Crafts: Drawing

  • Recycled Cardboard Tube Logs For Play Or Crafting!

    Recycled Cardboard Tube Logs For Play Or Crafting!

    With the festive Jewish holiday coming up in just a week, now is the time to get crafting, that certainly is happening around here on account of my 20 or so 4th, 5th and 6th grade (boys) students, who are keeping me literally on my toes! Last week we worked on drawing woodgrain patterns on…

  • Drawing With Kids: Colorful Woodgrain Drawings To Use For Crafting

    Drawing With Kids: Colorful Woodgrain Drawings To Use For Crafting

    Having now drawn many A4 sheets of colorful wood grain drawings together with a total of 8 schoolboys aged 9-12, I can say that this is truly a great exercise, and one that is enjoyable and simple for some, and quite challenging and difficult for others. I did note that the boys who excell the…

  • Fun Woodgrain Drawings For Crafting And Journaling

    Fun Woodgrain Drawings For Crafting And Journaling

    With the Jewish holiday of L’ag B’Omer coming up in 2 1/2 weeks, now is the time to get crafting, and continuing with last year’s woodgrain themed crafts, I’m now going down the path of wood grain, but adding color to the neutral crafts I made last year. And to my surprise, there are so…

  • Festive Rosh HaShana Symbols (Simanim) Placards Craft For Kids

    Festive Rosh HaShana Symbols (Simanim) Placards Craft For Kids

    With Rosh HaShana coming in just over a week, now is the time to get crafting, with the kids and for yourself, in order to truly honor this oh so important and lofty holiday! The subject of the Rosh HaShana symbols or simanim is perfect for a variety of crafts including placards, garlands, napkin rings…

  • Introduction to Drawing Hand Skeletons: A Beginner’s Guide

    Introduction to Drawing Hand Skeletons: A Beginner’s Guide

    One of the most difficult things to draw when drawing people is the hands, and truthfully I always used to hide the hands somehow! Of course a much better idea is to really understand the structure of the hand, which will make drawing hands so much simpler. What is the structure, well the skeleton of…

  • Fun Cardboard and Paper Collage Cut-Outs For Rosh HaShana

    Fun Cardboard and Paper Collage Cut-Outs For Rosh HaShana

    We are in the heart of our short summer vacation here in Israel, and with war and so much heartache looming over our heads, crafting and preparing for upcoming holidays and happy occassions is a wonderful way to spend a few hours. Get the whole family together or even take time for yourself, creativity is…

  • Oatmeal Can Airport Craft To Hold Paper Airplanes!

    Oatmeal Can Airport Craft To Hold Paper Airplanes!

    Introducing oatmeal can airports! I thought we’d wrap oatmeal cans with the airport art created last week, and make Q-tip airplanes to put inside, only the Q-tip airplanes I tried to make were a flop and didn’t even fly, yikes, so much for that! But the boys didn’t complain and made airplanes that don’t fly,…

  • Let’s Draw The Airport Craft For Kids

    Let’s Draw The Airport Craft For Kids

    This week with my small crafting club of 8 year old boys we spent some time learning how to draw airplanes, airport control towers, and other things one might see in the sky like parachutes and blimps, together with some trees and clouds to set the scene. Sadly, these sweet boys do not draw very…

  • Op Art Craft For Kids: A Dimensional Hand Drawing

    Op Art Craft For Kids: A Dimensional Hand Drawing

    Looking for a interesting craft with simple supplies for all ages from 8 (or so) and up? How about creating Op art dimensional hand drawings? This is the second time I’ve tried this line drawing exercise with young kids, 12 years ago I did it with my 7,  8 and 9 year olds and last…

  • DIY Colorful Floral Border Doodle For Cards, Journals, Signs and More!

    DIY Colorful Floral Border Doodle For Cards, Journals, Signs and More!

    Years ago I got into floral doodles via some tutorials for bullet journal art and it was so much fun, and a great introduction to the world of journaling and sketchbook practices. Since then I’ve been working on refining my art skills and while doing lots of drawing, not like the floral borders you see…

  • When Life Gives You Lemons Fun Birthday Cake

    When Life Gives You Lemons Fun Birthday Cake

    I’ve been painting lots of faceted watercolor fruit lately, like watercolor mosaic strawberries, for example, so when it came time to make some birthday decor and a birthday cake for my son, it seemed like a no-brainer to continue with the fruit theme, and lemons came to mind! A glass of lemonade and a pitcher…

  • Fun Lemon And Lemonade Theme Cake And Cupcake Toppers

    Fun Lemon And Lemonade Theme Cake And Cupcake Toppers

    When you’ve spent years and years and years making simple birthday cakes topped with homemade decorations, anything is game really, and so no one batted an eye as to why I’d choose a lemonade theme for these cake toppers, and even the guests didn’t ask any questions. (Ah yes, now I remember, I told them…