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Grab some natural materials and let your children have a go!

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Read more here: https://www.artycraftykids.com/art/autumn-leaf-painting/

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SEE THE DETAILS: https://iheartcraftythings.com/owl-babies-craft.html

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KNUCKLE PRINT PUMPKIN PATCH ART PROJECT -So fun to make after visiting the pumpkin patch! See the details: https://iheartcraftythings.com/pumpkin-patch-art-2.html

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See the detailed directions and get the template here: https://buggyandbuddy.com/paper-strip-angel/

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By Melissa Lennig . This content may contain affiliate links.

Crafters of all ages will enjoy making primitive Scrap Ribbon Tree Ornaments to gift or keep this holiday season.

In this post, learn how to use shades of green and brown scrap ribbon to emulate the welcoming branches of a Christmas tree.

My oldest son received his first pair of sneakers with laces this week! He is incredibly excited to learn how to tie his shoes. To help him practice, we spent some time creating Scrap Ribbon Tree Ornaments.

The Christmas ornaments are lovely and we can't wait to give them away to friends and family. More importantly, they helped my son master the first step in shoe tying.

To Make This Craft You Will Need

Directions

After gathering supplies, show children how to tie the scraps of ribbon down the twig or cinnamon stick. I've found that wide ribbons, tied into single loose knots, give the best coverage.

For best results, bunch the ribbons close together. The ribbons will bend and slightly overlap. Gently tug them into place until you are satisfied with their placement.

Use sharp scissors to trim the ribbon scraps into the shape of a Christmas tree. If desired, melt the edges of the ribbons with a match so the ribbon doesn't fray.

TIP: Worried about ribbon waste? Use your small scraps of leftover ribbon to make an adorable Pine Cone and Ribbon Turkey!

I happen to adore how a little fray gives the ornaments a more primitive look. (I even tugged a little more at the edges of the ribbon to make this happen!)

Hot glue or tie a loop of twine to the top of the tree. If desired, top the tree with a wooden star, yellow button, or primitive metal star.

Scrap Ribbon Tree Ornaments are beautifully rustic and simple. They look especially cute dangling from the Christmas tree or a jar of homemade hot chocolate mix!

Click the images below to view more creative homemade Christmas ornaments.

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By Melissa Lennig . This content may contain affiliate links. Crafters of all ages will enjoy making primitive Scrap Ribbon Tree Ornaments to gift or keep this holiday season. In this post, learn how to use shades of green and brown scrap ribbon to emulate the welcoming branches of a Christmas tree.

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I just adore pom poms! Homemade or shop bought, big or small, pom poms can add a fantastic splash of colour and texture to all sorts of kids crafts. Adorable mini pom poms make these star ornaments come to life with a beautiful and zingy display of shape and colour! These colourful pom pom popsicle stick stars will look amazing hanging on your Christmas tree or as a bright and cheery bedroom or nursery display all year round.

I've also provided some super fun ideas to vary the craft, build fine motor skills and challenge the big kids too. Have fun!

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I've been using pom poms with the kids for years now but only recently discovered these amazing mini pom poms US / UK link. They come in a pack of 1000, are ridiculously cheap and the colours are fantastic! One of my best craft supply finds ever!

The gorgeous mini pom poms sit on a popsicle stick star frame and I have a fantastic hack to make them quickly and easily without having to worry whether your popsicle sticks are going to match up neatly at the end. They will will this method, I promise!

But before we get totally engrossed in the Pom Pom Popsicle Stick Stars Tutorial you might want to bookmark or pin some of our other popsicle stick crafts to come back to later too. Mix 'N' Match Snakes have been much loved and are so fun to play with because they actually move! The Chestnut Family are lovely puppets to encourage imaginative play. Button Snowflakes and Yarn Wrapped Stars are wonderful if you are looking for some more pretty ornaments.

How To Make Colourful Pom Pom Popsicle Stick Stars

Supplies To Make Colourful Pom Pom Popsicle Stick Star Ornaments

How To Make Colourful Pom Pom Popsicle Stick Stars

To start you need to make your popsicle stick stars. I've already written a post with a great hack to glue these babies together quickly and easily without the stress of finding that your last stick doesn't close up the star! Check out my Yarn Wrapped Popsicle Stick Star Ornaments post to get the low down.

Once you've made your popsicle stick stars cut a short section of yarn and tie it into a loop around each star for hanging.

Now it's time to have fun mixing and matching all those gorgeous mini pom poms. I love watching kids pick and chose. Some children love to pick out a single colour, some like two and others like many. Some like to space their pom poms evenly and others like a more random approach. Some children will try to fill every spare bit of space with pom poms and others will want to spread them out. It goes to show that even with a structured craft there is still plenty of space for children's creativity and personal taste and style.

