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Camping Crafts

July 30, 2020 by Mary Ellen Stringham Leave a Comment

We love to go camping with the grandchildren. I always carry a box full of different supplies just for our camping grafts. There are always those lazy warm afternoons in between hiking, lunch, going to the lake, bike rides, etc., that the kids want to do something and parents/grandpa, want to take a nap.

We had to cancel some of our other vacations due to COVID-19. As a result we were happy for a little longer camping trip this Summer. We went well prepared.

My daughters and I brought lots of craft supplies to help entertain the troops and we all had a blast making a variety of crafty things.

Who would have thought that pom poms, or puff balls as the kids call them, would be so popular.

We didn’t stop with pom pom critters, we made foam animals as well.

Thanks to Pinterest we were able to find lots of ideas, monkeys, unicorns, dragons, cats and much more.

Besides animals we made felt camp journal covers thanks to the cute patterns at Bareroots.

We made corner origami bookmarks that look like monsters…

and para-cord bracelets. Some of the kids had 4 or 5 of them up their arms. We had a great time being creative and keeping kiddos busy.

4th of July Pipe Cleaner Crafts

June 21, 2013 by Margaret 2 Comments

I’ve been attempting to be creative with my kids again. They had such a good time with the Pipe Cleaner Bugs I thought we’d try pipe cleaners again. I found some great pipe cleaner tutorials for some 4th of July fun here, here, here, and here.

Our first creation was supposed to be a pipe cleaner leis, but we ran out of red pipe cleaner. When I connected it to see how big it was my little princess immediately exclaimed, ” a crown.” So our leis is a 4th of July Princess Crown. The tutorial can be found here on Nurturing the Tender Years.

Then we played with Sparklers and Puppets. I’m not sure who had more fun me or the kids. I fell in love with these puppets as soon as I saw them. In case you can’t tell they are Uncle Sam, an Eagle, and the Statue of Liberty. Tyler kept calling the eagle a bat. I guess I should remember that come Halloween. The tutorial is for finger puppets. We put ours on craft sticks so they would last 2 days rather than 1. I was barley able to take a picture before my kids hauled off with their new toys. Their favorite part of construction was the poofy balls (pom poms) Tyler took control of the big ones so naturally Emma had to have the little ones. My little helpers were…a…very helpful once they started eating their snack and left the poofy balls alone.

Next we moved on to decorations. Our fireworks are really easy. I got the idea from Better Homes and Gardens. We tried adding glitter but I think my glue was too old because it didn’t really work but we still managed to have fun fireworks. Yes, we did most of this in one afternoon. They are all really easy and fun 4th of July crafts.

Happy Crafting!
Mags

You might also enjoy these other 4th of July crafts.

Flag Blocks

Star and Heart Banner

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Pipe Cleaner Bugs

May 20, 2013 by Margaret Leave a Comment

My kids get tired of me sitting at the computer and sewing machine so we had a craft day. I bought a bag of pipe cleaners a few months ago for a project that never happened. The kids have been asking what they were for weeks so I decided it was time to introduce them to the fun of pipe cleaners. They really weren’t interested until I suggested we make bugs. They helped my gather supplies and this is what we came up with: