Kids Clothing:Kids Fun,Party Ideas and Baby Shower Ideas

Personalized Tote

Kids can decorate a personalized tote for their parents to use at the grocery store. A personalized tote can be reused in the place of plastic bags when shopping. Plain canvas bags can be found at most arts and craft stores. Decorate canvas bags with fabric paint and cookie cutter shapes.

Personalized Tote

Lay the canvas bag flat, place a cookie cutter on the fabric and draw around it. Paint the inside of the cookie-cutter shapes with fabric paint. Use colorful pens to draw designs, handprints, lines, angels, flowers, inspirational sayings, hearts, or even iron-on photos of your family on the bags to create your own personalized canvas tote.

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Build a Fort

It’s easy to build a fort indoors as a rainy afternoon adventure. When you build a fort with your child or grandchild you will provide a rich opportunity to unleash your child’s imagination. Begin this fun activity by “scouting” out a place to build a fort: a hiding place under the stars or a fortress in a far off land help to create the imaginative background to build a fort.

Build a Fort

The framework for building a fort can be dining room chairs, sofa cushions, footstools, etc. Drape a blanket or sheet over the top of your framework to create their enclosed fort. Add sleeping bags to simulate camping, add stars to create a spaceship, decorate the fort as a palace for your little princess – the possibilities are as endless as your child’s imagination. Building a fort is a fun activity for rainy days, winter vacations or any time you want to let your child’s imagination soar.

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Memory Mobile

Making a memory mobile is a fun and educational family craft. A memory mobile can display family pictures, helping children to understand their family relations and where they fit in the family. Your family tree is the basis for your memory mobile, therefore the mobile can be as large as the information you have on hand.

Further research of your family tree will help the whole family discover if their last name is based on a profession, or if the family name has changed when ancestors came to this country. The memory mobile can be used to display your family history, a special family vacation or other special family event.

Memory Mobile

Materials:

• Colored poster board or construction paper, one color for each branch of the tree
• Individual photos of family members
• Twigs or dowels: One 10”, one 16”, two 8”, and four 5”
• String
• Glue

Memory Mobile Instructions:

• Cut a 3” square of one color, two 2.5” squares of another color, four 2.5” squares of another color and eight 2” squares of the last color.
• Cut photos of family members a half inch smaller than the colored squares. Center the photos and glue in place.
• Poke a small hole 1/8” from the top and bottom of each square.
• Lay out twigs/dowels in rows, largest to smallest
• Position the photo squares with mom’s side of the family on one side and dad’s on the other. Arrange each couple with the men and women each on their own side.
• Cut 22, 6” long pieces of string. Thread one piece through each of the holes in the photo squares. Tie to the twigs above and below each square. Hold up the mobile and adjust the photos until it balances.
• Cut a 24” long piece of string and tie the ends to the top twig, then hang.

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Puppet Theater

Animate playtime with a puppet theater. Puppet theater can be used to bring children’s stories to life, as a teaching tool or a rainy day activity. Children can use stuffed animals or string puppets as actors. Puppet show scripts are easily created from a child’s favorite story where they can act out their favorite characters.

Puppet Theater

Adults can create puppet show scripts to illustrate their own stories about not speaking to strangers, learning manners, or sharing. Divide theater duties between family members (set, script, puppets) for a family reunion production. Puppet theater is a versatile boredom buster that provides hours of activity for family members and friends.

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Recycled Crafts

Make fun recycled crafts from those empty juice boxes. Recycled crafts teach children to reuse ordinary household items and reduce waste. Juice box buddies can be made to represent storybook characters, animals, warriors, princesses or fairies. Add scrap paper, wiggle eyes, glitter and other craft supplies to create these fun juice box buddies. Once these recycled crafts are made, children can use their creations to act out their favorite story or just use their imagination to play with their new friends.

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Recycled Crafts

What you need:

• Rinsed out juice box
• Construction paper or scrap paper
• Tape or glue
• Wiggle Eyes
• Yarn, glitter, pipe cleaners (or juice box straws), glitter, etc.

How to make Juice Box Buddies:

1. Wrap empty juice box with construction paper
2. Cut strips into black piece of construction paper to make hair (yarn may also be used for the same purpose).
3. Glue hair to top of juice box.
4. Glue wiggle eyes and mouth to front of box. Add pipe cleaner arms and legs if you like.

Puppet Making

Introduce your child to puppet making as a fun way to encourage their imagination. Younger children can begin their introduction to puppet making with simple string puppets such as cup marionettes. Before television string puppets were often used as interactive teaching methods to convey concepts to children.

