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Rainbow Loom Pencil Toppers: Koala Bear, Angry Bird, Puppy & Owl!
Here at creativejewishmom.com headquarters we just love the rainbow loom and all amazing things one can make. My daughter made these adorable pencil toppers (using tutorials that we found on You Tube,) as a birthday present for her younger brother, and they were a great hit! Between you and me, my kids don't generally have…
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Dancing Numbers Birthday Card Craft For Kids
Here's another cute and simple homemade birthday card (the ONLY way to go!) craft idea for kids — dancing numbers! I came up with this one last week for my very unenthused (sigh) when it comes to crafting 10 year old, and he ended up taking the paper with him to make the card in…
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Bunch Of Balloons Birthday Card Craft For Kids
Isn't this bunch of balloons birthday card just the cutest? Best of all, my 11 year old daughter made it for her brother, thus keeping up my family tradition of making birthday cards. I'll admit I did give her the idea of making a bunch of balloons, and adding actual strings, but that was my…
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Welcome To Craft Schooling Sunday!
Welcome to Craft Schooling Sunday! I hope those who celebrated Shavuot had a wonderful holiday! Last week's contributors were from all kinds of places, spanning the globe! The United States, Guatemala, Portugal, The UK, The Netherlands, Sweden, Hungary, Bulgaria, Germany, Italy, Macedonia, Indonesia, and Australia! (Hope I didn't miss anyone.) I don't know about you,…
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Bear Birthday Cake — Cute And Simple, For Those Who’d Rather Be Crafting!
My baby turned nine last week, which is still young enough I think to get away with making a cute little teddy bear birthday cake —namely the kind of cake for those of us who don't have the skills or desire for piped icing and hours spent in the kitchen when we'd rather be making…
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Rolled Felt Loopy (And Not So Loopy) Flowers Mirror Craft For Kids
This week at Crafting A Future, while some of the girls used their egg carton flowers to decorate mirrors, others ditched the egg carton flowers alltogether and made these sweet rolled felt flowers to decorate their mirrors. This would be a perfect little project for a Bat Mitzvah, or a birthday party, and hey even…
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Egg Carton Flower Bouquet Craft For Kids
How about getting the kids busy making a simply sweet egg carton flower bouquet, just in time for Shavuot, or some other festive occasion? Egg carton flowers are so fun to make, and even if a child only has the patience to make a few, (which was the case here) with some skewers and craft…
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Welcome To Craft Schooling Sunday!
Welcome to Craft Schooling Sunday! With the holiday of Shavuot coming up on Tuesday night there are lots of preparations to be made, fortunately between me handling the greenery and crafting and my daughter handling the cheesecakes, I think we’ll fit everything in. Hmmm, we could use someone to handle the laundry and ironing…….then again…
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Newsprint Paper Flowers With Crepe Paper Center Tutorial
Festive, budget friendly and simple to make are how I'd describe these newsprint paper flowers that I whipped up the other day as last minute centerpieces. And since newsprint is used rather than tissue paper or crepe paper, the bottom layers of the flower retain their petal shapes and make a nice sturdy base, enabling…
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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,…
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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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Welcome To Craft Schooling Sunday!
A fun stenciled jar from mod podge rocks (USA) and a stenciled terra cotta pot from organized 31 (USA) Welcome to Craft Schooling Sunday! Last week's party was filled with amazing projects from around the world, thanks so much for joining me here! Love this amazing park bench cover from my world of colours (Germany)…
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Washi Tapes Flags To Have On Hand For Summer Entertaining!
I just love how these little washi tape flags turned out, and have been enjoying looking at them for a few weeks….I think I'll use them for the upcoming holiday of Shavuot, to decorate a cheesecake or even a fresh fruit platter. And, not only are these washi tape flags something one can whip up…
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Into The Woods……To Witness The Natural Delights Of Late Spring!
A pomegranite tree in bloom in my neighbor's yard. Gorgeous orange-red flowers and the beginnings of tiny fruit. Last week I took a walk with my 8 and 10 year old boys to the nearby forrest, and of course I grabbed my camera in order to document some of the wonderful sights here in Northern…
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Crocheted Jar Toppers Transform Recycled Jars Into Adorable Containers!
Whip up a few crocheted jar toppers and transform recycled glass jars into fun storage containers! I've been using these to store my small collection of washi tape, but truthfully have loved just looking at them! I use others for keeping small change or other little items that find their way into the kitchen.
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Welcome To Craft Schooling Sunday!
Welcome to Craft Schooling Sunday! Last week's party was packed with amazing inspiration from contributors from around the world: Israel, Italy, India, Pakistan, Slovenia, Bulgaria, Romania, Germany, The Netherlands, Sweden, Portugal, Spain, The United Kingdom, The United States, Australia and Indonesia! (And of course there are regular contributors from South Africa, Denmark, Muldavia, Madcedonai, and…
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Homemade Bagels!
What kind of a creative jewish mom would I be if I didn't try my hand at homemade bagels? Truthfully, before this blog was born I did actually bake bagels a few times as we had just moved from Jerusalem (where American style bagels are aplenty) to Northern Israel (where at the time American style…
