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 orthick paper roll, and materials to decorate the outside of your confetti balloon.

Select a bright balloon 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 decoratethe 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!

Enjoy Crafting!
Happy New Year!
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Cool Snowman Hat

Today's Craft:

Cool Snowman Hat

Craft Project Directions:
To make this craft project you will need cotton balls, glue, tape, scissors, large white construction paper, red crepe paper, orange and black paper, markers, and white tissue paper.

To begin take a piece of white paper, bend it into a cone shape -leaving a large opening in the top, and tape it so it holds its shape.

Next take your scissors and trim the bottom edges so they are smooth, level, and even. This is your basic hat.

Next take some tissue paper, crumble it into a ball, cover it with another piece of tissue paper so it is smooth, and tape it. Insert the ball in the top of cone so it rests on top forming your snowman's head and glue or tape it in place.

Now you are ready to decorate your snowman. Cut a length of red crepe paper and wrap it around your snowman for a scarf. Next add black construction paper eyes, buttons, and smile. Add an orange carrot nose. Let dry and wear with style.

Enjoy Crafting!
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Super Sock Snowman

Super Sock Snowman

Craft Project Directions:
To make this super snowman you will need a white sock, cotton balls, tissue paper, black felt, a fabric strip, ribbon, and pom poms.

Take your white sock and stuff it with tissue paper up to the ankle of the sock. Roll down the top of the sock to create a hat for your snowman.

Next take a fabric strip or a piece of decorative ribbon and tie it underneath the heel of the sock to make your snowman's head.

Now cut eyes, a mouth, and buttons out of the black felt and a carrot nose out of orange felt and glue them on your snowman.

Next add a pom pom to the top of your snowman's hat. Glue it in place. Place your snowman someplace special.

Enjoy Crafting! Merry Christmas!
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Paper Bag Reindeer

Today's Craft:

Paper Bag Reindeer

Craft Project Directions:
For your paper bag reindeer, you'll need to cut out 2 reindeer antlers, two reindeer legs with hooves, two eyes, and a red nose (you can use the template or create your own shapes).

Create your reindeer's face on the bag's bottom, add the antlers and tail to the back side of the bag and the legs with hooves to the front.

Decorate your reindeer further with spots, paper shreds, crayons, or other materials.

Enjoy Crafting! Merry Christmas!
Reindeer Template
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Pine Cone Elves

Today's Craft:

Pine Cone Elves

Craft Project Directions:
To make this craft project you will need some small round pine cones, white glue, scissors, pipecleaners, markers, yarn, colored construction paper, acorns or very small foam balls, a paintbrush, paint, and cotton or felt.

To begin, flatten the top of a pine cone by pressing it into the table. Next glue a small foam ball or acorn on the top to create your elf's head. Now wrap a pipecleaner around the upper part of the cone to create arms, and around the bottom part of the cone to create legs. Now decorate your elf ~ add cotton ball hair, a small felt hat and boots or mittens (you could also make these out of colored construction paper)~ use your imagination or use the picture as a guide.

Merry Christmas! Enjoy Crafting!
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Candy Cane North Pole

Today's Craft:

Candy Cane North Pole

Craft Project Directions:
To make this craft project you will need a white egg cup from an egg carton (or just any egg cup and some paint to paint it white), a candy cane, scissors, markers, a piece of white paper, and some cotton balls.

To begin trim your egg cup so it lies straight and level.

Poke a small hole in the top center and slide the candy cane into it to create a pole standing up straight.

Next cut out an arrow sign (use the picture as a guide) and write North Pole on it. Attach the sign near to the top of the candy cane.

Add cotton ball snow around and on the egg cup.

Merry Christmas! Enjoy Crafting!
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Easy and Adorable Reindeer

Today's Craft:

Easy and Adorable Reindeer

Craft Project Directions:
To make this craft project you will need brown and red construction paper, a brown paper plate, glue, crayons or markers, and scissors.

To begin, cut out reindeer antlers and a red reindeer nose using the templates provided below.

Glue the antlers and nose onto your brown paper plate to create an adorable reindeer face. Decorate further with your crayons or markers. Let dry.

Merry Christmas! Enjoy crafting!
Reindeer Template
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Handprint Menorahs

Today's Craft:

Handprint Menorahs

Craft Project Directions:
To make this craft you will need black and yellow construction paper and blue and white finger paint.