A top tip that can help younger children is to get them to choose their mini pom poms before they start glueing and then to spread them out with lots of space between them. When your fingers get gluey it can be tricky to pick up just one pom pom if they are all very close together.

Once all the pom poms have been added leave them aside to dry and then you can hang them on display for everyone to enjoy.

Variations To Further Develop Fine Motor Skills and Stretch Older Children

It can be fun to use a simple craft like these pom pom popsicle stick stars to develop other skills like fine motor. You can challenge little hands further with these craft variations:

Children can use tweezers to place the pom poms.

Kids can try using chop sticks instead of their hands.

How about using suction to place the pom poms? Give kids a thin drinking straw (make sure the pom poms can not fit through it, we don't want any choking!) and see if they can suck their way to a beautiful design!

To challenge older children you can have a strictly no hands policy! They'll have fun trying to do all the choosing, gluing and placing of the pom poms using only tweezers, chopsticks or straws!

Would your kids prefer to make their pom pom popsicle stick stars with their hands or by using one of the challenge ideas? I love hearing how you get on. Leave a comment below, come and chat on Facebook or sign up to our email updates.
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I just adore pom poms! Homemade or shop bought, big or small, pom poms can add a fantastic splash of colour and texture to all sorts of kids crafts. Adorable mini pom poms make these star ornaments come to life with a beautiful and zingy display of shape and colour!

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Book Page Pumpkin Tutorial . . . with an old book and a few basic craft supplies, you can make a beautiful pumpkin that can match any fall decor!
I love decorating with book pages. I love decorating with pumpkins. It was only natural that I combined the two together to make Book Page Pumpkins.

This is such a simple craft project, but the results are stunning. Everyone who sees my book page pumpkin comments on it!

I saw a few book page apples on pinterest, and thought that a pumpkin would be totally cute as well. I buy damaged books at the library for pennies and set them aside for projects like these cute pumpkins. Hope you like them as much as I do!

Book Page Pumpkin Tutorial

Supplies:
-Paperback book
-Paper and pencil
- Sharp scissors or exacto knife
- Hot glue gun and glue
- Spray Paint
-Stick for stem
-Scrap of ribbon or fabric

Instructions:

1- Make a pumpkin shape out of a piece of paper. I roughly drew one, then folded the paper in half and cut it so it would be symmetrical. 2-Take the cover off of your book and place the pumpkin pattern with the fold on the binding edge. If it doesn't fit, trim it a little. 3-Trace around the pattern with a pencil. 4-Now it's time to cut out your pumpkin. You can use an exacto knife, but I found that it was easier just to use scissors. I could cut through 5-6 pages at a time pretty easily. If you don't have fine tipped scissors to cut all the way to the edge of the binding, you can use an exacto knife there. 5-After you cut all the way around, pull the excess pages over to the binding and they should tear right off. 6-Now trace around the pumpkin shape and cut through a few more pages. Tip: cut slightly inside the pencil mark, or your pumpkin will keep getting bigger. Yep, I learned that the hard way. Danggit. 7-Keep tracing and cutting until you have all the pages done. 8-Now put a thin strip of glue on the very edge. I'm the impatient type, so I used hot glue. 9-Now bring that back page around and attach it to the hot glue, keeping the outside edges as even as possible. Then add a stip of hot glue to that page, and glue the next page to it, just on the inside edges. I sure hope that makes sense. 10-When you stand your pumpkin up, it will probably look something like this: 11-Don't panic! It just needs to be "fluffed". Just go around pulling the pages apart and arranging them how you want them. If I had a space where the pages just refused to come together, I added a little hot glue right at the inside seam. When you are done, it should look more like this. It's OK that there are some spaces. We'll fix them later. 12- At this point I decided my pumpkin needed a little color. I could have inked all the edges with my orange ink pad. But I knew that would take awhile. So I turned to my best friend Rustoleum. Spray paint that is.

Yep, you can totally spray paint book pages. Just use a very light touch, you don't want it drenched or anything. One light spritz is all you need.

13-Now it's time to add the stem. I just used a stick from my yard. If you have any stubborn pages, now you can bend them to your will. Bwaahaha! I used a bunch of hot glue, then forced the pages where I wanted them and held the stem in place till the glue dried. Voila! 14-Next I tied a ribbon around the stem. Not only does it look cute and add some color, but it hides all the gobs of hot glue. Yay!

And just because I love it so, here is another shot of it sitting on my entry table. I think I need to make a few more book page pumpkins so it has some friends. 😉

If you like this book page pumpkin, check out these book page projects:

Halloween Book Page Wreath
Fall Book Page Wreath
Book Page Christmas Ornament
This project was originally published September 2011, it was updated 9/11/2018.

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Book Page Pumpkin Tutorial . . . with an old book and a few basic craft supplies, you can make a beautiful pumpkin that can match any fall decor! I love decorating with book pages. I love decorating with pumpkins. It was only natural that I combined the two together to make Book Page Pumpkins.

