Wood Crafts For Kids (and a giveaway)

UPDATE: This giveaway has ended.  The two winners chosen via random.org were Secret Mommy and St. Brid.

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It's summertime and we are all looking for ways to entertain our little ones terminated this long holiday time. I'll be bringing you lots of fabulous ideas over the coming weeks, that are non alone practical simply are sure to keep those little fingers and minds busy.

First up, I was asked to review and host a giveaway for the Creativeness For Kids Classic Wood Crafts kit.  I'm sure you all know of my love for Creativity For Kids products, they are of peachy quality and each of the kits I've received from them has been put to great practical use, atomic number 3 opposed to other craft kits, which are just that … crafts.  You know the ones, you wonder what on earth you are going to do with them once the kids ingest made them.

Anyway, I immediately agreed to do the reexamine and giveaway because, well information technology's wood and I lie with wood crafts (my daddy is a woodcarver aside trade in – did you acknowledge that?).   I knew that I had already received the kit from them previously though when I was working equally a Creativity For Kids Ambassador, simply with moving, it had been packed up into boxes and was already at the new house when they had contacted me, so I had them send back another thinking it could take me weeks to find the first kit.  Well low and behold, whilst I was rummaging in boxes to receive my boxwood of clay to use for one of the ideas I'd had, I came across the unconventional kit.  So then my ideas broadened and the kids and I set to form making a variety of projects.  I think that this has been one of their favorite kits so far arsenic there are endless possibilities.

While I was practical at my computer one morning, I found Flynn doing this:

Without any instruction surgery direction from me, my alphabet possessed boy definite to sprain the various lollipop sticks into letters of the first rudiment.  Envisage using this as a learning tool.  Yield your fry language to spell, or even simple math problems.  What a enceinte homeschooling tool.

I wanted my ideas for this outfit to be 'out of the box', because when you look at the packaging there very are a ton of ideas on there already, soh I cherished to scrape with something a little different to demonstrate you how many more ideas are out on that point.

Marisol came skyward with the following craft project.  She sawing machine the beads in the box and immediately wanted to make jewelry. So I set her functioning with the eco-friendly paints and a handful of string of beads and she got to work house painting them.

Next, it was my turn to come with a craft project.

When we stirred into our put up net week we discovered that AT&T U-Verse has a Barbie Channel.  Marisol was hooked.  They receive a memory board twinned game on there where you have to turn over 2 co-ordinated spunky pieces and it eventually makes a puzzle.   So naturally I distinct to shuffle a matching game for the kids.  They are at the perfect age for games and puzzles and do them every day at home.  Marisol is the Bingo mavin.  She genuinely is.  Naturally though I don't have my box of stamps Here to postage the little wooden discs I wished-for to use (they are arriving along the next truck with more of my foxiness room supplies).  So I decided to make stamps premier.

My idea was to glue some clay to the top of the wooden blocks and imprint an image in each which when stamped would copy it.  I couldn't line up my box seat of stiff though, only did have packets of Sit Magic on hand, so uncoerced to examine anything tabu, I gave it a birl.  Keep in judgment that Model Conjuration takes 72 hours to air dry, but IT makes for a fun little project.

To make these stamps, roll a small ball of Model Magic and attach it with a little of the glue provided in the Classic Mrs. Henry Wood Crafts kit onto the woodwind blank out.  And then very softly with your finger, drop the ball kayoed, the paste will spread across the block at the same time to ensure that it attaches evenly.   Next, form each one with an image, words or numbers.  I used a list of other items to make the imprints – small items from my daughters dolls family, lego pieces, buttons, fondant cutters and I justified bought a trifle $1 stamp kit from Michaels to make a cute bird imprint happening one.

I put these aside to harden and then purchased a few assorted $1 mini stamp pads from Michaels.  Once they were firm, I stamped each of the wooden discs to make matching game pieces.  You tail dungeon building on this collection to make the game harder for the kids.  The Classic Grant Wood Crafts kit too comes with a hopeless marking, so I misused this to add detail to a couple of the discs (a leaf for the apple and a eye for the bird).

And the game?  Was a big hit with the kids.  They justified took it in turns to dig up and re-arrange the discs for the other one to play the gritty.

Once more, in keeping with my theme of making functional crafts that we could economic consumption, and Marisol beholding that we could make flowers (there's a picture on the box), I suggested to her that we make a streamer for her bedroom.  She cherished this theme.  Thus I asked her to choose a few colors and then rouge each of the petals and center circles.  Naturally she decided that she desired to paint some of her flowers orange, and there was no orangeness in the paint supplied, but that was easily fixed as I mixed a bit red and white into the yellow tub.  She was thrilled.

Once the paint was dry, I glued the flowers together and again set them aside to dry.  Today I had to figure out how to turn these into a streamer.  There was a lovely green cord in the box so I knew I wanted to use that (you know, Eastern Samoa if it were a stem for the flowers), but later on a couple of failed attempts, I finally complete I could re-use the corrugated cardboard from the box seat, so I make out circles out of it and then glued them to the back of all flower with the cord run through the midpoint.  It worked perfectly.

Then once set completely, we hung her pretty streamer onto her retire.  She loves IT.

AND NOW I Bear A Game show TO SHARE

Would you like your own Classical Wood Crafts outfit?  

• Atomic number 3 you can see, from wood bits to gum, you testament have everything you deman for hours of creative crafting (contents may vary slightly) … nonnegative, on that point's a great entrepot bag to keep all of your small pieces secure
• Go green! The lid becomes a mess free crafting solution and the box can be reused to display your yeasty creations.
• Eco-Paint…this special formula is earth-genial and kid authorized.
• Teacher's Pick Award Winner
• Ages 5 and up
• $29.99

It's simple to enter.  Answer this question in the comments:

What would you the like to micturate with this kit up?

This giveaway is overt to all residents of the U.S.A over the age of 18 and ends happening Monday June 13th at 10pm PST. TWO winners wish be drawn via random.org.

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Disclosure: I accepted a Classic Wood Crafts kit to review.

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