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This craft is fun because it gives the children a chance to go through old magazines and pick out their favorite pictures. It’s fun to see their amazement as they transform black and white photos into impressive works of art! We used a picture of a blue jay and then used pastel chalk. It looks like an old fashioned hand-colored color photo. I bet making copies of children’s photos and copying them in black and white and then coloring them with pastels would look like a hand colored portrait.
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These are fun gifts for your children to make to bring home for the parents or to give as gifts. My children have made and brought these home different times of the year and I LOVE receiving them. Have the children make thumbprint designs on some cardstock and then draw pictures around their thumbprint designs. When you collect a few different styles, fold the drawings into cards, wrap with cellophane paper, and tie with a decorative ribbon. They will be so proud!
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Use Shaving Cream to Create Marbelized Prints
Sometimes it’s the simple things that turn out to be the best and this art project fits the bill. Swirl paints look like magic when you make them and are sure to amaze your kids. Try framing them or mounting them on a black background to make them really ‘pop” or create a set of unique notecards. We got a little carried away and even tye dyed a shirt. So much fun!
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Handprint Keepsake Craft Project
Handprint and thumbprint crafts are some of my favorites because they become real keepsake crafts for the family or are great ‘giveaway’ gifts to relatives. You’ve got to love a craft that combines both!
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Make a Rainbow Painting with Sponges
This is such an easy craft and makes such a dramatic effect that it will look like magic to toddlers, and maybe you too!. This also makes a really easy face painting idea to put a rainbow on the cheek, ankle or wrist and you don’t even need to be artistic to do a great job. Just load up a sponge with the face paints in the color of the rainbow and drag. It’s really just that simple!
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Valentine’s Day celebrations for toddlers can be kept simple and this Valentine’s Day heart craft made from jell-o fits the bill. It’s easy to make and smells great too.
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Children’s Photo Hanging Spider Craft
Kids just love this Halloween spider craft. It’s fun to see themselves as a hanging spider. This is a perfect Halloween school craft. We made them in my son’s classroom and hung them in the hallway with spider webs. They loved it!
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Halloween Craft from Recycled Juice Box
Here’s a really easy and really cute craft project for Halloween. It also doubles as a treat holder for Halloween goodies or as a Halloween table decoration. What fun your trick or treater will have filling them up. I think a matching bride is in order, don’t you?
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Tie Dye Socks – What an Idea!
My sons have been pegged the Mismatch Twins at school because they have been wearing different socks all year long. Some battles with six year old twin boys just aren’t worth fighting and matching socks has been one of them.
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This craft is fun because it gives the children a chance to go through old magazines and pick out their favorite pictures. It’s fun to see their amazement as they transform black and white photos into impressive works of art! We used a picture of a blue jay and then used pastel chalk. It looks like an old fashioned hand-colored color photo. I bet making copies of children’s photos and copying them in black and white and then coloring them with pastels would look like a hand colored portrait.
