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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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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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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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Kid’s Craft For Passover: Fun Pop Art Inspired Signs From Recycled Boxes!
Translation of Hebrew: Floor Shampoo (top) Cleaned For Passover (bottom) Pop art inspired signs made from kid friendly gouche and corrugated cardboard are the perfect Passover craft to keep the kids busy right about now! Kids love making signs, which are especially useful during the process of getting the house ready for Passover, as they…
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Make T-Shirt Yarn From Your Kid’s Old T-Shirts!
What does any obsessed crafter do in the middle of her intense top to bottom house cleaning in preparation for the holiday of Passover? Why of course, she gathers up all those old shirts that she wouldn't want her kids to be caught wearing out of the house, and she uses them to make t-shirt…
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Cereal Box Gift Bags With Stamped Patterns For All Ages!
Aren't these cereal box gift bags wonderful? And while we made these for Purim, they're great year round to use for gifts or even as fun catchalls. And they can look super regardless of the artistic skill of the child or adult making them! These were made by 1st and 2nd graders, or rather the…
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Toilet Paper Roll Dolls For Purim!
This week my 3rd to 6th grade girls at Crafting A Future learned how to make sweet dolls from toilet paper tubes, and the results are so much fun! And of course, just in time for Purim, so most of the girls made tp tube dolls which represent Queen Esther and Mordechai. And in case…
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Tissue Paper Collage Cannisters
This is a kid’s craft that is just in time for Purim, using recycled oatmeal cans to make gift baskets.
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Tissue Paper Collage Clown Craft For Purim!
This week's art lessons for kids was all about tissue paper collage. For five plus hours there were previously art deprived kids at my long dining room table creating all kinds of projects using tissue paper and watered-down glue for the first time in their lives! A great feeling and something I hope to do…
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Make A Mask For Purim From A Round Piece Of Cardboard
This week at Crafting A Future, after my 1st and 2nd grade students made clowns and cats and buterflies and fish with woven paper bodies, I gave the 4th-6th grade group the challenge of making a decorative mask for Purim, starting with a round piece of cardboard, which is actually half of a recycled frozen…
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Weaving Paper Strips And Making Decorations For Purim
Yesterday at Crafting A Future I welcomed several groups of girls and a group of boys into my home for some more art lessons, and we had a great time! With the 1st , 2nd and 3rd grade girls we made woven elipses from recycled cardboard, and then turned those into fish, (for the month…