How to Make an Origami Shamrock Bouquet in a Leprechaun Hat This is a fun and festive paper craft project for St Patrick’s Day. The Shamrock bouquet is made from construction paper and pipe cleaners. The Leprechaun Hat is made from construction paper and a cardboard toilet tissue tube. **Scissors and hot glue aspects of…
Month: February 2020
How to Make Dragonflies from Ice Cream Sticks
Make a Dragon Fly from a Wooden Ice Cream Stick This is a great activity for all ages and abilities. These beautiful dragonflies are made from wooden ice cream sticks and are super easy. Start saving those ice cream sticks and Get Your Creative On! (You can buy the sticks in bulk too but eating…
How to Make Finger Puppets
Make Finger Puppets from Felt or Construction Paper This is a fun project to do with younger children making the paper/stick puppets. Hand stitched felt finger puppets are ideal for older kids to learn and practice the basics of hand sewing. We chose Woodland themed animals for this project. Instructions for how to make paper…
How To Make a Puppet Theatre from a Cereal Box
How to Make a Puppet Theatre from a Cereal Box This project is simple and fun to make but the real fun is in creating your own puppet show. We’ll make puppets to go with the theatre in a separate post. Here’s a link to making finger puppets: http://getcreativewithnana.com/how-to-make-finger-puppets SUPPLIES Cardboard cereal box (we used…
Whimsical Beach Pebble Art
When you collect too many lovely beach finds and you can’t take them ALL home with you. Create some fun whimsical pebble art, photograph it and then put the pebbles back on the beach. Except for the super special vacation memento ones of course. The photographs themselves become treasured mementos, souvenirs from…
How to Make a Snowman from a Recycled Bottle
This is a quick and easy project that requires very few materials and makes creative use of recycled containers. The finished snowmen are super cute and such happy characters. How to Make the Snowman The first step is to search your blue box to find a plastic bottle. Ideally the ones with roundish silhouettes work…