Crafts: Paper
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Cupcake Liner Flower Gift Topper
Cupcake liner flowers are simple to make and can be the perfect gift toppers, especially since you may just have everything you need on hand! And now that it's spring, which means wedding season is coming up, as are days to honor mom and teachers, you may just want to make a bunch of cupcake…
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A Fun Memo Pad Drawing Exercise To Get The Creative Juices Flowing!
For many children, drawing of any kind can be a wonderful and creative experience, and as parent I get particularly excited when a see a child using drawing to tell personal stories. Unfortunately we see this most often in pre-school and kindergarten children, with that creativity disappearing as children learn new things and are influenced…
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Passover Kid’s Craft: A Dancing Wine Goblet Paper Chain!
A simple and cute Passover craft to decorate your home—a dancing wine goblet paper chain! You do the cutting and let the little ones do the decorating with markers or even glue and collage materials. I love the results however I must tell you that given the light-weight paper I used and the pattern I…
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Ten Plagues Passover Craft: Fun Placards For The Seder!
Here's a fun ten plagues Passover craft that you can make now and use at the Passover seder to create a little bit of excitement and keep the kids involved. Either you can make them as a surprise, or better yet, get the kids involved in the crafting, and they'll be even more excited. I've…
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Make Some Fun Doodle Frames—A Passover Craft For The Whole Family!
It's now official— one really can put off spring cleaning by crafting these cute little doodle frames, since they may just come in handy during and after the cleaning! How's that for some crafty justification for that which is really procrastination? And of course some readers have started to ask for Passover crafts, so this…
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A Paper Accordion-Folded Rosette Bouquet Of Sorts!
Why buy a bouquet of flowers when you can make something that's unique and long-lasting like this accordion folded medallion bouquet! The truth is that that in my case the flower store isn't so close and sometimes making something on the kitchen table while simultaneously running the house and watching some pots on the stove…
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Recycled Magazine Page Nesting Bowls!
I love recycling crafts, and finally had a chance to try making some bowls from recycled magazine pages. It's really quite simple and even youngish kids can help fold the pages while those old enough to handle a glue gun can make these themselves. And there are really no steadfast rules, so you can use…
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Make A Festive Spring Bouquet With Crepe Paper Flowers!
Mexican-style crepe paper flowers are simple to make, and look great as a festive spring bouquet. If you weren't convinced by my previous post, maybe you will be now? Find the right container (my footed urn works really well) fill it with marbles and/or small rocks, and simply poke the stems of your flowers…
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Mexican Style Crepe Paper Flowers….Gorgeous!
I can't explain it, but Mexican style folded crepe paper flowers never looked so good, believe me they are gorgeous! I am honestly planning to fill the house with them for Purim…..decorating the tops of frames, attached to the arms of my chandelier and pouring out of tall vases like these. Oh, and I'm planning…
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Clowning Around: A Simple & Fun Paper Clown Project For Kids!
Colorful paper clown faces make great decorations for Purim or even your next circus themed party! My kids loved this project so much that it kept them busy for several evenings on the dining room table. I'd love to show you better photos, but with the rainy weather this week, we'll have to settle for…