- Crafts: Doodle Art, Crafts: Painting, Crafts: Recycling, Holiday: Passover Table, Holiday: Pesach/Passover, Recycled Cereal Box Crafts, Recycled Food Box Crafts
Passover Pyramid Craft From A Cereal Box!
With Passover arriving this coming Saturday night, now is the time to fit in some last minute crafting in anticipation of this wonderful holiday, and possibly keep the kids busy with a crafting station so you can finish, or continue all the holiday preparations! The essence of the holiday is to tell the story of the Jews deliverance from Egypt to the children, so getting kids involved with decorations and hand made items to celebrate and absorb this game changing history of the Jewish people is really really important! I have been wanting to make cardboard pyramids for a few years, and while I didn’t quite realize my dreams…
-
Welcome To Craft Schooling Sunday!
Welcome to Craft Schooling Sunday, thanks so much for joining me here! With just one week until Passover, the heat is on, the studio/office needs serious cleaning and reorganizing, and I may just have to invite my whole family in to help me in order to get it done in one day, as that is all I have realistically, and if not now, when? So friends, create to your heart’s content, collect recyclables, make tons of art…..but try to organize once a week, or you may just end up with the mess I’m now facing. Not to worry I will not be sharing any photos, either before or after, just…
-
How To Choose The Right Sized Pot For Your Plant
Spring is here, and what better way to celebrate the season than with plants? Flowering plants and plants in general are a wonderful way to add colorful and attractive accents to your home, patio and garden. Plants indoors of course need pots, as do plants on a patio or deck, and some choose to bury seasonal flowering plants in pots in the garden to ease removal. Regardless of how plants fit into your life, there are two major factor that comes into play. Firstly make sure to buy quality plants or bulbs from reliable sellers like Dutch-bulbs.com and secondly use the pots that are best suited to your plants! It…
-
6 Creative Ways to Play with Your Kids
When kids aren’t quite sure what to do with themselves, things can get sticky. So, if you don’t want to end up in the middle of meltdown, you need to think of something, fast. Sometimes creative parenting and interesting activities don’t quickly come to mind, and so it is a great idea to work on having projects and ideas on hand at all times, waiting and ready for that necessary moment! Why not take a notebook and use it to write down ideas, and slip in some coloring sheets, word games, and pictures to cut up for collage. Of course the right toys can also provide huge relief for kids…
-
Sunburst Granny Square Meets Color, Thanks To A Reader!
There is just something about a great color combination together with a wonderful crocheted granny square that makes my heart sing! I can’t say I’ve had the time or inclination to crochet much lately (of course I did crochet doll clothes, and need to do a spring outfit pronto…yikes!) because, well, one can’t do it all, and I’m putting most of my creative time into painting and art related endeavors. To see a reader, @hardknotlifecrochet, take my sunburst granny square (available for purchase on my etsy store here) and give it color was such a wonderful surprise, I just had to share it with you! When I designed this granny…
- Crafts: Crochet, Crochet Decor And Home, Crochet Pouches And Purses, Crochet With Commercial T-Shirt Yarn
A Fun Crochet Meets Plastic Basket For Spring
I just found this in my archives, and thought I’d post it again, as it is a great one! Any container with holes can be spiffied up with some t-shirt yarn and a crochet hook, so when you do your spring cleaning…….I just remembered I put something in the recycling pile that could be upcycled, good thing I’m taking my own advice! Enjoy! Spring is here which means it is time to get started with the Spring/Pesach organizing and cleaning……but first of course as I was recovering from a very festive Purim I spied a cute little basket with holes in it, that could be much more useful if one…
