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The Little Hands Big Fun Craft Book: Creative Fun for 2-To 6-Year-Olds

If you are looking for a kids crafts book that has over 75 simple arts and crafts activities for children ages two to six years of age, The Little Hands Big Fun Craft Book is the one you should have in your home library.

Priced at $10.36, you can purchase this book from Amazon.com

With 144 pages, the reading level is ages 4-8. More importantly, however, is the fact that the activities are related to holidays, school, occupations, travel, nature, home, and friendship.

Consumers give this book a very high rating and their reviews are no exception. For those children new to crafts, this book offers an exciting adventure into craft-making. All of the kid's crafts are easy, straightforward and fun. The illustrations can assist any kid in understanding what they have and offers them the opportunity to figure things out for themselves.

The Little Hands Big Fun Craft Book has been very helpful in providing fast easy crafts ideas for children. The pictures help the children a great deal and the notes that often accompany each project give a little more insight into each project. This book is especially wonderful for the holidays when you are constantly looking for kid's crafts.

One ten-year-old who bought this book raved about it. She enjoyed cutting and pasting and found she could learn how to make Christmas stuff, iron-on tote bags, necklaces, and other really fun stuff.

Another consumer used the ideas from The Little Hands Big Fun Craft Book and with her son they created many colorful artworks, together, including an aquarium, mail pouch, masks, flags, and scrapbooks. Her son especially loved the cutting, pasting, and coloring part of the process and had a great time.

Whether you have a son, a daughter, or both; the Little Hands Big Fun Craft Book will provide hours of enjoyment for you and your kids. Kid's crafts are one of the best ways to keep the little ones busy during the summer

If you are looking for more kids crafts you can visit our site Fun Kids Crafts and you can also have a look at the E-Book Fun Kids Crafts

Crafts For Kids: How to Come up With a Craft Idea for Kid Programs

Crafts For Kids: How to Come up With a Craft Idea for Kid Programs

Did your search for Crafts for Kids get you to this blog? Are you looking for crafts ideas for kid's enrichment? Maybe you feel like you are just not the creative type, and you struggle with coming up with craft projects. It is true that some people just have a knack for finding or even inventing craft ideas, but your creativity can be improved. There are ways to make it easier to find a craft idea for kid needs.

I think one of the best ways are to get a really good kids crafts e-book. If you are a Sunday school teacher you will fin excellent Bible crafts on page 8 of the e-book Fun Kids Crafts E-Book. For moms and teacher you will also find very good Easy Kids on page 86. Fun Kids Crafts has crafts for every occasion and every stage. Go and Have a Look at Fun Kids Crafts E-Book.

Tips for finding kids crafts:

1. Lay aside any perfectionism

Locking yourself into thinking there is only one right way to do something makes every decision harder. Regardless of the kid program you are helping with, there are always many suitable craft ideas out there. Don't worry about picking the wrong one! If you've taken into consideration the age and skill levels of the kids involved, your choice will be adequate.

2. Consider your budget

When choosing a craft idea for kid programs, you need to be aware that some of them are expensive. Prepackaged kits to make a fun foam picture frame or a craft stick cross are affordable for a few kids, but if you are needing to do a craft with a lot of kids, these kits might cost too much. It's often easy to do almost exactly the same project by just looking at the craft kit components and buying the same materials in bulk at the discount store. You may have to do some preparation, like cutting out shapes ahead of time, or at least making cardboard patterns for the kids to use in cutting out their own. The savings will be worth it, however.

3. Different crafts for boys and girls

In spite of years of indoctrination from women's libbers, the fact remains that boys and girls like different sorts of crafts! If the craft seems a little girly, don't use it at boys' camp. Stick with lace-up leather billfolds, Indian artifacts, dinosaur art, and similar projects. Girls will like beads and anything that's pink or purple. For a craft idea for kid camp where there are kids of both sexes, keep it on the boyish side and provide some pink materials to keep the girls happy.

4. Let ideas spring from examples

An aspect of creativity that the non-creative types don't realize is that ideas spring from other ideas. That is, if you look over a book or website of craft ideas, maybe none of them will appeal to you, but if you let them, they will spark an idea for a similar project. Use what you can and change what you must in the craft directions. For instance, the craft may have a slogan to be written across the front. If you need to change the slogan to fit your own needs, it's perfectly OK. For instance, the pictured project might say "Girls rock!" You can change that to "He is the Rock!" if that meets your VBS needs better.

5. Follow the instruction if you find it easier

A final suggestion is to realize that you don't have to change the instructions or create something new to have a good craft idea for kid use. Feel free to follow the instructions to the letter if that works better for you. The kids will have a great time either way. Just pick a craft idea, for kid creativity beats adult creativity every time! The kids will make it creative, even if you have doubts about your own ability in this area.

For lots of free kid's crafts and kids Bible story crafts, visit the website Fun Kids Crafts.

