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.

Super Creepy Crispy Treats for Halloween

by Marie October 13, 2010

Please welcome M&T’s first guest Dad Blogger, Drew from BenSpark.com. He made some fun treats with his family, putting a new perspective on a fun M&T Halloween activity. Hi, this is Drew Bennett from BenSpark.com guest posting here on Make and Takes. Marie asked if I would check through the archives and find a project [...]

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We’re Crafting Super SPOOKY Halloween Hats

by Marie October 11, 2010

We had so much fun crafting these hats the other day! They are super quick and easy to make, just a couple of supplies and a good glue. I’m sharing the instructions for these fun Halloween knit hats over at BabyCenter’s Momformation today. I’d love for you to head over and see how we made [...]

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Mix and Match Pumpkin Faces

by Marie October 4, 2010

Since it’s not quite time to carve faces into our pumpkins, we’re decorating them with foam face features. These mix and match pumpkins are fun to switch up again and again. They are the perfect Halloween kid’s craft. Supplies for Mix and Match Pumpkin Faces: Pumpkins – can be real or faux sticky back velcro [...]

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Counting Down the Days to Halloween

by Marie September 27, 2010

Halloween is one of my favorite holidays. I also love that we get to celebrate and decorate for the entire month, with Halloween landing on the 31st. I’ve shared a fun Pumpkin Countdown before, but this year I’ve come up with a new way to celebrate the holiday with this Witch Halloween Countdown. Head on [...]

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Halloween Candy Witch Brooms to Make You Cackle

by Marie September 22, 2010

Halloween is such a great time for crafts and treats. We’re making chocolate candy witch brooms, similar to these Easter candy lollipops we made last April. These witch brooms are so easy to create and make a spooky treat for any Halloween party. They are a perfect chocolate & pretzel combination! Supplies for Candy Witch [...]

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Fall Activity: Make Nature Faces

by Heather September 20, 2010

The weather is still nice at this time of year, and there are so many wonderful things to find in the great outdoors. This is a great time to go on a nature walk and pick up whatever treasures you come across. Then use your treasures to make fun nature faces. Nature faces can be [...]

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Apple Apple Round and Red

by Marie September 13, 2010

I’m sharing a fun way to create a little red apple softie. It’s a super easy project, using fabric, stuffing, and a pipe cleaner. For the complete instruction, head on over to BabyCenter’s Life and Home. Play a game of “duck duck goose” with this soft fabric apple. Here are the words to chant as [...]

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Give Your Teacher a Bouquet of Apples

by Marie September 6, 2010

What two things immediately say “school”? Pencils and apples! Here we’ve put them together into a fun bouquet perfect for teacher. This is a great gift to give for back to school, for teacher appreciation towards the end of the year, or even during the holidays. Supplies for Apple Pencil Bouquets: apples pencils vase ribbon [...]

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Homemade Volcano Erupting Red Hot Lava

by Marie August 31, 2010

We made a fun volcano out of homemade playdough, a bottle, and some red hot lava. Okay, it may not have been hot lava, but those towns people didn’t know what hit’em! They were soaked in colored baking soda and vinegar, it might as well have been hot lava! Supplies for Homemade Playdough Volcano: playdough [...]

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After-School Snacktime Containers

by Marie August 30, 2010

If your kids are like mine, they are coming home from school ready for a snack. Well, we’ve turned some fun school boxes into containers to hold those sought after snacks. Head on over to BabyCenter for all the details!

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