Cool Confetti Balloons

Today's Craft:

Cool Confetti Balloons

Craft Project Directions:

To make this festive balloons, all you need is the balloons themselves, some confetti, a small funnel or thick paper roll, and materials to decorate the outside of your confetti balloon.

Select a brightballoon and using a small funnel or thick paper roll to stretch the opening of the balloon, insert sparkling confetti.

Add glitter or sequins for some extra sparkle!

Now blow up your balloon and decorate the outside with Happy New Year!, the year, all sorts of colors and designs, or anything you wish.

When the countdown on New Year's Eve reaches Happy New Year pop your balloon and let the confetti fly!

Happy New Year 2010!
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Super Santa Faces

Today's Craft: Super Santa Faces

To create a Super Santa Face, take a paper plate and cut out a large mouth on the lower part of the plate- the plate will form the basis for the face.

Create a beard and hair using cotton balls, draw in eyes and a nose or add them with paper shapes. Add a hat if you wish!

Enjoy Crafting! Merry Christmas!

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Dangling Spiral Christmas Ornament

Today's Craft:

Dangling Spiral Christmas Ornament

Craft Project Directions:

To make this craft project you will need an old colorful christmas card or a stiff piece of paper, scissors, a paper clip, and markers or crayons.

To begin take your card of piece of paper and trim it into a circle shape. Next cut it into a single spiral (use your scissors and start from the outside). Be careful not to cut the spiral too thick or thin.

Now decorate the spiral with your markers or crayons. Add additional decoration like glitter if you like. Let dry and use a paper clip to hang it.

Merry Christmas. Enjoy Crafting!

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Christmas Tree Hat

Todays' Craft: Christmas Tree Hat

Craft Project Directions:
To make this craft project you will need tape, glue, scissors, green construction paper, glitter, colored paper, markers or crayons and a couple of pipecleaners.

To begin, take your piece of green construction paper, bend it into a paper cone large enough to fit on your head, tape it so it will hold its form, and then trim the bottom with your scissors so your hat has a nice edge.

Now you are ready to decorate your tree.

Wrap pipecleaners around the cone for tinsel or lights. Add tiny paper ornament, stickers, and glitter with glue to brighten up your tree. Wear it with pride!

Merry Christmas. Enjoy Crafting!
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Magnificent Menorahs

Todays' Craft: Magnificent Menorahs

Craft Project Directions:

To create a magnificent menorah, cut a menorah shape out of construction paper and arrange it on a background piece of paper. Next cut out candles and flames to add to the menorah and decorate!

Menorah Template

Enjoy Crafting! Happy Hanukkah!

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Make a Magical Latke

Make a Magical Latke

Craft Project Directions:

To make this craft project you will need a paper plate, two craft sticks, tape, string, and brown colored heavier weight paper.

First take the two craft sticks and tape them together to make a longer stick- this will be your frying pan handle. Attach the craft sticks to the paper plate to make a frying pan.

Color, decorate, or wrap the frying pan in colored tissue paper if you wish. Next take a hole punch and poke a hole in the side of the paper plate and tie a legnth of string to it.

Now take the brown paper and cut out a latke shape and punch a hole in it. Attach the string from the paper plate to the paper latke and see how many times in a row you can flip the latke into the frying pan. Enjoy Crafting! Happy Hanukkah!

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Giant Gingerbread House

Giant Gingerbread House

Craft Project Directions:

To make this craft project you will a large cardboard box, colored construction paper, scissors, glue, tape, cotton balls, and markers or crayons.

To begin, take your box and wrap it in brown construction paper. Next take more brown construction paper, roll each piece into a long paper tube, and then stack these paper rolls, securing them together with glue or tape, creating a pyramid shaped roof on top of your box.

Now you have a basic gingerbread house shape to decorate.

Now take your construction paper and cut out a wide variety of shapes- rectangles, squares, triangles, circles, and more.

Glue your shapes onto the house to create windows, a door, candy trimming and decoration, etc. Add cotton balls for further decoration with glue. Let dry.

Enjoy Crafting!

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Candy Cane Reindeer Ornament

Candy Cane Reindeer Ornament

Craft Project Directions:

To make this reindeer ornament you will need a candy cane, two pipe cleaners, a piece of ribbon, and some construction paper.

The candy cane will be the reindeer's head. First take a pipe cleaner and cut it into 2 and 3 inch lengths. Next take another pipe cleaner and bend it into a V.

