I will be adding quite a few more crafts here very soon! So some of what your looking for at the moment may not be here yet.

Indoor Campfire

4 or5 Wood Pieces ( You can buy a bundle usually, or ask for a couple of logs to be donated from the local "fire wood" guy)

Some Red, Yellow and Orange Sheets of Cellophane

A light socket with a red light bulb ( you can buy them from the hardware store, the kind they use for working in the dark on cars etc... works)

Long Nails and Hammer

Long extension cord

Nail your wood together with a fair sized hole in the middle of the bottom so that you can sit it on top of the light socket. Cut the Cellophane and stuff it in the tops of the wood to look like flames coming out the top. make sure you have a long industrial extension cord when it comes time to use your fire. Use a red or Yellow bulb in the light socket.

Mothers Bath Bags

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washcloths in your mother's favorite color
matching ribbon or lace
thread
scissors


Take a washcloth and fold it in half. Take a length of ribbon
or lace, fold it in half, and place it (folded edge in)
inside the open edge near the top of the washcloth. Pin sides
together, making sure to capture the ribbon. Sew up side and
the "bottom" end. Turn inside out, fill with soap or bath
salts and tie closed with ribbon.

Soup Can Planter

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Soup Can Planter

You need:
A Campbell's soup can
potting soil
small plant
clear contact paper
ribbon
paper and marker

A cute gift for a teacher, friend or neighbor. Remove the
label from can, but keep it intact. Clean and dry the inside
of the can. Punch holes in the bottom and reattach the label
by covering with clear contact paper. This always prevents
water damage to the label. Fill with potting soil and plant
any small plant that would look cute. If you start early you
can root cuttings from your own house plants. Tie small sign
which reads "To a SOUPer teacher" or friend, etc. to the can
with the ribbon.

Alligator Magnet

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Spring-Type Clothespin
Green Paint
Tri-Cornered Beads
Tacky Glue or Hot Glue Gun
Wiggle Eyes
Magnet

Paint a clothespin green. Let the paint dry. Glue
tri-cornered beads down the back of the clothespin.
(Please get an adult to help if you are using a hot
glue gun!) Glue on the wiggle eyes. Glue magnet to the
underside of the alligator. You can also paint pointed
teeth on your alligator if you like. Another option is
to use small pieces of pipe cleaner and glue on arms and
legs!

Milk Cap Flower Pin ( Picture available)

You will need: Milk Jug Cap any color, Pieces of Felt Any 2 colors, Hot glue gun, permanent markers, Safety pins, google eyes, and Regular craft glue

Cut a large circle out of the felt, Hot glue ( with adult help ) the Milk Cap to the center of it so that the inside of the cap is facing up. Cut around the edges of the felt so that it looks like flower petals. Glue with craft glue the eyes inside of the milk cap, draw on your nose and smile. Cut leaf shapes out of another color of felt and glue them behind the flower petals sticking out. Add a Safety pin and pin on Camp Hat.

Wallpaper Gift Bags

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Use an empty cereal box, stuffing box, and box that suits the
size you need. Wrap leftover wallpaper around the box like
you were wrapping a present. Use wallpaper seam sealant glue
to glue together. Leave one end of the wrapping open to make
the top of the bag. You can use decorative scissors to cut
the top edge. Punch holes in the sides of the bag and use a
cord for the handle.

Kid's Non-Skid Socks
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Socks
Fabric paint
Cardboard

Draw an outline of child's shoe on cardboard and cut out.
Stuff cardboard cutout inside sock. Create designs on the
bottom of the sock with fabric paint. Test the paint on
fabric first; it should be thick and easy to maneuver. You
can also add glitter. Be creative. Allow to dry and remove
cardboard.

Mosaic Flowerpot

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Newspaper
Pieces of broken pottery, tiles, beads, marbles, beach glass,
shells or charms
Ceramic tile grout
Plastic knife
Terra-cotta flowerpot
Sponge

Cover your work area with newspaper. Sort through the pottery
pieces and discard any that have sharp edges. Spread a heavy
layer of tile grout onto the flowerpot with the plastic knife.
Now, press the tile pieces into the wet grout creating a
design. Spread a little more grout between the pieces so that
most of the broken edges are covered. After the pot is dry,
wipe off any grout film with a damp sponge. Pot your
favorite plant and enjoy!

