Kid Hand Print Painting Project Perfect for Gift for Parents or Grandparents

What better way to preserve your child’s art and tiny size? This craft gives you art to hang on the wall and gives a beautiful reminder of how tiny their hand was. My daughter made these for her 2 grandmas. They are going to love them. I wish I had made a 3rd so I could keep one I guess we will have to fix that and make another! It was so sunny yesterday so I figured lets take the table in the front yard and get to painting. To my surprise there was no paint on her, the ground….or anywhere but on the paper.?. I guess she is growing up but I know if we had done this inside it probably would have been a different story.

This is super easy for all ages and makes an excellent gift. I would love to see how yours turn out or hear how much fun you guys had, Enjoy!

Materials

Washable Paint (in case you have a little one who might get messy)
Paintbrushes, or fingers
White paper
Glue stick
Scrapbook paper
Scissors
Marker
Frame
Tape

Directions

Set up a paint station for your kid.
Let them go crazy and paint whatever they want let dry completely.
Trace their hand on a piece of scrap paper. Then retrace on your scrapbook paper and cut out.
Glue the hand on the painting.
Frame and gift! Or hang on your own wall.

Homemade Mothers Day Card Craft for Toddlers

Mothers Day is this Sunday, so if you are scrambling and not sure what to make mom or grandma, have your little one make this card. Who doesn’t love a homemade gift from their favorite little one/s.

My daughter in class today made a fun mothers day card, and I figured I’d share it with all of you. It’s fun for toddlers or bigger kids, the younger they are the more help they will need from you. I hope you all have a wonderful Mothers Day and enjoy your weekend.

Happy Mothers Day to my mom, mother-in-law, & grandmas love you all!!

Materials

1 piece white paper
1 piece of colored construction paper, cut into fun shape for inside of card
markers
glue stick
little squares of tissue wrapping paper
a young ones imagination

Directions

Let your little one have a ball creating a mothers day card.

Theirs don’t need to look like this. I like the ones that show their creativity more! My daughter had a ball with the marker, then she told me that was a picture of a kitty cat!

HAPPY MOTHERS DAY!

Paper Flower Craft for Children

We made this craft at the library last week, and my daughter had so much fun. Actually all the kids there had a ball, and I even saw some moms enjoying themselves me included!

Materials

1 sheet of construction paper
scissors
stapler
straw
hand to trace

Directions

Trace your little ones hand on the paper, have them cut it out, or if too young you can do it.
Wrap around the straw and staple at the bottom of the hand, and there you have a beautiful flower.
I choose to do my hand in purple and my daughters in pink and stapled my daughters on the top of the straw, and then stapled mine a bit lower around hers, to create a mulch-colored flower.

Make as many as you want, put them in a vase on the dining room table for a few days, and let your little one feel so special for creating art in the home.

If you have any questions, let me know. I’d love to see what your little ones create.

Lizard or Snake Craft for Toddlers

This is a fun craft for toddlers and young children. You could really make this into what ever animal you’d like but we made ours into a snake/lizard. Looks like both to me

Supplies

1 piece of paper cut into a long strip.
Markers
Glue Stick
Piece of red paper or red glitter paper cut into a long triangle.

Directions

Let your little one color their animal, you might need to help draw eyes.
Fold it into thirds.
Glue the tongue on and voila you have an animal that was fun for your little one to make.

DIY Tulle Winter Wreath

This beautiful snowy white winter wreath is the perfect winter decoration. It can be up through Christmas time and carry into January and February. I really love tulle wreaths as if you could tell and this snow one is simple but perfect for my front door this winter.

Tulle Winter Wreath

Materials

1 Styrofoam wreath
1 roll of white tulle 6 x 25
ribbon in what ever color you want to be an accent color (I used a white with silver sparkly dots but any color would be pretty)
crystallized branches from the craft store
push sewing pins or hot glue gun (I used pins)

Directions

Cut your tulle into 16″ pieces.
Then take one strip at a time, and double knot it around the wreath, puffy side straight out to the sides.
String a piece of ribbon through one piece of tulle at the top of your wreath to hang it from, and do the same with a piece at the bottom and tie in a bow, this bow can be as big or little as you want.
Pin or glue the crystallized branches so they don’t move.

