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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, …
A little while ago Camille Styles asked me to be a part of her Entertaining With series and as I always love a good excuse to celebrate i say yes of course! Deciding on a fanciful kids House Party as the theme, I put together a spread of fun finger foods, fruits and salad and finished it all off …
Time for another Playfully Made by YOU! post. I get so giddy and happy when I see your little ones exploring the world of creativity, art and play through my book Playful: Fun Projects to Make with + For Kids. Like how perfect is little Miette in her twig crown? I love that she collected dried rosemary …
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 …
I’ve been working on my series of oversized craft-along dolls and have been having lots of fun! I’m planning on three different hair styles, starting with this two bun version – so we’ll see how it goes. Each face is hand painted, so each are different, and I’ve loved getting to know these dolls in the process. I …
As I mentioned yesterday, we held our fist local Kids Craft Camp this week! It was a hit complete with four units, 1) Camping, 2) Nature, 3) Portraits 4) painting/printmaking. The kids sewed their own sashes and created a badge each day to go along with the unit of that day. With finished off with a bang …
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 …
It’s seriously impossible to pick a favorite project from my book Playful: Fun Projects to Make With and For Kids, but i have to say that this cardboard brownstone doll house just might be a crowd favorite. I’ve absolutely loved seeing all the houses you are making from this pattern! Have a look on instagram under the hash tag #playfulbrownstones …
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 …