Dream Catchers

Paper Dinner Plates

Pipe Cleaners

Pony Beads

Colored Markers

Stickers

Glitter Glue

Cut a hole out of the middle of the paper plate and then punch holes all around the inside of the plate. Color and decorate your plate with markers, stickers, glitter and whatever your imagination allows. 

Fasten one end of a pipe cleaner into one hole and then string some beads on to it and pull it across the middle of the plate (where the hole is) and fasten it on the other side. Repeat until you have about 6 or so pipe cleaners stretched across the plate.

Hang from the ceiling in your bedroom and blow on it every night before bed to keep the bad dreams away.

Dragon Fly Pins 

Click here to see them on Saskias Site

You can order the kits from her.

Rainbow Spark Mobiles

1 sheet of White Poster board per mobile

Ball of String

hole punch

colored markers

What I did here was draw a Rainbow on half of the poster board, with pencil, I drew in the stripes as well.

Then on the second half I drew 2 stars about the size of my hand and a Fair sized Spark doll, about 12 inches tall I guess. I drew her features in too. (Actually my mom made the template for me)

Then the girls colored all the items and we punched one hole in the middle of each end of the Rainbow and two in the center of the Arc one close to the bottom edge and one close to the very top. A hole needs to be punched in the head of the Spark and one on 1 tip of each Star. 

Then you hang each star from each end of the Rainbow and the Spark from the Center of the Rainbow just a little lower than the Stars.  

They look so great hanging from their bedroom ceilings!

Photo Magnets

Juice Can lids

Magnet Strips

photographs of the girls 

white glue

Hot Glue gun

Place the lid on top of the picture and trace the circle, Cut out the picture and glue it on to the the inside of the Juice lid. Cut your magnet strip into small squares and hot glue on to the back of the lid and whala a great magnet for Moms Fridge.

We have decorated the edges with everything from Lace to buttons... use your imagination!

Special Angel Bags (click here to see)

Colored Lunch bags (I used those purple bags you put fruit in from the grocery store, Just snip off the handles)

6" round paper doily

Stapler

31/2 inch pink circles

Scissors

Construction paper: Pink 

Small round stickers (the size of the eraser on the end of a pencil)

Glue

Felt Marker

2 small heart stickers

Multi colored curling paper ribbon

Cut the doily in half and staple of glue each half onto the top of the bag round side down.

Use the Pink circles for the angels face, use the small round stickers for eyes, draw on the mouth with the marker and add the heart stickers to the ends of the smile.

To make the hair, curl 8" strips of ribbon with the scissors and glue the curls around the face.

Glue the Face to the doily on the front of the bag.

Cork Reindeer (click here to see)

4- 12" brown chenille stems

2 corks

Scissors

Glue

2 (1/2") wiggle eyes

1 (1 1/4") Red pom pom

7" (3/8"-wide) Ribbon

To make the front legs, wrap 1 chenille stem around 1 cork. Make sure the ends of the chenille stem area even. Then twist the 2 ends together once around the cork. Remove the cork. Fold 1 chenille end in half. Hold the 2 ends in 1 hand and twist the 2 pieces together with the other hand to make a front leg. Do the same thing with the other end of the chenille stem to make the other front leg.

Make the 2 back legs the same way you made the 2 front legs.

To make the head circle, cut 1 chenille stem in half. Set 1 half aside. Bend the other half and wrap the 2 ends once around the top of the body circle that has the front legs. Now hold the 2 ends together and twist tightly 3 times to make the reindeers neck. 

To make the antlers, fold 1 chenille stem in half with the ends even. Slip the stem through the top of the head circle and tightly twist the 2 halves together at the fold. Bend the antlers into a zigzag shape.

Slip 1 cork through the body circle, add the back legs. Slip the second cork into the head circle. If the cork is loose, twist the neck again.

Glue the wiggle eyes on the head cork. Glue the red pom-pom on the tip of the head cork for the nose. Tie the ribbon into a bow around the reindeer's neck.

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