Arts & Crafts

This is the big kids site for crafting!  The Artful Crafter has been a wonderful resource for me over the last few months, directing me to many wonderful vendors for my art supplies.  A great site to bookmark

Gobble gobble...at the kids' card table! What fun your kids will have at their own little turkey day table. Visit HGTV online to see how a paper bag can turn into a fun centerpiece for a kids' table. Table

I don't know about you, but I'm feeling wintery. I found these cute pasta snowflakes, and if you have never made crafts with pasta, you are really missing out! It is amazing how pretty these things can be

This craft from Family Fun is so cute. You make a votive holder out of ice. A few remarks: you will have to make it in the freezer instead of outside if you want it for the autumn, but it should stay pretty solid

Check out this cute idea for finger stamp turkeys from Family Fun. The turkey is made from red, yellow, orange and brown finger stamps. They use it as a place card, but we are going to use the idea for our Thanksgiving

Popcorn and cranberry garland is very pretty on the Christmas tree and a great family tradition, but it can be hard to string the popcorn, especially for little ones.  In the Dec/Jan issue of Family Fun Magazine, a

Take some time out of your busy schedule to create one of a kind Thanksgiving decorations. There is tons of crafts and decoration ideas such as tin can turkey, turkey toothpicj holder, etc. Also you will find free

Leave it to Martha Stewart to create the most adorable decorations out of ordinary household items. Cookie cutters hold a beloved charm for their form, shape and use. And now, in addition to baking cookies, you

Amazingmoms.com is trully an amazing website for amazing moms like us. Do you need some new ideas for family fun? They have just about everything! Fun age appropriate crafts, children recipes, playtime and birthday

At my craft store (A.C. Moore) I picked up some unfinished wooden ornaments to decorate, and my daughter and I have had so much fun decorating them.  The great thing is that you can decorate these things with

If you're looking for a cute fall or winter craft idea for young kids, try this great No Sew Fleece Pillow craft from Family Fun.  Absolutely adorable and quite easy.  Great Brownie or Girl Scout craft

Check out these cute crafts for your baby’s first Christmas. They also make great gifts! I like the footprint ornament myself; makes a great keepsake!

A great craft idea for kids uses old cds.  Beat up, scratched, unusuable cds or the millions you get sent to you free from AOL can be recycled into something beautiful.  First figure out what holiday

For adults!  On today's show, Oprah mentioned how she saves wine labels from dinner and writes on the back who came and the date (I assume she then puts them in a scrapbook).  Cute way to remember

Discover the free craft instructions and downloads at Paper-Made-Easy online. Each month, the site features modern paper craft ideas such as cards, frames, and gift tags. The full-sized paper patterns are excellent

Discover a wonderful array of art storage containers at this site. There, you will find cool art supply tubes. These plastic cylinders are awesome because they hold many brushes at one time. Visit Blick Art Materials

Michaels Arts and Crafts carries a new line of funky brads that are great for scrapbooking. These brads, by Classic K, are so adorable and versatile, you can add them to your scrap pages, cards and memory boards

My daughter's school is sponsoring a fundraiser and they are using this company which allows the children's artwork to be transformed into keepsakes or personalized gifts.  They specialize in doing

Be prepared to document your wedding events by thinking "all things scrapbooking." Your wedding is probably the most special time of your life, and you want to be able to remember all the little details

I just got received in my inbox my coveted http://www.kidscraftweekly.com/ newsletter...if you don't subscribe, please do - it's wonderful! I noticed a review there today from Make And Takes a cool mommy

We've been making our own hand-soap as a fun project at home for a few years - now friends ask us for ideas for them to start, too.  I found this great kit called Luxury Soap Science Lab from Terrifictoys o

This article from Martha Stewart Living lists tools that are helpful for carving pumpkins. You could find any of these at a hardware store or home improvement store, or you may have some of them already. We always

Sticky Mosaics is a great activity or gift for kids who love crafts.  The kits come with picture templates and self-stick foam squares, and the template shows you where to place the foam squares and which color

t may be easier to make homemade jewelry with raw pumpkin seeds, but you can't eat it. Here is a craft idea for that takes the concept of an edible "candy necklace" but substitutes the candy for cooked

