Profile silhouette

 

What you need:

• A close up picture of your child's profile
• Scissors
• Colorful paper
• Glue stick or other glue
• Picture frame (card stock frames are good as well as plastic and glass)

Directions:

1. Print your picture of your child's profile
2. Glue the picture to the color paper you want the silhouette to be
3. Cut around your child's face
4. Cut out colorful paper for the background, I cut mine 4x6 because that is the size my frame was.
5. Glue the silhouette to the color paper and if you would like write your child's name under the picture and put the date on the back of the colored paper for future reference. 
6. Put in a frame and enjoy

Tip: It would be fun to do this every start of the new school year and add the silhouettes to a scrap book instead of a frame and watch your kids profiles change through the years.

Absorbing Artwork

This craft is from the Disney family fun site. This is a great craft for toddlers

What you need:

• Card stock
• Rimmed baking sheet
• White glue

• Salt
• Colored water (see tip below)
• Eyedropper

1. Set the card stock on the baking sheet and have your child use the glue to draw a design on the paper
   
2.  Sprinkle the wet glue with salt until it's completely covered, then tap off any excess.
   
3. Have your child use the eyedropper to drip colored water, one drop at a time, onto the salt. As the salt absorbs the liquid, the water will move along the glue lines, resulting in a wonderful web of color. Be sure to watch what happens when the color reaches intersecting lines.
   

Tips:

We used 5 drops of neon food coloring per tablespoon of water to create our vibrant hues.

Stretchy Folder

This is a quick craft for kids who are going back to school or anyone looking for a fun simple way to keep track of supplies

All you need for this handy little craft is:

• A notebook, folder, binder, book etc
• Rubber bands
• School or office supplies 

Directions:

1. Stretch the rubber bands in crisscross directions all over the front of the note book or whatever you are using.
2. Add your school/office supplies

Febrizzle

This is a cleaning craft for  febreeze you can make at home and you more than likely already have the stuff in your house. I got the instructions from another site and thought I would share it here. It really does make your house smell great.

What you need:

• 1/8 Cup of Your Favorite Fabric Softener
• 2 Tablespoons Baking Soda
• Hot Tap Water 

Instructions:

1. Poor the fabric softener into your empty spray bottle (empty febreeze bottle or any other CLEAN spray bottle)
2. Add the baking soda
3. Fill the bottle up with the hot water allowing a little room so you can shake the mixture up. 
4. Spray away :)

Faux Fish stick dinner

What you need:

• Wafer cookies
• Peanut butter
• Corn flakes
• Fondant, taffy or any candy you can easily mold (in colors green and orange or whatever you want for whichever veggies you want to make)

Directions:

1. Take you green fondant or gummy candy and roll many little balls for peas. Roll larger balls in orange and lightly press down with your thumb to make the carrots then use a fork to make the imprints on the carrot slices.
2. Crush corn flakes into a ziplock bag
3. Coat the wafer cookies in peanut butter then toss one at a time in the bag full of crushed corn flakes.
4. Serve to children or have you children bring this out to their friends for a snack and watch for the confusion on their faces

Wee Leprechaun

 

This craft is from the Disney family fun website 

What you need:

• Toilet paper tube
• Green craft foam
• Acrylic paints: green, skin-tone, pink, and brown
• Black permanent marker

• Tacky glue
• 4 brown pipe cleaners
• Decorative button

Directions:

1. For this crafty little decoration, first trace around the end of a toilet paper tube onto a piece of green craft foam.
2. Draw a 2 1/2-inch circle around the first circle, then cut them both out to create a hat top and brim and set them aside
3. Next, using acrylic paints, paint the paper tube green. Add a skin-tone face and hands, plus rosy cheeks, as well as a band of brown paint around the back for hair.
4. Once the paint has dried, use a permanent marker to draw on facial and clothing details, then use tacky glue to stick on 3 coiled brown pipe cleaners: 2 in the back for hair and 1 around the face for a beard. For feet, fold another pipe cleaner in half, then tightly coil and pinch the ends, as shown. 
5. Place the folded pipe cleaner inside the tube and glue the feet to the edge. Glue on the hat top and brim and a 5 1/2- by 1/2-inch strip of craft foam for arms. 
6. Finally, glue a decorative button to the hat brim

Try on Leprechaun

 

This craft is from the Disney family  fun  website

What you need:

• small mirror (4 or 5 inches wide) (or if you want something more permanent just use a photo of your child)
• Printable templates (link below)
• Craft foam or construction paper
• Glue

Directions:

1. Glue your mirror or photo to a piece of paper or foam 
2. Print out Templates, cut them out then trace them over your paper or foam. Or make your own. 
3. Glue pieces onto the mirror or photo.

