Crafts: nature
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Orange Orchard Pine Cone Craft For Kids
Collecting pine cones on a nature walk is always a fun activity to do with the little ones, but what to use them for afterwards? Here’s a good one for you: make a pine cone orange orchard! This idea is so simple yet with great results and fun for a variety of ages. And maybe…
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DIY Paper Plant: Flowering Bromeliad
A DIY paper plant can be the perfect solution if you need an inexpensive and festive party centerpiece (especially if you need a bunch) and best of all they can be made in any size that works for you. Not all the paper plants that i’ve seen in blogland have been quick to make, so…
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Modular Origami Stars
We have been making lots of origami lately, the origami hearts wall hanging, and the origami pull out drawers, for example, and now I’d like to introduce you to another kind or origami altogether, modular origami.Modular or 3D origami is made from lots of little double pointed pieces that fit into one another, and…
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Adirondack Style Twig Sign Craft: Perfect For Summer Camp Or Staycation!
Isn’t this handmade Adirondack-style twig sign fantastic? I can’t take credit for it, other than having the nerve to wander over to the neighbor’s yard one afternoon while on our Connecticut lake vacation! And don’t go imagining that I climbed over any stone walls or anything, I just wandered across the lawn knowing that they…
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Summer Crafts For Kids: A Recyled Milk Carton Roof Garden!
Spring and especially summer are the perfect time to work on fun crafting projects that you may not have time for during the school year! And whether or not camp is a part of your kid’s summer experience, you can certainly have fun doing the kind of projects that one might very likely do in…
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Learning About Inukshuk, First Nation rock sculptures in Vancouver, BC
My very first vision of these miniature inukshuk rock sculptures, that I knew nothing about at the time, was as we were completing our walk around the sea wall in Vancouver’s Stanley Park on the Northshore/ English Bay side. The sun was going down, there were many folks out enjoying the serenity of a summer…
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Simple Origami Birds For Kids
Yippee, I at long last was able to catch a few kids and get them to sit down and learn to fold some simple origami birds, just in time to hang some around our house for this shabbat, which is called “shabbat shira” and in which we give thanks to the birds for some help…
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Fingernail Polish Craft Failure!
I’ve been wanting to try crafting with finger nail polish for months, and after picking up some bottles at the dollar store, we were all set to go at long last. Unfortunately however, things didn’t go quite as we had expected them to go……which also happens to every crafter, and is certainly a possibility any…
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Crocheted Hearts Wall Hanging On A Limb!
How about making a crocheted hearts wall hanging to remind someone that you love them? I made this crocheted hearts and leaves wall hanging using a real branch, to hang over my daughter’s bed. Our drill is broken, so the wall hanging has been hanging out in the hall outside her bedroom, for the whole…
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Melted Crayon Art On Rocks
Here’s a great little craft activity that my kids loved — drawing with crayons on hot rocks! Yes, not recommended for little ones, but so much fun! I had my kids hold a crayon in one hand and a spoon in the other so that they’d use the spoon for turning the rock if necessary!…
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Paper Mosaic With Rose Petal Tinted Paper
What is paper mosaic with rose petal tinted paper you ask? Well, of course, the paper mosaic part is clear, but what is rose petal tinted paper? I really couldn’t think of any other name for paper that is tinted by coloring with rose petals! How do you color with rose petals? You quite…
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Vacation Crafts- Nature Crafts With Rosebuds
Here’s another super simple vacation or any time craft, courtesy of my eight year old daughter! I’ll have to admit, I was eyeing the plate of rose petals that my mother had put aside to add to her “organic” recycling bin, as they were just so lovely. And sure enough, when I got up the…