Arts & Crafts
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Arts & Crafts
Asked by K.M. from San Diego
on December 21, 2006
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When I was growing up, we used to do the same decorations or handprints year after year, either in girl scouts or school. Anyways, it was where you would make some ty...
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- i think this might be what your talking about, i found it on a kids art website. BAKING CLAY 1 cup salt 1 1/2 cups warm water 4 cups all purpose flour ...
- Hi! Here's a website you might like: http://home.cinci.rr.com/prek/DecArt.htm -R.
- Hi K., We did bread dough ornaments for x-mas this year, simple recipe. 1 cup of salt 4 cups of flour, 1 1/2 cups of water mix well, if you want to do colored doug...
Art Lessons
Asked by H.B. from Dallas
on January 17, 2008
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Does anyone know of any place for children to take art lessons. I remember taking oil painting classes as a child and loving it.
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- We love Studio Arts in East Dallas. It is so worth the drive. They have the most amazing classes for ages 3-adult. Their teachers are amazing. My daughter was doin...
- I would check your cities recreation department. I know where I am in Hurst the rec department offers alll kinds of classes to residents.
- I have also heard of the classes Terah has mentioned... they seem to be quite reputable. If you have trouble finding them let me know I might be able to track it down...
Arts & Crafts Projects for a 17 Mth Old?
Asked by C.F. from Charlotte
on February 21, 2007
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Are there any arts and crafts projects you can do with a 17 mth old boy?
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- Hi C. With that age group there is so much hands on yet. You could do a white sweat shirt with his foot and hand prints all over it and have it read "Grandpa's shoul...
- I just recently put poster boards on my wall and drew a frame around it, gave her some washable markers and let her go nuts. I had fun helping her too and it occupies...
- YES! Go to www.orientaltrading.com . They will send you free catalogs full of craft ideas! We use them all of the time. They are not expensive and the shipping is usua...
Pumpkin Painting
Asked by K.D. from Denver
on September 26, 2008
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I was wondering if anyone out there has any suggestions or tips for keeping the activity of painting pumpkins as mess free as possible. FOr my duaghter's upcoming brit...
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- I think the other comments have covered it. We did it 2 years ago at our halloween party, 8 kids sitting round the table. Put down a BIG drop cloth or plastic shower c...
- we painted at my daughter's 3rd birthday party (Curious Georget theme - the painting on the wall scene). I cleared out the garage and put down plastic drop cloths ($2...
- Buy a cheap large plastic tablecloth that you can have the kids work on (not too thinthat it will tear easily). Give each kid an old t-shirt to wear. Buy washable po...
Inexpensive Art Supplies
Asked by C.P. from Minneapolis
on August 28, 2007
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I'm starting a toddler art club with some other parents in my play group, and I'm wondering if anyone knows of some places to buy inexpensive art supplies. I've alrea...
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- C., I just went to a place called 'Artscraps' in St. Paul. It's on St. Clair - not too far from Macalester. It has tons of donated supplies: fabric scraps, cardboar...
- You can go to a teacher store, Sams club or even Walmart or try an online store such as the trading company.
- Have you tried Michael's or JoAnn's? They usually have a 40% off coupon in the Sunday Ad. They have a lot of kids arts & crafts stuff.
Organizing School and ART WORK
Asked by T.B. from San Diego
on September 15, 2009
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Hi Moms,
Can you please give me tips on how to organize & store art work.
I have heard of turning art into the photos books how ever my computer is too slow for that...
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- I read an article about getting a clean large pizza box from your local pizza place to store art for each year. It is flat and easy to stack with others. It is big...
- Check out www.yourtreasuresinprint.com I made a 12x12 book with my son's artwork to send to his Grandparents who live in another state. And, it helps us since yo...
- I bought a file box and filled it with hanging files...one for each child. Then on labels that I attached to each hanging file I put their age/grade...one for each ye...
Childs Art Projects
Asked by A.F. from Portland
on November 6, 2006
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This is a silly question but my son is in daycare and hes always bringing home art projects and I love all that he does and hate to throw them away, but as you know af...
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- Hi A.. I totally know the dilema. What I do is I have a folder for each of my kids (I have 3) and put their work in there, then after a few months I go through and onl...
- If you have access to a scanner, like a previous poster suggested, then you can scan them into the computer. Once that's done, you can send them to a photo website, li...
- Have you thought of getting a "art box" like a little gift box or a old hat box and let him paint it and make it a art project that way when he brings you a painting y...
I Need Art & Craft Ideas
Asked by I.J. from San Antonio
on May 16, 2008
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I'm a SAHM homeschooling my little one in kindergarten. I have a hard time finding art and/or craft projects that are inexpensive. Anyone have ideas that will interest...
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- Hi I.. My son really had fun decorating a small wooden box, I got the boxes at Michaels and they have a mesh window on top. They are ideal for collecting bugs or coo...
- go to Google and type in Free Crafts for Kindergarten there will be many sites one of the things i do for my grandchildren (I use to work in a PreK class for 10 year...
- This is a great time to learn about recycling. Find things others want to get rid of... if you have an old t shirt, buy paints to paint on the shirt...collect sticks a...
Face Painting at Bday Party?
Asked by K.J. from Minneapolis
on February 18, 2008
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I'm having my daughter's 4th bday party in a couple weeks at an art studio type of place and was thinking that doing face painting would be a good activity for the kid...
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- K., don't be disappointed, I am not responding to your question but rather I have a question for you. What are the pros and cons of having kids almost 4 years apart l...
- I use to think face painting was cute and all but this past xmas my daughter was at some sort of xmas party and they put something on her face and it took over a week ...
- I bought a face-painting kit at the bookstore--it came with an instruction booklet which has great designs. My kids often use it at home on rainy days, and we did use ...
Husband Painting Dining Area
Asked by T.M. from San Antonio
on April 29, 2008
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Hello moms, I don't know if this was done in purpose or not but I have been nagging on my husband to help me in painting the inside of the house among other things tha...
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- Go with it--that whole thing sounds too cute! Too often, we wives control how the house is decorated and such. Just keep in mind that it's his house, too, and let ...
- I have a couple of suggestions that you might like. As far as the carpet is concerned, why not get an area rug that you think you can live with for a while. That wil...
- This sounds exactly like something my husband would do. There are all kinds of things that you could do by adding accents and things to make it look good. I decided to...