Paint your palm blue and your fingers and thumbs white. Make a hand print on the black construction paper.

Make sure all your fingers, including your thumb, are facing straight up.

Then do the left hand, and make sure the thumbs overlap.

This will create a menorah, with the overlapping thumbs being the Shamesh, and the other fingers the candle holders with candles.

Next cut out candle flame shapes.

Happy Hanukkah!
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Chocolate Kiss Hanukkah Dreidel

Today's Craft:
Chocolate Kiss Hanukkah Dreidel

Make a yummy Hanukkah Dreidel you can eat!

Craft Project Directions:

To make this craft project you will need some chocolate kisses, some toothpicks or pretzel sticks, peanut butter, and some marshmallows.

To begin, take your marhsmallow and spread a thin layer of peanut butter on it and press it onto the flat bottom of a chocolate kiss.

Now take either a toothpick or a pretzel stick and push that through the marshmallow and into the flat bottom of the chocolate. Now you have a yummy dreidel.

Happy Hanukkah! Enjoy Crafting!

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Christmas Bow Tree

Today's Craft:

Christmas Bow Tree

Craft Project Directions:
To make this craft project you will need colored construction paper, scissors, and stick-on christmas bows.

To begin, using the template provided below, cut out a large Christmas tree shape.

Next cover your tree with stick-on Christmas bows.

Merry Christmas! Enjoy Crafting!
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Make a Magical Latke

Today's craft:

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 length 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.

Happy Hanukkah!
Enjoy Crafting!
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Heartwarming Turkey

Today's Craft:

Heartwarming Turkey

Create a turkey which will warm your heart this Thanksgiving!

Craft Project Directions:
To make this craft project you will need colored construction paper, scissors, glue, and crayons or markers.

To begin, using the templates provided below, cut out a turkey body, turkey features, and many colorful hearts from your colored construction paper.

Glue them together using the picture as a guide to create a heartwarming turkey.

Let dry and decorate further with crayons or markers if you wish.

Happy Thanksgiving!
Enjoy Crafting!

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Paper Plate Pilgrim Boy

Today's Craft:

Paper Plate Pilgrim Boy

Craft Project Directions:
To make this craft project you will need a paper plate, colored construction paper, scissors, glue, and markers or crayons.

To begin, using the template below cut out a black pilgrim hat and buckle for the hat from your colored construction paper. Next cut some strip of paper to create hair for your pilgrim.

Now you are ready to assemble your project.

First glue the paper strips onto the paper plate around the top and side edges to create hair for your pilgrim. Then glue on the hat and glue the buckle onto the hat.

Let dry and create a face on the paper plate using your crayons or markers.

Happy Thanksgiving. Enjoy Crafting!
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Decorative Thanksgiving Turkey

Today's Craft:
Decorative Thanksgiving Turkey

Craft Project Directions:
To make this festive craft, cut out a turkey's body, head, and turkey feathers out of brightly colored construction paper and arrange them on a background piece of paper and glue or tape them in place. Decorate!

Enjoy Crafting!
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Easy and Marvelous Monsters

Today's Craft:

Easy and Marvelous Monsters

Craft Project Directions:
To make this craft project you will need a paper plate (any color), colored construction paper, scissors, glue or tape, markers or crayons, and some pipecleaners.

Take your paper plate and transform it into a scary or silly monster face by adding features and color with pieces of construction paper, pipecleaners, and using by your markers.

Happy Halloween! Enjoy Crafting!
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Wonderful Easy to Make Witches

Today's Craft:

Wonderful Easy to Make Witches

Craft Project Directions:
To make this witch you will need black, green or white construction paper, paper shreds, a pipe cleaner, and scissors.

First using the templates provided or your own imagination cut out a basic witch shape. Cut two slits in the arms on the dotted lines.

Next cut out a witch face. Now you are ready to decorate your witch. Add the face, add paper shred hair, use crayons to add further details, add glitter for that extra sparkle, and anything else you want.

Let your witch dry. Now bend the skirt of the witch back taping one tab to another so your witch will stand up.

Curl the arms in front of the witch and fit the tabs together. Now take a pipe cleaner, bend it and add paper shreds to one of the ends to create a witch's broom.