Twist the smaller pieces of pipe cleaner you cut before around the pipe cleaner V you made to make reindeer antlers.

When you are finished making your antlers, tape to or wind them around the top of your candy cane. Next give your reindeer a face.

Glue on a red nose at the other end of the candy cane and googly eyes or eyes cut out of construction paper about half way up the candycane.

If you want to hang your reindeer on the tree tape or glue a ribbon loop to the top back of the candy cane.

Happy Holidays! Enjoy Crafting!

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Spooky Starchy Ghosts

Today's Craft: Spooky Starchy Ghosts

How to Make this Craft:
To create these great ghosts you will need cheesecloth, liquid starch, heavier weight paper, aluminum foil, pipe cleaners, and tape.

First create a mold to create your ghosts on- take the heavier weight paper and roll it into a cylinder. Trim the length according to how large you want your ghost to be and cut three vertical slits equal distance apart at one end. Fold out the flaps you cut and stand up your cylinder. Tape the flaps to the surface you are working on so your ghost won't topple over. Make two holes opposite each other just below the top of the cylinder and poke a pipe cleaner through. Bend the ends to create outstreched arms.

Next crumble a piece of aluminum foil into a ball (this will form the ghost's head) and place it on top of the cylinder and secure it in place with tape. Next take the cheesecloth and cut it into 6 to 8 sheets for each ghost. Fill a bowl with liquid starch and dip the strips into the starch until they are fully saturated. Next drape them over the ghost mold you created until it is completely covered.

Let your ghost dry. When it is completely dry, remove it from the mold and place in a spooky setting!

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Apple Trees

Apple Trees

How to Make this Craft Project:

repare for a fantastic fall with this apple tree craft. Cut out a solid apple tree trunk, green leaf shapes, and bright red and green apples. Place them on a colored background and create your own apple tree collage.

Apple Tree Template

Craft Stick Water Skier

Craft Stick Water Skier

Craft Project Directions:

To make this craft project you will need pipe cleaners, craft sticks, tape, and a long length of ribbon or string.

To begin take two craft sticks and tape them together, one next to the other lengthwise. Now repeat that process again with another two craft sticks. Set aside. These will become your waterskier's waterskis.

Next take a pipe cleaner, any color, and twist the middle into a loop- this will be your waterskier's head. Wrap the pipe cleaner ends over each other a couple times to create a braided middle under the loop and then separate the ends to form two legs of a triangle. These ends will be your skier's legs. Bend the very end of these up to create feet.

Now take your skis and tape your skier's feet down- one to each ski. Next take another pipe cleaner and cut it in half. Twist one half around the middle of your skier's body- leaving the two ends sticking out to form arms.

Next take a toothpick and tape the pipe cleaner arms to it, so your skier is now holding a handle. Attach a long length of string or ribbon to the handle and your waterski is ready to go skiing!

Enjoy Crafting!
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Bold Bottle People

Today's Craft: Bold Bottle People

Craft Project Directions:

To make an interesting collection of bottle people, you will need a number of old empty bottles - any shape or size - ping-pong balls, glue, string or paper shreds, tissue paper or pieces of cloth, construction paper, scissors, paints, and a paint brush.

To begin, wash out your old bottles completely and let them dry.

Next take a bottle and ping-pong ball and glue the ball to the top of your bottle.

Next take your string or paper shreds and cut, trim, and glue either to the ping-pong ball to create hair.

Next take your tissue paper or cloth and wrap pieces of it around the bottle to create colorful clothing. Add arms cut out of construction paper to your bottle as well (you could also use pipecleaners to create bendable arms).

Now paint the ping-pong ball to create facial features and add other details as you wish.

Enjoy Crafting!

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Delightful Daisies

Today's Craft: Delightful Daisies

Craft Project Directions:

To make this craft project you will need white construction paper, yellow construction paper, a colored pipe cleaner for a stem, scissors, tape, and glue.

To begin take your white construction paper and cut off a small square. Bend it into a small cone. Leave just enough room at the point of the cone to slide a pipe cleaner stem into later.

Tape or glue the cone together so it holds its shape.

Next trim the white paper cone so the top of the cone is level.

Now take your scissors and cut straight into the cone vertical cuts all the way around the cone. The cuts should go the length of the cone, leaving about 1/2 uncut.

Repeat with a second square of white paper.

