DIY Art Materials

DIY Art Material: Hardware Store Chalk Paint

May 15, 2013
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Do you really need yet another homemade paint recipe for kids in your life…the answer is yes! I wasn’t sold on chalk paint at first, drawing with chalk is already a favorite, what could painting with it add?  I decided to try it out anyway and can tell you I’m absolutely thrilled with this new [...]

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DIY Art Materials: 3 Easy Homemade Paints for Kids

April 24, 2013
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Lately I’m all about one thing when is comes to our kid’s craft activities: EASY. With a newborn and two older kids I just don’t have time to do anything that takes much prep work, so I’m always on the look-out for kid’s activities that I can quickly throw together…enter these three homemade paint recipes: [...]

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Our Creative Week

February 21, 2013
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Our Creative Week is a snapshot of the activities that have kept us occupied over the past week, some are impromptu projects, others more planned. Hope this inspires your creative week. 1. Homemade Stamps One of my fave DIY posts so far! Homemade stamps are fun to make, fun to use, and I think the results are amazing. For [...]

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DIY Art Materials: How to Make a Stamp

February 18, 2013
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In the realm of arts and crafts ideas for children, rubber stamps rank pretty high up there, and for good reason; using stamps is easy for little hands and the results are magical for kids. I have to admit I never tire of the look of something hand stamped either; the combination of ink’s uneven [...]

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Our Creative Week

February 11, 2013
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Our Creative Week is a snapshot of the activities that have kept us occupied over the past week, some are impromptu projects, others more planned. Hope this inspires your creative week. Be sure to enter our Shrinky Dink Card Kit Giveaway ending today! Shrinky Dink I Heart You Cards Kit Creativity for Kids gave us a couple of these cute kits [...]

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DIY Art Material: Chalk

February 6, 2013
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When I saw that making sidewalk chalk is literally mixing plaster with water and adding paint I almost flipped. Could it really be that easy? Well, the answer is, yes, it is that easy. I recently purchased the book Eco-Friendly Crafting With Kids by Kate Lilley of the visually stunning blog minieco. It’s a really inspiring and beautiful [...]

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DIY Art Materials: Colored Salt

January 5, 2013
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I love making our own art materials. I can spend a fortune in an art/craft store in the blink of an eye so it is such a relief to make our own materials with inexpensive ingredients at home. Colored salt is a very easy material to make with ingredients I bet you have lying around [...]

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DIY Art Materials: Recycled Crayons

November 16, 2012
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A project that involves color and melting…..we’re on it! This project is all over the internet; I referenced the following two tutorials: My Very Educated Mother and Make & Takes Here are the steps I used: Preheat your oven to 275 degrees Take old crayon pieces and remove the paper. My daughter found this to be a fun task, [...]

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DIY Art Materials: Homemade Playdough

October 16, 2012

I once read that any self-respecting craft/design blog must have a recipe for play-dough in its archives so mine will be no exception! I’m starting a series on DIY toys and why not begin with an all-time favorite? It’s almost hard to believe that play-dough is actually a rather recent toy in the history of [...]

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