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Dee
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Kid craft ideas for grandparents
Every year the kids make something for ther grandparent, great grandmas, and aunt.. I was thinking some sort of ornament w a picture of them w Santa- last year we did a tree w popsicle sticks.. I need help with something easy but cute :)
Tia!!
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Posted 12/14/13 2:40 PM  |
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LSP2005
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Re: Kid craft ideas for grandparents
I purchased those hand print kits and you could completely use them as ornaments. They were a huge hit.
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| Posted 12/14/13 2:42 PM |
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Re: Kid craft ideas for grandparents
Last year I bought small (like 4"x4") canvases from AC Moore. I had DD (she was 1.5, so I helped) make a green handprint on each one. Then, I turned the print upside down and used glitter glue to decorate it like a Christmas tree. I put the date on the bottom and hot glued a ribbon to the back to hang on the tree. I also mod podged strips of festive scrap book paper to the sides of the canvas, instead of leaving them plain white.
It sounds like a lot of steps, but was pretty easy bc the canvases were so small.
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| Posted 12/14/13 2:47 PM |
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Cindyrella
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Re: Kid craft ideas for grandparents
I found this and was going to make it with DS this year Image Attachment(s):
Message edited 12/14/2013 2:53:28 PM.
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| Posted 12/14/13 2:48 PM |
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ChristinaM128
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Christina
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Re: Kid craft ideas for grandparents
My sister inlaw bought plain cheap wood arts and crafts frames from michaels and my nephews painted them. She out a photo of them in it. We received this as a gift from them 3 years ago, and it is still up in our living room - we love it!
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Re: Kid craft ideas for grandparents
homemade picture frames with a picture
handprints/footprints
photo album
storybook (if they are old enough)
finger paintings
homemade ornaments
decorated boxes (like we used to glue seashells and other things to wood boxes from michaels and make our own special boxes/jewelry boxes for family members)
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| Posted 12/15/13 9:18 PM |
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MrsT809
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Re: Kid craft ideas for grandparents
Posted by Cindyrella
I found this and was going to make it with DS this year
I did this last year and they came out so cute! One warning, I didn't know how fragile they'd be so I packed ours in tissue paper to store at the end of the season and the paper stuck a little. This time I'm thinking I'll do parchment paper around it first bc they really are so cute and I want them to last!
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| Posted 12/15/13 9:23 PM |
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2BadSoSad
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Re: Kid craft ideas for grandparents
Posted by MrsT809
Posted by Cindyrella
I found this and was going to make it with DS this year
I did this last year and they came out so cute! One warning, I didn't know how fragile they'd be so I packed ours in tissue paper to store at the end of the season and the paper stuck a little. This time I'm thinking I'll do parchment paper around it first bc they really are so cute and I want them to last!
Ours were all dried out and broken this year when we went to take them out 
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| Posted 12/15/13 11:28 PM |
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MrsKelly
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Re: Kid craft ideas for grandparents
Posted by MrsDamonSalv7319
Last year I bought small (like 4"x4") canvases from AC Moore. I had DD (she was 1.5, so I helped) make a green handprint on each one. Then, I turned the print upside down and used glitter glue to decorate it like a Christmas tree. I put the date on the bottom and hot glued a ribbon to the back to hang on the tree. I also mod podged strips of festive scrap book paper to the sides of the canvas, instead of leaving them plain white.
It sounds like a lot of steps, but was pretty easy bc the canvases were so small.
cute!!
dd is one...
I made green footprints... then turned them upside down, painted a red ribbon/bow so it was like they were "hanging", and painted "mistletoes" underneath... more paint around the border of the canvass, and I just wrote her name and the year really tiny
eta - to add pic
Message edited 12/16/2013 10:20:18 PM.
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My4GirlsMyLife
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Re: Kid craft ideas for grandparents
My DD did something like this a few years ago and I looooved it !! Image Attachment(s):
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| Posted 12/17/13 12:11 AM |
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VikingChick
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Kid craft ideas for grandparents
Re salt dough, the recipe we always use is:
2 c flour
1c salt
3/4 c water
Mix and knead
Roll out
Cut w cookie cutters and poke holes
Bake for 20 mins at 200 degrees
Paint!
You can use any cookie cutter. My mom still has ones that we made as kids 30ish years ago, so they shouldn't be that fragile...
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