Now stack your cones one on top and inside the other. Twist the top one so your petals look full all the way around.

Now insert the colored pipe cleaner into the base of the flower and glue or tape it in place.

Next cut out a small yellow circle and tape or glue it to the center of your daisy.

Make a whole bouquet. Enjoy Crafting!

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Delightful Duck Masks

Delightful Duck Masks

Craft Project Directions:
To make this craft project you will need several craft sticks, colored construction paper, yellow and white paper, scissors, feathers (optional),glue, tape, and crayons.

To begin take several craft sticks and tape them together end to end to create a longer craft stick. This will be the holder for your mask.

Next using the the templates at the address below or your own imagination, cut out a delightful duck face and dashing duck bill. Cut the large duck face out of your white construction paper. Or use another color if you prefer!

Be sure to cut out two eyes for you to peer through the mask. Use the picture as a guide.

Next cut out a large dashing duck bill from your yellow construction paper. Next tape or glue the delightful duck bill to the duck's face.

Next tape or glue the craft stick mask holder to the backside of the dashing duck mask.

Be sure leave enough of the craft stick holder stick out at the bottom to hold onto.

Decorate your daring duck mask further with crayons and wear it with style! Enjoy Crafting!

Duck Template 1
Duck Template 2
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Adorable Bat

Today's Craft: An Adorable Bat

Craft Project Directions:
To make this craft project you will need a black cup, some black construction paper, scissors, and either some colored stickers or pieces of colored construction paper, and glue.

To begin, cut out a batwing using the template provided below.

Glue it onto the back of the cup- use the picture as a guide.

Now add a cute bat face with stickers or glue on pieces of colored paper. Let dry.

Enjoy Crafting!

Bat Template
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Magic Genie Puppet

Today's Craft: Magic Genie Puppet

To make this craft project you will need a paper bag (lunch size), scissors, glue, tape, colored construction paper, and crayons.

You could also use additional materials to decorate your Great and Magical Genie paper bag puppet if you wish.

To begin, you will create your Genie's face on the paper bag's bottom and the back side of the paper bag.

In order to create your Genie's face and wild hat, you will need to cut out several pieces from your colored construction paper.

You can create your genie using your own imagination or you can use the templates at the addresses given below.

To begin select the colored papers you want to use to create your genie. Select as many colors as you want.

First cut out the genie's face, eyes, eyebrows, and beard from your colored paper.

Next cut out the genie hat and hat decorations.

Next tape or glue the genie's face onto the bottom of the bag.

Now add the beard to the face with glue or tape.

Next assemble the hat with its decorations and attach it on the Genie's head.

Now glue or tape on the eyes and eyebrows.

Decorate your Genie further with crayons and other materials.

Add colorful jewels to his hat, expression to his eyes, a fantastic mouth, and more!

Add hands and arms to the sides of the bag if you wish.

Use the picture for a guide or just use your own imagination!

Enjoy Crafting!

Genie Template 1
Genie Template 2
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Billy Goat Gruff Mask

Today's Craft: Billy Goat Gruff Mask

Craft Project Directions:
To make this craft project you will need several craft sticks, off-white construction paper, white construction paper, scissors, glue, tape, and crayons.

To begin take several craft sticks and tape them together end to end to create a longer craft stick. This will be the holder for your mask.

Next using the the templates at the address below or your own imagination, cut out a large goat face, two goat horns, a small off-white rectangle, and two goat ears.

Cut the goat face, small rectangle, and the goat ears out of your off-white construction paper.

Cut the goat horns out of your white construction paper.

Next attach the goat ears on either side of the goat face with tape or glue. Attach the horns to the top. Fringe the rectangle by cutting vertically into it and curling the strips with your scissors. Use the picture as a guide.

Next tape or glue the craft stick mask holder to the goat up the backside center of the mask. Be sure leave enough of the craft stick holder stick out at the bottom to hold onto.

Now cut out two large eyes from the mask using your scissors. You will be able to peer through the mask through the eye holes.

Decorate your goat further with crayons and wear it with style! Enjoy Crafting!

Goat Mask Template

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Fabulous Fruit Printing

Fabulous Fruit Printing

Create fantastic print using paint and common fruits!

Craft Project Directions:
To make this craft project you will need paint, paper, a large brush, a knife to cut your fruit, and some newspaper for your work area.

To begin select a piece of fruit that you would like to make a print with- perhaps an apple, a pear, a lemon, or even something like a mushroom!