Fit that into the hands of your witch and she is ready for a spooky Halloween!

Happy Halloween!
Enjoy Crafting!
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Colorful Cornucopias

Today's Craft:

Colorful Cornucopias

Craft Project Directions:
To make a colorful cornucopia, first you will need to cut out a cornucopia from a piece of brown paper and arrange it on a background piece of construction paper.

Next cut out a variety of fruits to fill it up using the templates provided.

Add leaves around your design to add a fall flair and decorate!

Enjoy Crafting!
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Ghoulish Ghost Puppet

Today's Craft:

Ghoulish Ghost Puppet

Craft Project Directions:

To make this craft project you will need a paper bag, white paper, scissors, glue or tape, crayons, and newspaper (if you want to stuff your ghost so it stands upright).

To begin, using the craft template cut out a ghoulish ghost figure from your white paper. Next glue or tape your ghost to the paper bag and add features with your crayons. Let your ghost dry and you will have a great puppet.

If you want to transform your puppet into a decoration, stuff the paper bag with newspaper, then square off and tape the bottom so the bag is flat. Place your ghost someplace special.

Enjoy Crafting!
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Paper Bag Monster Mask

Today's Craft:

Paper Bag Monster Mask

Craft Project Directions:
To make a Paper Bag Monster Mask you will need a grocery bag, an egg carton, scissors, tape, glue, some colored plastic bags, and markers or crayons.

To begin, place the bag over your head, feel where your eyes are and mark these spots ~ be sure to have an adult help you with this part!

Now remove the bag and cut nostril holes where your eyes will be. Next take your scissors and cut out two eyeballs (egg cup eyes) from your egg carton using your scissors. Use your markers or crayons to transform them into scary monster eyeballs. When they are decorated, glue them onto the bag.

Next draw a scary monster mouth on the bag and add other scary monster facial features with your crayons and markers.

Now you are ready to make your monster's hair ~ take your colored plastic bags and cut them into long shreds. Tape the plastic shreds all over the paper bag to create cool monster hair.

Enjoy Crating!
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Great Grinning Ghosts

Today's Craft:

Great Grinning Ghosts

To make this craft project you just need white paper and some crayons or markers. Print the ghost and add a delightful or scary or anything in between kind of face.

Decorate more if you wish.

Enjoy Crafting!
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Scary Spiders Spinning Webs

Today's Craft:

Scary Spiders Spinning Webs

Craft Project Directions:
Take a white paper plate and set it aside. Next take a piece of black construction paper and cut thin black lines from it. Lay the lines over the paper plate crisscrossing them to create a scary spider web.

Trim off the paper strips that hang over the edges of the plate. Next create a spider following the directions below and attach him with a ribbon or string to your web.

For your spider, take four black pipe cleaners and attach them at the center, bend each to make 4 scary looking spider legs, and bend the ends to create spider feet. Take a piece of black tissue paper and fill it with cotton balls and tape it shut to create a black spider body.

Rest and tape the body onto the legs and then add eyeballs, fangs, and other scary spider attributes.

Attach paper clip and tie on a string or secure a pipe cleaner and you have got a dangling spider.

Enjoy Crafting!
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Pretty Pumpkin Sun Catcher

Today's Craft:

Pretty Pumpkin Sun Catcher

Craft Project Directions:
To make this craft you will need: orange and green crayons, a pencil sharpener, waxed paper, an iron, an adult, and some string.

To start sharpen your orange and green crayons and collect all of the scrapings. Lay out a piece of waxed paper and first sprinkle the orange scrapings onto it in the shape of a pumpkin.

Next sprinkle the green scrapings on the top of pumpkin to make a pumpkin stem. Cover your creation with a second sheet of waxed paper.

Now ask an adult to help you iron the waxed paper (on medium to low heat) until the crayon shavings melt together. It should take between 5 and 10 seconds.

Cut out your pumpkin from the waxed paper and hang it by a string in the window.

Enjoy Crafting!
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Winking Pumpkin Carving Template

Today's Craft:

Winking Pumpkin Carving Template
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How to Carve a Pumpkin!

