Crafts

Fun and simple craft ideas! Creative and unique crafts for any budget and skill level.  Featuring arts and crafts projects with easy-to-follow online instructions! These crafts will surely inspire you!

  • Chocolate Dipped Holiday Spoons

    I saw chocolate covered spoons meant for stirring into hot drinks in a catalog and thought they would be a neat gift idea for someone who enjoys hot drinks. I decided to make some and quickly discovered that there are many possibilities…

  • Gingerbread Girl Rice Krispies Treats

      I used these cute bow molds (found on Amazon) to make Minnie Mouse pops and Minnie Mouse Rice Krispies Treats for my daughter’s birthday and thought they would be cute to use to make gingerbread girls…

  • Felt Elf Hat

    I made a felt elf hat using leftover felt I had on hand to go along with my daughter’s elf outfit that we had her wear for our Christmas cards.   Materials – Red and green felt (preferably extra…

  • DIY Christmas Cards

    DIY Christmas Cards

    Here is a simple idea for making your own Christmas cards.  You can make it a fun family activity by getting everyone involved in making them. My husband’s parents gave the kids adorable elf outfits to wear for…

  • Advent Calendar Activity

    Sorry this is a little late, but here is an idea for an activity kids can do when counting down the days until Christmas.  It is a magnetic Advent calendar so you can put it on your refrigerator. …

  • Cardboard Fireplace

    We moved this year and we don’t have a fireplace at our new house, but…… we do have a lot of moving boxes and moving paper, which can be just as good!  I wanted to make a fireplace…

  • Turkey Sugar Cookies

    My daughter loves using cookie cutters to make shapes with Play Doh so I thought it would be fun for us to make some Thanksgiving cookies. I was looking through my cookie cutters to see if I…

  • Thanksgiving Table Place Marker for Kids

      This is a quick and easy place marker to make for kids at the Thanksgiving table. Put this turkey jar along with some paper or coloring pages related to Thanksgiving to keep kids occupied.   Materials:…

  • Turkey Pen Pail

    For a new spin on flower pens, I decided to make feather pens.  They would be neat by themselves, but I thought for Thanksgiving, I would make them into turkey feathers.  I didn’t know if they made brown…

  • Minnie Mouse Cookie Pops!

    I made these Minnie Mouse cookie pops to give out as favors at my daughter’s Minnie Mouse birthday party.  In the past, I have seen them made from Oreo cookies, so I wanted to try something different.  Instead of…

  • Minnie Mouse Cake and Cupcakes!

    My daughter absolutely adores Minnie Mouse, so for her second birthday, I wanted to make her a Minnie Mouse cake.  I made her a large Minnie Mouse cake on her actual birthday and Minnie Mouse cupcakes for her birthday party the following week.  I am…

  • Baby Footprint Frames

    I love footprint crafts!  Aren’t baby feet so cute?! This footprint picture frame (above) that I made with my daughter back in February 2013 was inspired by supermomsteph.blogspot.com.  We were living in Texas at the time and I thought…

  • Halloween Yarn-Wrapped Letters!

      Happy Halloween, everyone!  I have always liked the look of yarn-wrapped letters so I decided to try making some of my own.  Instead of simply wrapping them and leaving them as plain letters, I made each letter…