Crafting for Kids

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Here’s an update to this post. I’m adding .pdf files of the un-personalized craft can labels. Here they are:

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I’m sharing the birthday gift that we gave to a five-year-old today. My husband brought home paint cans with some kind of promotional materials in them, so they’ve been sitting on my shelf waiting for a good use. I created a personalized label and filled the can with craft supplies. The outside of the can reads “miss paddy’s craftcan” and the top says “make. create.” I filled it with felt, embroidery needle and floss, glue, beads, buttons, stamps, stickers, etc.

I also made this cute little crayon travel case with Kaffe Fassett fat quarters that I bought a few weeks ago. I came up with a pretty easy pattern that you can make from start to finish in under an hour. I will post the pattern soon. The case holds 12 or 24 crayons securely.

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Holiday Felt Projects

I’ve got Christmas on the brain and there are so many felt projects that I’d love to try with the kids. We’ll be working on our felt mushrooms for an Alice in Wonderland birthday party and a felt Happy Birthday banner (it was poor planning to have two kids with December birthdays), so I’m thinking I won’t get to these projects just yet, but thought I’d share some of the ideas that I’ve found.

Below is an image of felt garland from Anna Maria Horner. This is a good project you could really work on with the kids and one that does not require a sewing machine. I’d like to try it with yo-yos as I’ve been meaning to learn to make them and wouldn’t that be a great scraps project?

Found some adorable felt trees on flickr here. You can find the pattern at little birds handmade.

I love the felt stockings that my brother and I had as kids, and until I can gather the energy to create some stockings for Monarch Monograms, I love these personalized stockings from rikrak:

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