Family Fun Crafts

September 30, 2008 – 11:58 am

If you’re looking for sites with crafts you can do with kids on a regular basis, be sure to check out Family Fun. While one of what I am sure is many sites owned and sponsored by Disney, Family Fun has an entire section dedicated to arts and crafts, parties, recipes and more.

Currently they are featuring a large selection of Halloween crafts and treats to serve this Halloween season. The crafts are categorized by season, age and even some how to videos.

Our favorite crafts for Halloween have to be General Bone E Part, an almost life size skeleton created from recycled plastic jugs and PVC pipes. This craft also has a template and written instructions and will dismantle easily for storage.

And these cute tiny pumpkins are acorns that have undergone a transformation! Courtesy of acrylic paint.

As for spooky treats, we really liked the entire section dedicated to Halloween treats but the recipe for Monster Paws and these Sweet Skull cupcakes.

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Pom Pom Crafts

September 26, 2008 – 5:00 am

Pom poms are those cute little fuzzy balls that come in lots of different colors and sizes. Some are even sparkly and metallic now so the creativity can really flow! This is a great craft for kids to work with under supervision since the quickest and easiest way to create pom pom ball crafts is with a glue gun.

Making Friends made Bugs with pom poms and pipe cleaners

Snowman: All you need is three white pom poms of different sizes, 3 tiny black pom poms for coal buttons, 1 orange for the nose (perhaps even cut in half) and black fabric paint to dot on eyes and a mouth.

Bat: A large purple or black metallic pom pom and some black craft foam to cut wings out of, add a couple google eyes and you’re done!

Nancy’s Pom Pom Palace is a treasure trove of ideas!

Underwater creatures from MyCraftCloset. The instructions say to follow the photo, but there is a materials list on the site!

And of course, the classic caterpillar! From CraftatHome.

If you just happen to throwing a children’s birthday party or some other event of the sort with throngs of kids hanging around and this is your craft activity of choice, consider serving treats that go with the theme! The theme being things that are round, but not necessarily fuzzy!

Kid’s Cuisine Popcorn Balls

Melon Balls! Cantaloupe, honeydew or other fruits like mango or strawberries.

Grapes, blueberries and cranberries are also round.

Swedish Meatballs- choose one of these many recipes! Or Taste of Home’s.

Russian Tea Cake Cookies straight from Betty Crocker

Rice Krispy treats- formed into balls

Need pom pom craft supplies online? Try Crafts, Etc! Lots of colors and sizes and you can throw some pipe cleaners in your cart while you’re at it!

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Pipe Cleaner Crafts

September 24, 2008 – 5:00 am

Also called chenille stems, pipe cleaners are bendy, fun, come in lots of colors, neon, regular and metallic and are ultra affordable! If you find yourself throwing a kid’s birthday party or Halloween party this year and need an idea for a craft or activity that kids can do, pipe cleaners should be your medium of choice.

Here’s a bunch of ideas that both kids and adults can use when crafting with pipe cleaners!

Stick Figures to the max from Family Fun

The classic pipe cleaner spider from eHow.

Hershey’s Kisses Critters

Family Fun’s Dinosaur

Daisy from Wikihow (also lots others, dragonflies, birds and butterflies!)

Craft Critique purchased the jumbo sized pipe cleaners and made a whole bunch of projects!

Still need more? Talking Child has entire alphabetic directory of crafts made with pipe cleaners!

If want to get really advanced Garie’s Clay Creations combines pipe cleaners and polymer clay! So cute.

Check out how to make your own fuzzy teddy bear, step by step.

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September Favorites on Etsy

September 22, 2008 – 5:00 am

Unfortunately we seemed to have skipped August’s spotlight completely! That’s OK though, cause we’ll make up for it with extra crafty and extra neat projects from Etsy in our Fall Crafts Spotlight. We can’t all be Martha Stewart all the time and let’s face it, the folks on Etsy are pros and can create some really neat things! So without further adieu, we bring you September Favorites on Etsy!