All tagged Crafts
This is a perfect summer craft with your kiddos. You simply cut up some construction paper in the shape of a popsicle. Then cut up more random sized pieces. The kids can then glue the pieces on the “popsicles”, and lastly you glue a craft stick onto the back. Easy peasy!
For my dad’s birthday, we made a craft using work gloves and Melody’s handprint. I saw this a while back and knew I had to recreate it. I do wish the gloves did not have a logo on it, but I also didn’t want to pay an astronomical amount on gloves that I do not intend for him to use.
When quarantine first started, I was on the lookout for some easy and fun crafts for Melody. I ran across this one on Pinterest. You take a piece of cardboard, and you draw hands and/or feet on it. Then draw nails on that.
A paper plate flower is a cute and easy craft that you can do for the spring or summer, or even as a gift for a parent or grandparent. All you need is a paper plate, some paint, scissors, glue, a popsicle stick, and green construction paper (or white paper colored green!). And if you are missing any supplies, you can easily improvise!
Melody loves using her dot markers. She actually will use them in place of paint in a lot of our crafts because they are less messy and she has more fun with them. Well during the early quarantine days when we first started crafting and schooling at home, I used my Silhouette Cameo to cut and draw a bunch of different dot sheets. This lasted two days, but she enjoyed it. Using the Cameo was likely overkill, but at the time we didn’t have enough ink in our printer to print our own. Now I just print them!
The last project we did for Melody’s Frozen birthday party was a wooden 4 we painted. I did this last year, and I thought it was such a cute and easy idea to add a bit more personal decor. I painted like the picture frame, and I displayed it along with all of her other decor. It was really easy to do, and we actually keep it displayed in her playroom with her princess stuff!
Paper plate pizzas is another super easy craft you can do with your kids, and most kids can likely do this one solo!
My best friend decided to have an ice cream themed birthday party for her daughter. Birthdays during a pandemic are hard. Deciding when, who to invite, what to do is all near impossible. She decided fairly last minute on the party to help accommodate the girls dance recital and family. So she ended up sending invitations through text, but she still wanted them cute. So I helped her out and made a few for her. I wanted to share some samples below!
This is another craft Melody was able to help with for her Frozen birthday party. Like most parties, I made a pictures frame to frame a picture of her in either Frozen attire or with Anna/Elsa/both. For her help, I used tape to maker off the middle where she did NOT need to paint. I had her paint the top silver and the bottom blue. Once dry, I remove the tape and I painted the white middle.
I found this idea of paper spinners on the Crayola website. Melody is still a bit young to really enjoy playing with them, bu she was able to help with most of the craft.
Like all events, a shirt was required for Melody’s Frozen birthday party. I was able to sneak out to Hobby Lobby safely during the pandemic to get a shirt, then I used heat transfer vinyl I had on hand. I let Melody pick the design, and we went with it!
Melody is a girl who loves playing cars. For her birthday she wanted a race track and loved her remote control jeep. So I saw on Pinterest where you could cut up several different shapes and then glue them into random vehicles, so this was a perfect craft. We have actually done this numerous times, and she is always making different things. Her favorite things to make are trains and dump trucks, but the possibilities are endless!
The jellyfish paper plate craft was a good craft to keep a toddler busy for a while! Well at least the way I did it. You also don’t need much for this craft: a paper plate, colors/markers/paint, yarn, and either some googly eyes or a black sharpie.
One of the crafts Melody was able to do herself for her birthday party was a painting of Elsa. I had intended for this to be much, much bigger and on a larger canvas, but it did not work the way I planned. So I went with a smaller canvas, and it worked out perfectly.
Just like last year, I made a Happy Everything attachment for Melody’s Frozen birthday party. I could not find a snowflake I loved and would stand out on the serving dish. So instead I bought a blue glitter wooden 4 from Hobby Lobby. Like last year, I hot glued velcro to the back of the 4. Then I attached it! Super easy to do with just about any occasion.
For my mom’s birthday I wanted to come up with a craft that didn’t require me to go into any stores to buy anything. I do have a lot of craft supplies at home, but we have used a lot of them over this quarantine, ha! So I decided to make this cute craft I have seen all over Pinterest, but used what we had at home to do it.
My original plan for Melody’s cake at her Frozen themed birthday party was to do an Elsa cake similar to the Snow White cake I did last year. However, she said she didn’t want that. She wanted a sheet cake from Publix, but they didn’t have the exact one she wanted, so I opted for cupcakes. I bought some snowflake edible toppers a while back that I did use on some of the cupcakes, but I did make a few toppers too using my Silhouette Cameo.
The paper plate bee was one of the easier crafts I have had Melody do. She was able to do the majority of this craft herself, and it requires very little supplies!
During all of our homeschooling due to COVID-19, we had to get creative with our crafts. Crafts are Melody’s favorite. I found this one on Crayola’s website. It was a really easy craft to make, and we continue to play with it even today. Melody doesn’t follow instructions 100%, but your child may, ha!
Like all parties, I made a banner for Melody’s Frozen birthday party. I used my Silhouette to make the banner and went a different route than usual. I opted for circles in a blue glitter cardstock for the background. Then I used a free Frozen font I found online and cut that using white glitter cardstock. I also included snowflakes on each side of Happy. I could not use regular glue for this project. It didn’t handle well to the glitter. Instead I used hot glue. It took some time, but it worked. Check it all out below!
