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Project 365 – #055 For Valentine’s Day this year, Munchkin decided that she wanted to make something special for her friends. Seeing how she was having so much fun with the polymer clay roses, she decided to keep with the polymer clay theme. She created some crazy creatures (notice the heart in it’s mouth) and these lovely heart necklaces. I just adore her creativity. My favorite part is that she did this all on her own. The only role I played in her creation was baking the clay pieces. While I very much enjoy doing things with her, I’ve found…

Handcrafted Vase with Clay Roses

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Project 365 – #043 After receiving the delivery of roses yesterday (pictured above), Munchkin was inspired to create some roses of her own from polymer clay. The first rose was a beautiful red rose, but since the stem couldn’t support the head of the rose, the rose kept falling off. I recommended that she create a stem from a pencil and work from there. After covering the pencil with green clay, she began to create a beautiful orange rose, but her new rose needed a vase. Enter in a fun craft project using things from around the house… We gathered…

Handmade Heart Shelf

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Project 365 – #036 Today, we stopped by Home Depot to pick up their free wood project for kids. This month, they had a heart shelf for Valentine’s Day. While they normally have the kids and parents do the project at the store, you can get the project and take it home. This is what we normally do as it allows us to do things on our own time and in our own way. The free monthly project is just unfinished wood, so the child and parent can decide how they want to finish it. I personally think it’s a…

Crafting with Kids: Basic Supplies

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Today, you can find me talking about the basic supplies needed for crafting with kids at MamaBzz. This is the first in a series of guest posts about crafting with kids. Let me know what you think. What would you like to see in a crafting with kids series?

December 14, 2010

Heather L

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Christmas Crafts: Silent Night and Joy Signs

Posted in Holidays, and Homemaking

We wanted some fun signs to put up around the house, but we didn’t want to send lots of money to buy or make them. Using cardstock and our Cricut, we were able to create these simple signs. For the Silent Night sign, we just used red cardstock for the letters and embellishments and a cream cardstock for the base. For the Joy sign, a little more creativity and work was involved. For this one, we used a metallic blue cardstock for the lettering. We then took a piece of tan cardstock and attached the letters to it using a…