To make a cool carved pumpkin this Halloween you will need a pumpkin (evenly shaped and medium size), a design to carve, tape, a nail, a potato peeler, a paring knife, a larger knife, newspaper, and a solid large spoon. You will also need an adult to help you with the carving.

To begin, wash your pumpkin with a little soap and water and then pat it dry. Next spread out a lot of newspapers covering your whole pumpkin carving area.

The first thing you want to do is to take the top of the pumpkin off. Take your larger knife, insert it in the top of the pumpkin with a slight angle towards the center, and cut around the stem. Cutting the top this way you will have a top piece which is wider at the top then the bottom and won't fall in. Next scrape out the insides of the pumpkin with your solid large spoon. Be sure to get all the strings and seeds out, and scrape the walls of the pumpkin so they are thinner, rather than thicker.

Now take your design and transfer it to your pumpkin. If you have the design on paper, tape it to the pumpkin. Then take a nail and poke holes through the paper into the pumpkin to create the design on the surface of the pumpkin. Once you have finished doing this, take your paring knife and connect the dots!

Now you are ready to carve your pumpkin. Be sure to have an adult do this part! and always have them carve the pumpkin with the knife cutting away from themselves! Start carving your pumpkin by carving in the middle of each feature and then pushing the carved pieces into the pumpkin and then removing them.

Once you are finished carving, you can also add some fun props to your pumpkin! Consider adding hats, scarves, painted features, etc. Have Fun! Enjoy Crafting! Happy Halloween!

Lollipop Ghosts

Today's Craft:

Lollipop Ghosts

Craft Project Directions:
To make these simple ghosts you will need lollipops, white tissue, pipe cleaners, and markers or stickers. Take your pipe cleaners and cut them in half.

Now take your lollipop, drape the tissue over it, and fasten the tissue in place by tightening a pipe cleaner around it underneath the candy.

Now add a spooky or funny face to your ghost!

Happy Halloween! Enjoy Crafting!
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Alien Pumpkin Carving Template

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Cool Bat Puppets

Today's Craft:

Cool Bat Puppets

Craft Project Directions:
To make this craft project yo will need a black paper bag, black and white construction paper, scissors, glue or tape, and crayons or markers.

To begin, using the template provided below, cut out wings for your bat.

Next cut out two black triangles for ears, two white triangles for fangs, and two white circles for eyes. Take your paper bag and flip it over so the bottom of the bag is facing up. This will be the face of bat.

Glue the wings on the back of the bag so they stick out on either side. Add your bat's ears, eyes, teeth, and then decorate further if you wish.

Enjoy Crafting!
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Adorable Bat

Today's Craft:

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 Craft Template
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Painted Gourds

Today's Craft:

Painted Gourds

Craft Project Directions:
To make painted gourds you will need some gourds, mild soap, poster paint, kitchen cleanser, paper cups, and a paintbrush.

To begin wash your gourds with mild soap and water. Let them dry completely.

Next mix a little kitchen cleanser with poster paints in your paper cups. Paint away!

Enjoy Crafting!
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Pumpkin Prints!

Today's Craft:

Pumpkin Prints!

Craft Project Directions:
To make this craft project you will need an apple, some paper towels, white paper, orange paint, and other colored paints.

To begin take your apple and cut it in half lengthwise. Blot it with a paper towel and let it dry a bit. Now paint the cut side of the apple with your orange paint and then press it onto a sheet of white paper. Let your print dry.

Add a pumpkin or jack o'lantern face to your pumpkin print with your other paints.

Enjoy Crafting!
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Friendly Scarecrow Face

Today's Craft:

Friendly Scarecrow Face

Craft Project Directions:
To make this craft project, you will need 8 large craft sticks, orange, brown, and black paint, a paintbrush, and glue.

To begin lay out 5 craft sticks next to one another and glue two craftsticks horizontally across them to secure them together- this will be the back of your scarecrow. Let dry and flip over.

Now glue one craft stick horizontally across the front about a third of the way down from the top- this will become the brim of your scarecrow's hat- use the picture as a guide.

Now you are ready to paint your scarecrow. Paint the face brown, the hat orange, and then add a cute face. Let dry.

Enjoy Crafting!

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Pumpkin Garlands

Today's Craft:

Pumpkin Garlands

Craft Project Directions:

Take a piece of orange construction paper and cut a 3 inch by 12 strip. Next fold up the piece of paper accordian style 6 times.

