Crafts: Summer
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Recycled Soda Bottle Flowers For Shavuot!
This week at Crafting A Future, my !st and 2nd grade girls made these gorgeous recycled soda bottle flowers that sure do look like blown glass, don’t they? We’ll be using these flowers for a shavuot wall hanging that the girls have been working on, but I think they’d look great as is strung together…
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Paper Rosebud Bouquet Craft For Kids (And Adults!)
I just love paper rosebuds, so easy to make for kids and adults, and with great results! And a little bouquet of paper roses is so very sweet, to adorn your home or give as a little gift, how about a teacher appreciation paper rosebud bouquet? And of course they’re perfect for shavuot decorations! I…
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Popsicle Stick Bow With Skewer Arrows!
Last week at crafting a future, my group of boys charged ahead with the popsicle stick bow and skewer arrows craft, and even showed me a trick or two, which greatly enhanced this project! Truthfully, I thought they’d make arrows without bows, as I hadn’t come up with any great was to make a bow…
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Crocheted Vase With Arrows Centerpiece
Looking for a super cute little centerpiece idea for L’ag B’Omer, or for a summer gathering? How about crocheting a cover for a glass jar, and filling that jar with some colorful DIY arrows? I promise you’re gonna love it! Plus you can always fill your crocheted vase with some freshly picked wild flowers, or…
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DIY Arrows Craft: Perfect For Summer Parties & L’ag B’Omer!
Yesterday at Crafting A Future, I introduced my class of boys to this DIY arrows craft to honor the upcoming holiday of L’Ag B’Omer, ( I’ll share their’s with you soon) and when they’d all gone home I sorted through the mess and made some for us to enjoy as well! I just love how…
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Watercolor Painting With Pencil Drawing
Isn’t this little watercolor painting sweet, and so perfect for summer? Truthfully my daughter painted this over a year ago, and we just came upon it, which is perfect timing, as I really didn’t have anything to share with you today! Watercolors are a great medium for all ages, and kids can produce nice works…
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Keychain Camp Craft For Kids
The other day my son came home with not one, but a bunch of keychains the kids had made at day camp. The ideal little project for this particular son of mine who loves loves loves to wear as many keychains of all kinds on his pants! As it turns out, each camper only got…
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Decoupage With Fabric— Pots For Your Garden!
We needed a quick teacher appreciation gift for my daughter’s teacher last week, and I finally got around to trying out fabric decoupage on terra cotta pots! I’m totally in love with the results and can’t believe it took me so long to give this one a try. Oh well, everything in it’s time! And…
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Butterfly Kite Kid’s Craft With Straws
Here’s a great butterfly kite craft for kids, that you might not be able to resist yourself, since the results are just so much fun! Last week I shared with you the kites we made from straws and tissue paper, and we just couldn’t stop with classic kite shapes, since there are so many possibilities…
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Melted Plastic Hama Bead Bowls
Yesterday as we were recovering from a wonderful Shavous holiday weekend, we made some melted hama (perler) bead bowls! You see, a good friend who stayed with us for the holiday just couldn’t resist mopping my floors and doing some general cleaning, so when she suggested that maybe the kids could do a project, I…
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Lag B’Omer Arrows Craft For Kids (Or Mom……)
This fun arrow craft for kids is an example of a spur of the moment craft that happened at our house today with my six and eight year olds, just in time— just in time for Lag B’Omer that is, phew! Tomorrow night starts the Jewish holiday that celebrates one of our great sages, Rebbi…
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Cellophane Stained Glass Window Craft
Now you too can decorate your windows with colored cellophane and make gorgeous stained glass-like art in just minutes, that cleans up in minutes too! Just before Purim I decided that we needed a little bit of color on our windows, and thanks to this great idea that Tali of matzo soup posted here, I…