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Monday, October 03, 2011

Monday Funday: 10 Fall Activities and Crafts to Do and Make with your Children

By Candie Cooper - To see more from Candie please check out her blog, Candie Cooper's Journal.

1. Grab a reusable bag and head to the woods to collect pine cones, buckeyes, acorns, and pretty fall leaves for crafting. It's great because the craft supplies are free AND you get a little exercise and fresh air!

2. Set children loose with a camera. I have a friend on Facebook who posts pictures taken by his daughter and the perspective of a child makes them extra wonderful! You can even give them a photo scavenger hunt--Find something orange, something prickly, something alive...

3. Make tissue ghosts and hang on a small branch in a vase---an old tried and true craft to say the least!

4. Make a trip to the orchard or pumpkin patch. My mom always took us to the orchard and I still love it today. Often on Saturdays, there are special activities like hay rides and cider pressing.

5. This one is so obvious, but decorate a pumpkin! or Three!! Don't want to use knives? Try sponge painting with metallic Folk Art paint or Mod Podging tissue paper and glittering!

6. Blanket tents are so fun! How about a haunted version with cobwebs and plastic spiders? Don't forget the flash lights!

7. Decorate a canvas tote bag with orange and black Folk Art Fabric Paint for Halloween night loot. You could use the same technique as seen in the Peace Pouch post.

8. Paint acorns in crazy colors and hide around the house like Easter eggs. Whoever finds the most wins a prize!

9. String a buckeye necklace on linen or plastic cording. Moms or Dads will want to drill the buckeyes with a dremel tool first. Have some wooden beads on hand to put in between the buckeyes to add some color.

10. Make a Pine cone Pumpkin Patch like the one above! Water down some orange Folk Art paint in a jar and drop the pine cone in and replace the lid. Shake and paint! Pull pine cones and leave to dry. Optionally you can brush light orange paint on the pine cones. Twigs painted green make great stems with curly chenille vines. Hot glue together.

Posted in: Fall | Mod-Podge | Monday Funday

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Friday, September 30, 2011

Freelance Friday: Easy Halloween Crafts for Kids

Want to make a bunch of Halloween crafts for next to nothing? Well then you should try making these. We found these wonderfully creative crafts over at, One Charming Party. They created these toilet paper pumpkins, and ghost pops. Both of these crafts took less than 4 supplies to make. Click here to learn how to make these. Let us know if you have made any low cost Halloween crafts.

Posted in: Fall | Freelance-Friday | Halloween

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Thursday, September 29, 2011

Teaching Thursdays: Silly Face Tissue Box

Have fun transforming a tissue box into a silly face! This is a great craft project for kids of any age to make. One of our talented designers, Debbie Saenz made this funny craft project. A perfect craft to make for Halloween. Use your favorite Apple Barrel paint colors to create your own silly face tissue box. This is a beginner craft that will only take between 30 minutes to an hour to make.

Plaid Supplies Needed:

Apple Barrel Acrylic Paint – 20246 Plum Kiss, Apple Barrel Acrylic Paint – 20740 Parakeet, Apple Barrel Acrylic Paint – 20504 Black, Apple Barrel Acrylic Paint – 20764 Apricot, Apple Barrel Acrylic Paint – 20503 White, Mod Podge - CS11302 Matte

Additional Supplies Needed:

Tissue Box, Corrugated Cardboard, 15 Foam Packaging “pop-corn”, 2 Green Chenille, 1 silver Chenille, 2 Plastic Water Bottle Tops, Scissors, Paint Brush, Hold Puncher, Craft Knife, Top of Spray can (or other 2.5 inch circle template), 3 popsicle sticks

Instructions:

1. Remove plastic from inside opening of empty Tissue Box.

2. Paint box with Plum Kiss. Allow to dry.

3. Paint a “wavy” mouth around opening with Parakeet. Allow to dry.

4. Use Spray can top to draw 2.5” circle eyes onto cardboard, draw ears; cut out.

5. Paint eyes with Black and ears with Apricot. Allow to dry.

6. Paint water bottle tops with White, Allow to dry.

7. Paint one packaging “popcorn” with Apricot for nose. Allow to dry.

8. Cut Green Chenille stems into 2 inch pieces. Insert into the “holes” of the corrugated cardboard on top of each eye as eyelashes.

9. Punch a hole into each earlobe with hole punch. Cut silver chenille stem into two 3 inch pieces for earrings.

10. Insert a popsicle stick between the corrugated cardboard up through the bottom of each eye.

11. Cut remaining popsicle stick in half and, in the same way, insert a half into the straight side of each ear.

12. Use Mod Podge to glue “teeth” and nose in place; and water bottle tops on cardboard eyes.

13. With supervision, use craft knife to cut slits into tissue box for eyes and ears, insert popsicle sticks and use a dap of Mod Podge around each popsicle stick.