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Craft Ideas
Great Crafts
Garden Stepping Stones
This mom Carolee told me she likes to make garden stones with her kids each spring.
They try and do hand prints or paw prints or something special to remember that
particular year. Easy to do and many kits you can buy as well.
Embellishing Easter Eggs
Some fun new ideas for decorating Easter eggs.
This Mom Lisa told me about these ideas she saw in the magazine All You.
Flowered Eggs
For these you need craft blue, scrapbooking flower stickers,
adhesive beads in different sizes and a foam paintbrush
1. On each egg, center a flower sticker, peel off adhesive backing and attach
2. Using a medium-size foam paintbrush, apply a few coats of Mod Podge glue to eggs, pressing down gently on the stickers to flatten petals.
3. Allow eggs to dry overnight. When dry, remove a medium to large bead from adhesive baking and apply bead to center of each flower sticker.
4. You can really turn this into anything you like. Be creative
Bejeweled Eggs
For these you just take adhesive beads in all sizes and basically
put them on colored eggs in any design format you like.
Pop-Up Eggs
Family Fun Magazine March 2010
- 1. Cut out three identical egg shapes from card stock. Crease the eggs by folding them
- in half lengthwise and opening them back up. Cut card stock into strips of varying
- sizes from 3/4 to 1 1/4 inch wide and 9 to 12 inches long. Accordion-fold the strips so
- that there is about one inch between each fold. Attach the ends of several strips along
- one edge of an egg.
Between two of the sections, insert a loop of embroidery floss for hanging. Tip: If the
strings sag when you hang the egg, peel them off, shorten them and reposition them.
card stock
scissors
embroidery floss
double-sided tape
Butterfly Bounty Cute Snack Craft
This is a cute craft from Family Fun Magazine March 2010!
For each bag, decorate one side of a clothespin (they used glitter glue). Glue two small
googly eyes near the gripping end of the clothespin and let the glue dry. Put small crackers, dried fruit, trail mix, or whatever else you would like into a small-size ziplock bag until half full. Seal the bag, cinch the middle with your fingers, and clip it with the clothespin. Fold down the tips of a 41/2 inch length of pipe cleaner, then bend the entire piece in half.
Clip the pipe cleaner in the clothespin.
Winter Sun Catcher
This craft is really fun. I did this at a camp several years ago.
I saw it in the months Family Fun Magazine
It is basically a sun catcher made of ice.
1. First create colorful ice cubes by adding one to three drops of food coloring
to the water in each section of the ice cube tray. Use only a few matching colors,
as they will run together in the pan later. Freeze the cubes completely.
2. Fill a round cake pan about two-thirds full of water. To make the hole
for the ribbon, set a plastic cup full of water in the pan. Place the pan in the freezer
for an hour or so. Put the colored ice cubes in the pan in the freezer for an hour or so.
Put the colored ice cubes in the pan, then let all the liquid freeze solid. Remove the plastic
cup, flip the sun catcher out of the pan, then hang it outside with a ribbon!
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