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 Wednesday, August 05, 2009

Camp Craft: I'm Bored!

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As summer is winding down, you may here these dreaded words..I'm Bored!

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Take a queue from Inspire Me Crafts. This 'Gotta Make It: "I'm Bored" Craft Kit in a Pail" is the answer to adding more creativity and inspiration to summer days...Take a look at her blog entry.

 

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 Tuesday, July 21, 2009

Camp Craft-More Summer Crafts from Mycraftbook.com

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Here's a great list of easy summer crafts from Mycraftbox.com!


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 Friday, July 10, 2009

Camp Craft- Summer Crafts for Kids

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The Long Thread has a terrific and inspirational summary on craft projects for summer!

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 Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Camp Craft: Vacation Bible School Ideas

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Vacation Bible School project ideas!


'Jesus Loves Me' Door Hanger
Vacation Bible School Frame
WWJD Door Hanger
WWJD foam visor
Faith Doorhanger

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 Wednesday, June 03, 2009

Get Started with Summer Crafting

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Get Started with Summer Crafting! Here's some tips and ideas to getting your summer crafting off to a good start!

  1. Make sure you are stocked up on supplies! See this post.
  2. Plan weekly theme-based crafts related to your children’s interests. For smaller children, you may want to find simple themes like colors, shapes and letters. For older children, you can create craft units on nature, plants or local resources. Another idea is coming up with projects based on  summer plans you may have  like vacation or family reunion. Making scrapbooks, family trees, and destination maps are all ways to engage your children in arts and crafts.
  3. Create projects that use different mediums. You can try acrylic paints, fabric paints, paper crafting, decoupage and other mediums. Even try mimicking styles of great artists or art movements.
  4. Leave room for spontaneity.
  5. Incorporate nature and outdoors into your craft plans.
  6. Check out these links with more summer crafting ideas:
    http://ezinearticles.com/?Fun-and-Simple-Summer-Kids-Craft-Ideas&id=1102512
    http://blog.craftzine.com/archive/craft_summer_camp/
    http://www.creativity-portal.com/howto/artscrafts/crafts_summer.html

Remember to buy your supplies from http://plaidcraftexpress.com/!

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 Monday, May 25, 2009

CAMP CRAFT- Summer Craft Supply Box

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This week marks the end of the school year for many students. Between camp, summer vacations and weekends, the summer offers many opportunities for planned and spontaneous crafting. Get your craft chest stocked up with crafting supplies. Here's is our list of essentials:

  • Scissors
  • Mod Podge
  • Recycled Household containers
  • Markers
  • Glue sticks
  • Masking tape
  • Hot glue gun with glue sticks
  • Extreme Glitter Paint
  • Texture Paint
  • Construction paper
  • Craft foam sheets and shapes
  • Newspaper and magazine for collages
  • Tissue paper
  • Googly eyes
  • Pipe Cleaner
  • Felt
  • Pompoms
  • Glitter
  • Popsicle sticks
  • Paper lunch bags
  • Yarn
  • Ribbon
  • Markers
  • Crayons
  • Colored pencils

    Remember to buy your supplies from http://plaidcraftexpress.com/!
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