Kids Crafts for March: St. Patrick’s Day crafts, Spring break crafts, and more

March Kids Craft Club: Rainbows and Butterflies

March Crafts for Kids Rainbow crafts pot of gold crafts mobile craft butterfly craft The March Kids Craft Club package is brought to you by the entire rainbow!!   This month look for butterflies to arrive at your door, in all the colours of the rainbow!  Make a rainbow mobile, decorate butterflies, or make a spring collage!  But wati!!  Which colour of the rainbow is MISSING??  How can you add that colour into your creations?  Start your  Kids Craft Club subscription with the March crafts.  Subscribe here.

Spring Break Craft Supplies – only a few left!

Spring Crafts and Spring Craft Supplies

$19.99
(Available in limited qty)

A great activity package for spring break or a rainy day.   Stock up on spring crafts with this craft supply package!  Includes:

  • lacing disk, thread, and needle
  • Sticky butterfly collage board
  • 4 piece plain puzzle to decorate
  • Weather weaving mat and weaving strips
  • Bird or butterfly stained glass shape
  • Cardstock Flower to decorate
  • Decorating supplies (papers, shred, shapes, etc) & idea guide

ORDER TODAY!


Winner: Crafty Green Envelope Draw

Congratulations to Abigail, whose name was drawn from the entries received in our Crafty Green Envelope contest!  Look for your spring break crafts in the mail Abigail!  Thanks to all of the Kids Craft Club members who entered the contest – we’ve included a couple pictures below 🙂

Abigail's Pet Shop Utility Belt Maya's Green Robot Green Envelope Hat

St. Patrick’s Day Event – ShamROCK with Bobs & Lolo!

We’ll be seeing green with the fantastic Bobs & Lolo at their ShamROCK on Saturday March 17th!  Join us for some crafty fun and an awesome musical performance.  Check out their video blog to find out more (there’s a clue about what crafts are in store!)


 

St. Patrick’s Day Simple Science – Fools Gold

chemistry experiement for kids - fools gold
 

Are your pennies worth more than just one cent?  Find out with this fun ‘FOOLS GOLD‘ science experiment!  If your’e seeing green, that’s a good thing!

St. Patrick’s Day Craft Ideas

 

St Patricks Day crafts on pinterest

View our collection of St. Patrick’s Day Crafts on our latest crafty pin board.  Fantastic craft ideas from across the web.   Or, print and colour this rainbow and draw what you might find at the end of it!

Spring Break Explosion!

How to Make a Volcano Science Experiment for kIds Spring break will erupt with fun when you make this volcano explode!  Find the directions for this super simple science experiment here.  PS.  Double the batch of play dough and you’ll have play dough for the kids that will last a few weeks in the fridge!

Read More

Kids Crafts for February, Spring Break Crafts and Valentine Crafts

February Kids Craft Club: Treasure Boxes

Treasure Chest Crafts, Mardis Gras Piggy Bank Craft The February Kids Craft Club package is brought to you by the colours Red, Pink and Purple!  February is all about treasures and 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 shapes.   Join the Kids Craft Club before February 23rd to get your Treasure Boxes package.   Easy for you and fun for your kids, the Kids Craft Club sparks creativity with new eco-friendly crafts every month.

 


March Kids Craft Club: Rainbows and Butterflies

March Crafts for Kids Rainbow crafts pot of gold crafts mobile craft butterfly craft The March Kids Craft Club package is brought to you by the entire rainbow!!   This month look for butterflies to arrive at your door, in all the colours of the rainbow!  Make a rainbow mobile, decorate butterflies, or make a spring collage!  But wati!!  Which colour of the rainbow is MISSING??  How can you add that colour into your creations?  Start your  Kids Craft Club subscription with the March crafts by noting ‘March’ in your order.  Subscribe here.

Spring Break Craft Supply Package Available Now!

Spring Crafts and Spring Craft Supplies

$19.99
(Available in limited qty)

Families are already starting to plan for spring break, and there’s no doubt that the kids will be looking for something fun to do around the house!  Stock up on spring crafts with this craft supply package!  Includes:

  • lacing disk, thread, and needle
  • Sticky butterfly collage board
  • 4 piece plain puzzle to decorate
  • Weather weaving mat and weaving strips
  • Bird or butterfly stained glass shape
  • Cardstock Flower to decorate
  • Decorating supplies (papers, shred, shapes, etc) & idea guide

ORDER TODAY!


Valentines Day Fruit Party

Valentines Day party Snack Ideas Planning a Valentines Day celebration?  Anastasia over at Heathly Mama, has taken care of the food menu.  Try one, or all of her healthy treat ideas on Valentines Day!   See her recipes here, and be sure to scroll to the bottom for some easy craft ideas too!

Valentines Day – 3 Easy Valentine Card Ideas

Make Valentines Day Cards for the whole class
 

Here are three easy craft ideas that will get the kids engaged and excited about Valentines day.  Fun crafts that don’t take a lot of time to complete and use very basic supplies.  We even have one that’s inspired by our son and is geared towards boys.  Your child can make one for everyone in his or her class!

Valentines Day Craft Ideas

Heart wreath by random-mom.com

source: random-mom.com

View our collection of Valentine Craft Ideas on our latest crafty pin board.  Fantastic craft ideas from across the web

Read More

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.

Read More