School/kids crafts

Chinese Paper Lantern

06:39 Natalie Karine 0 Comments

Hi there! We've been celebrating Chinese New Year (or Lunar New Year) at school since Febrary 10th. This year is the Year of the snake. Last week we made awesome bouncy Spiral snakes (Check out this free printable project) This week we made some paper lanterns. They are super easy and fun to make, and the kids LOVED them!

Materials
     ☽ construction paper
     ☽ coloring pencils
     ☽ glue or tape
     ☽ scissors
     ☽ ruler
     ☽ yarn

Simply follow these easy instructions!

Draw whichever design you like!

Good cutting/fine motor skills exercise!

We added yarn for our handles!

We even learned an awesome Chinese New Year song... Gung Hay Fat Choy

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xo Potato Stamps

18:34 Natalie Karine 0 Comments

Hi There! Valentine's  Day is in two days and we are crafting away at school finishing our Salt dough handprints! We are also going to have fun wrapping our presents for Mom & Dad with beautiful handmade wrapping paper using POTATOES and paint!

Materials
    ♥ potatoes & knife
    ♥ tempera paint
    ♥ kraft paper

Instructions
Cut your potato in half. Carve out and "x" in one half and an "o" in the other. Dip into the paint and stamp away on you kraft paper and let it dry. Wrap it around an awesome gift!

be careful when you carve!

before and after!

Looks great! can't wait to use it as wrapping paper!

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Popsicle Valentines!

07:13 Natalie Karine 0 Comments

I wanted to make valentines this year with something yummy on them.... I also love play on words. That Simpsons when Ralf gives the choo choo choose you valentine makes me giggle every time! So I decided to make popsicles to let people know how i think they are pretty cool and very sweet! Hah! get it?! Frozen AND full of sugar!

Classic.

Stamping and collage in one!

ta dam!

playing around my handmade heart stamp!

So many popsicles! YUM!

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Handprint Heart Cards

06:38 Natalie Karine 0 Comments

We are getting ready for Valentine's Day at school and to go along with our Salt Dough Handprints, the kids also made handprint cards! However, this isn't your ordinary handprint card.... it also a heart! So darn cute! Simply paint the child's hand with paint hand help them position it to make an awesome heart!

   Materials
      ♥ Tempera paint
      ♥ Paintbrush
      ♥ Cardstock
      ♥ Crayons

Look at all the tiny colorful hearts around the hand heart!

"I love you mom and dad" xo

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Salt Dough Handprint Keepsake

06:25 Natalie Karine 0 Comments

Keepsake crafts are awesome little projects that will be treasured forever. I love it when I find a project that I did 20 years ago as a kid... It blows my mind! At school, for Valentines Day we decided to make keepsake handprints for the kids to give to their parents! We used easy to make and inexpensive salt dough, baked them and painted them! What a perfect little gift for mom and dad!

     Salt dough recipe
          2 cups all-purpose flour
          1 cup salt
          1 cup water



Instructions
Mix the flour and salt in a large bowl. Gradually add water and stir. Once the mixture turns into a big clump you can transfer it to a hard surface and knead it. This will warm and stretch the dough to make it soft and minimize the formation of cracks during baking. The kids loved doing this (I called it folding/squishing). Take a nice big chunk and make a ball. them flatten it with a plate so that it's nice and even. Now gently press your hand in it!

Bake at 200℉ for 3-4 hours. For the really thick ones I even did up to 6 hours. Don't worry if they are rock hard, these guys will eventually just air dry!

Paint your handprint and voilà! Admire your tiny hand forever! You can even make a Handprint Heart Card to go along with it!

Painting away!

Soooo adorable! I hope they keep them forever!

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DIY Heart Stamp

08:14 Natalie Karine 0 Comments

Valentine's Day is coming up and I started thing about some fun crafts. This morning I played around with stamping, making my own homemade heart stamp. All you need is an old plastic bottle lid, a foam shape and some glue! Super easy and cheap!

Materials
    ♡ bottle lid
    ♡ foam shape
    ♡ glue
    ♡ markers or ink pad
 

Your supplies

glue the foam shape to the bottle lid.

"Ink" with markers or a ink pad and have some fun!

playing around trying to figure out my valentines!

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Snowman Names

08:01 Natalie Karine 0 Comments

Winter! Its been so cold and slippery that we couldn't take the kids outside for the past two days. You know what that means? CRAFT TIME! Here are some fun snowmen we did. The kids spelled out their names, one letter on each snowball. The snowmen end up as long as their name (plus a head!) So cute!

Materials
    ❄ long strip of construction paper
    ❄ white paper
    ❄ coloring pencils
    ❄ scraps of patterned paper
    ❄ googly eyes

look at these silly face! There's even a snowbear on the left!

The kids added scarves and hat!

Lovely! even with pipe cleaner arms!