Strawberry Handprint Kid Craft

My daughter made this fun craft at the library story time a few weeks ago. All the kids thought it was pretty fun and it’s a way to document their cute little hand size. Hope you and your kids have fun creating strawberries.

Materials
red & green construction paper
scissors
glue stick
black marker

Directions

Cut a strawberry shape out of the red paper.
Trace your child’s hand on the green paper and glue it to the top of your strawberry.
Let them color with the black marker, your example can have little seed dots but your child will probably make a neat design like my daughter did

Supplies

My daughters strawberry!

Grandma was very excited when we visited her after the library and she got to hang this on her fridge.

Librarians Example

DIY Autumn Tulle Wreath Decoration

I saw this on Etsy for over $50 and I knew that I could make it for much cheaper. Under $15 to be exact and I have enough tulle left over that I could make another one or maybe an autumn colored tutu for my little girl…I’ll let you guys know what I decided to do.

If you know how to make a no sew tutu then this is basically the same thing. You just tie your knots around the wreath instead of ribbon/elastic. I hope these instructions make sense. If you have any questions please email me and I can explain it better, if needed. I would love to see your finished product. Have a wonderful craft time!

DIY Autumn Tulle Wreath Decoration

Materials

1 Styrofoam wreath
1 roll of tulle 6 x 25, in at least 3 colors
ribbon in coordinating colors with your tulle
decorative leaves
push sewing pin (optional)

Directions

Cut your tulle into 16-18″ pieces.
After you have all your pieces cut figure out what color pattern you want.
Then take one strip at a time, fold it in half, wrap around the wreath and pull the ends through the loop side. (pictured below).
Then you can either tie both sides in a knot or secure with a push sewing pin. Must do one of these to prevent the knot from slipping out.
Once you have all the tulle on your wreath, randomly tie a small piece of ribbon through out your wreath.
I used push sewing pins to secure my leaves in place, but you could also hot glue them.
String a long piece of ribbon through one piece of tulle at the top of your wreath to hang it from.

When I made this I forgot to take step by step photos so I borrowed this one from Whiteley Creek.

Homemade Trick or Treat Pumpkin Bag

For all of you moms out there freaking out that you don’t have a trick or treat bag for your little one, have no fear. This homemade pumpkin bag is perfect for little ones to collect a little bit of candy and they have something fun to do before they get all dress up. I hope that this helps everyone, You could always use other colors and shapes to create other characters! Enjoy!!

Material
1 brown paper lunch bag
orange and black construction paper
glue
stapler
of course goodies to put in it

You or your little one cut out shapes for your pumpkins eyes, nose, mouth and a strip for a handle.
Glue your face on the bag.
Staple the handle on and now you have a cute pumpkin trick or treat bag.

All these pumpkins have great character, I’d love to see how yours turn out!

Candy Corn Child Craft

Happy Halloween Everyone! This is the time of year when everyone, including myself, looks forward to candy corn, fun size candy bars and seeing all the adorable trick or treaters costumes. What better way to spend the day of Halloween before getting all those goodies then doing a fun craft with the kids.

This is the time of year for candy corn so what better way to celebrate the holidays then with candy corn crafts. My 2 year old loved this craft she had so much fun, gluing and sticking the tissue. Hey even mom had fun, not embarrassed to say . Next year we will probably make a few and put them on our mantel with other festive decorations.

Materials
1 wooden cone, or even a toilet paper roll, empty of course
Elmer’s glue in bowl, with paintbrush
yellow, orange, white small squares of tissue

Directions

Have your little one dip their paintbrush in the glue and cover the cone. Apply the tissue in from bottom to top in yellow, orange, white pattern. Or whatever pattern your little one wants.

More Candy Corn Coloring Sheets

Cute as a Bug Ladybug Party

Wow the first year goes by so fast. I had been planning her birthday since she was 6 months old, but it still came way to fast. I choose to do a ladybug theme, because I think they are soooo cute and I love red and black. I had seen so many cute ideas on Etsy for birthday banners and I knew that it couldn’t be that hard to make, so I gave it a shot with my moms cricket machine and it was a success, time consuming yes, but way cheaper then buying one, so I liked that idea.