Ah yes that looks a lot like our previous craft setup :rofl:
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Ah yes that looks a lot like our previous craft setup :rofl:
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.
OMG ZF you wouldnt know what happend and i must tell you!!
I went to Target to check the art table and at first id idnt see it but i saw one that had the train set. THen there was a box ripped and it had white legs and i thought, the train set is blue how can it have white legs
So I pushed the train set out only to find the art table!
Better yet, it had clearance on it for $69.95 AND THEN when i went to scan it it was $49.95!!!!!!!!!!!
OMGGGGGGGGGG I was in shock! LOL
anyway thats all! LOL
:dance: WOO HOO BARGAIN :dance::
Wow I love all these ideas :D can't wait til Moo is a bit older so we can get into it. He loves drawing with his crayons at the moment.
You'd be surprised at what he would already enjoy hun.:
DD2 was only 1 in Jan and she loves the painting and helping put stickers on well everything :p
I also find i am trying different things with them and figuring out which things they like.
i built the art station yesterday and couldnt wait to tell everyone the bargain i got!!!
I LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE IT
LOL!!! DD was playing on it already.
but i think mummy loves it more.
Will try to upload the pics today in our BBCRAFT folder
I saw on Huggies site there are a stack of age related activities to do. We're going to do the pen holder and the tie for DH, the box train, edible artwork and egg carton finger puppets. And I just painted a nappy box and going to decorate it to make DD's "Crafty Box". Play School's site has colouring-in sheets that you can print out too.
Great thread :)
Ohhhhhh you might need to bring a list when we have our craft day my love.:
DD1 likes watching Mr Maker on ABC2 so i might check out things there aswell, will check out the huggies website too... YAY
I think i like craft more than the girls sometimes.
I can bring a list, and some supplies.....but will take me a little while to collect three nappy boxes for the train! But in saying that, it'll be a few weeks yet before I can get to you for our craft day, but it's something I'm looking forward to :)
ETA - Just checked out the photos. AWESOME craft station!!!!!!!! Oh I so want one.....but can someone give me a bigger house first :ROFL:
We, ahem *I* finished our craft box! Uploaded the photos :)
very very nice craft box!!!!!!!!!!
Hi, I hope you don't mind me jumping into this discussion.
DD also loves craft. She is almost 4 and starting to come up with her own ideas. The other morning, she got up before anyone else and when I walked into the kitchen table, I saw that she had drawn, coloured and cut out a bird's head, tail and two wings, sticky taped it all together and taped a pencil to the back to hold her "puppet". I was blown away! She has no interest in TV anymore, just wants to colour, cut and tape all day (when she's not running around and climbing).
I'm really enjoying it, too. There are sooo many things you can do. Even just a white paper plate could be the starting point to a million different projects.
Anyway, I have a question for the seasoned kiddy crafters out there: What's the best glue to use? I have some Clag PVA kids glue. But I don't like it at all. It takes forever to dry, is very messy and not very strong. I also have a glue stick, which I like for paper, but it's useless when we're trying to stick flat beads or googley eyes on. For this I like to use either a UHU brand super glue
or a hot glue gun. But they are both not very kid friendly. The Superglue sticks DDs fingers together (slight exaggeration) and the glue gun is very hot and dangerous.
What do you use to stick things like feathers or pompoms onto card etc.?
Sorry for the hijack, I hope you don't mind...
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 :)
CRAFT ALBUM
We made a fish tank, bird & frog out of plastic plates (paper would be easier but we didn't have any)
Basically we painted the plates and let them dry then we glue on
Fish tank: fish shapes we cut out of colored paper and used glitter for scales and pipe cleaners as coral :) we also glued on some blue streamers as the 'sea'.
Bird - cut out hand prints then glued massive bright feathers to each of the fingers, then glues to the back to look like wings, used the triangle piece from an egg carton, painted it and used as a beak :)
Frog - milk bottles with black texta for eyes, a pipe cleaner for the mouth and red streamer for the tongue :P
Today's adventures were collecting branches, leaves and sticks from different trees etc around the house, adding those pics now :)
Photos are beautiful ZF. I LOVE the ones with the leaves.
Aww thanks hun, when you come for a visit or when i come to you i can raid the trees for more :p
Was great fun.
sorry sunshine_sieben i didn't notice your post - i just bought an all purpose craft glue from the cheap shop the other day, goes on white but dries clear, is a bit better for the google eyes and awkward stuff but we use glue stick for paper :)
Zf, I love your avvie! Will check the photos out tonite