2cb57399d6dd1b31ff17d30b365bfdc4 Call Us Copy Cats! / Crayon Wall Art ourhouseofjoyfulnoise.com

This crayon art thing that is happening….You know, the one that’s sweeping the nation?  It’s been pinned to death, and it’s invaded Blogland, like there is tomorrow.  And although I am never one to copy someone else’s ideas, or follow trends for the sake of everybody else doing it, I KNEW I was going to do this art-craft with my kids, the very-first-time I saw it.

Even at the risk, of being called ‘Copy Cats’.

(Sticks and stones may break our bones….)

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be2e542257f88d0166db8d8fe8badf01 A T Shirt Craft / Wicked Cool, Fun, Easy, & Not Messy! ourhouseofjoyfulnoise.com

This just may be the coolest and most fun craft, I have ever done with our kiddos.  If that wasn’t awesome enough, it is super easy, and it doesn’t make a mess either!!  I know, right? It’s perfect for kid’s birthday parties, scouts, camps, etc.  Our kids didn’t want to stop.  They even made a couple of shirts for their friends.  But all of you mothers, as we show you how simple this project is,….think outside the box, for yourselves, or other projects, too. I am!

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All you need is:

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    Tissued Tins

    Posted by Laura on Tuesday Jun 7, 2011 Under Crafts & Creations, DIY (Do-It-Yourself) Project

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    Sometimes, us creative people, have ideas that come our better in our head, than they do in real life!  Agree? But this project was the opposite.  On the one hand, it may have been just a tad more difficult than I had imagined.  Only because I should have remembered how tissue paper and I, can go round and round and round.  We just don’t seem to get along. I normally do not have the patience for the stuff, and end up making the tissue a wrinkled mess. So much so, that I refer to my husband, to put the tissue in gift bags if I can, and he also is so kind, as

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    ec6f68c0e9b765e89c11f826926e9cfc Kids Crafts: Making Something Out Of Anything ourhouseofjoyfulnoise.com

    Sometimes, I like to plan arts and crafts for my kids.  I’ll have an idea, or see some great crafts project in a magazine or online, and we’ll do it.   But whether I plan arts and crafts or not,  it still happens in this house, and all over this house, every day.  The kids sure don’t need me, to come up with creative ideas.  In fact, I’d go so far as to say, that their wild imagination tends to venture further than mine does.

    I try to keep the school room stocked with art supplies at all times, so that the kids can get creating any time it strikes their… (READ MORE......) | 9 Comments

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    Stained Tissue Easter Cross

    Posted by Laura on Tuesday Apr 7, 2009 Under Crafts & Creations

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    The kids have been working really hard with their school work, and will actually be done with their formal work in just a couple of weeks.  So in preparing our hearts and minds for this Holy week, we decided to do some more lengthy study of the Stations of the Cross, and then get creative today and make a big Easter cross decoration for our Easter celebration come this Sunday.

    There were really only 5 things we needed:  a very large sheet of window cling, lots of colored tissue paper, a sponge brush, some Modge Podge and a pair of scissors.

    cd828fc52d212e5c8be6f460155a847b Stained Tissue Easter Cross ourhouseofjoyfulnoise.com

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