January Crafts February Crafts Valentines Day and Chinese New Year crafts

January Kids Craft Club: Fancy Frames

Craft supplies to make fancy picture frames Have some fantastic drawings or photo memories from 2011?  Put them in a fancy frame!  The January Kids Craft Club package includes all the supplies your tot needs to make a selection of photo frames to show off their artwork or pictures.  It’s like art within art!  Join the Kids Craft Club before January 23rd to get your Fancy Frames package.   Easy for you and fun for your kids, the Kids Craft Club sparks creativity with new eco-friendly crafts every month.

 


February Kids Craft Club: Treasure Boxes

Make Treasure boxes with these craft supplies The February Kids Craft Club package is brought to you by the colours Red, Pink and Purple!  February is all about treasures that are close to the heart, and about getting special mail, so we thought some Treasure Boxes were in order.  Assemble materials into a keepsake box, mail container, or piggy bank, and decorate with a selection of colourful craft supplies and hearty shapes.  Start your  Kids Craft Club subscription with the February crafts by noting ‘February’ in your order.  Subscribe here.

Valentines Card Making Kits Available Now!

Valentines for boys theme Valentines Get started on a fun craft project that can keep the kids entertained all month long – make handmade Valentines!  Our most popular card kits, these seasonal Valentine kits come with either Construction or Critters themes.  Choose from a 24 card class pack, or an 8 card/envelope pack.  Use code ‘craftyvalentines’ to receive 8 bonus Valentine stickers with your class pack of cards.  View Card making Kits

Chinese New Year: Year of the Dragon Mask

Make a Handprint dragon mask in January Chinese New Year is January 23rd and it’s the year of the Dragon! Kids can join the celebration by making this super cool Dragon mask and then leading their very own Dragon dance.  Find the instructions on our blog.

Chinese New Year – 3 Dragon Puppets to Make

January Craft Idea for kids Year of the Dragon
 

We played around with paper bags, toilet rolls, craft sticks and scissors, and came up with three fun dragon crafts.  Use our dragon template to make a paper bag puppet dragon, practice shape recognition while you work, or use toilet paper rolls for a dancing dragon.  Find the craft instructions and puppet template here

Valentines Day Craft Ideas

Heart wreath by random-mom.com

source: random-mom.com

We’ve started a collection of Valentine Craft Ideas on our latest crafty pin board.  Stay tuned over the month as we add more!  While you’re at it, check out more Chinese New Year ideas too!

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Crafty Ideas February 2010

Winter Games Crafts

The Olympic torch is quickly making its way to Vancouver now, and we’ll soon be watching our country go for gold!  Do some sports or
medal crafts with the kids, or be inspired by the Olympic logos and mascots.  Here are some ideas to get you started:

Mascot Puppet:

Go to the Olympic website to find out which mascot is most like you, and then make your favourite one!  We recreated our favourite
sasquatch with an easy paper bag project:

Sasquatch puppet
Supplies: 2 brown paper bags, cream paper, white paper, blue felt, scissors, glue, crayon or marker

  1. Cut the bottom of the paper bag off, zig zagging your cuts to resemble tufts of hair
  2. Use the scrap from the bottom to make a jagged tuft of hair.  Glue onto top of bag
  3. Cut a heart shaped face from cream paper.  Glue onto top of bag.  Use marker or crayon to make face
  4. Cut arms from 2nd paper bag and glue onto your puppet.  Make hands out of cream paper and glue onto arms
  5. Cut ear muffs from blue felt.  Cut ear muff band from white paper.  Glue into place

Inukshuk Paintings

Thanks to Melanie for her craft ideas and photos!  Her family did Inukshuks two ways – with black paper and with handprints. 

Handprint Inukshuk

Inukshuk1
Supplies: white paper, tempura paint (red, yellow, green, light and dark blue), red construction paper, marker.

  1. Dip the sides of your fists into red and yellow paint to and stamp the legs of the Inukshuk.
    Wash and then repeat with light blue (body), dark blue (arms – stretch out hand and use the side of
    whole hand), fist for the green head.  
  2. Dry, cut out, paste onto red construction paper, print 2010 on the top, and GO CANADA on the bottom.

Sunset Inukshuk

Inukshuk2
Supplies: white paper, tempura paint (red, yellow, orange, green, blue), pastels (optional), black construction
paper, scissors.

  1. Draw wavy lines using coloured pastels or crayons across white paper about 3-4cm apart.  
  2. Fill in white spaces using tempura paints (use blue greens on the bottom half, and red/yellow/oranges
    on the top half)  let dry
  3. Using black paper and scissors, cut out 5 shapes to form your own inukshuk.  It can have 2 legs,
    a body, head, and a long piece for the arms, or try some other combination of stacking
  4. Glue onto coloured background

Recommended Reading

Thanks to Portia from Once Upon A Huckleberry Bush for her Olympic reading recommendations! 

 

Outstanding Olympics

Outstanding Olympics

By Clive Gifford

The Olympic Games is the greatest sports celebration in the world. This colorful book offers
all the information you need about the world’s top athletes, their amazing achievements and
the rivalries and competition among nations. The perfect companion to our own hosting of
the games – and way beyond!

Olympic Mascots

Miga, Quatchi and/et Sumi

This is the lovable story of the mascots Miga, Quatchi, Sumi and their sidekick Mukmuk unfolds on the
magical landscape of Canada’s West Coast.

Written in both English and French, learn the legends behind these now famous characters as they introduce
the world to the Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games.

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