One thing that we love to do is make tissue papered lanterns out of jars. We really enjoy making scenes that circle the jars. thank you for your videos.
in the summer, we'd go on picnics in the park and find leaves & make leaf rubbings either using crayons or pencils. we then frame them in plain wooden frames (from ikea). we hot glue on small rocks, pine cones, twigs or shells around the frame.
i've also had them draw monsters on paper. i enlarge that drawing on the copier and then cut out a pattern and trace onto colorful felt, stuff w/ batting and stitch together to make their very own stuffed creation!
I'm always crafting with my girls. We have done nearly every kind of craft their is. My favorite project that we have done was to make stepping stones!
We love ROCK PAINTING! The joy starts on various family adventures, when we collect rocks for different purposes: a welcome rock for the porch, love-rocks for decoration on the dinner table, happy-birthday rocks and figure rocks with eyes, mouth and hair, to play with! Nature has so much to offer - no need to buy toys in a store!
When doing the actual painting and decoration (we glue things onto the rocks) it allows us to be creative outdoors, enjoying the sun! Great vacation crafting!
My fab fav summer craft with my grandchildren and my children when they were young is decorating terra cotta pots and planting a little plant in them.
My favorite craft in the summer with my grandkids is: We take $1.00 store flip flops and use alot of different things to dress them up. We have used strips of felt, beads flowers, buttons, fabric you name it. We have a great time together!!!! And of course we scrapbook together, but the flip flops are our coolest creations!!!!
this sounds like a fun craft to do with the kids that they can give as a present to our sitter or maybe the favorite neighbor that they play with on play dates!
I do lots of stuff with my kids, but our newest favorite thing is that I pre-cut some t-shirts up into yarn and I let my boys ( aged 2 and 3) dye it with food coloring and then I crochet it up into something for them like a washcloth or hat.
I have done sewing, coloring, jewelry making with all my kids, presently, with my youngest I do all the above plus painting, stamping, card making and paper crafting.
I have done sewing, coloring, jewelry making with all my kids, presently, with my youngest I do all the above plus painting, stamping, card making and papercrafting.
My oldest granddaughter who is 6 loves to make stuff with "Nana's machine", my Cricut. She makes cards for her Momma and Daddy and we've made a mini-book together out of paper bags. She and her Momma made flowers for me for Mother's Day out of foam and pipe cleaners, and the vase was a recycled TP roll. I display it proudly on my desk!
my son has different abilities so these crafts would be challenging for him (but not for me)...but we do do a lot of painting...I may have him do a summer canvas with felt, glitter and beads though.
We are having "Camp Nina " (what my grandchildren call me) for my 6 grandchildren. We have activities scheduled just like a real camp. Some of the activities we have scheduled are a story time, lunch, water play and a craft time. Simple sewing on felt is one of the craft activities I have planned. This magazine will give me great ideas for our schedule craft time.
i like to do crafts all the time not nec. only during the summer, mostly bible related. we love to use household items - being greeen in awesome!! we love to paint wooden projects and use a lot of the photos as gifts for loved ones!! :)
Really like the butterflies, think I'll do that with my kids, this summer, I know they will love it, I keep a stash of papers and other things, that are just for the kids to craft with. We do so many different things, I'm always trying to find crafts that will appeal to different age groups and still be easy enough for the younger kids, one of my faves that we did was make little paper purses using the Purse paper pack by K&Co.
This is a comment for the June July issue giveaway of Simply handmade = I love doing papercrafts with my niece. One of our favorite things is to make cards. I was recently married and she made the cutest card for us. She enjoys making papercrafts both for herself and to give to others.
I'm a Punch art teacher and my favorite classes are the kids ones. They are so enthusiastic and the joy and excitement on their faces when they finish a project is priceless.
I have a granddaughter that I have rarely been able to see. This month, and next, I'm hoping to see her every 2 weeks and I'm really excited about that! I would love a chance to win the book and try some of the great ideas with Elleora.
I am a mom of 8 and every summer we make sidewalk chalk and homemade bubbles the kids love it and look forward to making the summer batch of chalk and bubbles
I have 3 little ones at home and would love to get some new ideas for projects to do with them over the summer break. They love crafting with me and I'm sure we would get a lot of use out of this issue.
One thing that we love to do is make tissue papered lanterns out of jars. We really enjoy making scenes that circle the jars. thank you for your videos.
patchesfromoz 8 months ago
How do we know who wins? Are you just going to message us via our YouTube email?
wbguard 8 months ago
I will like to do the butterflies with my granddaughter and the crown since she loves to dress up as a princess all the time that will be awesome!
tessie6671 8 months ago
i have 2 boys who likes making things.
in the summer, we'd go on picnics in the park and find leaves & make leaf rubbings either using crayons or pencils. we then frame them in plain wooden frames (from ikea). we hot glue on small rocks, pine cones, twigs or shells around the frame.
i've also had them draw monsters on paper. i enlarge that drawing on the copier and then cut out a pattern and trace onto colorful felt, stuff w/ batting and stitch together to make their very own stuffed creation!
girls0boyz2 9 months ago
my daughter is a teenager ..but even now...as always...we enjoy scrapping..something i started doing with her when she was in pre-k...
mishmakescards 9 months ago
I'm always crafting with my girls. We have done nearly every kind of craft their is. My favorite project that we have done was to make stepping stones!
April
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dakrfloyd4 9 months ago
My kids are grown now, but we used to like to paint using watercolors in the summertime.
