BIG IDEA: Sewing Stencils Quilt!

Explore different fine motor techniques such as sewing and tracing with this BIG classroom project! Combine everyone’s artwork into one. Trace recognizable basic shapes using our Fine Motor Skills Stencils and learn a basic sewing method safely with our Plastic Lacing Needles. Check out more about the tutorial below! Age: 4+ Duration: 20-30 minutes You’ll Need:…

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Craft Spotlight: Big Huge Dinosaurs!

To give your Big! Huge! Dinosaur a unique appearance, use balloon painting! This cool technique keeps little fingers clean while generating a fun painting experience. R75424 Big! Huge! Dinosaurs are perfect for large scale fingerpainting projects. The sheet itself reaches roughly 3 feet in length, but you don’t need a whole lot of paint to cover it up! Fingerpaints spread…

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Mother’s Day Crowns

Make Mom a queen for the day with these embellished R22025 Color In Crowns! Add details with collage materials and a few of our own fun craft products, such as R24560 Bouquet Paper and R15657 Wild Flower Paper Bits! Age: 4+ Duration: 15 minutes You’ll Need:  • R22025 Color In Crowns • R24560 Bouquet Paper •…

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Craft Spotlight: Nature Paper

Take a good look at the images in our R15290 Nature Paper, and think of how you can combine them to make colorful, crazy critters! The Nature Paper elements can also be hung from mobiles or pasted onto picture frames or posters as decorations. The R15290 Nature Paper features 32 sheets of brilliant graphics that are…

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Mother Rising blog uses our Color Diffusing Leaves!

I absolutely adore the variety of designs that the Color Diffusing Leaves can be used to make. No two are alike–literally! This beautiful assortment of leaves were made from watercolor paint diffusion. Wendy published this craft post on September 24, 2008. To read more about the post entitled, “Celebrating Autumn” click here! A neat addition…

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Finger Paint Flower Faces

Paste up personalized Fingerpaint Flowers along a school hallway and celebrate all the great things your students have accomplished so far in the school year! Like our post and subscribe today to our blog to see more craft projects like this! Age: 5+ Duration: 15-20 minutes You’ll Need: • R75422 Big! Huge! Fingerpaint Flower •…

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Craft Spotlight: Sew Up Vests

Wear your art! That’s what we say for our amazing Sew Up Vests! These multi-skill craft projects are made from versatile Color Diffusing material so that the paint design you make on the vest creates a tie-dye like effect when you add a bit of water. Paint, fold, sew and wear your vest for a variety…

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Earth Day Dioramas!

It’s been a while since we’ve posted an original craft project for the blog, but now we’re getting back into the swing of things! Earth Day is only a week away, so we’re getting a head start on our art projects. This post features multiple projects in one. Using the links below, you can skip to…

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Craft Spotlight: Fingerpaint Flower

Big, bold and bright, Fingerpaint Flowers are the perfect art activity to paint out in the spring air! The best part about fingerpainting outside is that it adds another dimension of sensory development: not only are students using fingerpaints to stimulate finger movement, but the warmth of the sunlight will warm up the paint and the…

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