Butterflies have long been the inspiration for art and crafts, exciting our senses with their ethereal grace and beauty. Whether you wish to attract more butterflies into your own backyard, or would like to make your own butterflies from a variety of craft media, we have some great butterfly resources for you.
Enticing butterflies to visit is easy when you make [...]
Here’s a quick roundup of creative crafts and things for kids to make and do this summer:
Party balloon games - good for scouts, guides or church groups too!
http://www.allfreecrafts.com/kids/balloon-games.shtml
One Page Paper Kites - these are easy and inexpensive to make, really fly well and look wonderful if your child decorates the paper first
http://www.allfreecrafts.com/kids/paper-kites.shtml
Nature crafts for kids - [...]
Before you discard the cards that you received for Christmas, check out different ways of recycling them first. The Woodland Trust in the UK welcomes donations of used Christmas cards until the end of January - just take your cards to any Tesco or WH Smith store for recycling. Unfortunately, the St Jude’s Ranch for Children [...]
Here’s a ton of ideas to help you make your own Halloween costumes, beginning with Six Halloween Costumes for Kids, including Robin Hood, medieval lady, skeleton, scarecrow, clown and cat.
If quick and easy ideas fit the bill, then try 30 Quick and Easy Halloween Costume Ideas including a pair of dice (great idea if you have a [...]
Little girls love tea parties, and a Princess Tea Party will fill many happy hours with girlish chit-chat and many giggles.
Keep the girls busy with lots of Princess Party Crafts and Games, including creating their own tiaras or playing pin the tail on the frog (we have a printable frog face to help you out [...]
I wish they had fun foam crafts when I was a kid - this stuff lends itself to all kinds of creative endeavours. I just added a few new ones to AllFreeCrafts - a fun foam frame for an erase board, which holds your white board marker and decorates the fridge too, if you want [...]
These kid tested recipes for paper paste, bread clay, paper mache, and finger paints are cheap and a cinch to make, but will keep your children creatively happy for hours. Added to AllFreeCrafts Kid’s Crafts Section, with bonus recipes for easy paper paste, cornstarch finger paint, soap bubbles and craft paints for you right here [...]
Recycle a coffee can to make a cheerful birdhouse to hang in your garden. Painted like a bee, it’s also whimsical garden folk art to brighten up a shady spot.
More Coffee Can Recycling Ideas:
use a Folgers plastic can to make a bird feeder
the new large plastic coffee cans also make wonderful kitchen compost containers or canisters [...]
Nature abounds with free summer activities for the kids. Here’s how to make a nature collage, apple and pear prints, daisy chain, pine cone bird feeder, flower wreath, seashell soap dish or seashell wind chimes.
Nature Walk Ideas:
Take children on a nature walk and collect natural materials for crafts that you can make at home. Here’s [...]