Here is a quick way to make a lollipop stick  pencil holder. At the end of the year teacher get gifts and this is a great one for your little ones to make something easy and quick they can use themselves or give to their teacher..

Materials:
Any old Soup Can (ring pull top)
Lollipop Sticks
PVA glue
Elastic Band
acrylic paints/glitter/ribbons for decorating (optional)

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Have you often wondered how they make those beautiful roses made of silk or satin ribbons? They are becoming more and more popular now especially for special occasions such as wedding, christenings and anniversaries. The reason is simple you can keep them forever and they make a wonderful keepsake.
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Do you get fed up with your pocket weighing down with loose change? we seem to accumulate it every time we go out shopping. The bottom of my purse can have at least 3 of 4 pounds worth of loose change at anyone time.

So we have found this great Felt Piggy Bank craft idea that you can take around in your purse and keep your change in one place. A fuzzy, fat pig in the bottom of your purse will be much easier to grab a hold of than loose change.
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This is a great quick and fun idea, we have lots of buttons on our website so if you dont have your own to choose from then you only need to check out the button section for all your needs.

Pick out your favourite buttons you want to use, to balance the threaded string, use all 4 or all 2 holed buttons.
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Here is a quick and easy craft idea that is a lot of fun to create.

Is your fridge covered in postcards, shopping lists and lovely paintings brought home from school? Well I know mine is and everything was held on with various stickers, blue tac, you name it. Then one good gust of wind from the back kitchen door and half of it would be on the kitchen floor.
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This is a quick and easy craft for mums and daughters or any female loved one in your family. You only need to be able to sew, a handful of your favourite buttons and a piece of felt and your imagination.

What you will need to make this craft:

Mixed buttons - matched to felt colour
A4 Felt - any colour
Craft cutter, or scissors
cutting surface
10mm wide or 20mm Black Ribbon - or colour to match felt and buttons

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This is a great easy craft for your children to create. It's so versatile too, you can use whatever materials you like to create this picture and any different coloured buttons or paints, just let your imagination flow.

This is a great craft for birthday presents, anniversaries, Mothers Day, Fathers Day Etc. Change the colours to suit the occasion and a masterpiece will follow I'm sure.

What You Will Need TO Create This Craft:

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Do you want to help your daughter make some Barbie style super stylish hairpins? Great looking hair pins can be really expensive. So, the best option is to make your own stylish hairpins. You can use colourful mixed buttons and get some great designs.

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We have collected a few crafting short-cuts for all our customers which will give you a few "that's how they do that!!! moments. Well we hope they do anyway. We have picked a range of different things which will give you some inspiration. - Enjoy

This is how to make tiny poker dots on cards and pictures
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Make an easy picture frame out of craft sticks or lollipop sticks. Find lots of creative ideas and tips to spice up this simple easy classic craft.

What you will need

• Lollipop sticks
• Cardboard
• White glue or hot glue gun
• Poster paint
• Paint brush
• Scissors
• Pencil
• Ruler
• Photo of Dad
• Things to decorate your photo frame with: buttons, sequins, felt, pom poms, glitter or whatever you want

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This sticky notepad holder is useful and easy to make. Ideal for children aged 6-10.

This entry was posted in Fathers Day Craft Ideas on June 8, 2014 by admin.

Here is a great Fathers Day Craft your little ones can make.

How To Do It

Print out the word  "Daddy" onto a piece of white heavy paper / card. You could also hand-write it if you don't have a printer. Any kind of paper works, but heavier card will have more durability. Make the printing or writing quite large so that if your child places pom poms over the letters you can still read the word.

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If you've got kids, it’s always ideal to have activities in hand in cases of rainy afternoons. Weekends are supposed to be spent outside or at their friends’ house but when the weather is awful, there’s nothing you can do but to stay in the house.
While watching TV and playing with their devices are much preferred afternoon activities for the kids of today, you can prevent your kids from doing these by preparing some craft activities that they can do with you.