Now on the top piece of paper draw a pumpkin- any shape you want, with or without a stem.

Just make sure the widest parts of the pumpkin go beyond the folded edges of the paper.

Next cut out your pumpkin, through all the folded layers of paper, except for the parts that touch the fold. Open up your pumpkin garland and add all sorts of pumpkin faces!

Enjoy Crafting!
Happy Halloween!
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Collecting Leaves

Today's Craft:

Collecting Leaves

Craft Project Directions:
Collecting is fun. One thing that is particularly fun to collect is leaves. Leaves come in all shapes, sizes, and colors. There are 1000s of different kinds of trees with leaves to collect.

You can start you collection by taking two leaves from each tree in your yard or neighborhood. If you have two leaves, you can display both the front and back side of a particular type of leaf.

When you go leaf collecting, take a book or magazine with you and insert the leaves into the pages so they don't bend and curl up.

When you get home, you will want to press your leaves. To do this you will need newspaper, paper, and heavy books. Take one leaf, place it on a piece of paper, put another piece of paper over it, put a couple piece of newspaper over them. Continue this process until you have covered all your leaves and then put your heavy books on top of it all.

Leave it alone for about a week. Then unwrap the leaves and mount them on colored paper with glue or tape and label them.

You can get a guide book to leaves and trees at your local public library to help you. You can also make all sorts of neat crafts with leaves. For ideas, Click Here.

Enjoy Crafting!

Pretty Pumpkin Sun Catcher

Today's Craft:

Pretty Pumpkin Sun Catcher

Craft Project Directions:

To make this craft you will need: orange and green crayons, a pencil sharpener, waxed paper, an iron, an adult, and some string.

To start sharpen your orange and green crayons and collect all of the scrapings. Lay out a piece of waxed paper and first sprinkle the orange scrapings onto it in the shape of a pumpkin.

Next sprinkle the green scrapings on the top of pumpkin to make a pumpkin stem. Cover your creation with a second sheet of waxed paper. Now ask an adult to help you iron the waxed paper (on medium to low heat) until the crayon shavings melt together. It should take between 5 and 10 seconds.

Cut out your pumpkin from the waxed paper and hang it by a string in the window.

Enjoy Crafting!
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Sweet Apple Bookmarks

Today's Craft:

Sweet Apple Bookmarks

To make this craft project you will need colored construction paper, scissors, crayons,a colorful pipe cleaner, a colorful pom-pom, glue and other materials to decorate your beautiful AppleBookmark.

To begin select a colorful pipe cleaner. This will become your cute Book Worm. Bend one end of itinto a tear drop shape and set it aside.Next take a piece of red construction paper and cut out three or four small red apple shapes.You could also cut out yellow or green apples. You decide!

Now cut out small green oval or diamond shaped leaves for the tops of your apples. glue or tape
them on to the tops of the apples. Decorate the apples more with crayon if you want. Now thread the pipe cleaner Book Worm through the apples so the curved tear drop part ends up on top.Next cover the curved tear drop part with glue. Select a colored pom-pom for the head of your Book Worm and press it into the glued pipe cleaner. Let your bookmark dry and then put it to work!

Enjoy Crafting!
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Lovely Leaf Print Projects

Today's Craft:

Lovely Leaf Print Projects

Craft Project Directions:
Do you love Fall? Save a bit of season when you make some spectacular leaf creations you can use throughout the year. You can make wonderful leaf prints and decorate all sorts of things: apple picking bags, t-shirts, wrapping paper, cards, and more!

To make your leaf print creation, you will need leaf stamps, fall colors: brown, green, and red paint (fabric paint to use on fabric), newspaper, a paintbrush, and the item you want to decorate.

Lay out newspaper for a work space for your self. Next take some newspaper and place it inside your bag or t-shirt if that is what you are making so your prints won't seep through to the other side. Take the brown paint and paint a tree stem and some branches. Let them dry.

Now you are ready to add the leaves. Cover your leaf stamp with red paint and then with other fall colors. Press it on your picture adding leaves all over your tree. Let it dry and you will have a special leaf creation.

