Craft ideas using recycled plastic bottles, including a fish mobile, nature dome, bird feeder, apple-shaped gift boxes, butterflies and angels.
Try one of our simple stuffed animal or doll patterns and sew up a gift for someone special in your life.
Host a Back to School party at home, or in the classroom, to kick off the new school year to a great start.
Break the boredom this summer with some old-fashioned games and toys, including 1950′s toys such as Etch a Sketch and Wooly Willy, along with printable Think of a Number games, and instructions to make a felt board, tic-tac-toe board, and checkers box.
Meet Emily, a free African American girl paper doll, available to play with in a printable PDF file or online version.
How to make fluffy pompom critters from a package of assorted pompoms, including pompom caterpillars, ladybugs, spiders, bunnies, chicks, a mouse, or baby birds.
If you’re fascinated by turtles, here’s a variety of turtle crafts that you can make yourself, or use as a summer craft project for camp, guides or scouts. Recycled CD Turtle (at left), is made, as the name suggests, from an old CD. Clay Pot and Saucer Turtle Duo are turtles you can make yourself [...]
Don’t you just love quick and easy summertime crafts? This video from Rachel Ray shows how to make a toy boat from recycled food containers, plus ice cream in a ziploc bag.
A round-up of homemade Valentine cards, from Victorian style cards made with Victorian clipart and doilies, to tissue paper cards, pretty cardstock designs, or a handprint scroll.
How to decorate a variety of homemade picture frames, from antiqued or crackled finishes, to styrofoam creations, or children’s frames made from cardboard and popsicle sticks.