For anyone who loves to carve pumpkins, but has no desire to roast and eat the pumpkin seeds, this Halloween craft idea is for you. You can still enjoy the health benefits of pumpkin seeds, when you use them as

My 6 year old daughter loves working with these cool beads.  Essentially Perler Beads (or fuse beads) are little plastic beads you make designs with - and then (with the help of an adult) fuse with

I’ve been enjoying my daily newsletters from the Better Homes and Gardens 100 Days of Holidays, where they send slide shows with tons of ideas for holiday recipes, crafts, costumes, scrapbooking, gifts, and

Over 90 craft ideas for kids ages two and up are available at this website by Fisher-Price.  You can search for crafts by child's age as well as by many categories, Educational Arts & Crafts, Scribbling

My kids hate to wait for glue to dry.  So do I.  Then I happened across Glue Dots in AC Moore.  Glue Dots are amazing little circles of adhesive that instantly bond almost anything.  They come

If you're looking for something to keep your child occupied in the car, at a restaurant, or almost anywhere, try out these amazing Scratch & Sketch books. These interactive books that let kids create magical

Did you know that you can Create Your Own Custom Box of 64 Crayola Crayons at the Crayola Store?  Check it out - Great for kids who go thru certain colors like wildfire!

We received one of these make your own plate kits called Plate Works as a birthday present. I sat my 4 year old down with the drawing sheets and markers and she made the cutest drawing of herself with what seemed

My daughter and I had fun making these bats from Family Fun.

Ocean Spray has a nice section of their website called "Ocean Spray Kids"   (Go to Ocean Spray's website and click on Ocean Spray Kids in the middle) that has crafts and recipes including:

My kids love to draw and write - they often made me "books" of their creations with the stapler and lots of construction paper. Then they each got an Illustory and there's no going back to the

Believe it or not, after a long day at school my kids are still waiting for me to come up with an art project - I guess it's their way of decompressing from a day of trying to be good little students. 

If your family is like mine you have a whole summer's worth of sea shells collected throughout the house!  Put those summertime treasures to work with a little Elmers glue and a bit of creativity! 

If you’re into crafting, check out the Halloween crafts you can do with kids at Martha Stewart, like the tissue-paper garland and the glittered pumpkins. When I see new crafts I want to try, I print out the

We got some of these in a birthday party goody bag and have been addicted ever since. Wikki Stix are yarn & wax sticks that stick to each other as well as most smooth surfaces with a touch of the finger

Great craft for birthday parties, for party favors, or for an activity while traveling! Will keep those little girls occupied.  Great for brownie troops too!  IT Bows by Debbie allows you to customize

If you and your kids are into beading, order a copy of Oriental Trading Company’s catalog Sensational Beads.  It’s easier to look at everything they have in the catalog rather than on the website

Make Your Own Cards Kit was a great gift my daughter received, and she’s had lots of fun with it. It comes with 20 cards, made with nice heavy cardstock, and then tons of different diecut shapes that you

Flax Art & Design is an amazing creativity products store! They have beautiful journals, art materials, kids' award winning games and arts & crafts products. Things like: Paint your own umbrella kits

We have a bunch of the Boo Boo Buddies [I got mine from drugstore.com] and I have seen Boo Boo Bunnies in the stores for about $7. But then a friend of mine showed me how to make my own. The link above is to

I purchased some wonderful travel journals from madallie.com...and it made my trip with my grand daughters really much more fun. We did lots of arts and crafts and wrote down all the events we participated in. What

On your next vacation, pick up some large sized postcards and turn them into a Jigsaw Puzzle!  Ages 4+ You need: postcards (the larger sizes work best) poster board glue stick scissors What to do:

Because we do lots of arts and craft activities, we have our finished products all over the house, and our guests always ask where we made them.  When they hear that we made it home, they are usually surprised

Do you like to knit?  Do you want to share your hobby with your child? Knitwhits is a great company that offers knitting kits for projects from hats to cat toys.  They offer projects

Recently my daughter was invited to a birthday party for someone who "has it all", I wanted to make something special, yet inexpensive for her to give her friend.  At most craft stores you can find

This is a cool idea from Family Fun that we tried and it worked really well. Family Fun used this technique for making t-shirts with fabric paint, and there is a video demonstration that is helpful. I thought