Back-to-School Schultüte
Marie at AlphaMom shows you how to make your own back-to-school schultütte — the German tradition of sending your first-grader to school with giant cone filled with school supplies and goodies.
Kids Crafts
Clay Printmaking
This looks like a fun and easy art project to do with kids, making prints using clay and objects with cool shapes. Check out the process photos over at Skinny laMinx!
Kids Art Towel Mat Tutorial
Make your own towel mat for the bathroom complete with your kiddo’s art in this tutorial by craftevolution. (Thanks Dawn! )
Frog Wheat Bag Tutorial
My mom has had a long love affair with frogs (made birthdays really easy when I was growing up), and I recently caught the bug myself (so to speak) at the California Academy of Science. So of course I fell in love with this adorable froggie hot sock (or hot frog wheat bag, as it’s […]
Singer and Instructables Kids Crafts Contest
Singer and Instructables are having a Kids Crafts Contest, and you could win a serger or sewing machine! Craft projects are excellent teaching tools – they help kids explore their creativity as they learn valuable hands-on skills. Summertime is the perfect time for crafting with, by, and for kids, so we’ve teamed up with Singer […]
How-To: Make a Yoda Hat
Heather of Dollar Store Crafts shares how to create this adorable Yoda hat from simple Dollar Store supplies. The Yoda hat is a quick and easy project, and you can make three or four of them from one dollar store blanket, making them quite the bargain! She also promises to share a handful of additional […]
How-To: Homemade Sidewalk Chalk
There’s something so summery about seeing hopscotch squares and colorful chalk drawings on the sidewalk as you walk through your neighborhood, and the kids that live near me have been pretty creative. So I was delighted to see this great sidewalk chalk how-to recently. It never occurred to me that I could make my own, […]
