Category : "Crafting Ideas"
Baby Shower Gift – How to Make Infant Flash Cards
Here’s an easy idea for a quick baby shower gift. These cards are made with black images in order to stimulate an infant’s imagination and peak their interest. Supplies needed: Card-stock, pencil/eraser, ruler, black paint, contact paper. Step one: Draw your images. Shapes and animal outlines work well. Last step: Paint your image, let it [...]
How to dye wooden eggs
Dying wooden eggs is just as easy (and fun) as dying fresh hard-boiled eggs. What you need: 1. Boiling Water [...]
Kids Craft: How to Make a Noise Maker
We have some friends who are having a baby, so we recently worked on this project in preparation for some baby toy-making. This is a very simple project that can be made as easy or as difficult as you’d like it! Supplies: A Wooden Canister, Wood Glue, Lentils or Beans, Wooden Hearts, Paint and Brush. First, [...]
Folk Art Inspired Kids Craft Project – Art Lesson
After a recent visit to the Folk Art Museum here in NYC, (it is a small museum, but a definite recommendation for NYC museums, and is free) we were inspired to this little craft project. Our child loved looking at these bottle cap sculptures that I thought I’d let her work on her own bottle [...]
Kids Spring Craft Project – Cloud Mobile – and Book Review
As it is spring time and nearing the rainy season, I checked out this book from the library last week. It was exciting to be reading this book to our two year old, and realizing that this was the first time she is learning that rain comes from clouds. This book is fantastic, and offers [...]
Kids DIY Craft – Butterfly Pin
This week’s kids craft: Wooden Butterfly Pins. This makes a great grandmother present :) What you’ll need: paint brushes, paint, wooden butterflies (or similar small trinket), round wooden disc, E6000 (or similar strong glue), pin-backs, and a few ribbon strands. Luckily, you can find all of these in our store. First, have your little one [...]
a mosaic project
Just wanted to share this mosaic project that I did for my father-in-law. It’s an old shoe shining box, and I painted all around it, inspired by images from an old folk art book I found at a second-hand shop. I mosaic-ed the top part with white and red tiles, and an old blue china [...]
how to stamp a canvas bag.
Have you purchased canvas bags from us and our wondering how to stamp them? Here’s a sneak peak into how we stamp our canvas bags. First you’ll want to find your stamp. You can use any scrapbooking stamp, you can carve your own out of linoleum, or you can have someone make one for you [...]
little cards to help your child adjust to preschool
Our little girl recently started preschool… The first week was a little rough, but she has since warmed up and is now very happy with her experience! After the second day, when I picked her up she told told me “no jugar, no comer, no pintar” – which, in her child-spanish means: I didn’t play, [...]
making a lion mask at etsy craft night
Last Monday I went to my first “Craft Night” at the Etsy Labs here in Brooklyn (DUMBO). It was wonderful. We learned from artist Maria Berrio, who, oddly enough, went to High School with my husband’s brother in Bogota, Colombia. She taught us the simple paper-maché formula: one part flour :: two parts water. After [...]