Cut the selected fruit in half with your knife. Next take your brush and paint the half of the fruit.

Now press the half down on the piece of paper you wish to create your print on.

Make as many prints on the piece of paper as you want. Let dry and you will have a fabulous print. You can also make gift wrap this way!

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Letter D becomes a Drum

Today's Craft: Letter D becomes a Drum

Craft Project Directions:
To make this craft project you will need colored construction paper, scissors, glue, and markers or crayons. To begin, cut your scissors and cut out a large letter D and a smaller letter D. Glue them to a background piece of paper creating a drum- use the picture as a guide. Next decorate more with markers or crayons, add more drum sticks and more. Enjoy Crafting!

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Paper Curl Turtle

Today's Craft: Paper Curl Turtle

Craft Project Directions:

To make this craft project you will need colorful construction paper, scissors, a pencil, and glue.

To begin cut a large or small turtle shape, using the template provided. Next cut out a lot small thin (about 1/4 inch wide and a few inches long) strips of colored paper.

Take one of the strips and wrap it tightly around your pencil to curl it. Unwrap, dip the edges in glue and add it to your turtle shell. Keep repeating this process until your turtle's shell is covered and you have a delightfully dimensional turtle.

Now decorate the rest of your turtle with your markers or crayons.

Turtle Template
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Piano Soap

Today's Craft: Piano Soap

Craft Project Directions:

To make this craft project you will need a rectangular bar of soap, a knife to carve the soap, three pins with large heads for legs.

Carve the soap so it curves like a grand piano and then insert the pins in the underside to make piano legs.

Next carve the soap in half at the large end to create a row of piano keys and then add details with a sharp pointed stick.

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Your Very Own Dalmation

Today's Craft: Your Very Own Dalmation

Cut out a great white dog using the template provided.

If you want to create a picture, select a colored background piece of paper to attach him to and either glue or tape him to it.

If you want a pup with legs that move cut out your dog using the same template but cut out the bottom or the dog smooth, cut out four dog legs and attach them to your pup with brass fasteners.

Next cut out a variety of black dog spots and decorate your Dalmation!

Dalmation Template
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Free Standing Sculptures

Today's Craft: Free Standing Sculptures

Craft Project Directions:
To create free-standing sculpture, mold sections of aluminum foil around craft sticks for support and attach the pieces together with tape.

Cover the sections in tissue paper to make it bright and colorful and decorate it according to how you want it to look. Create figures, animals, abstract objects- you decide!

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Cool Crystal Painting

Today's Craft: Cool Crystal Painting

Craft Project Directions:

To make this craft project you will need watercolors, a paintbrush, a paintbrush, some plastic wrap, water, and some drawing paper or watercolor paper.

You can also try the same process with foil, bubble wrap, or wax paper.

To begin take a piece of paper and cover it with water with your brush. Now add all different colors until your paper is covered with lots of colorful paint.

Now, crumple up a piece of plastic wrap, (or bubble paper or foil, or wax paper) and place it down on top of your paper so it bunches up and cover it.

Now leave your creation to dry over night. When you remove the plastic wrap in the morning, you will have a great crystal painting.

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Very Cool Viking Helmets

Today's Craft: Very Cool Viking Helmets

Craft Project Directions:

Cut a strip of poster and make a band that will fit around your head. Staple it in place.

Next cut another strip of poster board about 20 inches long and make one end of it pointed. Attach the ends of this strip to the head band you created to form a bow over the top. Let the pointed end hang down a bit over the front edge of the band to create a nose guard- staple in place if you wish.

Add tin foil horns to either side of the helmet. Now cover the helmet skeleton with foil to finish your helmet.

Enjoy Crafting! Learn more about the Vikings

Super Simple Squirrel

Today's Craft:
A Super Simple Squirrel
Do you like woodland creatures ? Are you captivated by squirrels, chipmunks, and the like. If you do you are sure to enjoy this simple animal craft project. You can make a super simple squirrel from a paper bag and a pinecone.

Craft Project Directions:
To make this craft project you will need a paper bag (lunch bag size), a pine cone, a piece of ribbon, brown construction paper, scissors, glue, tape, scrap papers, and crayons.

To begin, open the paper bag and stuff it most of the way full with old paper scraps. You could use an old newspaper.