Enjoy Crafting!
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Fantastic Fall Trees

Today's Craft:

Fantastic Fall Trees

Craft Project Directions:

Capture some of the beautiful fall colors in your own fantastic fall tree. Cut out a tree trunk and a variety of fall leaves from colored paper. Add these to a solid colored background piece of paper and create your own beautiful fall tree.

Enjoy Crafting!
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Paper Mosaics

Today's Craft:

Paper Mosaics

Craft Project Directions:
To make a paper mosaic you will need colored gummed papers ( the super shiny kind), drawing paper, a pencil, a pin, scissors, a sponge, and a cup of water.
To begin lightly draw a design on the drawing paper with your pencil. Next cut the colored paper into small squares of different sizes. Sponge a little water over the pencil design. Pick up each of the paper squares with a pin. Put down on the drawing paper following your design. Press a damp sponge lightly on each square as you put it on. Enjoy Crafting!

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Wash Off Painting

Today's Craft: Wash Off Painting

Craft Project Directions:

To make a wash off painting you will need white drawing paper, white poster paint, India ink, a pencil, and large paintbrush, and a sponge.
To begin mark a design on the paper lightly in pencil. Paint over the pencil lines with thick white poster paint. If you put white paint on the sponge and dab it on the paper, you'll get a texture. Let the paint dry. Cover all the paper, white paint included with the India ink. Leave to dry. When dry, dip your painting in water. The white paint will wash off together with the ink and the design will appear. Enjoy Crafting!

Button Apple Trees

Today's craft:

Button Apple Trees

Craft Project Directions:
To make this craft project you will need colored construction paper, scissors, glue, and markers or crayons. To begin, using the templates provided, take piece of brown paper and cut out a tree trunk for your tree. Next cut out several green leaf sections from your green construction paper. Glue these onto a background piece of paper to create a lovely tree. Now you are ready to add your apples. Take your large red button and glue them all over the tree and on the ground next to your tree. Let dry. Enjoy Crafting!

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Letter I becomes an Ice Cream Sundae

Today's Craft:

Letter I becomes an Ice Cream Sundae

Craft Project Directions:
To make this craft project you will need colored construction paper, cotton balls, scissors, glue, and markers or crayons.

To begin, cut your scissors and cut out a large letter I- this will become your ice cream sundae dish. Next cut out a number of circles and shapes to become scoops of ice cream.

Glue the dish and the ice cream onto a background piece of paper- use the picture as a guide. Decorate more with markers or crayons, add cotton ball topping.

Enjoy Crafting!
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Illustrated Book Covers

Today's Craft: Illustrated Book Covers

Craft Project Directions:

To create some great book covers for your books you will need some grocery bags or large piece of heavier weight paper.

If you chose the grocery bag cut it open on one side and cut off the bottom, so that you can lay the bag out flat.

Next select a book you want to make a cover for and trim the paper you have chosen so that it is about an inch bigger than the book along the top and about three inches wider than the book along the sides.

Fold down the top and bottom of the paper so that the cover is the same size as the book, and fold back the sides so that they overlap the inside covers of the book and will fold the cover you are making in place.

Now that the cover has been fitted, flip it over and decorate it with crayons, paper shapes, stickers, glitter, and other materials. Let it dry and then place it around your book!

Enjoy Crafting!
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Seashell Boxes

Today's Craft: Seashell Boxes

To make a seashell box, you will need small seashells, a small cardboard box, varnish, a brush, and glue.

To begin take your shells and glue them to your box - create a design with them or just arrange them randomly.

Cover the whole box with them.

When you are done varnish the box using your brush. Let dry.

Enjoy Crafting!

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Crawling Crabs with Claws

Today's Craft:

Crawling Crabs with Claws

Craft Project Directions:
To make this craft project you will need brass fasteners, colored construction paper, glue, tape, colored cotton balls, crayons, and scissors.

Your crab will be made up of several different pieces.

First let's make the crab's body. Select a piece of colored construction paper. The color you choose will become the dominant color of your crab. Fold it in half and cut an oval leaving the fold intact.

Next cut out two big crab claws. You can use the templates listed at the address below or your own imagination. Attach the two crab claws with brass fasteners to the bottom of the crab body you just cut out.

Next cut out little crab legs to go out from the sides of the crab body and tape or glue them in place. Now you are ready to decorate your crawling crab. Add eyes with paper, crayons, or even colored cotton balls and decorate the crab's shell.

