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Kid’s Craft: Beaded Valentine’s Mobile

24. January 2012

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Kid’s Craft: Beaded Valentine’s Mobile

Here’s a pretty project to make with kids of all ages - a Valentine mobile made using pony beads and chenille stems aka pipe cleaners.  Kids can use their creativity making all kinds of pretty hearts to add a little love to the air… literally! This is also a great activity for younger kids (with adult supervision, [...]

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Ornament Challenge 2011: Easy Holiday Banner Ornaments and Garland

14. December 2011

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Ornament Challenge 2011: Easy Holiday Banner Ornaments and Garland

Make festive garland or individual paper ornaments featuring mini art pieces you and your child create. You don’t have to get fancy to add holiday cheer to your decor. Pick 2-3 colors of card stock, add in coordinating glitter glue and you are on your way to fabulous holiday decorating!   Materials used in this [...]

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Building a Dollhouse: Adding Shingles

30. November 2011

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Building a Dollhouse: Adding Shingles

Adding dollhouse shingles can be difficult and a rather slow process.  Before even beginning you must read the dollhouse manual instructions, thoroughly.  Though it looks like you have a lot of shingles to work with – if you start to make mistakes with your angles and cuts you may not have enough wooden shingles to [...]

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Mix and Match Christmas Gift Bags and Tags

16. November 2011

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Mix and Match Christmas Gift Bags and Tags

You and your kids can make some fantastic custom gift bags with coordinating gift tags just by mixing and matching a few supplies. The trick is to use coordinating papers and embellishments and then combine them in different ways to create a variety of looks. For this project I used flowers even though the bags [...]

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Silly Pencil Toppers

3. November 2011

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Silly Pencil Toppers

This post was generously shared by the Bowdabra Blog- a place where you can find a myriad of fun projects to make with your Bowdabra Bow-Making Tool! Back-to-School Crafts: Silly Pencil Toppers Using the Mini Bowdabra create silly pencil toppers perfect for back-to-school!  Add craft boa, feathers, and pipe cleaners for some crazy fun!  Kids [...]

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Building a Dollhouse: Eave Trim Pieces

19. October 2011

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Building a Dollhouse: Eave Trim Pieces

I am having such a wonderful time building a dollhouse for my granddaughter.   After a long day at work it is nice to spend the evenings relaxing and working on the dollhouse.  I have made huge amounts of progress and I have really enjoyed the time spent designing it for her.  Today I will share [...]

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Monster Masks & Fun Kid Collages

18. October 2011

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Monster Masks & Fun Kid Collages

Do you ever have an idea but aren’t sure which supplies you need and then when you do try to come up with supplies it just gets complicated? With kids crafts a lot of the supplies can be used in a variety of ways. Also, many of the projects can be created in a variety [...]

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Meet it Monday: Pony Beads!

10. October 2011

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Meet it Monday: Pony Beads!

Kids plus beads equals hours of fun! Beads aren’t just for jewelry and bags of plastic beads for kids can create hours of fun. In additional to stringing beads on a variety of threads or yarn, you can also use beads in collage projects, chenille stem sculptures and accessorizing anything you can add glue to. [...]

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Meet It Monday – Signed, Sealed, & Remembered Bottle Caps

19. September 2011

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Meet It Monday – Signed, Sealed, & Remembered Bottle Caps

Bottle caps can be used in a wide variety of craft projects.  Bottle caps are perfect for hair bow centers, scrapbooking, jewelry, and are wonderful accents for frames and other home decor pieces.  Signed, Sealed & Remembered Bottle Caps come in a wide variety of colors and finishing styles. Consumer Crafts stocks assorted colored bottle [...]

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How to Make a Fall Beaded Dollhouse Wreath

7. September 2011

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How to Make a Fall Beaded Dollhouse Wreath

Part of the fun of having a dollhouse is accessorizing! This easy-to-follow tutorial will show you how to create a beaded miniature dollhouse wreath for the front door or bay window of your dollhouse.  Paul (my father and fellow Crafts Unleashed Designer) is assembling the Victorian Farmhouse Dollhouse Kit.  Yesterday, he added a beads and [...]

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