Favorite Kiddie Crafts ?

[Daffodil Mumma]

Wow so many great ideas there guys!!! Ah I loved Mister Maker while it was on ABC and DS got really excited watching it with me.....but he just has no interest in anything other than crayons and colouring books!!
When I have tried to set up some painting or cut and paste type things he gets angry, throws the paint brush or whatever at me and runs away lol he's not 2 yet so Im kinda hoping its just a phase lol

[~ Zarava Flutterby ~]

Oh Oh more ideas, am keeping the bottle tops to use as 'wheels' on things am thinking of buying some patty pans.
I have just figured out the take and toss cups fit inside the girls art cabinet PERFECTLY so will buy some of these and put their bits and pieces in them aswell as the zip bags and stuff we are currently using.

Does anyone else have THIS (1 & 2) art centre.. it's AMAZING, both girls fit at it and they LOVE it.

[Mum2SweetCs]

damn i really want to see your pics ZF! Can you add them to the BB album instead?

[~ Zarava Flutterby ~]

damn i really want to see your pics ZF! Can you add them to the BB album instead?

Will try, hmm is there any way of having a public album we could all upload craft pics too ?

[~Kim~]

hmmm no we don't but I will be keeping an eye out for that....DD would love that.

[~ Zarava Flutterby ~]

Maybe on one of the photo sharing sites I can make a BB craft album and pop the user and password in here
Then we can show off our ideas and kiddies beautiful crafts

[~Lashes~]

ds2 realy wants to make cakes today, i realy cant be botherd, so im going to get him to make some play-doh instead, this ones easy, no cooking and is ready for play in 20 mins or less depending how fast you can mix.

[Mum2SweetCs]

thats a very nice owl!

Hey ZF can you upload the art studio pics on that photobucket? DDs bday is coming up soon, might tell her aunty and uncles to get it for her seeing that i dont want anymore toys lol

[~Jayne~]

ZF, I used to save heaps of carboard stuff. Cereal & tissue boxes, egg containers, tags off new clothes, old birthday cards, etc... Anything basically that can be cut & glued onto another piece of paper & I would stock up on those cheap glitter glue pens, pom poms, glitter, those sticker number & letters & I would just bring the whole box out & the kids would cut, paste, colour, draw & stick until their hearts are content.

Now that my girls are a bit older, I'm eyeing off those paper punch things that are in all different shapes, KWIM? & some beautiful paper so they can make their own birthday cards for friends & family.

Craft honestly makes my girls worlds go round. I get jack of the mess, but honestly, they enjoy it soooooooooooooo much.

[~ Zarava Flutterby ~]

Have made a few crafty things the last couple of weeks, am uploading pics now, will put on a BB album and link here then explain

[sunshine_sieben]

We did something fun yesterday because we're stuck in the house with hand foot and mouth disease.
DD got a couple of cheap plain jumpers for her birthday. I wanted to jazz them up a bit so I trawled the internet for ideas. We ended up doing something with crayons. I added the pictures to that BBCRAFT photobucket album.
Here's how we did it:

- I pre-washed the jumpers (without fabric softener) dried it and put it on an ironing board.
- I placed a few layers of newspaper in between the front and back of the jumper
(to stop the colour from seeping through)
- I shaved some cheap crayons (don't use washable ones). One colour per bowl.
- DD sprinkled the shavings onto the jumper in the shape of a rainbow
(you could also make a template from baking or greasproof paper and get your kids
to fill the template with the crayon shavings)
- when they're happy with the design, cover it with some white paper, then baking or
greaseproof paper over the top and iron the design onto the jumper on a medium (wool)
setting. This will melt the shavings into the material
- Wash seperately the first few times. I've only washed it once so far, but it is supposed
to be permanent
- You could also make it with washable crayons and change the design regularly
- You could teach them about mixing colours by using for example blue and yellow
shavings to make green

[~ Zarava Flutterby ~]

Oh Oh we made PET ROCKS the other day, the girls glued eyes on, drew on a nose and mouth and used some colored string for hair and 2 little beads as 'hairclips' then as DP has never had one we found a MASSIVE rock and made him a 'bombers rock'