Kids Summer Crafts - Decorating Flower Pots Craft

This is one of our really fun kid's summer crafts. It can also be used as a spring craft and then you can plant some plant in it that needs to be planted in spring. Doing kids summer crafts is a way to get outdoors with the kids and have fun in the sun.

What you need for this crafts:

• Terra-Cotta flower pots
• Acrylic paint
• Paintbrushes
• Thick white crafts glue
• Paint markers
• Pencil
• Clear fat glass marbles (you should get these at a crafts shop)
• Potting soil
• A suitable seedling for the pot
• Watering can with water

How to do this craft:

In this craft we are going to decorate our flower pots with different slithery snakes and some bugs.

1. Let's start with a snake to coil around the pot
2. Take the marbles and draw eyes with paint on the flat side of the marbles. If you do not want to do this you can of course get colored marbles and use as is.
3. Let the easy dry.
4. With your pencil draw a snake's head and the snake's body curling around your pot and ending at the bottom.
5. Using your paint, color in your snake. Leave spaces spread over the body of your snake so you can use another color and paint spots and stripes for your snake.
6. Let the one color dry and then do the spots.
7. Use the paint markers to draw the outlines of your snake.
8. Now ask an adult to paint your thumbs with paint.
9. Press your thumb on any of the empty spaces between your curling snake to make the bodies of ladybirds.
10. Draw the detail of the ladybird's spots etc. with your paint marker.
11. Stick the snake's eyes on with the clue and let it dry.
12. Fill your pot with potting soil and plant your seedling.
13. Water your plant.

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Kids Crafts Ideas: Making Peanut Clusters

When you are thinking of kid's crafts ideas, you must not make the mistake of overlooking the easy crafts. Kids love doing crafts that gives them results fast and if the result is edible, even the better. Making peanut clusters fall into this very easy kids crafts category, it is quick and the end result is very tasty.

Note: because the chocolate needs to be melt over hot water, this craft must be done under adult supervision.

What you need for this craft:

• 8oz Plain milk chocolate (any chocolate will do it does not have to be cooking chocolate; I often use ordinary plain milk chocolate)
• 2 Tablespoon smooth peanut butter
• 1 Cup peanuts
• A small pot or saucepan
• Water
• A glass bowl that fits onto your pot or saucepan without touching the water in it
• Spoon for stirring
• Teaspoon
• Baking tray sprayed with non-stick spray

How to do this craft:

1. Half fill your pot with water and bring it to the boil.
2. Remove from the heat.
3. Break the milk chocolate up into pieces and place them in the glass bowl.
4. Place the bowl over the hot water and stir until melted.
5. Add the peanut butter and peanuts and stir through until all the peanuts are well covered with chocolate and the peanut butter is mixed through well.
6. Spoon teaspoons full of the mixture and allow the chocolate to set.
7. Your clusters are now ready to eat.

For more fun and easy kids crafts, visit Fun Kids Crafts. You can also get fun summer crafts at Fun Kids Crafts. For Bible crafts visit Bible Crafts For Kids. You can also get more Fun Kid Crafts HERE.

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Fun Kids Crafts: Making Leaf Prints Gift Wrapping For Mom's Mother's Day Gift

This is one of our fun kid's crafts that the kids find absolutely fascinating. Kids love making things they can actually use. I thought with mother's day around the corner, what better opportunity can you get to make this fun wrapping paper. It is spring now and you should be able to find lovely new leaves for this craft.

What you need for this craft:

*White wrapping paper

*Leafs, try and get a wide variety to make really pretty paper (not dried out)

*Thick paint (as many colors as you want to use)

*Paint brushes (one for each color you want to use)

*Old plates (one for every color you want to use)

*An old newspaper

This is what you need to do:

1. Pour some paint onto one of the plates.

2. Ad a little water to the paint to make it only a little bit runnier.

3. Place one of your leaves on an old newspaper with the underside facing up.

4. Now you brush a thick layer of paint onto the underside of the leaf.

5. Press the leaf with the painted side down on the newspaper to remove excess paint.

6. Now your leaf is ready to press on the white gift wrapping as your first print.

7. Continue with more leaves and colors until your gift wrap is covered.

This is one of our fun kids' crafts that give you an ideal opportunity for a biology lesson. Tell the kids about the tree sucking up water from the soil, with the water flowing up the stem and then into the leaves through the veins. Show them how the veins can be seen clearly in the prints on the paper.

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Fun Kids Crafts

Doing kids crafts are such fun. Kids love making "things" and using this love to teach them is a good way to make learning fun. Although doing crafts is an ideal way to teach kids, the fun element must be the most important part of a craft.

Finding crafts can be a problem. I think we all know how time consuming it can be to search the internet for crafts. That is not necessary though, as there is a site where you can lots of easy and fun crafts for the kids. Have a look at "Fun Kids Crafts" at http://www.kidscrafts.topknacks.com you will find lots of fun and easy crafts on that site.

In my next post I'll give you a fun kids craft to do. So now I have to run to go and get that craft for you.

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