Food: Fuel up with with some Root Beer Floats Make these fun Cake Roll Cars. Stick 2 pretzels into the side of a cake roll. Add mini marshmallows for the wheels and m&m candies for the lights. Cake: Here’s a change from cupcakes to donuts. These are Donut Tire Cakes, these won’t taste like rubber! Games: Racing Cars – Set up this paper tube race car track to race 2 toy cars....
Get the kids super excited for the holiday season with today’s easy Popsicle Stick Christmas Trees Kid Craft. Kids will love making and decorating their own tree, while moms {and dads} will enjoy the beautiful end result! Wondering where to begin? Grab the supplies listed below and follow our simple step-by-step tutorial to create some one-of-a-kind pieces with your child today! Happy crafting my friends! How-to: Popsicle Stick Christmas Trees Supplies: Jumbo Popsicle Sticks {3 per Christmas tree} School Glue Brown Cardstock Green Decorative Scrapbook Paper Green Craft Paint Paint Brush Small Rhinestones Scissors...
The Wonderful Colorful Wonder Wheel of Color shows you how to pick, use, and mix colors. It includes fun activities to experiment with color and shows you how to make colorful crafty clothes, accessories, and decor. Many of the pages are for the kids to fill in their own color with different materials. It’s a perfect book for some colorful summer fun! Want more colorful kids ideas? See our color crafts here:...
Supplies: Bed sheet or duvet cover Scissors or rotary cutter and mat Iron Sewing machine and thread (with buttonhole stitch) Instructions: Lay your sheet and shower curtain out on the floor and measure your curtain shower curtain. I imagine they’re pretty standard, so you could also use my curtain’s dimensions, which are 70″ by 70″. Then add a little for the hems. I added two inches on each side, three inches on top, and eight inches on the bottom....
There are ideas for invitations, fun food, silly games, and a craft for the grads to go home with. Celebrate Graduation Day Invitations: Once you have printed out your invitations with the time, date and place of the party, roll each one up and tie around a red ribbon, making it resemble a diploma. You can add a fun apple print tag to the invitation to give it some flare....
Thanks so very much to Marie for inviting me to to do a guest post on her blog today! I share my daily creative adventures as a Jewish mom living in Israel over at creativejewishmom.com and would love to “see” you there! I’m so happy to be sharing with all of you this fun project for the upcoming holiday of Pesach (Passover), which starts after sundown on the evening of March 29th....
Minecraft Food Crafts: 1. Minecraft Creeper Pizza: Design your own delicious Minecraft pizza masterpiece! Get the recipe from Catch My Party. 2. Minecraft Rice Krispy Treats: Nerdy Nummies shows us how to make these tasty Minecraft crispy treats in this fun video. Super cute and yummy! Minecraft Creeper Munch: Your kids can munch on this yummy snack while playing Minecraft! Get the recipe from Simplistically Living. Minecraft Cake: Build this awesome Minecraft cake from Craftser....
Supplies for Holiday Tinsel Wreath: a tinsel garland – any color foam wreath form tape bells on a string or tied with thread – optional Start by placing tape onto one end of your tinsel garland. Attach it to your foam wreath form. Wrap your tinsel garland around and around the wreath. Using your tape, attach it at the end of the garland and press it onto your wreath. You should be able to move your tinsel over the tape once it’s secured, hiding the tape....
9 Kid-Made Ornament Ideas Lollipop Photo Ornament Craft For Kids: Just a few popsicle sticks, paint, and glitter are all you need for this keepsake photo ornament! Too cute. (via I Heart Arts n Crafts) Easy Tin Foil Christmas Tree Ornaments: These foil Christmas tree ornaments are easy for kids of all ages to make, Simple, inexpensive and very colourful, these ornaments will catch everyone’s eye. Kid Made Wreath Ornaments with Paper Straws: This ornament is the perfect fine motor craft for little hands!...
I’ve even seen this done with hamburger buns too, flipping the outsides in! As you can see, you can’t tell the difference. And with that Kraft Singles cheese oozing out the middle, my kids are none the wiser, eating them with continued happiness. Hooray! What ingredients are in your favorite Grilled Cheese Recipe? Can your share your secrets, or are you saving them for next year’s Grilled Cheese Invitational?