Next fold over the opening of the bag so it becomes a flat rectangle and tape it shut. Make sure that this end is flat, otherwise your squirrel won't stand up straight.

Next take a piece of colorful ribbon and tie it tightly around the bag about 2/3 of the way up from the bottom. This will differentiate your squirrel's head from his body.

Tie the ribbon with a nice bow in the front. Now cut out 4 very simple squirrel arms and legs. You can cut just very basic shapes - small rectangles with curved ends. Tape or glue them onto the bottom and sides of the paper bag.

Next cut out two squirrel ears and tape or glue them onto the top of the squirrel's head.
Next take your pinecone and attach it to the back side of the paper bag to make a great tail for your squirrel! Tape or glue it in place.

Now decorate your squirrel's face, adding great facial features. When you are finished, place him some place special!

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Sparkling Star Suncatcher

Today's Craft: Sparkling Star Suncatcher

Craft Project Directions:

To make this project you will need wax paper, colorful construction paper, an iron, scissors, crayons, glue, and a crayon sharpener.

Take two pieces of colored construction paper. Draw an star pattern using the template provided and cut it out of the construction paper so you have two identical star shapes. Cut out the center of the star shapes leaving about 3/4 inch border around the outside. This border will frame your star.

Now take the piece of wax paper and fold it in half. Using the shape pattern you already have draw an star shape which is about 1/2 inch larger all the way around. Seperate the wax paper star and cover one with crayon shavings.

Place the wax star half with the crayon on a towel and place the other wax star over it so the shapes match up and iron them together so the crayon melts.

Now take your star frame and attach one half to each side of the wax paper fish. Punch a hole in the top, add a piece of ribbon or string, and hang someplace special. Enjoy Crafting!

Star Template

Teddy Bear Bookmark

Today's Craft: Teddy Bear Bookmark

These cute teddy bears will hold your place in your book until you return!

Create all different kinds of teddy bears for your bookmark.

Craft Project Directions: To make this craft project you will need colored construction paper, a colorful pipe cleaner, scissors, crayons, and other materials to decorate your cute teddy bear bookmark.

To begin cut out a simple teddy bears using the picture provided as a guide or create teddy bear of your own using your imagination. You could also use the template at the address below.

Select a colorful pieces of construction paper and cut out the teddy bears. The color you choose will be the dominant color of your bears. You could also use a heavier weight piece of paper if you wish to make a more sturdy bookmark.

Decorate your teddy bears. Add facial features, clothes, and any else you want.

Next take a colorful pipe cleaner and thread the teddy bears through the pipe cleaner to create a cute bookmark. Alternately you could tape or glue the teddy bears along one side of the pipe cleaner. Let the bookmark dry.

Now use your teddy bear bookmark to hold your place as you read or give it to someone special.

Teddy Bear Bookmark Template

Enjoy Crafting!

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Colorful Bottle Xylophone

Today's Craft:

Colorful Bottle Xylophone

Craft Project Directions:

To make this colorful xylophone you will need 6 or 8 glass jars or bottles, some food coloring, water, and a spoon.

Take your jars, line them up in a row, and fill each jar with a different amount of water in consecutive order. Add color to your instrument by adding drops of different food coloring to each jar.

Tap lightly on the side of each jar to test the sound- add or subtract water to change the sounds you can make. You can also add more bottles to create more notes.

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Fabulous Frog Catching a Fly!

Today's Craft:

Fabulous Frog Catching a Fly!

Craft Project Directions:

To make this craft project you will need a paper cup, green tissue paper, tape, a red pipe cleaner, black construction paper, white paper, green construction paper scissors, glue, and crayons.

To begin, take your tissue paper and cut a long rectangular piece. Wrap this piece around your paper cup completely covering the outside. Tape or glue the tissue paper so it won't shift.

Flip your cup upside down and set aside. This will be your frog's body.

Next cut out some fabulous frog legs for your frog. You can use your own imagination or the templates provided at the address below. Cut out the frog legs from green construction paper- make sure you cut out four of them. Attach the large ones to the sides of your cup and the small ones to the front. Use the picture as a guide.

Also cut out a large and wide triangle for your frog's mouth. Tape or glue the mouth in the center of the frog. Cut some large frog eyes from the white paper and attach them to the front of the cup.

Next take your black construction paper and white paper and cut out a very simple black bug body and white bug wings. Assemble your bug and set it aside.