Here are 5 Simple Crafts with Buttons that you and Your Kids Can do:

1. Button Art Greeting Cards – Prepare some cards, markers, paint, glue, and some buttons. Tell your kids to stick buttons wherever on the cards and to draw any image using the button. The buttons could be the wheels of a car, balloons, the middle of flowers, lollipops – just absolutely anything. Once you’re done making them, tell them you’ll set them aside so you’ll have cards ready to give out for special occasions such as Mother’s Day or Grandma’s birthday.
2. Monogram – Cut out some board paper, about half of a regular A4 size. Prepare some buttons, glue, and pencils. Tell your kids to draw a monogram of the letter of their first name. Once the letter is done, glue on the buttons over the entire letter. You can put holes on the upper corners, tie some ribbon or string, and put them up on the walls of your kids’ room or on their door.
3. Button Tree – This is perfect for a Spring activity. Prepare some illustration boards, green and brown poster colour, glue, and plenty of buttons. Ask your kids to paint huge trees with branches but without leaves. Once the paint is dry, tell your kids to glue buttons on the trees as if they were the leaves. The more colourful the buttons, the better.
4. Animal Puppets – Put on a puppet show after making these animal puppets. Prepare brown paper bags, coloured paper, glue, paint, and a few black buttons. Tell your kids to think of an animal they’d want to be. An easy one is a bunny. Draw a circle on pink paper, cut it out and glue on the fold of the upside down brown paper bag. Create other circles to make the face of the bunny. Cut out two long ears and stick on the tip of the brown paper bag. Stick two black buttons to serve as the bunny’s eyes and paint some whiskers. Create other animals for a fun puppet show.
5. Button Rings – This craft is ideal for girls but boys can join, too. Prepare some big plastic buttons with big holes on them and a few strings of ribbon that can pass through the holes. String a ribbon through the holes of the button, attach to a finger, and tie it by making a bow.

There are countless crafts with buttons that you can do on a rainy day. All you need to do is prepare the materials before the rainy season arrives, and keep the digital devices away for a productive and fun afternoon at home.

What better way to let the kids get creative than to let them create and design their own towns? The sky is the limit to what they can get creative with for this super fun play mat that is easily folded up and stored anywhere.

Here is what you will need:

Anycraft Felt
Scissors
Anycraft Glue
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This entry was posted in Easter Ideas on April 14, 2014 by admin.

Another great Mothers Day Craft Idea is the Mum You Rock! Paper Weight

This is very easy to make and with a bit of glue paper, paint and a few buttons your little ones can make you a great paperweight.

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Mothers are the light of the family, and it’s only fitting that they are given a special day every year where they are celebrated.  But it’s not only actual mothers who receive special attention on this special occasion.

 Sons, daughters, and grandchildren hold the privilege of making this day special for the mothers in their lives.  It is common to give gifts and cake, but the more heartwarming gifts of all are ones that are made from the heart.  This is why home-made cards and DIY gifts are much more appreciated by mothers – as you simply did not just buy them from a store.  DIY gifts show that you took the extra special time to make something that you know will bring a smile to your mum or gran.

Here are two simple Mother’s Day crafts that will surely brighten your mum’s face.  The first one is a paper flower arrangement that your mum can place in the living room of your house or on her desk at the office.  The second one is a quirky paper weight craft that will surely make your mum laugh.

Simple Paper Flower Arrangement.

The materials that you need are:
5 paper boards of different colors

1 piece of drinking glass or vase
Scotch tape
Glue Gun and Glue Stick
4-6 plastic buttons of different colors and sizes
Satin Ribbon
Pencil
White Glue
Workable Wire (easily cut with scissors)
A Pair of Scissors
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The Materials that you need are:
1 wooden flat frame about 6” x 6” in size
Red cloth double the size of your frame
1 dozen each of 4 Different sizes of white buttons
Glue Stick
Glue Gun
Pencil

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Here are the materials that you need:

Grey Felt Pillow Case (12” x 12”)
Grey Felt 12” x 6” in size
2 meters of  10mm red satin ribbon
2 meters of  10mm pink satin ribbon
2 meters of  light pink satin ribbon
Glue Stick
Glue Gun
Pencil
Scissors

Step 1:  Draw a heart in the middle of the pillow case and set aside.

