Butterfly, Butterfly by Peter Horacek is one of Summer and Emma's favorite books. It's a book about color, insects and nature with a surprise pop-up in the end. No wonder they love it so much! So when I was coming up with ideas for their next craft project, I thought this vibrant book would be a great inspiration. We made a mobile filled with many different ornaments to hang by their bedroom window, so I decided to call it window charms. Materials needed are the following: dried branch, poster paint, cardboard, beads, yarn, assorted ribbon and string, scissors, single hole Read More
No 11 Craft For Christmas: “Oh What Fun” Paper Mobile
This fun DIY paper mobile can be done with the help of your kids. If they're old enough to use scissors or know how to glue things together, there's a lot they can do to help. My Summer is still too young to do those things properly but I let her paint the paper I used to make the trinkets for the mobile. Here's how it's done: 1 Paint sheets of white paper or manila paper using classic red and green Christmas colors. One to two pieces of letter size paper will do for one mobile. But you can make as many as you like. There are no rules. Just have fun painting! 2 After the Read More