Munchkin Craft

This was fun, easy, and very cute. 

We let her pick some paint colors and told her to go nuts!

Although, she's a little bit of a neat freak...and when I say "Go Nuts" I mean that she was very apprehensive about mixing paint brushes and colors. She would stop every time she got paint on herself and ask her mommy to wipe it off. We had to coerce her into mixing things up but the end product was great.  

 

My parents loved the gift! Cheap, easy, and memorable! 

My sister and my 3 year old niece came to visit before Christmas! My sister has the creative gene too, so she brought a blank canvas with her for my niece to paint and give to grandma and grandpa as a Christmas Gift.

Kid Craft! Paper Pumpkins

My girls got bored the other day so we made these ridiculously easy paper pumpkins. You can use fancier paper and make them for adults, but even the 5 year old did this with little supervision! (also I took the photos on my phone, so ignore the grainy-ness)

Cost: FREE (or $2 if you don't have any paper)

Difficulty: it's for children...

You Need:

paper, scissors, and a glue stick


First, cut your paper into 3 strips, and lay them out in a star shape like so, and glue them down:

 Then... Take opposite sides, pull them up and glue them together, like this:

   Then...do it with the other pieces until you have a ball shape

                                           

Next, make your stem with a tiny strip of green paper. I curled mine around a pencil first. The girls did straight ones. 

  And here's the proof that kids can do this::

 

This is so easy, how could you NOT do it? The pumpkins make nice place setting cards too!

Kayleigh vs Crayon Art

Difficulty Level: Easy
Price: About $9 if you already have a glue gun


I first saw this awesome melted crayon art on Pinterest, and I knew I had to try it. Luckily for me, crayons were on sale at Target for back to school, so this craft ended up being SUPER cheap. Yay for budgets! Now... Here's how it's done....

Materials:
1.Crayons-- I recommend getting Crayola, they melt nicer. For the one I made, I used 46 crayons (2 pack of 24 with the browns taken out)
2.Canvas (mine is 16" by 12")-- available at Michael's for around $7
3. Hot glue gun
4. Hair dryer
5. Some newspaper to catch the melted crayon


Step 1- Line up crayons across the 16" side of the canvas in whichever order you like. (I did rainbow order with black and gray in the center)

 

Step 2- Hot glue them in order, with the name facing out.

Step 3- Lay out the newspaper, and stand the canvas up at a slight angle on top of the news paper.

Step 4- Turn your hair dryer on HOT and aim at the center of the crayons. They start to melt almost immediately! 

 Step 5- Let the drippings dry and cool before moving the painting. You're DONE!!

I loved doing this. Instant gratification, super cheap, and great decoration for a craft room or the classroom!


Don't wanna make it?? No problem! You can by this one in our Etsy Shop !

Winner: Kayleigh!