Crafts: Drawing
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How To Make Bookmarks For Rosh HaShana Craft
With Rosh HaShana coming is just over a week, yikes, now is the time to turn up the heat and get crafting and cooking/baking for the holiday! While you are busy making delicious whole wheat sourdough loaves possibly, or maybe a Moroccan salad or two for the simanim, like Moroccan carrot salad and Moroccan beet…
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How To Draw Koi Fish As A Simple Sketchbook Exercise
Every artist or crafter has likely experienced the situation where in something done with ease and relatively quickly somehow ends up being nicer than things that you labored over for hours! Such is the case with these koi fish, and so I present to you, how to draw koi fish as a simple sketchbook exercise,…
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How To Draw Colorful Poppy Field Sketches In Your Art Journal
After two years packed with creativity that included everything except my beloved art and sketchbook practice, I said “enough is enough” and now instead of making cross stitch art (a bit obsessively, but it was great), it is back to the paint and sketching supplies! I dipped my toes back into the sketchbook last week…
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How To Sketch Watercolor Clouds With Water Soluble Pencils
At long last I forced myself to make art in a sketchbook (I have three unfinished ones……nearly there.) and I’m quite embarrassed to say that after a nice stint and true dedication to art journaling and creating in a sketchbook, I dropped the practice completely for two years, yikes! That is not to say that…
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How To Make Doodle Landscapes With Just Crayons And A Ballpoint Pen
Are you possibly on vacation right now and itching to do something creative, but didn’t bring the art supplies, and don’t really want to buy more? Friends, I was in just this predicament last week and so now I can share with you how to make doodle landscapes with just crayons and a ballpoint pen,…
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How To Make A Cute Sign For Shavuot Kids Craft
With the Jewish holiday of Shavuot coming up on Thursday night, now is the time for some quick crafts, so delve into how to mkae a cute sign for Shavuot Kids Craft now, and make some simple yet fun additions to your holiday! This little stand up sign was made by a sweet third grade…
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How To Draw Festive Floral Doodles For Cards And Signs
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…
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Simple Drawing For Kids: How To Draw A Fish
The sign for the Jewish month of Adar, coming up next Monday night, is the fish, so let’s get fishy! And aren’t these fish just the cutest? Courtesy of one of my 3rd grade students who really got the hang of the fish drawing lesson I tried to teach, and yesterday after his fish drawing…
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How To Draw Simple Fruit Shapes And Make A Garland!
With the Jewish holiday of Tu B’Shevat coming up in a whole month, now is a time to explore all crafts pertaining to fruit, and make festive decorations! With winter vacation for many, what better time than to whip up an adorable and simple fruity garland that you can use year round? The key is…
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How To Make Real/Faux Cross Stitch Dreidels On Cardboard
How to make real/faux cross stitch dreidels on cardboard is not a mystery my friends! Purchase this new digital craft kit, available at my Etsy shop, and get crafting! The kit is packed with instruction pages, and many options and sizes for both dreidels and chanukah cross stitch sweaters, so there is more than enough…
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How To Make “Ugly” Chanukah Sweaters With My Download!
How to make “ugly” Chanukah sweaters with my download digital craft kit? Okay, first of all these sweaters are far from “ugly” but in my attempt to get this wonderful craft idea/kit out to the masses one has to use wording that others might use when searching for just this idea. I’d call them festive…
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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…