Time to be creative and crafty. We encourage you to get out of your comfort zone and find a new media to play with. If you’re a painter, try scrapbooking. If you’re a knitter, try photography. The beauty of being crafty are the endless possibilities for imagining and for stepping outside your box.
Does your child like to draw or paint?
Why not turn your child’s drawing into beautiful and useful gifts for family and friends? Our resident web designer, Malin Rigby, is also an artist and graphic designer. She offers this awesome service to help turn your child’s drawings from hanging on the fridge into wall art, bags, water bottles, phone cases, print on t-shirts and much more!
Check out From Doodles to Gifts
malinsart.com/doodle-gifts/
Craft Closet Clean Out
Unsure what to do with craft supplies your kids have outgrown? Reach out to local elementary schools, PVPUSD’s Kid’s Korner, Providence or Torrance Memorial’s children’s wings, or local Boys and Girls Clubs. Repurpose, recycle, revive! Box up craft paper, glue sticks, pom-poms, googly-eyes, stickers et al and find them a new home.
Make something for an elderly neighbor
Mason cookie jar recipes can be assembled with items in your cupboards and put a huge smile on your neighbor’s face. Hopefully you’ve been checking on those elderly community members around you who live alone. Cookie jar recipes use sugars, flour, baking soda and powder that reside in your cupboards. Recipes can be followed or improvised (take care when adding nuts due to allergies or sticky-chewy ingredients). Tie lid with a bow, include eggs and a stick of butter on the side, print recipe, have everyone in your family sign it and drop it off. Who doesn’t love a surprise? And who doesn’t love making other people smile!
www.southernliving.com/desserts/cookies/mason-jar-cookie-recipes
Get crafty with what is in your cabinets!
We love crafts created from recyclables. The Mad House website offers oodles of cute crafts for kids of all ages including 2-5 year olds. Rainmakers or rainsticks are believed to have been invented by the Aztecs and were played in the belief they can bring about rainstorms. Rainbow rainmakers are easily made with supplies we guarantee you have. A trusty cardboard tube instantly transforms into a smile-inducing homemade musical instrument. To assemble: wrap old toilet paper rolls or paper towel rolls with washi tape, stickers, wrapping paper, ribbons, add dried beans, dice, pennies (or all), close off ends and you’ve made magic. Shake, rattle, roll and look for the rainbow.
Rainbow Rainmakers [compliments of the Mad House]
www.muminthemadhouse.com/rainbow-crafts-activitie-kids/
