s Craft: Jars Decoupaged With Printed Tissue Paper
Aren't these recycled coffee jar vases sweet? (Snowflake and all in the middle of summer?) And they look so great holding wild flowers, cuttings from the garden that you're rooting, or even candles of course. We made these recycled jar vases using the tissue paper that we printed on last week, here, and some mod…
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Draw Simple Patterns On Painted Bottles
Here’s a super simple way to turn painted wine bottle vases (namely the ones I wrote about here) into something a little more bold and decorative. With just a permanent black marker, we had fun applying designs and illustrations to our painted bottles. And the results really are so much fun, and perfect for a…
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Summer Craft: Wine Cork Boats
The perfect summer craft for boys. Make sailboats and rafts from simple materials including wine corks and popsicle sticks.
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Welcome To Craft schooling Sunday!
Welcome to Craft Schooling Sunday! Last week's party was full of wonderful projects that I'm so happy to be able to share with you here. A really nice range with something for just about everyone, you know the crafty female everyone? I tried to leave comments on the posts of all those who contributed, but…
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Simple DIY Plant Plates
Here's a fun little scenario with a red impatiens plant and a little crafty doodled-on plate that's making me very happy right now, and it all happened quite by accident. Of course it's no accident that I saved this chipped plate to use under plants, just when I doodled the red design on the plate…
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Kid’s Summer Craft: Mini Clothesline Note Holder
Here's a fun kid's craft that's perfect for summer camp, or done as a group project. And by simply using a different shaped frame, one can certainly do this with boys as well. Or how about making a frame out of twigs lashed together? That could be really fun, or make the project more beach…
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Summer Crafts: Printing On Tissue Paper
I love tissue paper, and realized this morning that it would be great to print on, namely really for the kids to print on, as a nice little crafty activity. Afterwards of course, the tissue paper can be used for a myriad of craft projects or even as beautiful wrapping paper. I am aware that…
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Child’s First Oil Painting – The Rolling Hills Of Jerusalem
Today is the 17th of the Jewish month of Tammuz, and we are thinking about Jerusalem, Yerushalayim, our Holy City, whose ancient walls were breached on this day many many years ago. And yet, we remember this day each and every year, and I thought it was so very appropriate that my almost nine year…
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Kid’s Crafts For Remembering Jerusalem
Tonight is the seventeenth of the Jewish month of Tammuz, a ominous day in which many sad events occurred over the course of many years in Jewish history, and a day of mourning, which includes a sun-up to sun-down fast. While crafting is usually associated with joy, it can and should be used to…
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Welcome To Craft Schooling Sunday!
Welcome to Craft Schooling Sunday! Summer is the perfect season for crafting and to work on skills that we might not have the chance to try out during busier seasons. So enjoy the inspiration from last week's party and do start a new project this week, however small! I just love this bright market bag…
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Deadheading Spent Summer Blooms Encourages Growth
Nothing compares to the simple joy of blooming flowers in the summer, especially when they're close at hand in pots, and in a spot where you can enjoy them. Besides of course remembering to water your flowers, and to check them for infestation, there is one important tip that will help insure blooms for months…
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DIY Drink Charms For Summer Entertaining
These festive DIY drink or wine charms are an example of one of the those projects that are so simple and yet add so much. And they are practical I might add, especially if you’re entertaining informally where guests might be prone to walk around with wine glasses, or any glass that has either a…
