Colorful Clowns

Recently I ran into a cute, Bulgarian website, called Krokotak. They have lots of great ideas, and thanks to Google Translate, I am even able to understand what they're writing.

This cute clown is one of the things I found there, it's a coloring page, in the shape of a circle. Once the picture has been colored, you can cut them out, and transform them into a 3-dimensional clown. It's just one piece, so no glue needed. Such a neat, smart craft!!

The download can be found here:

Black&WhiteClownColoringPage

Pre-ColoredClown

Let your kids color the pages.

Let them cut it out, only the black/white stripes, see picture above. (Younger kids will need assistance here.) Twist the legs and arms tightly, uncolored side of paper inside.

Let the clowns play in the yard!

These would make a really cute garland for a clown-themed kids birthday party.

I linked up to It's Our Long Story.

Button birds

You don't need to run out and get a lot of supplies to make these cute button birds. Most supplies are probably things you have laying around, anyway.They make for a cute decoration on a quick handmade card, or can be used as embellishment in a scrapbook.

Supplies needed:

• Buttons
• Googly eyes
• Patterned paper
• Cardstock
• Markers
• Adhesive

Lay the button on the background paper.

With a black marker, draw the beak, tail and feet of the bird, copying the pictures above.

Glue the button on the background paper.

Cut a little wing out of patterned paper, and attach the wing and the eye.

You're done!



I can see many more ways to use buttons to create cute creatures. This would also make a nice craft for kids who are old enough not to try to eat them :)

You could let kids figure out how many different animals they can make with the help of buttons.

By the way, Walmart sells baggies with all kinds of buttons for about $ 1.50. You get a lot for that price, it's a great deal.

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Making flower crayons!

This is such a fun craft to do with kids. All you need is:

• Crayons
• Silicone Baking Cups (Use ones that you don't need to use for baking! I got mine for $1 at Target.)
• Oven

Preheat the oven at 200 F.

Next, there is LOTS of unwrapping to do. My girls loved to help. We just used pieces of crayons that we had laying around. You could also use a box of brand new crayons.


We tried to put similar colors together.



Put the silicone baking cups on a cookie sheet, heat them in the oven for about 30 minutes. They should be completely melted, so you shouldn't see individual crayon pieces anymore.
Be careful when you take them out of the oven and keep the kids at a distance!

Then you need to wait till they cool down. I made it go a little faster by putting the whole cookie sheet on our cold garage floor. It took less time than I expected for them to get hard. Then, it's easy to just pop them out of the silicone molds.


Aren't they pretty?!



Putting them to use!

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