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Last year we started sharing with all of you some frugal craft project ideas that utilize found objects like river rocks and seashells. Some of the designs we’ve featured included Halloween, Christmas, Easter, Spring and Summer themes. All of these craft projects are fun to …
After a long and cold winter…I’m ready to get outside and into the fresh air. During the month of March I like to get things ready for the upcoming gardening season and that includes making some new yard and garden art. When we were down …
A few weeks ago we hosted a birthday party for my niece and made up several of these adorable pudding cup characters as fun party favors. They were super easy-to-make and you can make them for kid’s holiday parties too, by just changing up the items that your using to fit a particular theme.
Kid’s Birthday Party Idea: Pudding Cup Characters Party Favors
1 box of Zots Large-Sized Glue Dots
Packages of Pudding Cups
Snack-Size Boxes of Raisins
Juice Boxes
Smarties Candies
Wiggle or Button Eyes
Coordinating Ribbon
Self-Adhesive Heart Shape Plastic Rhinestones
Scissors
For this project we found that the Zots large-sized glue dots worked perfectly to adhere all of the individual items together. For the arms we used the wrappers to Smarties Candies…you can certainly use the entire candy or just the wrappers like we did.
It doesn’t take rocket science to assemble them and I’m pretty sure you can see how to do it by just viewing our photograph above. We used these adorable button eyes on our’s but if you can only find the regular wiggle eyes, use them!
At the party some of the kids elected to take their’s home and other kids decided to tear their’s apart and eat & drink their goodies at the party. The cool thing is that none of the items we used needed to be refrigerated, so I was pretty happy to retain all of my refrigerator space before, during and after the birthday party.
If you’re looking to save money, we found the pudding cups, boxes of raisins and the smarties candies at our local dollar-type of store and the juice boxes were purchased at our regular grocery store.
Hope you enjoyed our fun project today!
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For the past 9 months we’ve been sharing with all of you several seashell and clam shell theme’d craft projects. Every time we go down to the beach house, we come home with several large bags of collected seashells and are always looking for fun …
Over the past 3 1/2 years we’ve been running a regular feature here on the blog “Crafting with Kids” and many of our readers have been enjoying the various kid’s craft projects that we’ve been sharing. In addition to that, many of the projects we’ve …
For the past 18 months we’ve shared numerous kid’s craft projects with all of you here on the blog. We’ve painted on smooth river rocks and on large clam shells (seashells) which my granddaughter loves to do! Well, if you’ve enjoyed all of those kid’s craft projects, you’re going to enjoy the how-to book that we’re featuring today.
* Complimentary Book Received for Feature.
The book is titled “Stone Painting for Kids” Designs to Spark Your Creativity by author & artist F. Sehnaz Bac. It’s the follow-up to the bestselling Art of Stone Painting offers a kid-friendly version of an engaging activity that helps promote creativity. Available for purchase on January 17th, 2018. ISBN: 978-0486819037
Popular stone artist F. Sehnaz Bac, a seasoned archaeologist who markets her painted Sassi dell’Adriatico (Stones of the Adriatic) on Etsy, presents step-by-step instructions for simple projects, accompanied by full-color photographs. Her introduction explains how to find and choose stones, which kinds of materials and tools are safe for kids to use, how to set up a workspace, simple techniques, and other helpful tips.
A splendid variety of patterns begins with illustrations of basic shapes and designs for human figures and faces, animals, numbers and letters, and natural motifs—flowers, trees, and stars. Other activities include painting stones for games such as tic-tac-toe, chess, and dominoes. Kids will learn lettering techniques for writing names and words on pebbles and how to design holiday-themed decorations. They’ll also discover how to assemble multiple stones for picture-making and story-telling.
We were extremely excited to receive the 2nd book from author F. Sehnaz Bac, since we have the first book and use it all of the time! Even though the majority of designs in both books are geared towards painting on rocks & stones, you can certainly paint those designs on seashells, pieces of wood, glass items and other things.
The author/artist does a great job at explaining the technique in easy-to-understand terms, great for beginners! Plus, all of the designs in the book are easy-to-follow, thanks to the step-by-step instructions and illustrations to help guide you along the way. Once you make a few of the featured designs, you’ll be off and running to the races with your own creative masterpieces! What a great project to do with or without kids!
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Giveaway: One lucky winner is going to win the Stone Painting for Kids Book by author/artist F. Sehnaz Bac, from Dover Publications. Good Luck!
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Winter has finally sunk in around here and we’ve been spending a lot more time indoors. I’ve been trying to keep my 8 1/2 year old granddaughter busy with some easy and affordable craft projects, which she loves to do. On a recent trip to …
Today’s crafting with kids feature is something just a little bit different. I think that any time we can teach our children fun science things and make it fun…well, that’s a good thing! My 8 1/2 year old granddaughter loves rocks, minerals and seashells. She’s …