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Fall is a great season for working on counting skills as there are so many gorgeous natural items like acorns and buck eyes to use in hands on math sessions. Don't kids just love collecting and handling them? Today I'm sharing a super Fall counting activity that makes the most of the pretty fallen leaves and also develops fine motor skills too.

How To Set Up A Fine Motor Counting Activity For Fall

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This Fall counting activity is so simple all you need is a couple of shallow baskets, some clothes pins, a sharpie pen and lots of lovely leaves.

I start with a fun walk with the children and give them a little basket or bag so that they can help me collect some leaves. I keep an eye out for some large leaves and a variety of colours if possible to add to the visual stimuli.

Once home I give the leaves a quick wash and dry and then mark out my numbers with a sharpie.

I put the leaves in one basket and the clothes pins in the other and introduce the activity to the children. Children can then peg a number of clothes pins onto the leaves to match the number written on it.

This is a wonderful seasonal activity to develop early math one to one correspondence and number recognition. Clipping and unclipping the clothes pins is great for strengthening little hands, developing fine motor skills and hand-eye coordination too.

Listed below are lots of ways to differentiate this activity for different abilities and ages and alternative fine motor resource suggestions you could use too so the activity can stay fresh and be revisited a number of times.

Counting Activity Differentiation

For children without number recognition I would add a corresponding number of dots to the leaves as well as, or instead of, the written digit.

For very young children and those new to this activity you could just start with three leaves and the numbers 1 to 3.

For older or more able children you could extend the number range as far as your like and introduce a zero too.

For very able children, along with an extended range of numbers I like to add a few leaves with the same number into the basket too. I then encourage children not only to clip on the correct number of pegs to each leaf, but to find and order leaves 1 to 10 etc too.

Fine Motor Variations

Clothes pins are super for developing fine motor skills but there are lots of other things that children could use to clip or place on the leaves instead. You can keep the math activity fresh easily by switching these items occasionally. Here are a few ideas to get you started.
Handy Tip
If you want long lasting leaves or to do this activity all year round why not laminate some leaves? I have some laminated leaves that are now more than 5 years old and the colours have faded a little but they're still going strong.

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Well folks, it's that time of year again: Polish your apples and sharpen your pencils. It's time to get ready to go back to school!*

* Whoa. Did you hear the collective sigh of relieved parents all across the internet? Me too!

When I was coming up, the best part of back to school shopping was going to store to pick up school supplies. Pens, pencils, two-pocket folders, maybe even a Trapper Keeper. Remember those? Nowadays kids to everything on their fancy electrogizmos, but let me tell you, a childhood without a Trapper Keeper isn't a real childhood.

But I digress. School supplies are still in demand and now is the time of year when an influx of papers, notebooks, textbooks and office supplies start parading across kitchen tables. Wouldn't it be nice to have a spot to coral all that stuff together and out of the way? And wouldn't it be nice if the kids could make it themselves? And it would look cool? Thought so.

To get inspired for this school year, I'm working with Michaels to help teachers and parents create DIY projects that will keep young students on track. Michael's is calling this their #Create2Educate campaign, and you can join in the fun. Details to follow below, but for now let's take a look at how easy these are to make.
MATERIALS

3-5 Empty cardboard cartons (leftover cereal, pasta, and granola bar boxes seem to work just great)

Duck Tape (have you seen the colors and patterns this stuff comes in these days?)

Scissors

Cardboard tubes (optional) Let's get started...

INSTRUCTIONS

Place your cardboard cartons side by side then tape the bottoms together. For this first step, you may find it helpful to employ a second pair of hands (one person to hold, one person to tape).

Trim the tops of the boxes off to the desired heights.

Keep wrapping the tape over and around the surface of the boxes and just inside the rim. You may wish to use a credit card or the back of a spoon to make sure the tape gets into every corner.

To convert the front pocket into a marker caddy, insert a few empty cardboard tubes trimmed to size. They will keep pens and pencils standing upright and accessible!

TIPS

Here I worked in stripes, but you may find it easier to work in an abstract 'paper-mache' style.

Surface wrinkles are part of the fun, but you will find them easy to disguise by choosing a patterned duck tape.

I just know you crafty peoples (and your kiddos) have a million great ideas up your sleeve. So get out there and show of them skillz. It's back to school!

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Well folks, it's that time of year again: Polish your apples and sharpen your pencils. It's time to get ready to go back to school!* * Whoa. Did you hear the collective sigh of relieved parents all across the internet? Me too!

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This experiment for kids is so cool that people of all ages will enjoy it. You only need four ingredients to make Homemade Lava Lamps, and you probably already have them in your house. You can make your own lava lamp in every color available. If you set them up on a sunny window sill, they might catch some sunlight and make pretty patterns on the walls. You wont believe how easy it is to learn how to make lava lamps. Your kids can do this for a fun science fair project or you can use this in a classroom lesson.

