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Recycled craft means turn your old good into new one. This time we get cool idea to turn your old crayons into new ones. If your kids have many old crayon, you can gather them. These old crayons usually have broken or cut into small ones. Turn them to cool crayon craft.

A good idea of recycled craft has been posted in petiteplanet.blogspot.com telling the way to turn these old crayons to the new cool shape crayon.

Materials:

*Broken crayon pieces
*Muffin Tin/mini muffin tin
Or, fun alternatives to muffin tins: candy molds, ice cube trays, silicone molds with fun shapes Read the rest of this entry »

How to make a book from felt? It is not too difficult. You can see on the image, those sheets of felt look cool and easy to make. Isnt it? Of course the book cover is not from felt. It is plastic book cover and already has binder to gather the paper sheets in the center. We usually can find this kind of stationary in the book store. Now you can replace the paper sheets with felt sheets or combine them together.

Supplies for the felt craft

3 Ring binder
Zipper binder pouch
Felt rectangles– 2 per page
5/8” grommets – 3 per page
Small scissors
Grommet setting tool
Self-healing mat
Decorative scissors
Fabri-Tac Glue
Scissors
1 piece of 3 hole punched paper
Marker Read the rest of this entry »

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Shell craft can be applied at jar too. Instead of having a plain jar, you can make up it using this idea of jar craft. Not only it looks cool, but this shell jar craft also cheap in budget and easy to make.

This material used here is clam seashells found on beachcombing expeditions. Finally this decorative jar uses both clam seashells and scallop seashells.

All of the seashells can be found on the beach. They have been naturally polished by sea, wind, and sand. Only the scallop seashells were painted with a bit of clear polyurethane paint. It helped bring their rich colors. Read the rest of this entry »

How to built a robot from paper only is easy. It is not as difficult as the previous post about make a robot. This is because the robot is not so 3D look.

This paper robot is made from silver cardstock with various colors. Then they are joined using brads. As for the image above, they use the silver brads. How to make a robot is easy.

Just use a small hole punch to help with the brads, a large hole punch for one of the mouths, stencils and cut free form shapes and that’s that. Read the rest of this entry »

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Gift card in 3D look will be more interesting. This 3D gift card is so easy to made. What makes it looks 3D because of the usage of 3D pop up stickers when the crafter layer the cardstock paper into the base card. In this paper craft you will need material like:

5 x 7 white folded greeting card with envelope
Craft Stick glue
5 x 7 light pink cardstock paper
Butterfly stickers/embellishments
6 various sizes of circles (on different color paper matching your theme color)
“Special” embellishment
4.5 by 6.5 white paper
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In this kids crafts the kid will learn how to make soap from snow. The winter season will come often in our life. So why not make your kids feel excite when at that time? Making a snowman, throwing snowballs are the most activity they like. But now we teach them something different, how to make soap from snow.

This kids craft is easy to make, you just need 4 bars of ivory soap, 1/2 cup of lukewarm water. Pick some kid toys (like penguin) if you like to put them inside. This picture comes without that plastic toys as the maker couldn’t find the toys anywhere near him. Read the rest of this entry »

Kids crafts always cool and challenging. So how about this kid stuff? An craft idea to make nice gift tags. The way is so simple. This one is from Michon. Remember to have something nice to be sticked to the center of your cardboard. It can be anything. The above picture is a miniature of gift that coated with glitter. Yes we know glitter is always interesting to use. You can make the real ribbon for this gift tags.

For this project, you need:

A large circle paper punch
Hole punch
Cardstock
Stickers
Ribbon or yarn (or ornament hooks)
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