How to Make Cool Stuff
All Moms love jewelry made by hand from their babies (no matter how old you get, you will always be your Mother’s baby). Here is a necklace arts and crafts project for kids. This jewelry is made from colorful cardboard, stiff paper, or construction paper. This makes a great, colorful, and thoughtful gift to make for your Grandmother or Mother.
Flowers make a great gift for Moms on Mother’s Day…they are beautiful, just like she is, inside and out. How about making a pretty flower holder vase for the flowers that you pick for her (or buy for her). This beautiful flower holder in which you can place real flowers would make an especially nice Easter gift for someone you love.
Need ideas for gifts to make for your Moms for Mother’s Day? Every Mom I know has a box full of stationery for times when they need to write correspondence and other type of letters. This attractive and useful gift is made from a pressed paper package tray and cover from a super market.
Make this cool letter holder as a gift for Mom on Mother’s Day or Dad on Father’s Day or for someone else you love. You can make this attractive and useful letter holder box gift in which to hold correspondence letters.
This is a special arts and crafts project for kids who want to make a special gift for Mom or Dad for a gift for Mother’s Day or Father’s Day. This is a fold-out, accordion-style photo book / folder. You can either use real photos or make your own comic book or use pictures from a magazine to make a funny story. This is a great craft to build imagination or to give as a gift to a loved one or friend.
If your Mother or Grandmother is a big sewer, embroiderer, etc and has a lot of thread, needles, and other sewing supplies, then why not make them a sewing box? Sewing boxes make great Mother’s Day gifts as well as presents for birthdays and other special occasions. Below you will find easy step by step instructions for putting together a great sewing box.
What Mom or Grandmother doesn’t love getting a personalized recipe book? This one is so special too….It is completely filled with envelopes so your Mom or Grandma can put recipes that they find in magazines or books, and keep them all in one categorized place. Make this for Mother’s Day, for a gift on a birthday, or any other reason you have to show love to your family and friends.
This is a great craft for older children, girls, and teens. This is a more complicated arts and crafts project than many of our other crafts ideas, so read over the following craft before deciding to do it. This pot holder craft would make a great gift for Mom or Grandma on Mother’s Day.
Do you need a gift idea for Mom on Mother’s Day or Dad for Father’s Day or for somebody’s birthday? If your loved one or friend wears glasses, why not make them an eye glassescase? It is easy to make and you can personalize the case with the person’s name or initials.
Sea Shell earrings turn out beautifully and they are very simple to make. Below you can find easy instructions for putting together earrings that are made from sea shells and earring clips. These would make a great gift for Mom or your Grandmother on Mother’s Day.
This is an easy sewing project with easy illustrated instructions to make a make-up / cosmetics case. Girls and Teens will love making this cosmetics bag / case / wallet – whatever you want to call it. It is also a great project to make for Mom or Grandma on Mother’s Day…and it would also be a great group project for Summer Camp or Girl Scouts.
Mother’s Day is coming up soon so it is time to start thinking about making your Mom a gift. How about trying to make this pretty necklace for mother that can be made out of simple plastic straws. All you need is some yarn and some straws and some love for your Mom. The simple instructions follow.
Does your Mom cook the best food? Does she love hanging out in the kitchen to cook you the best food? Don’t you think that your Mom is the world’s greatest chef? Show her what you think of her by making this chef doll out of foam for a Mother’s Day present. The simple step by step instructions are given below.
Instead of making the normal lace-paper valentine, with its hears and arrows and doves and cupids for Valentines Day…how about making a unique Valentine’s Day craft with peas and toothpicks. It actually turns out quite pretty. Find the easy instructions below.
Hanukkah is coming up this weekend and these dreidel gift boxes are just what you need to package up those presents for your family and friends. The cool thing about this project is that it turns into a fun dreidel game by just simply pushing a pencil through it. You can make these gift boxes as big as you need them to be as long as you have large sheets of paper. These Hanukkah dreidel gift boxes are fun to make and they look very beautiful as well.
Today we will be making a Halloween craft that is easy enough for kids to do by themselves or with Mom and Dad. We will be making a handmade customized & personalized made Halloween paper treat bag that you can use as snack bag to give to a friend or trick-or-treaters. You can fill them up to give to your classmates or to give to special trick-or-treaters, friends, or relatives. All you will need is thick paper, scissors, glue, and orange ribbon. The easy instructions follow.