Crafts: Summer
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Watercolor Fruit Portraits Are So Much Fun To Paint!
Isn’t this watercolor strawberry portrait just the greatest? While I though at the time that she wasn’t really putting her mind to this little painting session, in the end her unstudied strawberry turned out to be the best of all. Isn’t it great when your kids out do you? You’ll Need: watercolor paper watercolors, palette…
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Milk Carton Sailboat Or A Milk Carton Pirates Schooner?
This milk carton sailboat or rather milk carton schooner was so hard to photograph as the minute I placed it into the pool it started sailing off into the wild blue yonder! That means that if you get a bunch of kids together to make milk carton sailboats they really could have races, how fun…
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Popsicle Stick Sailboat Craft For Kids
Ahhh, wouldn’t you like to set sail on a popsicle stick sailboat over the clear blue ocean right about now? Well we certainly can dream can’t we? And especially if we gather together a few simple supplies and make our very own sailboats from popsicle sticks and some recycled materials! Four years ago we also…
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Rubber Band Fishtail Jewelry Crafts Are Perfect Summer Take Alongs!
Summer is here, and it is time to get crafting, us included! Things have been lacking in the creativity department around here, I’ll admit, so it is time to get back to doing the things we love, like basic crafts with recycled materials, drawing, painting and other simple yet so satisfying creative endeavors! My ten…
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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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Crepe Paper Flowers With Pom Pom Centers (Perfect For Shavous!)
Here is a fun crepe paper flower craft that is done in two steps, and produces great results. Make these flowers in a bunch of sizes, and affix them to a large board, or hot glue a string to the back for hanging. Or how about some on your front door? Whatever you decide to…
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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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A Very Jewish Summer: Craft Foam Succah Lanterns!
Welcome to my contribution for “A Very Jewish Summer”, craft foam succah lanterns! When I was asked to participate in this blog hop with four other great Jewish bloggers, and to come up with something that says “Jewish” and “summer” I immediately thought about using lazy summer days to prepare for the holidays in a…
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Painting Flowers On Cardboard Scraps, Fun For BOYS!
Sometimes the simplest of art projects can have some of the greatest results — like these wonderful flowers that my group of boys painted at Crafting A Future as a part of a project for the holiday of Shavuot. Truthfully, I had so many kid crafted flowers to share, that I decide to hang on…
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Newsprint & Crepe Paper Flower Centerpieces
Tons of flower crafting going on around here with the holiday of Shavuot coming up next week, so when I was asked to make some last minute flower centerpieces for a community get together, I just rolled up my sleeves a bit further, and got to work, and came up with these fun newsprint and…
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Egg Carton Flowers, An Amazing Craft For All Ages
This week at craftng a future, I introduced my lively group of 7 to 11 year old girls to the wonders of making gorgeous flowers using egg cartons. I spent most of the time cutting up flats of egg cartons to give the girls a head start, so I didn’t get to make any myself,…