Winter Wreath – November Kids Craft Club

November Kids Crafts Fall Crafts Winter Wreath

The November crafts from the Kids Craft Club are brought to you by the colours brown, orange, and yellow!! If you’re not already in the club, subscribe to receive this craft package.

Winter weather is setting in but we’re not quite ready to say goodbye to fall. Everything is changing from green to brown outside, but we can take advantage of the gorgeous fall colours by using them in our crafts!

Use this month’s craft supplies to make a wreath, create a collage creature, or make a funny-faced person. Everything you need for craft time is inside your Kids Craft Club envelope!

Subscribe by October 23rd to receive this craft package at the beginning of November.

Kids Craft Club Photo Gallery!

We’re starting a photo gallery of the crafts your kids make with the Kids Craft Club! If your child is proud of his or her work and wants to show it off, send us a picture! We’ll add it to our gallery and you’ll be entered to win more great craft supplies. Simply send a picture with your child’s first name and age to Craft Caravan, subject line “Kids Craft Club Gallery” This month’s winner is 3 1/2 year old Abby. Look for your Halloween Bats in the mail Abby!

Five Minute Fun – Ghostly Halloween Crafts

Two simple ideas for Halloween Ghost Crafts.

Handprint Ghosts All you need is white paper, a pencil, scissors, and a hole punch. Trace hands or feet, drawing straight across from one fingertip to the next. Cut hand or foot prints out, hole punch eyes and mouth, and tape to your window or wall. Great for a whole group of kids!

Tassle Ghosts Learn how to make a tassle with your kids here. Use fuzzy white yarn or a strip of cotton sheeting. Glue eyes to your ghost using felt or black paper.

Copy Cat Crafts – Ladybug Paper Weight

I came across a very cute ladybug paper weight recently, at a local home decor store. I couldn’t take the little lady home with me, but she became inspiration for a craft project with the kids. Read what we did to make our own ladybugs

Win Crafts – 3 months Kids Craft Club & Christmas Cards

Congratulations to Laurie, who won this month’s craft kit draw from our homepage! We’ll be contacting Laurie by email to get shipping information for your card making kit.

Want to win crafts? KidsAroundCanada is running a contest right now, with prizes from Craft Caravan. Win a three month Kids Craft Club membership and a Christmas card making kit! Enter the contest!

Snuggle Up And Hibernate

With the arrival of colder days, it’s just about time to pull out the winter gear – snuggly blankets, soft warm sweaters, and winter boots. On those really ‘crisp’ days, you might even wish you could just curl up and hibernate! Turn frosty days and winter warmth into themes for craft projects with the kids. Try these ones to get started:

Frosty Tinfoil Etching:

Supplies: 8 ½” x 11” flat piece of cardboard (such as from a cereal box), tin foil, glue, cotton balls, icing sugar or flour, pencil or crayon, tape

Directions: Cover cardboard with tinfoil, using glue or tape to secure foil edges on the backside of cardboard. Use a cotton ball to carefully cover tinfoil with a layer of glue (dip the cotton, and dab onto foil, repeating until covered). Sprinkle icing sugar or flour over glue, covering completely. Tip cardboard to remove excess. Let dry for a few minutes. Using a dull pencil or crayon, ‘etch’ away through the icing sugar, to reveal a shiny frosty looking drawing.

Did you try this craft? Send us your comments and photos!

Reader’s Paper Chain Book Log:

How long is winter? Measure it by keeping track of all the books you’re reading together!

Supplies: coloured construction paper or paper, crayons, glue, 2 paper plates, stapler

Directions: Make a bear’s den that doubles as storage for your paper chain links: draw a bear on the face of first plate, or use construction paper circles to make bear face and ears, gluing bear to first plate. Cut second plate in half, and glue it to first plate, facing inward and matching edges of both plates. Now the bear is resting in his den. Make chain links: cut paper into equal size strips that are long enough to glue end to end to become a ‘link’ in the chain. Make first link by folding one piece of paper in half and stapling or gluing it to bottom of den. Store remaining link papers inside bear den. Every time you read a book, write the title on a piece of paper and make a link in the chain, adding it to the end of your chain.

Did you try this craft? Send us your comments and photos!

Kitchen with Kids – Collecting Seeds

Squash soup is a yummy cold weather meal, and the kids can help in the kitchen by gathering and cleaning the seeds for planting in the spring. Buy a sugar pumpkin or other squash and cut it in half, scooping out the seeds to ready the squash for roasting. The kids can sort the ‘muck’ from the seeds, and then wash the seeds, letting them dry on a paper towel. Once the seeds are completely dry, they can be stored for the winter, ready to sprout in the spring!

Simple Science – Measuring Volume

It seems that November brings either lots of rain or lots of snow, so turn the wintery weather into a little science experiment. Find three containers of similar size, but with different shapes. You could use a bowl, a cup, and a jar or storage container. Place the containers outside where they will get rained or snowed on, and make some guesses as to which one will fill up first. Was it the tallest? The widest? Which one holds the most and which one the least?

Five Minute Fun – Connect The Dots

Draw a dotted outline of a picture for your child so that they can connect the dots. They’ll get some practice holding a pencil, and they’ll be excited to see what you drew together! Take turns, letting your child place some dots for you to connect. For older kid, you can even number the dots if you like, but we found it was fun just to splash dots on the page randomly, and watch to see which way they got connected!