play creatively
If you want to make the paper house crown from our house cookie decorating party (spotlighted on Camille Styles last week) it’s really quite easy! You can freehand one yourself from a poster board or use our template which you can download here. After downloading the template You can enlarge to desired size or just use it as a …
If you are looking to put on a Kids Craft Camp of your own tune into Studio 5 today to see some of my tips on how to make it easy and fun from you very own Kitchen table! And if you want to follow along with our Kids Craft Camp units, Camping, Painting, …
I’m so excited to share a recap of our first local summer Kids Craft Camp with you! Starting with our first day/unit – CAMPING! We had seven of our nine campers arrive on our first day, suite up in their make-a-face aprons and get right to work getting messy and creative. To start things off I thought it would be fun …
Friends our first local KIDS CRAFT CAMP finished up to day and goodness me I’m beat! It was such great creative fun. We made leaf and twig crowns, splatter painted capes and cloaks, made puppets out of cardboard, and set up camp for little wooden peg friends and more! I’ll be giving a play-by-play of each …
We’re so excited to for Kids Craft Camp to start next week! We can’t even believe it’s here already. I’ve been working hard on getting everything together for your little ones and have had lots of hands to help. I’ve recently discovered that Jon is the good luck charm when it comes to thrift shopping …
We had fun braiding duct tape and turning it into accessories to wear such as headbands and bracelets, etc. I think we’ll have to make a red white and blue one for the fourth of July! Get the full tutorial on how to make these on Minted Julep today.
How pretty is Instagram’s new clean white look? I love it. Here’s just a sample of my feed (which you can follow here if you like. Lots of updates on the Banister House, my illustration, our daily comings and goings and as always – loads of good crafty fun!). xo Mer
We like to up the earning in the summer time for the kids so that they can have opportunities to purchase souvenirs on trips as well as learn a bit more about money, saving and giving. It also helps to fill the days with productivity a bit more as they are trying to earn “tickets” (which …
We’re knee deep in Kids Craft Camp planning and I’m in the process of sewing a set of Make-A-Face aprons for all the campers to wear while getting creatively messy. I thought other artsy kiddos would be interested and wanted share the pattern with you too! We’re really loving them here so far. You can make this for your …
I’ve recently been introduced to the concept of double doodling thanks to Jean of the Artful Parent. Basically it’s when you draw/doodle with both hands opposite each other at the same time (you can see a video Jean put together about it here). I had a go of it and this sneaky little girl came …