Craft of the Day

Tie-Dye - June 18, 2013 - Quick and Easy Daily Crafts for Kids

Jenny Wanderscheid — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 07:00:00 +0000

Tie-dye

Have children bring to school one plain T-shirt and decorate with fabric paints or do Tie-dye!

Salt Dough Fun - June 17, 2013 - Quick and Easy Daily Crafts for Kids

Jenny Wanderscheid — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 07:00:00 +0000

Salt Dough Fun

Make salt dough and shape them into the letter T. Bake them in the oven until they are hard (recipe below). Then paint them to

Strawberry Art - June 14, 2013 - Quick and Easy Daily Crafts for Kids

Jenny Wanderscheid — Fri, 14 Jun 2013 07:00:00 +0000

Strawberries
Make strawberries for art. Cut 2 large strawberries from red tissue paper. Glue or staple around the edges, leaving the top opened. Stuff with shredded scraps of paper.

Template - June 13, 2013 - Quick and Easy Daily Crafts for Kids

Jenny Wanderscheid — Thu, 13 Jun 2013 07:00:00 +0000

Sky

Make cloud pictures with white chalk or cotton on blue paper.

Salty Suprise - June 12, 2013 - Quick and Easy Daily Crafts for Kids

Jenny Wanderscheid — Wed, 12 Jun 2013 07:00:00 +0000

Salty Surprise

paper
watercolors
paint brushes
salt shaker
water
1) Let the child paint a picture using regular watercolors.
2) Allow the

Sock Snowmen - June 11, 2013 - Quick and Easy Daily Crafts for Kids

Jenny Wanderscheid — Tue, 11 Jun 2013 07:00:00 +0000

Sock Snowmen
With a clean white tube sock, insert a juice can lid, or any other metal lid (flat side down, so Snowman sits upright) stuff with a little

Snowman Head Chain - June 10, 2013 - Quick and Easy Daily Crafts for Kids

Jenny Wanderscheid — Mon, 10 Jun 2013 07:00:00 +0000

Snowman Head Chain
3 6" Paper plates
felt pens
hole punch
colorful ribbon
Black felt for hats
Children make snowmen faces for each plate,

Spider Webs - June 7, 2013 - Quick and Easy Daily Crafts for Kids

Jenny Wanderscheid — Fri, 07 Jun 2013 07:00:00 +0000

Spider Webs

Materials:
1 sheet of black construction paper per child, labeled
white paint
cup for paint
marbles
spiders
Directions: Place

"S" With Stickers - June 6, 2013 - Quick and Easy Daily Crafts for Kids

Jenny Wanderscheid — Thu, 06 Jun 2013 07:00:00 +0000

"S" with stickers

Materials:
1 "S" cut out of black construction paper, labeled star stickers
Directions: Have child decorate their "S" with stars.

Paper Towel Roll Snake - June 5, 2013 - Quick and Easy Daily Crafts for Kids

Jenny Wanderscheid — Wed, 05 Jun 2013 07:00:00 +0000

Paper Towel Roll Snake

This would be good for Earth Day. Recycle those paper towel rolls! Start at the end of the paper towel roll & cut

Tie Snakes - June 4, 2013 - Quick and Easy Daily Crafts for Kids

Jenny Wanderscheid — Tue, 04 Jun 2013 07:00:00 +0000

Tie Snakes
(especially appropriate for the rain forest theme)
Take one of dad's old/ugly ties- the busier the print the better. cut open on of the ends, and

Straw Painting - June 3, 2013 - Quick and Easy Daily Crafts for Kids

Jenny Wanderscheid — Mon, 03 Jun 2013 07:00:00 +0000

Straw Painting

For each child place a small drop of tempera paint in the center of a large piece of paper. Give each child a straw and

Scribble Art - May 31, 2013 - Quick and Easy Daily Crafts for Kids

Jenny Wanderscheid — Fri, 31 May 2013 07:00:00 +0000

Scribble Art

Have the children scribble on a piece of paper with black crayon. Then have the children use other colors to color in the sections between

Hands Full of Sunflower - May 30, 2013 - Quick and Easy Daily Crafts for Kids

Jenny Wanderscheid — Thu, 30 May 2013 07:00:00 +0000

Hands-full-of-Sunflower

This project incorporates a special "signature" from each child -- their individual hand print shapes. Not only are the little hands in the craft cute, but

Reindeer - May 29, 2013 - Quick and Easy Daily Crafts for Kids

Jenny Wanderscheid — Wed, 29 May 2013 07:00:00 +0000

Reindeer

Cut a triangle out of brown construction paper. Put one point down to be the nose. Trace the child's hands to be the antlers. For Rudolph

Range Riders - May 28, 2013 - Quick and Easy Daily Crafts for Kids

Jenny Wanderscheid — Tue, 28 May 2013 07:00:00 +0000

Range Riders

Make stick horses from cardboard. Paint. Add yarn manes.

Roadway Racers - May 27, 2013 - Quick and Easy Daily Crafts for Kids

Jenny Wanderscheid — Mon, 27 May 2013 07:00:00 +0000

Roadway racers

Make cars for the children to have races with from cardboard boxes. Cut off bottoms and top. Paint the box. Add straps using long brads(tape

Rockets - May 24, 2013 - Quick and Easy Daily Crafts for Kids

Jenny Wanderscheid — Fri, 24 May 2013 07:00:00 +0000

Rockets

Make them using toilet tissue cardboard centers. Cut small circle from construction paper then cut to the center of the circle and then form into a cone

R Art - May 23, 2013 - Quick and Easy Daily Crafts for Kids

Jenny Wanderscheid — Thu, 23 May 2013 07:00:00 +0000

R Art

Make a big R and a little r on a piece of paper and make copies for all the children. Set out glue and different kinds

Rubbings - May 22, 2013 - Quick and Easy Daily Crafts for Kids

Jenny Wanderscheid — Wed, 22 May 2013 07:00:00 +0000

Rubbings

Each child gets a white piece of construction paper. You then put various small objects under the paper like coins, paper clips, rulers, etc. Have the children

R is for Rabbit - May 21, 2013 - Quick and Easy Daily Crafts for Kids

Jenny Wanderscheid — Tue, 21 May 2013 07:00:00 +0000

R is for rabbit

Make rabbit ear head bands and give the children cotton ball tails and pretend to be rabbits for a day.

R is for Rain - May 20, 2013 - Quick and Easy Daily Crafts for Kids

Jenny Wanderscheid — Mon, 20 May 2013 07:00:00 +0000

R is for rain

Cut out an umbrella shapes and let the children sponge paint raindrop shapes with various colors of blue.

R is for Rectangle - May 17, 2013 - Quick and Easy Daily Crafts for Kids

Jenny Wanderscheid — Fri, 17 May 2013 07:00:00 +0000

R is for rectangle

Make rectangle collages include big and little rectangles, thin and fat rectangles.

Rainbow - May 16, 2013 - Quick and Easy Daily Crafts for Kids

Jenny Wanderscheid — Thu, 16 May 2013 07:00:00 +0000

Rainbow

With an outline of a rainbow, color in the different colors.

Rice R - May 15, 2013 - Quick and Easy Daily Crafts for Kids

Jenny Wanderscheid — Wed, 15 May 2013 07:00:00 +0000

Rice R

Color the letter R and then glue on rice.