Homemaking Keepin It Real: Crafts

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Wednesday, July 2, 2014

Fourth of July Easy Craft

What You Need:

Toilet paper roll
White paint
Red and blue glitter glue or red and blue paint
Paint brush
Red and blue streamers or ribbon or pieces of old red and blue cloth
Yarn or string
Scissors
Scotch tape

Directions:

Paint the toilet paper roll white and set it aside to dry.
Once dry, use your glitter glue or paint to decorate the toilet paper roll and set aside to dry.
Cut streamers or whatever you have into even lengths, and then cut again vertically down the center (so they aren’t too wide). Use scotch tape to stick the streamers to the inside of the toilet paper roll.
Punch a hole in the top of your toilet paper roll for either a piece of yarn to go through so you can hang it up

Enjoy Your Independence Day Dont forget to share with your children the meaning behind the Fourth of July our countries History and our freedom in Jesus

Wednesday, May 14, 2014

Crafts come in many different forms around my Home.

Its not always painting, coloring, molding with clay, making bird houses, etc. Sometimes its cleaning walls, baseboards, and pulling weeds.

Yet, work/chores can be made fun.

Here are some ways we make it fun around here.

1)We make believe that a King is coming and thus the things we do must be spotless for our coming King and we take joy and delight in making it look beautiful, we pretend we are Princes and Princesses and when the King arrives he will be so pleased with our work.

2)We set timers to see who can beat the time first

3)We pick chores/work out of hat

4)We listen to music while we work dancing with delight

5)After we are done we reward ourselves with a nice smoothie or homemade ice cream

Wednesday, May 7, 2014

Bird Feeder Craft

                     Re-Purposing an Old Milk Jug/Carton

                             Bird Feeders For Spring

Springtime is always a favorite time of year around here. The cool weather, the birds chirping and the lovely smell of Spring.

The Kids will love this fun easy craft to attract the birds in your area.

Feeders have been around for centuries and are a great way to relax in the back yard and watch the different types of Birds come and feast.

Our kids enjoy watching from a window and then drawing the birds they see. We then look up in books what kind of bird visited us that day.

Directions:
1)Find an Old milk jug/carton or you can even use old toilet paper rolls or paper towel rolls, or an orange cut in half thats been scooped out. (If you use a toilet paper roll then roll it in peanut butter then the seeds and your done)

2) Cut out the carton/jug with an opening for Birds to fit through, add your sticks for the birds to perch on.

                                                           3)Color your jugs with markers/crayons or construction paper

                                                           4)Get some Mixed Bird food from the store, or you can get some mixed trail mix (without M&Ms) and add some seeds to it

5) Fill your bird feeder with food and hang
onto a tree with string or a hanger

Wednesday, April 30, 2014

Wacky Wednesday Fast tree craft for kids

Here is a fun fast easy craft project

Choose your paint We used brown
**Paint your tree any way you want

Then chose multi colored buttons
** different sizes and fun shapes make a great addition

You can get creative and add twigs for the branches (the kids would love going outside and picking their own twigs)

ENJOY!!! PLEASE SHARE YOUR PROJECT ID LOVE TO READ AND SEE YOUR COMMENTS!

Wednesday, April 23, 2014

Homemade Finger Paint

NON TOXIC AND SAFE

Ingredients:
3 tbs sugar
1/2 tsp salt
2 cups of warm water
Food coloring or (beet root powder or herbal powders)
1/2 cup Corn Starch or Corn Flour or Arrowroot(You could even use Yogurt )

Directions:
Mix ingredients into a sauce pan warm until mixture thickens
Then you can separate it into jars or containers and add coloring at this stage or in sauce pan.

If you want to use yogurt as your base just add beet root powder / herbal powder to it and arrowroot or cornstarch to thicken it

Wednesday, April 2, 2014

Homemade Kids Nail Polish

Ive never been big on nail polish for my girls as it smells bad and has nasty stuff in it.

One day the girls were mixing Elmers glue and paint together then letting it dry.

The glue dried the color of the paint. It was real fun.

It had me thinking why not put some on our nails, and so we did.

Directions: Mix a small amount of Glue with a small amount of paint. Mix thoroughly apply to toes and fingers nails.

Tuesday, March 25, 2014

Homemade Floam Kids Craft for Wacky WEDNESDAY

FLOAM RECIPE

2 Tsp Borax
1/2 cup warm water and 1/4 cup warm water divided
2 oz. glue Elmers
1 and 1/3 cup of polystyrene beads

optional: food coloring

DIRECTIONS
Mix 1/2 cup warm water and Borax until dissolved, in separate bowl combine 1/4 warm water and glue add food coloring if desired, pour glue mixture into zip lock bag, add beads, then add boraxmixture seal the bag mix together until floam is formed.

**You can add more or less borax/water mixture to get consistency to your liking.

Tips
You can get beads at craft store like Hobby Lobby or Michaels

a bowl combine 2 teaspoons of borax with 1/2 cup of very warm water. Mix until the borax is dissolved. In a separate bowl combine 1/4 cup of white school glue with 1/4 cup of water. Add food coloring if color is desired. Once the ingredients of both bowls are mixed pour the glue mixture into a zip seal bag. Add the polystyrene beads and then add the borax and water mixture and seal the bag. Once sealed mix the ingredients of the bag well until the floam is formed.