Kids Crafts Ideas: Shoe Crafts

Here is one of our really fun kids' crafts ideas, decorating your shoes! Kids love this kind of crafts because they can actually use it afterwards.

No outfit is complete without the right pair of shoes. You must not think it is more so for adults than kids. Kids' idea of the right shoes may differ from that of adults though. On thing I know is kids love shoes. My little granddaughter is only 4 but she has a serious love affair with shoes. I have never seen any kid with more shoes than she has and still it is a major fight not to buy more.

Funky, embellished shoes are quite popular among the younger set, especially the younger kids. This provides a great opportunity to bring out kids' creativity! Here are some shoe crafts that your kids will love (and that you can enjoy with them as well).

Here are a few tips on how you can implement this kids crafts ideas:

1. You Can Spruce Up Your Shoelaces

Colorful shoelaces can add pizzazz to any pair of sneakers. You can easily tie-dye shoelaces by mixing two or more colors of fabric paint with an equal amount of warm water. Tie knots in the laces about an inch apart, and then dip each individual section into the dye, alternating colors. This can get messy, so be sure to cover the work area and protect the kids' clothing!

There is an even simpler way to decorate your shoelaces, use fine-tipped markers. Sharpies are the best, because they are permanent. And they now come in lots of different colors, so you can use them to make your laces extra colorful.

2. Have Fun Making Your Own Charms

We all know shoelace charms look great on sneakers. There are kits available that have everything you need to make your own shoelace charms. You can also buy individual supplies at your local craft store or online.

If you love your Crocks, making your own snap-in charms can really be a lot of fun. Using Fimo clay, you can make any kind of charm you can imagine. You can paint it with acrylic paint once it's dry. There are also rubber plugs that you can buy online or in craft stores to glue to the back of any kind of charm. Using these, you can make charms out of virtually any type of material, including plastic, metal, and rubber.

3. For Lots Of Fun, Paint Your Shoes

Especially for the little ones, one of the simplest ways to make shoes unique is to paint them. This works well for many types of flip flops, as well as cloth sneakers. All you need is some fabric paint and a pencil to get started. Just draw your design on with a pencil, and when it's just right, fill it in with paint.

You can add flair to your painted shoes by adding some studs or colorful rhinestones. These provide nice, sparkly accents. The stick-on kind may work, but they tend to come off easily, especially when you put them on something you're going to wear. A Bedazzler will attach them much more securely.

Decorating your shoes is a fun way for kids to express their individuality. It's also a great kid's crafts project to do with the family or friends. With just a few simple craft supplies, they can have hours of fun making their shoes unique.

With this kid's crafts ideas I'm sure I'm going to buy less shoes for Anabel and get her decorating the old ones instead to make them new again. Enjoy this fun kid's craft.

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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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Food Crafts For Kids - Make Your Own Soda

This is one of our easy Food Crafts For Kids that is maybe more of a science lesson than a crafts. With this craft the kids will see how the acid in the juice reacts with the alkaline bicarbonate of soda. In this easy food craft for kids they make a simple lemon and orange soda that is good enough to drink.

What you need for this craft:

• 2 Cups freshly squeezed lemon juice
• 2 Cups freshly squeezed orange juice
• 2 Teaspoon of bicarbonate of soda
• 4 Teaspoons of sugar
• 4 Cups of water

How to do this craft:

1. Mix the juices and the water.
2. Add the sugar and stir until melted.
3. Add the bicarbonate of soda and stir (observe the bubbles as the carbon dioxide forms as a result of the bicarbonate of soda reacting with the juice.)
4. Your soda drink is ready to drink.

You have to drink the soda immediately as the bubbles will disappear fast when the reaction stops.

This craft is an example of the many food crafts for kids that is more than just fun, it is a science lesson as well.

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Kid's Summer Crafts: Make A Bird Cake Summer Crafts

This is one of our Kid's Summer Crafts that can be responsible for hour of pleasure and learning for the kids. Making the bird cake is great fun and afterwards, watching the birds feed and noting which birds are attracted by the cake, is even more fun. Show the kids to keep a safe distance and to be completely still so as not to scare the birds away.

Because the fat is going to be melted on the stove, this craft has to be done with adult supervision.

What you need for this easy kid's summer craft:

• A bowl
• Hard white cooking fat (in South Africa we will use Holsum)
• Breadcrumbs
• A variety of chopped nuts
• Some mixed bird seed
• Oatmeal
• A plastic cup
• A spoon
• A small saucepan
• A piece of string
• A pair of scissors
• A nut shell with a hole in it

This is how you do this craft:

1. Cut a long piece of string.
2. Thread it through the hole in the nut shell and make a really big not at the bottom where the string goes through the shell. This should prevent the string from pulling out of the shell.
3. Take your cup and measure a little of all the nuts, bird seed, breadcrumbs and oatmeal to be enough to almost fill your cup.
4. Place this mixture into the bowl.
5. Heat some of your fat in the saucepan until it is melted. Let an adult help you.
6. Pour this melted fat on top of your seed mixture in the bowl.
7. Using a spoon mix this thoroughly so that all the food is well covered with the fat and can easily stick together.
8. Place your sting with the shell and knot side at the bottom in the cup.
9. Spoon your cake mixture into the cup pressing down well so that it fits in tight.
10. Make sure that you keep the string in the middle so that the end of the string comes out of the middle of your cake. This will ensure that your cake will hang better on the tree.
11. Allow the cake to cool down completely until the fat has set and is hard.
12. When your mixture is set, pull the cake out of the cup carefully, with the string.
13. Now your bird cake is ready for you to hang it outside on a branch and to start your bird watching.

As you can see, this is one of our kid's summer crafts that is a craft and a biology lesson all in one. This makes the craft very suitable for homeschoolers. Use the opportunity to draw the kids' attention to all the different birds visiting your cake and what it is they eat. Making the cake is fun but, once the cake is finished, you can simply put out some left over food such as bread crumbs, leftover rice, cheese fruit etc. and watch the birds feasting.

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