Paintings We Did Inspired by the Acrylic Painting Step by Step Book

Acrylic Painting Step by Step written by Wendy Jelbert, Carole Massey, and David Hyde is a book that inspires us to paint landscapes and flowers. The book gives lots of explantations about materials, techniques, compositions that we can use. This informative book will help those who enjoy painting and those who want to learn how to paint. My children and I did three paintings inspired by this book.

Bubble Wrap Painting

I used bubble wrap to do some imprints on this card and then decorated it. To do this fun art you will need...

Cardstock paper

Bubble wrap

Paint

Sequins

Paper to decorate 

Reindeer Treat Bag and Giveaway

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My children and I enjoy doing crafts any time we get a chance to. With the holidays around the corner, we decided to make this cute Reindeer Treat bag by following the instructions on Dollar Tree's Value Seekers Club website. These treat bags are a wonderful, easy to do craft with children. My children enjoyed adding their special touch when decorating the bag, and filling it up with all types of goodies to give to their friends.

Making Our Own Paint With Crayola and Sketching

Paint Maker is lots of fun to use because we get to create our own custom paint colours by mixing and shaking. This Paint Maker kit from Crayola is for everyone over eight years. Both my children helped me make the colours, and enjoyed this interactive kit that provides us everything we need to make 15 unique paint colours.

Using Scotch Brand Tapes for Gift Styling and Making Cards

There are endless creative possibilities on how we can use tape. I find the colourful tapes inspire me to make unique items. I have used different coloured tape to make cards, wrap gifts, and for decor. I use different coloured tape to be creative in decorating folders, notebooks, and handmade cards that can be given to family and friends.

Get Creative This Holiday With Crayola

My daughter and I enjoyed using the Crayola Beadola Charm Maker kit to make fun, detailed beads. The kit includes 3 1/4 lb air drying clay bags in grey, pink, and purple, 25 gems, and four bead plates with twenty four bead designs such as hearts, stars and more for us to make imprints on the clay beads. 

Getting Creative with Crayola Model Magic

Model Magic is a wonderful lightweight, spongy, unique modelling material for children to shape fun figures, blend, or cover objects and decorate. It is much easier to use than clay, and the non-crumbling formula sticks to itself and not our fingers. The finished objects are left outside to air dry, depending on the size of the craft shape it can take overnight or up to 72 hours to dry.

Colouring and Drawing Flowers with Crayola

As a mom, I always look for quality creative products, as it eliminates frustration when our children are using them. Creative products that have quality help our children express themselves, and gives them inspiration. Crayola is committed to provide the best-in-class quality products.

Our DohVinci Art Class House Party & Giveaway

DohVinci from the makers of Hasbro's Play-Doh comes a new, customizable craft kit that allows our children to have complete control...without the mess! It is very easy to use; all we have to do is insert the deco pop into the styler, close the styler and start creating fun designs. This type of deco is fun for anyone. The best thing is it is easy to clean up, which was awesome when I hosted the DOH VINCI Art Class House Party.

Making An Impression With Scotch Tapes and Giveaway

Scotch’s new Expressions Tape is simple and fun to use to decorate and personalize our space. I did a couple of projects, which only took me a few minutes. Scotch Brand from 3M introduced their new Scotch Expressions Tapes in more than 100 colours and patterns and four types of tape; Magic, Washi, masking and shipping. The tapes have become the newest way to personalize projects. The versatility of this line of tape gives projects an added dimension. Each tape is designed to stick to a wide variety of surfaces for both permanent and temporary applications.

Decorating Picture Frames Using Creative Duct Tape

My children enjoyed the ease of personalizing these picture frames using creative duct tape. These colourful picture frames would be wonderful to give as gifts or use it to decorate a room. This is an easy activity to do and will be enjoyed by children and adults.

For this craft we used...

Decorative duct tape

Wooden frame kit from a craft store or an old frame
scissors or precision knife
craft mat

Ninja Turtles are Taking over Yonge and Dundas Square

On Saturday, April 5th between 10am to 3pm Ninja Turtles are taking over Yonge and Dundas Square. The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, first introduced in a comic book series has become a household name and a top selling toy action brand around the world. Nickelodeon Canada and Walmart Canada are celebrating all things Ninja Turtles with the launch of a national voting contest and Street Art Battle at Yonge-Dundas Square (1 Dundas Street East).

Handmade Felt Heart

This is an easy, fun to do project with children that can sew or want to learn how to sew. This filled, felt heart shape would make a cute, handmade gift to give to our loved ones. It can be attached on our bags or onto gifts that we give our family and friends. 

Show Your Love with Play-Doh

Children can show their love for their friends and classmates with Play-Doh. Instead of sending lollipops and candy we can send these 1 oz containers of play-doh, so our children can give their friends. Many parents and teachers will appreciate getting these containers of play-doh instead of candy, as it will keep children entertained and occupied for quite a while. 

Fun Felt Owl Inspired By The Crafty Creatures Book

The Crafty Creatures book is very inspiring because of its colourful images and step-by-step instructions. I like how the author, Jane Bull shows how felt and cloth can be used to sew and knit a variety of fun, cute, wooly animals that children will enjoy playing with. There are many projects in this book I have bookmarked to try. We made this Fun Felt Owl from the book.

Crafts Made to Decorate The Table For Thanksgiving Weekend

I made these Thanksgiving themed crafts with my children, as part of a sponsored post for Collective Bias® using material I bought from Michaels Arts and Crafts Store and things found around our home. 

I encourage my children to be thankful everyday and remind them about those who are less fortunate than us. I also teach them to be thankful for the bounties and mercy of God for providing us with everything we need. We made a table centrepiece, place cards and napkin rings to decorate our table when we have guests during the long weekend. 

The Little Mermaid and Other Adventures at Disney Junior This September

Disney Junior is full of adventures this September, as they will have many new episodes of programs such as Justin Time, Doc McStuffins, and The Little Mermaid series. They will also be having an awesome contest for a family of four who are fans of The Little Mermaid.

My Inspiration To Origami

The big book of things to make has a cool variety of things we can make, do and learn about. Although, I would love to be good at origami, I am not :). My uncle masters the art of origami and makes admirable things with origami paper. 

Travelling the Globe with Michaels Crafts

This Yarn Art Vase and Poison Dart frog was done by my daughter during the week of exploring South America at Michaels. 

For this yarn art activity we need...

black construction paper

different coloured yarn

glue

Exploring South America at Michaels Passport to Imagination

Since I took the Michaels unplugged summer pact, we have been seriously committing time to do crafts. My daughter has been participating in the Michaels Passport to Imagination summer craft program whenever time permitted. She really enjoys the activities that are instructed by a Michaels staff during the sessions, in which children learn about different icons and landmarks in the seven continents. My daughter enjoys being able to use different craft medium and material that are provided to do the activities.