Crafts: Fall
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DIY Giant Paper Flowers Make The Perfect Fall Centerpiece
Looking for a great idea for a DIY centerpiece or a quick way to make a statement in your home this Fall? Look no further! No pumpkins (though admittedly the little white ones would look lovely here), no fall leaves, no burlap, no apples, instead how about some giant paper poppies in neutral Fall colors?…
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Recycled Magazine Page Feathers
Feathers are such a lovely thing to make out of paper, and with Yom Kippur in just two days, and Succot following four days after that, well there is no time like the present than to whip up some great recycled magazine page feathers yourself! Jewish holidays aside, they’d also look just lovely in a…
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Chalkboard DIY Apples
Hey guys, at long last I have jumped on the chalkboard DIY trend, though of course with a twist, true to creativjewishmom style. (And with some upcycling too, as you might expect!) When I picked up a little bottle of acrylic chalkboard paint on our trip to the USA this summer, I knew I’d find…
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Watercolor Fruit Art: Paint The Seven Species
Small works of art using just simply watercolors are so fun to make, and a great project to do in one sitting. In the past I enjoyed painting watercolor fruit with my daughter, and then I realized that if I was going to paint fruit, then certainly I should paint a series of the seven…
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Recycled Cardboard Tube Owls And A Tree
Here my friends is a simple craft for fall, or anytime really, using the simplest of materials with fun results. One can of course use toilet paper tubes to make owls, but this time around I decided to use a paper towel tube to make tow paper towel tube owls! And that fun tree? I…
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10 Apple Themed Recycling Crafts To Make Now!
Hey guess what dear readers, my archives are packed to the gills with great projects that really should see the light of day once in a while, so today I’m sharing with you 10 fun apple recycling crafts that are perfect to do right now! Whether you are in need of some simple crafts using…
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Ten Pine Cone Crafts For All Ages
Kids and adults alike love collecting pine cones after a nature walk, and they tend to be aplenty at many forest locations of day camps and sleepover camps, so pine cone crafts are a perfect summer craft, as long as one stays away from red and green felt if you know what I mean? Keep…
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Simple Mediterranean Harvest Watercolor Paintings For All Ages
With all the pumpkin crafts and fall harvest related themes floating around the web right now (and of course posted on Craft Schooling Sunday), I thought I’d share some Mediterranean harvest watercolor paintings as an alternative to all the orange pumpkins and colored fall leaves crafts which only really apply to a relatively small portion…
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The Apple Gift Boxes From Recycled Soda Bottles That Didn’t Quite Happen
Yes dear readers, these are not apple gift boxes from recycled soda bottles, but rather the tops for apple gift boxes from recycled soda bottles! I was laughing at myself as the holiday of Rosh HaShana was nearing, that probably no one else on the face of the earth would be trying to craft like…
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Quick No-Sew Apple Craft Using Upcycled Materials!
I have no computer at the moment and am typing on an iPad, but wanted to share this recycled materials Apple craft with you. fortunately I had uploaded the photos to my blog before my computer got very sick and had to be sent to the hospital an hour and a half drive from…
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Stuffed Paper Apples Craft For Kids
I just love this stuffed paper apple craft with stamped images, a reader’s verions of my stuffed polka dot apple craft that I shared with you all last week! The story goes like this. Today I received a wonderful email from a reader, Katherine Herrera of Fairfax Virginia, who informed me that their family had a…
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Recycled Plastic Cup Apples!
Yippee, I have managed to squeeze out one last recycling craft for you before the end of the Jewish year — introducing recycled plastic cup apples! Maybe just in time to whip up to grace your Rosh HaShana table, or as a fun idea for making succah decorations. These little reycled plastic cup apples don’t…