Step 2:  Cut the ribbon into strips of 10” in size.

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These simple to make decorations will give your little ones plenty to do over the break this Christmas time.

You can use any old buttons you can find but green and brown are a good combination.
Then you only need some floristry or binding wire.

Thread three or four small buttons to make the base by looping the wire in a U shape. Then start with a large button for the base of the tree and work up with small buttons changing colours as you go until you have a nice tree shape.

You can then add a star shape button to the top and give it a few twists to hold the buttons in place.
Then make a small loop and cut to size to hang from the tree.

Great prices on mixed buttons only £2.99 for 100g with free delivery in the UK

Here is a super fast super simple mini Christmas tree table decoration for you or your children to enjoy this Christmas time.

All you need are some pine cones, some pva glue and some pom poms. You can sprinkle with glitter if you like to add a little extra sparkle but that is it. Get our mixed coloured bags of pom poms so you can do different or multi coloured decorations.

Simple lightly glue the inside of the open pine cones and leave for 30 seconds for the glue to become slightly tacky.

Then just take your favourite coloured pom poms and glue to the open parts of the pine cones and that is it!!!!

Merrry Christmas crafting

This is a great way to spice up the olive bowl on Christmas day with Pingu Penguins
The party food is very simple to make and will really wow your guests and family whilst delivering a north pole feel to your display.
For all the olive and cheese fans in your family get ready to wow them with this simple fast idea.
The quantities can vary depending on the number of guests you are expecting so you decide but here is what you need.

Jar Of Black Olives
Tub Of Cream Cheese
Cocktail sticks
A Few Carrots

Two small round Camembert to make your Polar display
Start by cutting one olive in half for the wings and get one whole one for the head
Trim the carrots and cut into small round discs 1cm wide 5mm thick
Cut a quarter out of the carrot base to make the feet and use the quarter for the beak
Place the quarter in the whole olive and leave a little bit poking out to make a beak
Place a blob of cream cheese on the remainder piece carrot base disk - use a tea spoon to get a round shape
Now place the split in half olive on either side of the blob of cream cheese to make the wings
Now push a cocktail stick through the head and place through the remainder of the body and secure into the carrot base for the feet.
Then make as many as you need for your guests

Make your display and your away! - Merry Christmas

We posted this image we found online for decorating a gingerbread men for the Christmas party. So we included the image and a recipe for making gingerbread men Reindeer!!! 

When you are having your crafting parties over the Christmas period you can make a batch of these gingerbread men and then turn them into Reindeer's!

Yes very easy just turn them upside down and decorate with icing to create these wonderful reindeer characters.

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Halloween Glowing Mummy Light.  This craft project makes use of a recycled jar and a few meters of satin ribbon.  You can make several mummy lamps and place it right outside your front garden, lighting a pathway to your front door for trick or treaters.  Or, if you have an outdoor party on Halloween, you can place them on tables as centrepieces.

The materials that you need are:

1 empty jar
2 black buttons
6 yards of white satin ribbon
1 candle / tea light (or battery powered tea light)
(Adult supervision required if using a candles)
Glue Stick
Glue Gun

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This Halloween craft project is easy to make and it’s called the Felt Witch Can.  The witch has long been a popular symbol for Halloween, as they are often depicted as evil, old, and scary looking.  They have straw like wild hair, big noses, yellow teeth – and don't forget the green skin.  Create your iconic witch by using a recycled can and some felt cloth

The materials that you will need are:

A small empty can
Scissors
Pencil
Glue Gun
Glue Stick
Ruler
3 meters of purple satin ribbon
Black Felt
Green Felt
Yellow Felt

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Another great children’s craft project is the apple wreath. This is great for decorating blank walls or on your main door as a welcome décor for your guests as they enter your house or class room.
Adult help supervision required if you going to be doing this with your children

The materials that you need are:

3" x 8" Coloured Felt – Yellow, Red, Green
2" x 3" Brown Felt
8" x 12" Cardboard Paper
3" x 3" Cardboard Paper
1 yard of Red Ribbon
Any Circle Flat Object that fits into a 3" x 3" space
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