Diy elementary crafts

This snowflake lantern is fun and a great craft for a variety of ages. Making winter luminaries is an easy way to light up the house.

Looking for some more fun winter art activities for kids? This DIY Snowflake Art Project is a terrific craft for kids to enjoy creating and makes a beautiful keepsake or awesome gifts for loved ones.

A kid-friendly rain stick craft that actually works! Your kids will love the realistic rain sounds made by these simple-to-make rain sticks.

These beaded pipe cleaner pumpkins are SO CUTE and super simple to make! You only need a two basic supplies: orange pony beads, and pipe cleaners. That's it! If you saw our beaded pipe cleaner Indian corn from a few weeks ago, the process is pretty similar. Except with these pumpkins, you pull apart the pipe cleaners to make a pumpkin shape - easy peasy! Before you know it, you'll have your very own pumpkin patch! I love pumpkin crafts. (And I love fall. And October. And the new sweaters I…

Looking for easy pipe cleaner crafts for kids? My girls love making these beaded dragonflies! They are so cute for any spring project. A great boredom buster for when they are stuck at home. Cute little gifts, too.

Use flower blooms to make a DIY Garden Suncatcher Wind Chime. An easy summer kids craft on contact paper framed in Mason jar lid rings! #WelcometoNanas #WindChime #DIYSunCatcher #FlowerCraft

Are you on the hunt for fun craft ideas for teens and tweens? These stellar crafts will actually keep them occupied on rainy days!

Year after year I search for new ideas I can use in my classroom for Christmas gifts to the parents. I basically narrow down ideas by 3 items: simple, cheap and cute. Simple because we are talking about kids here and we still have standards to cover. Cheap because well….. hello, we are teachers and […]

It takes great creativity or a well-composed list of DIY ideas to make pretty things out of...well, almost nothing!

Learn how to make a dreamcatcher! These paper plate dreamcatchers are so pretty, and they're incredibly simple to make! Keep bad dreams away as you make this easy kids version of a dreamcatcher. Make a Dreamcatcher A dreamcatcher is a Native American item which is traditionally hung over a child's bed as protection. Dreamcatchers allow good dreams through, while catching and stopping bad dreams. Most kids will enjoy this craft, but a DIY dreamcatcher is particularly great for kids who have…