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Winter Paper Luminary with a Free Printable Template
With this free printable template, you can make a simple winter luminary in minutes! And once you put a light inside, it glows with simple charm. I've always wanted to try making a simple luminary by turning a piece of paper into a ring and making a decorative cut...
Silhouette Christmas Village Paper Template
Using our silhouette Christmas village paper template, you can build a beautiful holiday centrepiece in no time! While it looks like an intricate paper-cut craft, it doesn't require elaborate cutting skills and is instead made with a printer. My favourite part of...
Bird Cage Paper Lantern Ornament
Make a paper lantern ornament from a printable design! This is a spin-off on my previous lantern ornament project. If you feel confident doing somewhat intricate papercutting, you can do it the same way by cutting the design out. You will find the pattern in the...
Paper Lantern Christmas Ornaments
Add even more glow to your Christmas tree with these elegant paper lantern ornaments that have an LED light inside and can be turned on and off! They come with a printable template to make this craft as easy as possible. Lights sure make a Christmas tree come to life....
Christmas Silhouette Painted Rocks with Printable Designs
Decorate rocks with magical Christmas silhouettes and a snowy sky! Santa Claus in a sleigh, reindeer, a winter forest and children playing in the snow - it's a great selection for a festive rock painting project. Don't feel confident doing freehand drawing? Get...
Cardinal Button Craft for Kids
Add some button Christmas art featuring a cardinal bird to your home décor! So easy to put together that even young children can make this winter craft. Ever since my son was a toddler, we have enjoyed making button crafts together. With the setup we had, the finished...
How to Paint a Space Pumpkin for Halloween
If your kids aren't old enough to carve pumpkins, try making these no-carve painted space pumpkins for Halloween! It's strange how it never occurred to me before that we could paint pumpkins for Halloween. Of course, carving is fun! But it's a lot more fun when it...
Spider Jack-in-the-Box: Free Printable Toy
Did your kids like Jack-in-the-Box toys when they were younger? Now they can make a DIY Jack-in-the-Box from paper, while having a fun engineering experience! When we made our paper Jack-in-the-box toys and hid Jack-o'-lanterns inside, I wrote that kids can make new...
How to Make a Jack in the Box with a Free Printable Template
Learn how to make a Jack in the Box from paper with a free printable template and have a fun engineering experience with kids! The first paper Jack in the Box that I ever made was for Halloween. After all, shouldn't Jack-o'-lantern and Jack-in-the-box belong together?...
Moon Chinese Legend Shadow Puppet Show for the Mid-Autumn Festival
Celebrate the Mid-Autumn Moon Festival by staging a shadow puppet show based on the Chinese Moon legend that explains the origins and traditions of the festival. Falling on the 15th day of the 8th month of the Chinese lunar calendar, the Mid-Autumn Festival happens in...
Painting Space Leaves with a Sponge
Have you tried painting leaves? It's a very simple autumn art project. The leaves I painted this autumn look as if they blew in on a cosmic wind. When I choose a new project, it's often just a simple curiosity as to how a certain craft can be made. Summer brought...
Halloween Painted Rocks with Free Silhouette Templates
Make magical Halloween painted rocks using our free printable silhouette templates! This has undoubtedly been a good year for all the rock painters. The new trend of painting and hiding rocks this summer has inspired a lot of fun rock creations! The summer is over,...
How to Transfer Silhouette Designs onto Rocks
You have a silhouette design you would like to paint on a rock, but can't do freehand drawing? Try one of these three ways to transfer designs onto rocks! After I wrote about painting silhouette rocks, a few people wrote to me asking whether I have stencils for them...
Fairy Tale Mason Jar Lanterns
Turn mason jars into a set of fairy-tale lanterns with silhouettes of fairies and unicorns! Three years ago, I made sets of both Halloween and Christmas lanterns. We have enjoyed them for a while, and have since made a few new designs. Along the way, I've been trying...
Black Glue Stained Glass Art
Make imitation stained glass with black glue! Try this unique craft technique with kids and create numerous window decorations and suncatchers. I've tried many different ways of making imitation stained glass. I have never tried the real thing, true, what with all my...
