Baby Animals- May Kids Craft Club

Spring crafts: baby animal crafts from the Kids Craft Club! If you’re not already in the club, there’s one week left to subscribe for this craft package.

If you visit a farm at this time of year, you might be lucky enough to see mama animals with their new babies. Farms aren’t the only place that baby animals are being born – this is the time of year when all sorts of animals in the wild start having babies too!

Make your own baby animals with this month’s Kids Craft Club supplies.

Subscribe by April 23rd to receive this craft package at the beginning of May.

New – Message Stickers Sold Separately!

thank you stickers, birthday stickers, anytime stickers

If your craft cupboard is already stocked full of card making papers but you’re still looking for a fun way for the kids to decorate cards, we’ve got the solution. Now you can buy our fun Message Stickers separately. They’re great for card making, making goodie bag ‘thank you‘ tags, or even to stick a ‘Happy Birthday‘ message onto a birthday boy’s or girl’s shirt or hand! Check them out here.

Earth Day Craft Tips and Ideas

Recycled Paint Brush

recycle craft idea toothbrush paintbrush

A super-simple way to give your cast offs new life – old toothbrushes make great paint brushes! Use them for dipping and spreading paint with an interesting finish, for dabbing paint on in a sponging style, or (if you’re feeling brave) for splatter and spray art. To make spray art, dip the brush in paint and then use a finger to bend bristles back, releasing them to create a spray.

Plantable Greeting Card

Our April Kids Craft Club project included a plantable card using cool seeded paper flowers — a wonderful surprise to send in the mail for Earth Day. If you missed the club project, here’s a modified version:

Supplies: card stock or construction paper, grass seeds crayons

Make and decorate a card using supplies such as card stock, tissue papers, and coloured pencils or crayons. Our example is a ‘Happy Earth Day’ card.
Once your card is complete, carefully dab some glue and sprinkle seeds into glue area. We used grass seed in this example.
Your gift recipient can either sprinkle some dirt and water onto patches of seed, or just plant entire card in the ground to make it grow!

Easter Craft Idea for Giving

Painted Strawberry Patch Pot

Easter is a great time to get together for family celebrations. If you’re like us, you probably like taking something small with you for the kiddos in the family. This year we’ve got the kids busy making the gifts –they’re planting pots with strawberries for their cousins, so the cousins can start their own little strawberry patches

You will need: Clay pot, potting soil, strawberry plant, paints (acrylic or tempura; tempura paints will wear off faster, but this probably won’t bother the kids)

Use the paints to decorate the pot. For younger kids, sponge painting is easiest, while older kids can use paintbrushes to make Easter themed paintings such as bunnies, eggs, etc.
Let your pot dry, and then paint on a protective top coat….this is optional. If you don’t do it, the paint will wear off, but then the pot can be painted again
Once your pot is complete, add some potting soil and plant the strawberry plant
Give your gift! Tip – the person who receives the gift can place their pot somewhere on top of soil – the strawberry will trail down over the summer, and start new plants in the soil.

Card Kit Giveaway – Fun Messages Sticker Set

Congratulations to Beth, who won this month’s card making kit draw from our homepage! We’ll be contacting Beth by email to get shipping information for your Message Sticker Set. You can enter next month’s draw here.

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