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Xmas Polar Bear Cards

17:02 Natalie Karine 0 Comments

Hey there! I was having fun this evening making little holiday cards for my students and thought I would share them with.
I cut out a simple bear shape (wearing a tiny hat!) from white paper and glued it on red cardstock. Then, I traced some simple black features and voilà! So cute and easy to make!

Merry Christmas and happy crafting!

Some simple ink drawings.

the finished card! ♥

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Balloon Birthday Card!

12:25 Natalie Karine 0 Comments

I printed the words from my computer, then used a thin black marker to draw balloons and then some watercolour crayons.

With some football tickets too!

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Easy Owl Cards

05:21 Natalie Karine 0 Comments

Hi there!
This week, we made adorable owl cards at school for Mother's Day. The kids loved them AND they were so easy to do!

For the body, the kids traced a circle around a roll of masking tape. Same for the belly, but only the third of a circle. And for the eyes, they traced the cap of their glue stick onto white paper! Adorable! I even brought my special shape punches to make little hearts and stars. What a success!

circles everywhere! so easy to do!

All so different and adorable!

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Earth Day Rain Cloud

06:29 Natalie Karine 0 Comments

Hi there! Yesterday, April 22nd, was Earth Day! At my school we decided to turn the month of April into Earth Month. My students and I have been watching lots of little videos on the importance of recycling, the precious gift of water, and on ways to avoid over consumption of electricity and goods.

I wanted to share with you guys a beautiful craft we did after we talked about the importance of water. Every child cut out their own water drop and roll out why they thought water was important. Then we put it all together hanging from a beautiful raincloud and hung it in one of the windows in the classroom. Love it!

Writing on the importance of water: for drinking for plants, for animals, washing, they found so many!

Looks great in our window!

A close-up on some water drops

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DIY Polka Dot Wall

18:51 Natalie Karine 0 Comments

Hi there! I just finished my polka dot wall in my craft room and it's GORGEOUS!! I found this very sweet blog post that walked me through it. It took a total of about 2 hours. and the cost was under $30. It was pretty easy. I bought a 2 inch hole punch as well as 5 sheets (about $2 each) of vinyl decal paper and made about 120 dots. I used a laser level to make sure they were all lined up. That level was the most helpful tool ever, along with a pencil, eraser and ruler.

Getting there!

Matches my sweet golden accessories!

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DIY Watercolour Easter Bunny Card

06:06 Natalie Karine 0 Comments

I hope you're all enjoying your Easter morning with your loved ones. I got up early this morning to get creative in my new craft room! I picked up some beautiful Washi tape yesterday at Michaels and it inspired me to make some Easter cards for my family. I even ended up taking out my watercolour pencils to re-create the pattern on a bunny cutout... and WOW! I'm so happy with the results!
Materials:
⚘ cardtock
⚘ Washi tape
⚘ watercolour pencils and paintbrush
⚘ fine black marker
⚘ glue and scissors

Washi tape really adds a lot to a card!

I traced a bunch of bunnies with a template I made.

Watercolour pencils are way easier to use than the tube stuff!

Watercolour bunnies!

Voilà! Happy Easter!

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Pop-up Easter Egg Card

13:53 Natalie Karine 0 Comments

More Easter Crafts! the kids enjoyed making these so much. It went along with our unit on writing and reading instructions for French class AND the kids got to make a sweet Easter card for their parents. Some of them even added their origami bunnies inside (link here).

 If you want to make your own, you can find the templates and instructions here in French, but there are sweet images to guide my anglophone friends. Happy crafting and Happy Easter!

All so different and amazing!

With a little origami bunny inside!

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Easter Bunny Origami

13:22 Natalie Karine 0 Comments

Hi again! Check out more of our Easter crafts! We did this fun origami bunny and the kids loved it! They wanted to do a whole bunch each.
We are studying how to write instructions right now in French class, so we've been reading recipes and craft instructions. We can't make food at school, but we can definitely craft, so the kids are loving the mixture of crafts and reading in French class lately. Check out this link here for the instructions. However, I ended up translating them in French for my students,  Happy crafting!

Love them!!!!

Click for instructions

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Easy Easter Popsicle Stick Cross

13:10 Natalie Karine 1 Comments

Hi there! It's Good Friday to day, and I'm having a great time relaxing at home. What a perfect time to catch up on my blog. This week we talked a lot about Easter at school, especially since I teach at a catholic school. The whole school made little crosses, but our were especially adorable! We had talked a lot about Spring and how life reapears after a long winter. We also had some great discussions on the strenght of peace, love and joy in our lives, All off this came out with this super easy-peasy craft! Check it out!

       Materials:
          ⏩ Popsicle sticks
          ⏩ Glue
          ⏩ Yarn
          ⏩ Markers
          ⏩ Fine black marker

All so different and adorable!

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Kitchen Printables

16:09 Natalie Karine 0 Comments

Hi there! I've been so busy lately that I haven't posted much! March was crazy! We spent a week and Italy, then packed up and moved into a bigger home. It's coming along quite nicely, and thought I would share some fun prints we found for our kitchen. They are so "punny"! I found them on The Cottage Market website and the best part is that they're FREE! We framed them with inexpensive Ikea frames and they turned out great.. and around $25!

Here are the printables if you want your own set!

Love them so much! And looks great in grey ikea frames.

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You're tea-riffic card!

17:47 Natalie Karine 0 Comments

Happy Valentine's day! What a great day it's been: so many little hugs and valentines from my students, crafts and special treats! My day started off on a great note exchanging cards with my love Jeremy. I had so much fun making his card this weekend! I found the idea on pinterest, then printed the words from my computer and slapped a tea bag on there. Added a bit of details with a thin black marker and voilà: an adorable and hilarious card!

Materials:
 ✏ cardstock
 ✏ tea bag
 ✏ black marker

I picked a tea he likes... smells so yummy!

Who knew you could draw on a tea bag!?

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DIY Beaver Valentines!

16:51 Natalie Karine 0 Comments

Hi there! It was snowing all day over here, so me and the mister stayed home. I decided to put on some comfy clothes and have a crafternoon after some movie-watching. What a lovely afternoon it was!

Every year, I usually make my students a little handmade valentine. This year, I decided to revisit an old project: my DIY Squirrel valentines (check them out here). However, our school mascot is a beaver... so i just switched out my little woodland creature. They turned out so adorable!!


Materials:
  ❥ coloured card stock 
  ❥ fine black marker
  ❥ glue stick
  ❥ scissors 
  ❥ coloring pencils 
  ❥ felt hearts
  ❥ DIY Heart Stamp & stamp pad
à

I made all 22 one step at a time, assembly-line style!

So cute! Can't wait to hand them out!

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Paper Heart Garland

17:41 Natalie Karine 0 Comments

Hi there! Valentines day is around the corner and I wanted to decorate my classroom. Not go overboard, but just add a few hearts here and there. I had some pretty valentine's day patterned paper i picked up last year,  so I decided to cut out some hearts and string them together to make a garland. I have 3 hanging around the classroom and I love 'em so much! I even laminated them so that I can re-use them every year! They were inspired my my Fall leaf garlands! Hooray for DIY!




Materials:
 ❥ coloured or printed cardstock
 ❥ needle and string
 ❥ scissors



Instructions:
① Make a heart the size you like (I found a clipart on-line)
② Trace hearts onto your cardstock and cut them out (I cut two sheets at once - one with the image, one without underneath).
③ "Sew" the string into each heart, alternating colours!
④ Voilà!

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What a Ride Card

07:30 Natalie Karine 0 Comments

Hey guys! I had a fun morning making this card for a good friend of mine. She has a special day today so I decided to make her a card full of love! I'm sure getting value out of this heart punch!
Check out my other DIY confetti heart card here!

Materials:
 ❥ cardstock
 ❥ scraps of patterned paper
 ❥ heart punch
 ❥ thin black marker
 ❥ printer

I started by printing the words "What a ride" on my cardstock. I used the font "Emily the brush" Then I drew a tiny bicycle!

The start....

Then I punched out a bunch of tiny hearts!

I glued them down and drew little strings to transform them into balloons!

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Heart Confetti Card

04:16 Natalie Karine 0 Comments

Hi there!

Yesterday, i made a secret card for my amazing boyfriend, as we celebrate our six months together. He's makes my heart so full that I had to make him a card full of hearts!! I also got to try out my new heart punch! Awesome!