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Stamp Pad Leaf Printing: Make A Wall Hanging!
Here's a great nature craft with beautiful results. Use stamp pads to make leaf prints on recycled cereal boxes, or of course any cardboard, and you'll have a bunch of simply beautiful tags that you can string together to make a wall hanging, or hang in a row as a bunting banner, or even use…
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DIY Luminaries from Recycled Cans: Wrap Them With Yarn!
Make some simple DIY luminairies to light up your darkest corners! Look at that gorgeous glow, and it's just a recycled can wrapped in yarn! Can't get much simpler than that. Right, my friends? Use your yarn scraps, a little glue here and there and wrap. If you want some variety in texture, crochet a…
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Winter Craft For Kids: Make Snowflakes From Recycled Cardboard and Yarn!
Yes, a continuation of the snowflake theme! After all, what exactly should a Jewish crafter do this time of year? Winter crafts (for those of us in the Northern hemisphere) sounds good, which means snow, right? How about making some artful snowflakes from cereal boxes and yarn? I like the simplicity of these, but of…
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A Handmade Hanukkah Game: Spinning tops From Plastic Bottle Caps!
Here's a Hanukkah craft that's also a Hanukkah game! Spinning tops are a traditional Hanukkah toy, so what better activity to engage the kids this Hanukkah than with a simple technique for making their own brigade of spinning tops? Honestly, I think this is one of my best ideas ever, because these tops spin so…
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Hanukkah Kid’s Craft: Toilet Paper Tube Party Favors!
Got some reluctant crafters in your home? How about enlisting them to paint the treat holders for Chanukah? I think if there are sweets involved, so they may just be motivated. And if you're gonna give them sweets, so you might as well take advantage of the situation and help your kids build crafting confidence…
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Fun City Scape Blocks That Kids Can Make Themselves!
Aren't these just the cutest? And isn't it great to turn someone else's garbage into something fun and usable? I found these painted wood scraps hanging around in my neighborhood, and quickly collected them to use for a building project with my seven year old son, who isn't such a crafts lover. Then Lilla A.Design…
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Recycle Plastic Bottles & Make Super Cute Apple Shaped Boxes!
Apparently I have apples on the brain, which is not surprising given that Rosh HaShana is just over a week away! Last week I was looking at a plastic bottle and realized that the bottom of those that I have look very much like apples! After some complicated ideas involving spray paint, and only…
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Styrofoam Tray Printing Re-Visited (For Rosh HaShana Cards?)
On a recent visit with some of my nieces and nephews in the US, I was looking for a quick craft project to do with them. Then I spied some styrofoam trays about to go into the garbage, horrors of horrors, so I rescued them and spent half an hour or so teaching the art…
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Make A Cute Model Of Your Dream Vacation Destination! (Using Recycled Materials, Of Course!)
As it turns out, something is in the air, and imaginative little villages of all kinds seem to be sprouting up all over blog land! So you won't be surprised to see that we also made this little village a while back, and have just been waiting for the right time to share it with…
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A Pizza Box Top Robot!
Last week as I was cleaning up after my daughter's birthday pizza party, I was about to throw away the pizza boxes since they seemed to be a bit too soiled to salvage, but then my better sense took a hold of me and I realized that the tops of two of the boxes were…
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More Bead Mosaics On Clear Recycled Lids!
My kids had so much fun making these bead mosaics, out last results here, that they just had to make some more, this time with some summery images! This is one of those projects that can be completed in a fairly short period of time, with great results. Perfect for that small window of…