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Wikki Stix are a great way to help kids become crafters! Mess-free, with no preparation and no clean-up... and no mistakes! They help build self-confidence while providing colorful, creative fun.

Soft and pliable for even very young fingers to use, Wikki Stix spark creativity and imagination in children ages 3 and up. Kids' crafts become easy and enjoyable because Wikki Stix can be peeled up and repositioned to make changes and corrections.

Use Wikki Stix with ordinary household items like soup cans, paper bags, gift bags and paper plates...turning them into fun, colorful and inexpensive craft creations.

No child needs to be convinced that Wikki Stix are fun! Wikki Stix offer a variety of fun crafts for kids! Everything from greeting cards to seasonal and holiday crafts can be created with Wikki Stix! Perfect for kindergarten, preschool, and elementary school arts and crafts. Create 3-D objects, topographical maps, and more!

On these pages, you'll find fun ideas and inspiration...dot-to-dot templates, holiday ideas, 3D objects, animal crafts, greeting cards, and craft activities for the whole family, and much more. Wikki Stix are a perfect craft tool!

For more than 26 years, Wikki Stix has been offering craft ideas for kids that are fun, creative, and always unique! No Glue! No Mess!

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Wikki Stix are a great way to help kids become crafters! Mess-free, with no preparation and no clean-up... and no mistakes! They help build self-confidence while providing colorful, creative fun. Soft and pliable for even very young fingers to use, Wikki Stix spark creativity and imagination in children ages 3 and up.

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This project to make a paper clip tape necklace or bracelet was inspired by a conversation I had with my agent, Erica, when we were chatting about making things with office supplies. It's been a few years since I worked in an office, but oh, how I loved restocking my desk with post-its, paper clips, and fresh pencils. Are you with me?

There's actually a book on this topic, Extreme Office Crafts (affiliate), which I haven't had a chance to check out. Wouldn't that have been a fun book to write?! It sounds like there are even a few projects in that book that we've tried, like this sticky note mosaic.

What I love about this craft is that it's low cost, you can make it with supplies you probably already have on hand, and it's open-ended (variations provided at the end of this post).

While I didn't grab photos of it, my kids, ages 4 and 6 have done this multiple times. It's great for fine motor skills and hand-eye coordination. It would be a successful summer camp craft and it's perfect for a lazy afternoon...for kids or adults.

So easy, right?

I like to use washi tape because it's so stinkin' beautiful and easy to find in a variety of compelling colors and patterns. I collect our tape from local craft stores and online at places like Amazon (affiliate).

As you can see from the photos, I set this up as an Invitation to Create. For more about invitations to create, you will love these three posts that are part of the Creative Table Project, a fun TinkerLab project that's been going strong since 2012!
An Invitation to Create with Tape and Paper An Invitation to Create with Glue and Sand An Invitation to Create with Stickers and Paper Frame
There are a couple ways to do this:

Connect a long string of paper clips together and then wrap each paper clip with tape.

Or, wrap a paper clip with tape and then connect it with another paper clip. Repeat the process of wrapping and connecting until you reach the desired length.

Watch my newest video to see how it's done...

String up multiple necklaces of varying lengths and attach them to make a bulky necklace.

Use just one color of washi tape

Use rainbow colors of tape

Invent a new way to combine paper clips and tape.

Add one more material to the mix and invent a new kind of jewelry.

Subscribe to my YouTube Channel to see more videos like this one.

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This project to make a paper clip tape necklace or bracelet was inspired by a conversation I had with my agent, Erica, when we were chatting about making things with office supplies. It's been a few years since I worked in an office, but oh, how I loved restocking my desk with post-its, paper clips, and fresh pencils.

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Today I have a wonderful project for you: How to make a paper garland without sewing.

It's simple. Inexpensive. Easy. And virtually mess-free.

I've had a love affair with gigantic paper punchers ever since my children were introduced them in preschool. Tiny hole punchers are wonderful (and I'll share my very favorite for young children in a sec), but these mega punchers can make big 2″ circles and they're easy enough for little hands to use.

This colorful provocation is easy to set up, the mess is minimal, and, in usual TinkerLab style, it's open-ended and the result will all depend on the child's imagination.

Let's get started..

Large Paper Punch: Fiskars. My favorite!

Small Hole Punch:My kids are endlessly frustrated by the traditional punchers and this style is easy for small children to use.

Stickers

String

Paper Scissors

There are many ways to set this up. I have a growing collection of containers so I'll show you a couple ideas.

Set it up in a caddy:

Or maybe in a shallow tray:

Once your supplies are out, invite your child to make a garland. You can add some scissors to the setup. When I set this up for a large crowd last week, one boy turned a circle into a PacMan shape. One child made a garland to decorate his sister's room and another turned her's into a necklace.

So many possibilities!

When you're done, hang your no-sew garland. Or wrap a gift with it. Or wear it as jewelry. Or...

Fiskars Round Large Punch - on sale for $9.9 9

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Today I have a wonderful project for you: How to make a paper garland without sewing. It's simple. Inexpensive. Easy. And virtually mess-free. I've had a love affair with gigantic paper punchers ever since my children were introduced them in preschool.

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If you've been around for a while, you already know I'm a fan of Big Art. It seems to make fun art projects for kids and even toddlers (and even boys) manageable.

For those of you that are new to this term that I've made up:

Big Art is are fun art projects for kids that makes you be involved in the process. (Because, I believe, the early years it's all about the process, and not the product.)

It's usually big.

It gets you moving. Generally, using those gross motor skills that are ever so important in the early years.

3 tips to doing fun art projects for kids, especially young ones:

Make art bigger

Create it with movement

Just use big objects to begin with

MORE ACTIVITIES YOU MIGHT LIKE

Here are 40 examples of what I claim to be Big Art!