Enjoy Crafting!
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Buzzin' Paper Plate Bees

Today's Craft:

Buzzin' Paper Plate Bees

Craft Project Directions:
To make this craft project you will need a yellow paper plate, black pipecleaners, tape, glue, black construction, and scissors.

To begin, take your scissors and cut out black strips from your black construction for your bee's body, as well as a black triangle stinger and and oval face- use the picture as a guide.

Next glue these pieces onto your yellow paper plate and let dry.

Next take your black pipecleaners, string several together, and bend them into wings. Attach the wings to the back of the plate using tape.

Next take another pipecleaner, cut it in half, and curl each half and attach the halves on either side of the bee's head to create two antennae.

Enjoy Crafting!
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April Fool's Trick : The Rock

April Fool's Trick : The Rock

Craft Project Directions:
For this April Fool's trick, you will need a large flat rock and some markers or paints.

To begin, clean and dry your rock. Next take your markers or paint and write on each side "Flip this Rock Over".

Decorate the rock further with your paints or markers so it will be sure to catch someone's attention.

Now wait and watch people flip it over and over.

Happy April Fool's Day! Enjoy Crafting!
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Fabulous Frog Catching a Fly!

Today's Craft: Fabulous Frog Catching a Fly!

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Baa Baa Black Sheep

Today's Craft:

Baa Baa Black Sheep

Craft Project Directions:
To make this craft you will need black and white paper, cotton balls, scissors, glue, a large piece of colored construction paper and your hands.

Take your hand and place it on a piece of black paper. Keep your three middle fingers together and extend your thumb and pinky out to the side. Trace your hand print and then cut it out. This will be your black sheep's face. Next cut a body for your black sheep.

Cut out a large and wide oval from the black construction paper and two rectangular legs. Now let's assemble your black sheep.

Take all your black pieces and glue them to a colorful background piece of construction paper. Now decorate! Add white cotton to the ears of your black sheep(your thumb and pinky)and give him a full white cotton ball coat. Next add white paper eyes to the face.

Enjoy Crafting!
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Delightful and Dashing Duck Masks

Today's Craft:

Delightful and Dashing 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!

Happy Spring! Enjoy Crafting!
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Craft Template 1
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Marshmallow Easter Bunnies

Today's Craft: Marshmallow Easter Bunnies

To make this craft project you will need some marshmallows (large and small), toothpicks, a pipe cleaner, scissors, markers, construction paper, and glue.

To begin take two large marshmallows and stick them together with a toothpick- one on top of the other. These marshmallows are your bunny's head and body.

Next take two little marshmallows and stick them onto a toothpick. Repeat. Now stick these toothpicks into the top of the bunny's head to form cute bunny ears.

Next take several toothpicks and break them in half. Stick a small marshmallow on the end of each one. Stick two of these in the front for cute bunny legs and stick one in the back for a cute cotton ball tail.

Now cut out a small bowtie from your colored construction paper. Take your colorful pipe cleaner and cut about a two inch section. Thread the bowtie through the pipe cleaner and bend it around the bunny's neck so he looks like he is wearing the neck.

Now decorate your bunny further if you wish!

Happy Easter! Enjoy Crafting!
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Itsy-Bitsy Easter Bunny

Today's Craft: Itsy-Bitsy Easter Bunny

Craft Project Directions:
Take an egg carton and cut out a row of 2 egg cups. This will be the body of your bunny.

Paint it and let it dry. Next cut out bunny ears from colored construction paper and add them on.

Add pipe cleaner whiskers, a cotton ball tail, and a cute face.

Happy Easter! Enjoy Crafting!
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Spring Flower Hat

Today's Craft:

Spring Flower Hat

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

To begin cut a wide green strip from your green construction paper which will more than wrap around your head and fringe the top of the strip to look like grass.

Next take your scissors and pipecleaners and cut a variety of lengths of pipecleaner to use as flower stems. Now cut out paper flower shapes and attach them to the end of the pipecleaners. Next attach these flowers to the inside of green strip with tape.

Add paper flower shapes to the band as well. Now let dry and then tape the green strip into a circular shape which you can wear.

Happy Spring! Enjoy Crafting!
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