Super Rainbow Cupcakes

 

This craft is great to use with my rainbow cupcake instructions on my other blog  4 Generations cook blog

What you need:

• Baked and cooled cupcakes
• Frosting in light blue and white 
• A couple packages of Airheads Xtreme candy (for the rainbow)

Instructions:

1. Frost the cupcakes with the light blue frosting.
2. frost two puffy clouds, 1 on each side.
3. Cut each candy strip in half and insert each side of the half into each cloud.

Lemony Love Potion

This recipe is from the Disney Family Fun website

What you need:

• 12-ounce can pink lemonade concentrate
• 1 cup raspberry sherbet
• 12-ounce can of lemon/lime soda  (Sprite, 7up, sierra mist) 

Directions:

1. In a pitcher, mix the lemonade concentrate with the recommended amount of water.
   
2. In a separate pitcher, combine the sherbet with 1 cup of the lemonade mixture.
   
3. Add the soda, stir, and serve. Makes 3 cups.
   

Valentine's Mailboxes

 

This post is for 3 different ways you can create a place for your family to store their Valentines.

The first is a paper plate Mailbox.

What you need:

• 2 good quality paper plates.
• Glue
• Scissors
• Ribbon, string etc for hanging
• Decorating materials such as paint, markers, crayons, glitter, stickers etc...

Directions:

1. Decorate one of the plates however you desire but remember that the bottom half of the plate will not be seen.
2. Cut the undecorated plate in half.
3. Decorate one of the halves of the plate you just cut.
4. Glue the half to other whole plate to create the pocket.
5. Allow glue to dry then flip the plates over and attach the ribbon or whatever you are using to hang your mailbox.

 The second Mailbox is the shoe box mailbox.

What you need:

• A shoe box with the lid
• Decorating materials like paint markers stickers glitter etc...
• Scissors

Directions: 

1. Use the scissors to cut a hole in the lid of the shoe box big enough to allow the Valentines to be placed inside
2. Decorate the box and lid separately as you please 
3. Let dry if you used paint and the place lid on box

The third mailbox is a do it yourself envelope

What you need:

1. A piece of paper (any color you wish)
2. More paper to make your topper on the envelope or a printed and cut out image from the computer (I used my cricut to make my cupcake topper)
3. Tape
4. Decorating materials, markers, paint, glitter, stickers etc...

Directions:

1. Take the piece of paper you chose for your envelope and fold it in half (make sure you fold it the correct way so that you have a wider envelope and not a long narrow one)
2. Use tape to seal the edges together.
3. Fold the bottom of the envelope about an inch
4. Reopen the fold and fold the corners inward as shown below then tape the fold down to complete your envelope
5. Create your topped either by hand or print it out. You can make whatever design you like (a heart and animal etc, I used a cupcake because I am obsessed with cupcakes)
6. Decorate your envelope and attach your topper to the backside of the envelope with tape and either attach a ribbon or string to the back to hang it or just prop it up somewhere so others can find it easily to fill it up.

Valentine's Wreath

What you need:

•  
• Valentine's Day color Construction Paper (Red, White, Pink, Purple...)
• Paper Plate
• Scissors 
• Glue 
• Heart Pattern 
• String or Yarn for hanging 
• Glitter, stickers or other decorations  (optional)

Directions:

1. Cut a lot of small hearts of different sizes from the color or colors of construction paper of your choice. 
2. Cut out the middle of a paper plate, leaving the rim. 
3. Glue your hearts all around the paper plate to form your wreath
4. Decorate with glitter stickers or whatever you choose.
5.  You can tie a ribbon on it if you wish, or hang string to the back to hang from a nail or hook.

Valentine's Coupons

 This craft is from the Disney family fun website.

What you need:

• Coupon template (Links provided below)
• White or a light shade of colored paper

• Scissors
• Stapler

• Style 1 
• Style 2 
• Style 3

 Directions:

1. Print as many of these out as you wish and cut them out.
2. Staple them together to make a booklet.
3. Deliver the Valentine's Coupons directly to the object of your affection. The Love Checks can be written out beforehand or on the spot whenever the giver feels particularly affectionate.