Get Buggy With It – June Kids Craft Club

Make an insect Mobile with this month's Kids Craft Club craft supplies

June Crafts – Worm Crafts and Insect Crafts from the Kids Craft Club! If you’re not already in the club, there’s only a few days left to subscribe for this craft package.

If you explore your backyard in June, you’ll notice a flurry of activity going on. You’ll have to look really really closely though, as all that busy-ness is coming from the little creatures that fly, float, or creep along outside.

This month, make worm and bug crafts with the Kids Craft Club craft supplies.

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

Summer Craft Supplies for Home or Travel

Craft Supplies for Summer Craft projects

Crafty activities for Camping, Road Trips, or in the backyard! We’ve put together a selection of craft supplies that will help the kids get crafty outside or on the go. This Summer Craft Package includes nature print paper, Wikki Stix, self-adhesive collage boards, and a pencil and doodle pad. Great open ended creative activities! Limited quantities, buy here

New to Craft Caravan –

Fish Craft using Playmais natural building toy

We’re excited to add PlayMais to our Eco Friendly Craft Supply selection. PlayMais is a biodegradable building toy made from a simple list of natural ingredients – corn, water, and food colouring. Simply stick pieces of PlayMais together with a little water. A great tactile crafting toy for kids who love to smush, squeeze, and build. Take a look at the Basic building box for craft time at home or daycare, or the Princess or Fish themed boxes, which are perfect alternatives to party goody bags or loot bags.

Card Kit Giveaway – Fun Messages Sticker Set

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

Be sure to join our Facebook page and follow our Twitter feed as well – for quick craft ideas, interesting articles, and giveaways

Summer Sunsets – June Kids Craft Club

Mark the first day of summer this June with two fun crafts from the Kids Craft Club! Make a summer sunset picture with shades of pink, yellow and orange – add some black shadows to create a perfect sunset! Then get ready for the ‘longest’ day of the year with a summer lantern craft. Hang your lantern in your room or carry it with you to celebrate long summer days fast approaching!

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

Fundraising Fun!

If your child’s group or organization is looking for ways to raise funds, book a card-making-kit fundraiser with Craft Caravan! A fundraiser that’s truly for the kids – raise funds and have fun! Visit our website or contact us for more information.

Crafty Idea – Magestic Eagle Craft

Spotting an eagle is a rare and exciting occasion, so we were thrilled to have three separate sightings on Saturday. Here’s a crafty idea drawn from our eagle sightings:

Supplies: toilet paper roll, 1 piece of facial tissue, elastic band, newsprint or cotton balls, brown, white, and yellow construction paper, googly eyes, glue, needle and thread (optional)

Directions:

Scrunch newsprint into a ball (or bunch cotton balls) and place in centre of facial tissue to make eagle head.
Position head at the end of toilet paper roll, and secure with elastic band. Cut 2 wings out of brown construction paper: cut an arc that is longer than toilet paper roll to make top edge of wings. Cut ‘feathers’ into bottom edge of wings. Glue wings onto toilet roll.

3. Cut tail feathers out of white construction paper and glue onto toilet roll. Cut beak from yellow paper, and glue beak and eyes onto head.

4. Optional: Poke holes into eagle body at top edge of wings and just before the tail. Loop string through and tie so that you can hang onto the string and make your eagle fly!

Simple Science – Colourful Flowers

My crafty kids noticed that the flowers they got me for Mother’s Day had turned the water pink! I explained that some flowers are dyed to change their colour, and they wanted to try this at home. Here’s how:

Mix 20-30 drops of food colouring into ~1 cup of water, and pour the mixture into a flower vase. Using a white flower, cut the bottom tip of the stem off, and place the flower into the water container. Let the flower sit and check back periodically to see if the colour has changed. This can take a whole day! The flower will slowly change colour as the water moves from stem to petals, showing how flowers ‘drink’ water from their base through to the flower tips.

Five Minute Fun – Dandelion Bouquet

No one really likes weeding, but collecting ‘wild flowers’ to make a bouquet is fun for everyone! Enlist the kids to help with the weeding by collecting a dandelion bouquet! The bouquet won’t last very long, but it looks pretty while fresh, and it guarantees that those nasty little seeds won’t be spreading!