Kids Crafts

Welcome to our Kids Crafts page. Here you'll find all kinds of fun crafts, projects, tips, and activities for kids, many centered around the current holiday or season. Check out a few of our most popular posts here, or scroll down for the most recent projects.

Love-ly Valentine’s Day Coloring Pages

by Marie January 31, 2011

Download and print these LOVE-ly Valentine’s Day Coloring Pages for your little ones to color! These would make a great classroom party activity or even for your child to color and pass out to friends with a little treat.

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Monster Valentine’s Cards for the Classroom

by Marie January 28, 2011

We’re making these fun monster cards for Valentine’s Day. They are sure to be eye-popping fun for any boy or girl to receive! Supplies for Monster Valentine Cards: paper – all different colors cardstock paper – folded in half for cards googley eyes – the larger the better foam glue dots glue stick markers or [...]

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Knock Knock Jokes for Your Valentine

by Marie January 24, 2011

Knock, Knock Who’s There? Pamela Pamela, Who? Pamela from Frenchknots Guest Posting today on Make and Takes My boys are soooo into Knock, Knock Jokes lately. In the car, at the dinner table, in the bath, they can’t seem to get enough of them. So, I thought what better way to get them involved in [...]

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Tis the Season for Edible Snowmen and Valentine Projects

by Marie January 19, 2011

Here’s a few places I’ve been posting this week. A little Frosty snack, as well as getting the house ready with a few Valentine projects. This Rice Krispie snowman from Snackpicks is dipped in powdered sugar snow to keep him cool! We had fun building him. We’re lining our steps with these Valentine Paper Bag [...]

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My Son’s MEGAMIND Birthday Party

by Marie January 14, 2011

We just celebrated my son’s 8th birthday. I can’t believe I have an 8 year old!! He wanted to go see the movie MegaMind, so we thought we’d make a fun theme out of it for his birthday party. For his costume, he’s wearing a blue craft foam visor upside down for Megamind’s head, and [...]

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Mini Cookie Dipped Snowmen

by Marie January 12, 2011

We’re dipping mini cookies into white chocolate to create cute little snowmen! They’re almost to “cool” to eat! Supplies for Mini Cookie Dipped Snowman: mini sandwich cookies – any kind white chocolate – melted lollipop sticks or flat craft sticks bowls candy – mike and ikes, mini m&ms, mini chocolate chips, or gumdrops 1. Open [...]

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Making Silly Family Pictures with Wipe Off Photo Frames

by Marie January 10, 2011

Since seeing the post Wipe Off Menu Boards, I had the thought that it would be fun to do pretty much the same thing with family photos. We’re drawing onto frames with wipe off markers, creating silly family photos. Supplies for Wipe Off Picture Frames: glass or plastic picture frame, any size or shape – [...]

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Science Journal: Observing Snow

by Marie January 10, 2011

With all this white stuff around our house, we thought it would be fun to bring some of it inside and investigate. I’ve previously talked about a Starting a Science Observation Journal, so today we’re observing, testing and recording snow. Supplies for Observing Snow: notebook pencil bowls spoons tape for labeling cold temperature measuring device [...]

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Saturday Spotlight: Snowflakes

by Marie January 8, 2011

Here are a few wintry snowflake submissions from the M&T Spotlight, all ready for a snow party. Do you have snow at your house or do I need to come visit you in some warm location?! Next week I’ll be spotlighting Soup submissions, so get your soup on! Recycled Cardboard Snowflakes Origami Style Snowflakes Beaded [...]

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Coffee Filter Snowflakes on a String

by Marie January 3, 2011

Snow is falling all around here in Utah. But if you are nowhere near any winter snow, then you’ll want to create your own with these fun coffee filter snowflakes to hang all through the house. Supplies for Coffee Filter Snowflakes on a String: coffee filters scissors (adult and child scissors) yarn or ribbon tape [...]

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