Plus, check out this video to learn how you can make a recycled water bottle lava lamp too!

Time to CompleteUnder an hour

Age Group Toddlers, Preschool & Kindergarten, Elementary School

Project TypeMake a Project

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If your little ones are just learning fine motor skills, then this Shoe Tying Practice Printable activity is the perfect teaching tool. Toddlers and pre-k kids can practice tying and lacing shoes with this easy craft for kids. They can even customize their shoes with a fun coloring activity. The best part about this kids' craft is that it's completely free! Simply print the shoe template and watch as your kids combine design with fine motor skills. This lesson plan activity is great for home and the classroom, making it sure to be a hit with pre-school teachers. This hands-on, educational kids' craft is the best way to teach kids how to tie their shoes.

Time to CompleteUnder an hour

Primary TechniqueGeneral Crafts

Age Group Toddlers, Preschool & Kindergarten

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If your little ones are just learning fine motor skills, then this Shoe Tying Practice Printable activity is the perfect teaching tool. Toddlers and pre-k kids can practice tying and lacing shoes with this easy craft for kids. They can even customize their shoes with a fun coloring activity.

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This unique apple tree craft for kids uses a pinecone, some yarn, and pompoms! It's an easy craft for fall and also provides lots of fine motor practice for little hands. Perfect for preschool, kindergarten, or first grade!
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I absolutely love the simplicity of this adorable apple tree craft using a pinecone as the base for the tree! You'll only need a few materials, and it can be done it a short amount of time.

You can buy your pinecones at a local craft store or online. It would also be fun to take a walk and collect your own!

Some Great Children's Books to Go with the Activity

Materials for Pinecone Apple Tree

Directions for Making Pinecone Apple Tree

1. Wrap green yarn around your pinecone numerous times. If you are using a smaller pinecone, regular worsted weight yarn ( like this) works well. For larger pinecones (or smaller hands), use a chunky yarn like this one.

2. Cut off the end of the yarn and tuck it in. You can also place a dab of glue where your yarn ends if you're worried about it coming undone.

3. Glue red pompoms onto your pinecone tree to represent apples. Again, the size of your pinecone will determine the size of pompoms to use. You can also place an assortment of sizes out and allow your children to select their favorites.

4. Optional: If you'd like to add a trunk to make your apple tree more realistic, glue your pinecone on top of a wooden spool. (A hot glue gun works best. This is my favorite - you can set it to either high or low temp.)

The finished apple trees make great decorations for fall!

Be sure to also check out this unique method for making fall pinecone trees!

Tips

Place a wide selection of pinecones, different colors of yarn, and various sized pompoms out for your children or students. Allow them to come up with their own combination of supplies to use!

Younger children might need help cutting the yarn.

If adding a spool trunk to your tree, you can use liquid glue (like Tacky Glue), although a glue gun works more quickly.

Check out even more cool ways to build and create with kids in our ebook, Up!

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This unique apple tree craft for kids uses a pinecone, some yarn, and pompoms! It's an easy craft for fall and also provides lots of fine motor practice for little hands. Perfect for preschool, kindergarten, or first grade! Follow our Fall Crafts for Kids Pinterest board! MY LATEST VIDEOS This post contains affiliate ...

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As most of my recent tutorials have been sewing projects, I thought it might be a nice change to make a crafty no sew project. This little no sew sock snowman makes a great "desk friend" or paper weight and because he's filled with rice he's nice and squishy to hold too.

1 white sock
1 coloured or patterned sock
2 rubber bands
Rice or other weighted filler
Polar fleece
Glue

WHAT TO DO
How to make the no sew sock snowman:
Fill the white sock with 1 1/2 cups of rice.

Tie the sock in a knot and snip off the excess sock above the knot.

Place a rubber band over the snowman's body to form his head
To make the no sew sock snowman's beanie:
Take your coloured sock and cut it in half through the heel.

Take the leg part of the sock and tie a rubber band about 3cm from its cut end. Cut fringes beneath the rubber band to make the beanie's tasselled top. Place on the snowman's head and roll up the uncut end of the sock to make the beanie's turned up rim.
To make the scarf:
Cut a strip of polar fleece about 30cm x 3cm. Cut fringes at both ends. Tie around the snowman's neck.
To make the snowman's face:
Cut out two small circles of black felt for eyes and glue them into place.

And now you have a genuine no sew snowman from Downunder standing on a desert background - obviously somewhere in the Outback of Central Australia - with snow miraculously falling.
P.S. If you'd like to hand-sew some projects with or for your kids take a look at my book
Print copy available on Etsy at the special price of AU$19.95
Kindle Edition on Amazon for US$9.95

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Get down and dirty with these paint hacks