Supplies: Punching Awl Pattern for Flag to punch: Download this step by step pattern and instructions, then print it out: flag-card-pattern.pdf Cork board: For punching holes in card – found at kitchen or office store (try a cork hot plate) Thread: I usually use DMC floss, with all six strands Needle: Cross-stitch needle #26 for 18-22 count fabric Cardstock: white piece, accent color piece, folded card piece Envelope: white envelope that measures, 4 ½ “ x 5 ¾ “ Glue: Glue stick, glue dots, spray glue is recommended...
I like a thin crust and this Tortilla Pizza hits the spot. I love pepperoni, but not a lot of cheese, so this is my kind of pizza. I pop it in my toaster oven and it is done in about 2 minutes. How easy is that? Tortilla Pizza Recipe Ingredients: tortillas pizza sauce shredded mozzarella optional toppings: pepperoni, veggies, sliced meat Method: If you don’t have a toaster oven, simply heat your oven to 400* and cook it in your regular oven, but watch that it doesn’t burn, these are thin and will cook fast....
Really, so many amazing crafts to creative. My kids are in heaven!! They can’t decide which craft to make first – button rings, paper fan, paper cone Jawas, or cardboard tube Ewoks!
I’ve partnered with RITZ and their new Fresh Stacks for today’s snack! These new packs are the perfect size for a quick snack. Now you don’t have to open up an entire roll of crackers, letting them get stale. With these crackers in a shorter smaller pack, they are the perfect size for on the go snacking, just what I’m always looking for! (SCROLL DOWN TO PRINT RECIPE) RITZ crackers – 2 crackers per snack cream cheese jam – any flavor...
You can’t have the holidays without a few baked treats in the mix. We’re making fun and festive Crescent Roll Christmas Trees for a delicious dessert. These are a perfect treat to make as you decorate your Christmas tree or after you head out with the family on an ice skating adventure! Crescent Roll Christmas Tree Treats (SCROLL DOWN TO PRINT RECIPE) We’ve also created these bread dough wreath balls and trees for the holidays....
I’m happy to share we’re partnering with Consumer Crafts for a week’s worth of crochet projects. Head over to ConsumerCrafts.com to buy all your yarn supplies for our Crochet-A-Day projects. They make it super simple to order online and have loads of yarn and supplies on hand. I’ve shared how to crochet a chain stitch snake with a hook which is also a fun and super simple project. But we thought we’d switch it up a little by changing our technique, using a finger crochet method....
You can use any yarn you have on hand, use up those scraps. We’ve done this before with simple chain stitch wrapping ribbon, making chain stitch necklaces too, but I love adding the hearts for Valentines. See our pattern for a crochet heart and crochet heart necklace too! Supplies: (SCROLL TO PRINT PATTERN for Crochet Heart Chain Stitch Ribbon) yarn crochet hook (G, H or I) scissors crochet needle treat bag filled with goodies!...
I love Valentine’s Day! Love is in the air everywhere. What better way to send a “love note” than by a sweet Love Bird. My boys and I got February off to a good start by making these sweet and easy Love Birds. This craft is easy and perfect for young crafters (and older ones too!). Read on for the full tutorial. Bird Necessities: One medium red pom pom ball One small red pom pom ball 2 googly eyes 1 mini clothes pin Red felt for wings and tail yellow or orange paper for bird beak optional: heart...
For our Outer Space Bookmarks craft, it was inspired by the children’s book series of Ricky Ricotta’s Might Robot by Dav Pilkey, knowing Dad can read these with the kids! My son has read most of the Ricky Ricotta’s books and loves them! And now my daughter is on her way through the series. Each book is a new adventure throughout the galaxy – fun for the whole family....
Hi everyone! My name is Cindy and you can find me over at Skip to my Lou. I blog about crafts, sewing, crochet and recipes. I hope you will come visit me if you are looking for more fun crafts and activities. Happy to be here for the Make and Takes summer series Get Out and Play! DIY God’s Eye Yarn Art Supplies: yarn two wooded sticks the same length....