Next take your red pipe cleaner and cut it in half. Attach the bug to one end and attach the other end to the frog's mouth in its center. This will be your frog's tongue.

Twist the pipe cleaner so it looks like the bug is flying past your frog.Now decorate your frog further with crayons. Add more facial features and decorations- whatever you wish!

Enjoy Crafting!

Frog Template

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Lovely Log Rafts

Today's Craft: Lovely Log Rafts

Craft Project Directions:

You could make this craft using real twigs for logs or make logs out of paper. We'll provide directions using paper but feel free to improvise and use twigs so you can float your raft in water.

You will need brown construction paper, craft sticks, a piece of white paper, and tape. Take the brown construction paper and fold it in half and in half again. Unfold the paper and cut it along the folds.

Take the four pieces of paper and roll them into logs and tape them in place. Create as many logs as you want to use on your raft.

Improvise and make logs of different lengths if you wish. Bind the logs together with tape to create a raft. Insert a craft stick in the center pointing upwards for a mast. Lay logs on either side of it to help support it.

Next create a sail for your raft with a white piece of paper. Trim it so it is an appropriate rectangle size for your raft. Cut a horizontal slit at the top and the bottom of the sail about one inch from the edge and slip it over the craft stick. Bow out the paper so it looks like wind it catching your sail. Decorate as you wish.

Enjoy Crafting!

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Ladybug Paperweights

Today's Craft: Ladybug Paperweights!

Transform round rocks into delightful lady bugs with a little bit of paint and a soft felt bottom!

Craft Project Directions:

To create these delightful lady bug paper weights, you will need a round rock, white, red and black paint, a small piece of felt, glue, scissors, and a paintbrush. If you want to add additional features, you can also use pipe cleaners and small googly eyes.

To begin select your rock, it should be round and have a flat bottom surface. Clean the rock and let it dry. Next paint the top end of the rock black for the ladybug's head and the rest of the rock red. Let it dry and then add simple lines to make wings, black spots, and white lady bug eyes. Let your ladybug dry.

You could also glue googly eyes instead of painting eyes on your ladybug and attach short sections of black pipe cleaners with glue to make antennae.

When your ladybug is dry, cut out a small felt piece the size of the flat part of the rock's bottom and an glue it in place. This will keep your ladybug from scratching the surface you rest it on.

Enjoy Crafting!

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Carousel Horses

Today's Craft: Carousel Horses

Craft Project Directions: Create a cool carousel horse of your own! Cut out a horse using the template provided, attach a pipe cleaner with tape to what will be the back side of the horse, and bend the ends of the pipe cleaner. Decorate your carousel horse with bright carousel colors, add paper shreds for a mane, and anything else you want! Enjoy Crafting!

Horse Template

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Cotton-Pickin' Pussy Willows

Today's Craft:

Cotton-Pickin' Pussy Willows

To make these delightful pussy willows you will need some colored construction paper, cottom swabs, glue and markers or crayons. Select a piece of colored construction paper and hold it so it is wider than it is tall. Draw vertical 'squiggly lines' on the paper to create your pussy willows. Next take your cotton swabs, break them in half, and glue them along the lines! Enjoy Crafting!

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Lively Lambs Craft

Today's Craft:

Lively Lamb Craft


Craft Project Directions:

To make this craft project you will need a paper or stryofoam cup, cotton balls, black construction paper, glue, scissors, white paper, and crayons. To begin, cut out a very basic lamb's head from your black construction paper. Use the picture as a guide. Next cut out a narrow black construction paper strip about three inches long. Tape it to the back of the lamb's head you just cut out. Now take your cup and flip it over. Tape the other end of the black construction paper strip (the one that isn't attached to the lamb's head)to the top of the cup. Now cut out some very simple and small rectangle strips from the black construction paper. Tape or glue these strips so they stick out from under the paper cup and look like little lamb's feet. Use the picture as a guide. Now you are ready to decorate your lively little lamb! Cover your cup with glue and stick on fluffy white cotton balls. Add eyes and any other features to the head, and anything else you want. Let your lamb dry and place him someplace special. Enjoy Crafting!

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An Inviting Easter Envelope

Today's Craft: An Inviting Easter Envelope

Craft Project Directions:

To make this project you will need an envelope, a pipe cleaner, and some yellow, orange, and other colored crayons.

First turn your envelope over and fold up the flap. Draw two eyes at the top of the point and a beak for your bird just below.