Beautiful cards, I love the colors and the design.
Carol B
ciaoitalia2007(at)gmail(dot)com
conservativecarol 9 months ago
My favorite summer craft for kids is scrapbooking... i live and breathe it if I can...
massmankj 9 months ago
We love ROCK PAINTING! The joy starts on various family adventures, when we collect rocks for different purposes: a welcome rock for the porch, love-rocks for decoration on the dinner table, happy-birthday rocks and figure rocks with eyes, mouth and hair, to play with! Nature has so much to offer - no need to buy toys in a store!
When doing the actual painting and decoration (we glue things onto the rocks) it allows us to be creative outdoors, enjoying the sun! Great vacation crafting!
Busbollen 9 months ago
My favorite craft to do with my daughter is card-making. I think our new favorite craft will be those ' cakes' in that June/July issue!
tmi0604 9 months ago
I do a count down until school starts with ABC's and each day we do a craft that is related to that day's letter.
LandDay1 9 months ago
My fab fav summer craft with my grandchildren and my children when they were young is decorating terra cotta pots and planting a little plant in them.
brenkay1 9 months ago
My favorite craft in the summer with my grandkids is: We take $1.00 store flip flops and use alot of different things to dress them up. We have used strips of felt, beads flowers, buttons, fabric you name it. We have a great time together!!!! And of course we scrapbook together, but the flip flops are our coolest creations!!!!
momascraps 9 months ago
this sounds like a fun craft to do with the kids that they can give as a present to our sitter or maybe the favorite neighbor that they play with on play dates!
Wendimere 9 months ago
I do lots of stuff with my kids, but our newest favorite thing is that I pre-cut some t-shirts up into yarn and I let my boys ( aged 2 and 3) dye it with food coloring and then I crochet it up into something for them like a washcloth or hat.
wbguard 9 months ago
I have done sewing, coloring, jewelry making with all my kids, presently, with my youngest I do all the above plus painting, stamping, card making and paper crafting.
SandytozArt 9 months ago
I have done sewing, coloring, jewelry making with all my kids, presently, with my youngest I do all the above plus painting, stamping, card making and papercrafting.
SandytozArt 9 months ago
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My oldest granddaughter who is 6 loves to make stuff with "Nana's machine", my Cricut. She makes cards for her Momma and Daddy and we've made a mini-book together out of paper bags. She and her Momma made flowers for me for Mother's Day out of foam and pipe cleaners, and the vase was a recycled TP roll. I display it proudly on my desk!
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kwhittaker5528 9 months ago
My son has enjoyed making fun foam finger puppets. It's not the Sistine Chapel but it's a start. :)
jengd1 9 months ago
My son has enjoyed making fun foam finger puppets. It's not the Sistine Chapel but it's a start. :)
jengd1 9 months ago
My daughter and I love to make cards together!!
kmslhowell 9 months ago
Me and my daughter like to do anything we can with paper. She is a chip off the ole block lol
liz48631 9 months ago
my son has different abilities so these crafts would be challenging for him (but not for me)...but we do do a lot of painting...I may have him do a summer canvas with felt, glitter and beads though.
mizzkb00 9 months ago
I would also like to know where you announce the winners :-). Thks!
smsaldana1 9 months ago
Great butterflies! I loved to paint t-shirts to use in summer with my kids and friends.
smsaldana1 9 months ago
I am wondering where do you announce the winners of your giveaways. I have commented on a lot of them but I have never seen who wins...
I love doing fun character projects such as you showed today in this video. My kids love doing these type projects.
Lynn
passionwriter70 9 months ago
We are having "Camp Nina " (what my grandchildren call me) for my 6 grandchildren. We have activities scheduled just like a real camp. Some of the activities we have scheduled are a story time, lunch, water play and a craft time. Simple sewing on felt is one of the craft activities I have planned. This magazine will give me great ideas for our schedule craft time.
JoyHadden 9 months ago
i like to do crafts all the time not nec. only during the summer, mostly bible related. we love to use household items - being greeen in awesome!! we love to paint wooden projects and use a lot of the photos as gifts for loved ones!! :)
soulcre8v 9 months ago
Really like the butterflies, think I'll do that with my kids, this summer, I know they will love it, I keep a stash of papers and other things, that are just for the kids to craft with. We do so many different things, I'm always trying to find crafts that will appeal to different age groups and still be easy enough for the younger kids, one of my faves that we did was make little paper purses using the Purse paper pack by K&Co.
Dare2bme71 9 months ago
This is a comment for the June July issue giveaway of Simply handmade = I love doing papercrafts with my niece. One of our favorite things is to make cards. I was recently married and she made the cutest card for us. She enjoys making papercrafts both for herself and to give to others.
mplsbetty 9 months ago
I'm a Punch art teacher and my favorite classes are the kids ones. They are so enthusiastic and the joy and excitement on their faces when they finish a project is priceless.
scrapforyou 9 months ago
I have a granddaughter that I have rarely been able to see. This month, and next, I'm hoping to see her every 2 weeks and I'm really excited about that! I would love a chance to win the book and try some of the great ideas with Elleora.
turtluv2000 9 months ago
I am a mom of 8 and every summer we make sidewalk chalk and homemade bubbles the kids love it and look forward to making the summer batch of chalk and bubbles
Scrappymommyof8 9 months ago
I have 3 little ones at home and would love to get some new ideas for projects to do with them over the summer break. They love crafting with me and I'm sure we would get a lot of use out of this issue.
candyo2008 9 months ago