Black Glue & Sharpies Butterfly Suncatcher
Want to make a cheery butterfly suncatcher with kids? It's surprisingly easy with nothing but black glue, sharpie markers and some recyclables. The post contains Amazon affiliate links to the products we used. When I first saw drawings created with black glue,...
Magical Landscape Silhouette Painted Rocks for a Rock Hunt
Decorate rocks with elegant landscape silhouettes drawn over a starry twilight sky! Now you can also read about how to transfer designs onto rocks instead of doing freehand drawing. This summer has brought a new artistic trend into the spotlight. Some of my friends...
Space Stained Glass Suncatchers
For kids who are interested in the cosmos, make these stained glass space suncatchers from... plastic plates! I enjoyed experimenting with my stained glass paints, and I wanted to share the experience with my young artist. The only problem, the stained glass paints we...
Emotion Paper Dolls for Teaching Kids about Emotions: Girl Edition
Did you play with dress-up dolls when you were a kid? This printable emotion paper doll changes poses and expressions instead of dresses and teaches children how to successfully read other people's body language. This version features a girl doll. It is...
Stained Glass Space Painting
Learn how to paint space with stained glass paints in a simple way! This technique works for creating beautiful abstract wall art and decorating craft projects. Birthdays and Christmas approaching, my family usually ask me at some point. "Any ideas on what you'd like...
Free Printable Back-to-School Book of Questions for Kids
As a first-day-of-school tradition, make this free printable back-to-school book together with kids! Filled with writing and drawing prompts, it captures their likes, dislikes, hobbies, and aspirations. A fun keepsake for parents and a creative way for teachers to get...
Guess the Picture Book by the First Line: Free Printable Game for Kids
Guess the Picture Book by the First Line is a free printable game for kids who like to read, for their parents, teachers and librarians. Print, cut the cards out, and play! "In the light of the moon, a little egg lay on a leaf..." Chances are, if you have a kid under...
Articulated Dragon Puppet with Free Printable Template
Make an articulated dragon puppet from paper with a free printable puppet template! Pet Dragon? Have you ever thought of what it would be like to have a pet dragon? If we consult literary sources, they differ on this account: a dragon brought quite a bit of trouble to...
Backyard Railroad Engineering: Outdoor STEM Challenge for Kids
Like many kids, my son likes everything on wheels. Cars, construction machinery, emergency vehicles, trains. Especially trains. He also loves playing in the backyard, and for several summer now, I've been thinking how much fun it would be to build a railroad outside....
Leaf Messages and Doodles
A fun and simple way for kids to make art and practice writing with nature in the summer! Don't these leaf messages look as if they were left by fairies? That was the idea, anyway! The leaf messages introduced my son to his kindness elves. In case you haven't heard...
Canadian Dress-Up Paper Doll with a Printable Template
Get an introduction to Canada for kids with these printable dress-up dolls! Four Canadian costumes include Anne of Green Gables, a hockey player, an Inuk and a Mountie. Since realizing that this year celebrates the 150th anniversary of Canada, I wanted to do something...
Puzzle Drawing Prompt for Kids with a Free Printable Template
Draw, cut and create a puzzle of your own! With this free printable puzzle template, kids can make as many as they want. Draw, cut and create a puzzle of your own! With this free printable puzzle template, kids can make as many DIY puzzles as they want. A couple of...
How to Make Fantasy Mermaid Eggs
If your children have a fascination with mermaids, they might just like making this mermaid egg craft! Made of shells and beach glass, this craft is a good way to use up all the keepsakes from a seaside trip in a little fantasy-inspired creation. The idea was born...
Dragon and Unicorn Clothespin Puppets with Free Printable Designs
Make these simple clothespin puppets with kids, using our free printable designs as the starting point! A fun STEAM project, with the puppets working around the mechanism of a clothespin. With several sets of elaborate shadow puppets in my craft baggage, I always...
Space Rocks Fridge Magnets
Let the kids paint rocks as if they were pieces of the night sky and make space rock fridge magnets! Our four-year-old son loves everything cosmic. He is concerned about comets and plans to build space robots when he grows up. Very global set of mind! Together with...