Next draw in the outline of wings along the envelope creases.

Now take your pipe cleaner and bend it into a V. Trim about an inch piece off the end of each V and wind the pieces around the ends to create three-pointed chicken feet. Tape the top bend of the V on the bottom of the other side of the envelope to create feet for your bird.

Now you are ready to decorate your bird- color him yellow, add orange to the beak, big bright eyes- even real feathers if you want.

Next take a small piece of white paper that will fit in the envelope and write a little note or greeting to send to someone special.

Enjoy Crafting!

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Leprechaun Masks

(Look at Finished Mask)
Todays' Craft: Leprechaun Masks
Have you ever wanted to be a leprechaun? Here's your chance!

Craft Project Directions: Let's make a Leprechaun mask. You will need a paper plate, some craft sticks to make a handle to hold your mask, some orange paper shreds or orange crepe paper, and some colored construction paper to make a hat for the leprechaun. First cut out eye holes and a mouth from the paper plate to make a face that you can see through. Tape two craft sticks together and tape the stick to the side of the mask to make a handle to hold up your mask. Cut out a leprechaun hat from colored construction paper to attach to the top of the mask, using the template provided or your own imagination. Now you are ready to decorate your mask! Add fun facial features, orange hair and a beard, shamrocks and a gold buckle to the hat and let your mask dry. Enjoy Crafting!

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Great Green Goo for You! in Honor of Dr. Seuss

Today's Craft:

Great Green Goo for You! in Honor of Dr. Seuss

To make this craft project, follow the recipe below.

First, you will need the following ingredients:

7-8 ounces of white glue
Green Food coloring (if you want to make green)
1 cup of water
Borax

How to Put It All Together:

Mix together the glue, green food coloring, and 3/4 cup of water in a mixing bowl. Take another bowl and mix together 1 tablespoon of borax and 1/4 cup of water. Add the borax mixture to the glue mixture until a goo blob forms. Remove the goo blob. Repeat the process with another borax mixture and keep repeating until the glue mixture is gone. When you are finished, knead the blobs of goo together and store in an airtight container. Take out and play! Enjoy Crafting!

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Leprechaun Trap : Simple Box Trap

Today's Craft:

Leprechaun Trap~ a Simple Box Trap

Sometimes the simplest trap works the best - here's a classic Leprechaun trap!

Craft Project Directions: To make this project you will need a small box, green and yellow construction paper, foil, glue, tape, scissors, a small stick or pencil, sometimes to entice the leprechaun like Lucky Charms, gold coins, tiny furniture, a free gold sign, etc. To begin take your box and cover it with green paper. Next cut out tiny shamrocks and gold coins from your construction paper and jewel shapes from your foil and glue them on the outisde of the box to decorate it. Next decide where you want to place your trap. Once you have the perfect location, take your pencil or small stick and prop up your box with it so the box will fall down and trap the leprechaun if it is knocked into by the leprechaun. Under the box place your leprechaun bait - a small cup filled with lucky charms, a tiny chair, etc. Good Luck!

Happy St. Patrick's Day. Enjoy Crafting!

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Snowman to Melt Your Heart

Today's Craft: Snowman to Melt Your Heart

Create a Snowman which will melt your heart - great anytime and perfect for Valentine's Day

Craft Project Directions: To make this craft project you will need white paper, a background piece of paper, scissors, markers, glue, and cotton balls. To begin take your white paper and cut out three circles of increasingly larger sizes. Assemble them on your paper to create a snowman and glue them in place. Next take a red marker and color a large red heart for your snowman. Add a face and buttons as well. Next glue on white cotton balls to make your snowman soft and fluffy. Let dry and give as a Valentine or hang someplace special.

Enjoy Crafting! & Happy Valentine's Day

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Easy Paper Lanterns

Today's Craft: Easy Paper Lanterns

Craft Project Directions: To make this craft project you will need colorful construction paper, scissors, a stapler, and markers. To begin take a piece of paper and fold it in half. Now hold the paper so the fold is facing you. Next take your scissors and make vertical cuts all along the fold leaving an inch at either end and about 1/2 inch between cuts. Next unfold the paper and bend into a roll lengthwise and staple the top edge together and the bottom edge together to create your paper lantern. Next take another piece of construction and cut a paper strip to staple to the top of your lantern as a holder. Decorate more with markers if you wish.

Enjoy Crafting! & Happy Chinese New Year!

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