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Wednesday, August 05, 2009

Camp Craft: I'm Bored!

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

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

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

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

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

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

Make sure you are stocked up on supplies! See this post.
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.
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.
Leave room for spontaneity.
Incorporate nature and outdoors into your craft plans.
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

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