Remember, Big Art projects are fun art projects for kids using physical movement in some shape or form.

More fun art projects for kids inspiration can be found on my Big Art Pinterest board.

More creative ideas along these lines are the art projects for toddlers.
Click here or the image below for 30 of them.

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40 'Big Art' Fun Art Projects for Kids - hands on : as we grow

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If you've been around for a while, you already know I'm a fan of Big Art. It seems to make fun art projects for kids and even toddlers (and even boys) manageable. For those of you that are new to this term that I've made up: Big Art is are fun art projects for kids that makes you be involved in the process.

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The term 'recycled art' is fairly new, but found object art has been around at least since Marcel Duchamp's 1917 work ' Fountain', which consisted simply of a used urinal. Artists have been salvaging materials from car parts to kitchen utensils for decades, for inclusion in sculptures, paintings, drawing, collages and other examples of 'found art'. These 13 works of art incorporate reclaimed objects into everything from small sculptures to large-scale installations.

Zac Freeman's Amazing Found Object Portraits

Buttons, jar lids, Legos and every kind of small doo-hickey imaginable find their way into the portraits of Zac Freeman, who manages to coax strikingly realistic images out of all this junk.

"I glue the bits of junk to a wooden substrate to form an image, usually faces, which only can be seen at a distance. I was interested in communicating through visual representation in apparent 2-dimensional space and through the actual objects used for the medium in 3-dimensional space. It is very important to me that I incorporate the actual objects into the art as opposed to a picture or rendition of it because it better expresses the intention of the artwork. I feel the junk is more powerful being present. It is an actual thing to be reckoned with that existed in this time and place and carries energy in and of itself."

Drawings on Reclaimed Envelopes by Mark Powell

We throw away used envelopes without a thought each and every day, but they're not without value. Artist Mark Powell reclaims vintage envelopes and uses them as a drawing surface that give his work a little bit of extra character. The stamps, addresses and other markings on the envelopes give his portraits the feel of collage.

Eagle Made of Kitchen Utensils

Spatulas, measuring cups, serving forks and spoons come together in this awesome found object sculpture of an eagle by Japanese artist Sayaka Ganz. Despite these highly unusual materials, the eagle's shape is spot-on, down to the claws and the spoon-and-knife feathers of the tail.

Miniature Matchbook Portraits by Jason D'Aquino

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They're small enough to fit inside a matchbook - literally - yet these drawings by Jason D'Aquino are still amazingly detailed. The miniaturist has completed an entire series of drawings on reclaimed 1950s and '60s matchbooks, created with the help of a magnifying glass.

Darth Vader Goes Green

Would you believe that this bust of Darth Vader started out with a pair of spoons? French artist Alain Bellino photographed every step of the process of creating this realistic sculpture, which is made of scrap metal of all kinds. Check out the whole thing at his website.

Butterflies by Michelle Stitzlein

Piano keys, bits of broken plates and various other waste materials go through a transformation of their own to become the beautiful large-scale butterfly sculptures of Michelle Stitzlein.

Salvaged Skateboards by Haroshi

Stacks of old skateboards, stripped of their grip tape, are glued together and then carved with a jig saw to create the stunning striped sculptures of Japanese artist Haroshi. The artist creates this series of recycled art in collaboration with HUF skateboards and the Bay Area-based skateboard distributor DLX Distribution.

Environmental Art Totems by John Dahlsen

Stacks and stacks of flip-flops, plastic soda bottles, styrofoam packaging, buoys and other waste items become "contemporary environmental art totemic sculptures" by artist John Dahlsen. The Australian artist actually gathers these discarded items from beaches, dividing them up by color into surprisingly beautiful sculptures that speak both of the power of consumerism in our society, and the plummeting value of these materials in such a short period of time.

Door Facade

A dilapidated 10-story building in Seoul, South Korea received a colorful new look in the form of 1,000 brightly colored reclaimed doors in an installation by artist Choi Jeong-Hwa.

Stunning Wooden Installations by Tadashi Kawamata

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Resembling natural structures like beehives and bird nests, these art installations by Tadashi Kawamata consist of wooden detritus like old chairs and pallets. The reclaimed items are lashed together with zip ties into massive public sculptures that bend and twist in unexpected ways.

Wall of Computer Keys by Sarah Frost

Stand-alone keyboards are nearly obsolete as most of us begin ditching desktop computers for laptops and tablets, meaning most of those plastic keys end up in landfills. But artist Sarah Frost collects these keys and uses them to create wall art with a pixelated look, the keys nearly unidentifiable when viewed from afar.

Treen by Kirsten Hassenfeld

Found objects made of glass, metal, ceramic, plastic, wood and enamel come together into beautiful monochromatic groupings, either hanging from the ceiling or placed atop mirrors in artist Kirsten Hassenfeld's series 'Treen'. Whether strung together or stacked, the objects call to mind sparkling fantasy castles.

Found-Object House and Chapel by Martin Sanchez

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An entire city block in Riverside, California has become a public art gallery for Martin Sanchez, who has been building strange reclaimed sculptures for over a decade. Among Sanchez's creations, on the property of his restaurant Tio's Tacos, are a recycled house and chapel. The chapel is made mostly of beer bottles, with a dome covered in intricate mosaics made of broken dishes.

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Found Object Art: 13 Sculptures Made of Reclaimed Items - WebEcoist

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The term 'recycled art' is fairly new, but found object art has been around at least since Marcel Duchamp's 1917 work ' Fountain', which consisted simply of a used urinal. Artists have been salvaging materials from car parts to kitchen utensils for decades, for inclusion in sculptures, paintings, drawing, collages and other examples of 'found art'.