This craft project is an inexpensive idea that can be used later as a rainy day or play date activity. Visit www.treasureboxkids.com for children’s clothing and ideas. Be sure to look through our archived blog posts for more activities, fun kids crafts, tips and birthday party ideas. Here are the directions to make this simple cup string puppet:

Puppet Making

What you need for this craft project:
·    3 cups
·    4 lengths of string or yarn
·    Control stick – old ruler, twig from outdoors, curtain rod, etc.
Decorating materials: wiggle eyes, markers, glitter glue, sequins, stickers, pom poms, etc

How to make the string puppet:
1.    Head cup: poke holes ¼” from the top edge of a cup. Run one string through the inside of the cup as shown.
2.    Feet cups: attach one string to the inside of each of the 2 feet cups as shown.
3.    Tie the strings from the head cup to the control stick. Poke 2 holes in the bottom of the head cup to attach the feet cups to.

Kids Room Decor

Personalize your kids room décor with this fun twist on beaded curtains. Kids room décor becomes more important as they grow older and this is an inexpensive craft to brighten up their personal space. This beaded curtain idea has been modified to use pompoms instead of beads. Use clear fishing line, pompoms, a darning needle, a tension rod, scissors and clear tape to make this beaded curtain.

Kids Room Decor

Instructions:

1. For each strand of pompoms, double-knot the end of a 5½-foot length of clear fishing line.
2. Use a darning needle to thread one to three pompoms at a time. Leave 2 to 3 inches of line between each cluster and make a single knot below each cluster to hold the pompoms in place. Leave the last 6 inches of clear fishing line empty.
3. Tie each strand to a tension rod, trim any excess line, and use clear tape to secure the strands.
4. Expand the tension rod to fit the doorway of your child’s room.

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Butterfly Decor

Little girls love butterfly decor. This simple butterfly decor craft idea is easily tailored to your child’s favorite colors and can be modified for various uses. For a more vibrant butterfly decoration, be sure to paint all white areas with color. Let the butterfly decoration fly by tying a piece of fishing line or yarn around the neck and suspend from the ceiling.

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Butterfly Decor

What you need for the coffee filter crafts:

• Paper coffee filter
• 1/2 black pipe cleaner stem
• Water color paints
• Paint brush and water

How to make butterfly coffee filter crafts:

1. Flatten the coffee filter and place it on a plate or newspaper to paint as the water will soak through. Set aside on paper towels to dry.
2. Fold the coffee filter accordion style, with 1/2″ pleats.
3. Fold the pipe cleaner in half and twist the stem around the filter to secure it in place.
4. Bend the tips of the pipe clean stems over about 1/4″ to create the antennae.
5. Fan out the butterfly wings.
6. If desired, hand with yarn or fishing line.

Nature Crafts

Nature crafts are simple activities that connect children to the natural world. Nature crafts make great seasonal craft activities. Winter is the perfect time to help birds make it through the cold season and easy kids crafts can help.

Putting out a pine cone bird feeder is a fun way to enjoy wild birds while providing a source of protein for them. Pine cone bird feeders are easy kids crafts that even young children can help make.

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Nature Crafts

What you need:

• Pine cone
• String
• Peanut Butter
• Bird Seed

How to make a pine cone bird feeder:

1. Tie a piece of string around a pine cone.
2. Cover the pine cone in peanut butter.
3. Roll the pine cone in the birdseed.
4. Hang the bird feeder outside and wait for the birds to come.

Snack Time

After school snack time will give kids more energy in the afternoon to concentrate on homework. Snack time is an important part of each day, giving children more energy to play outside instead of flopping down in front of the television. Skip the prepackaged items and take a few minutes to make easy snacks from scratch. Easy snacks do not have to be equated with junk food. Kids love to turn an eating occasion into an interactive experience.

Take the opportunity to cook together with your child these simple peanut butter granola bars. When you and your child cook together to make their own snacks you will begin to instill an interest in cooking that may help them to make healthy eating choices. Visit www.treasureboxkids.com for children’s clothing and ideas. Be sure to look through our archived blog posts for more activities, fun kids crafts, tips and birthday party ideas.

Snack Time

Ingredients:

1 large egg white

½ cup old-fashioned oats

½ cup dried cranberries

½ cup sliced almonds

¼ tsp salt

½ cup peanut butter

½ cup light brown sugar

3 tablespoons oil

½ tsp ground cinnamon

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 300 degrees. Line an 8” square baking pan with 2 crisscrossed rectangles of parchment paper, leaving a 2” overhang at 2 opposite ends. In a large bowl, combine oats, almonds and cranberries.
2. In a small saucepan, whisk together oil, brown sugar, peanut butter, cinnamon, salt and 1 tablespoon of water over low heat until sugar dissolves (about 5 minutes). Let cool slightly; whisk in egg white. Pour over oat mixture; stir until moistened. Spread evenly in bottom of pan; smooth the top of the mixture.
3. Bake for 30 minutes or until top is firm. Let cool 10 minutes. Lift out of pan using paper handles. Let cool completely. Cut into bars.