July 2013

  • Drawing Exercise For Kids: Draw Your House On A Box

    Here's a great drawing craft for kids that is so much fun, you might even want to frame the results. I few months ago, I had a long piece of cardboard on hand and decided to cut off the two top corners and give it to my seven year old to draw on. It occurred…

  • Drawing Exercise For Kids: Stained Glass

    We have been doing lots of crafts involving drawing lately to get our drawing skills up to speed, and drawing stained glass likenesses is a fun way to get some variety into your kid's drawing exercises. You could make large involved stained glass drawings or little ones like ours, and display them on a window…

  • Crocheted Giant Granny Square Baby Blanket Or Coverlet

    Here's a simple granny square baby blanket (or any size blanket) that you can make any size, and in your favorite colors. I made this one as a scrap buster, and managed to find yarn in all the favorite colors of the baby's mom. And since there are only four squares in this one, the…

  • Craft Schooling Sunday Has Gone Fishing!

    Thanks so much for stopping by, Craft Schooling Sunday is taking a little summer break, and will be back as soon as I figure out how to fit all the organizing that the party requires into a suddenly very busy summer schedule packed with good things. So hang on to those projects and I'll keep…

  • Succah Decor Chandelier Project To Do In July!

    Isn't this simple beaded chandelier a gorgeous decoration for the succah? Succah, decorations, now? Why yes, dear readers, it's never too early to get started, and before you know it the holiday crush will be on, and you do want to make the crafty succah of your dreams this year, right? So you can thank…

  • Drawing Exercise For Kids: A Monster In A Recyled Box!

    Here's a fun drawing craft that's fun and creative with very personal results — I'll call it monster in a box, though it could certainly be an animal or creature of any kind. We used a recycled box, drew the monster's head on the top portion and then used the bottom portion as the monster's…

  • Stuffed Paper Hearts On A Stick, For Fun Summer Centerpieces

    I was recently asked to make some simple centerpieces which included hearts, so I came up with these stuffed paper hearts on a stick, which are simple to make and lots of fun. Plus you can send guests home with them as party favors, or add messages if you wish. My hearts looked a little…

  • Welcome To Craft Schooling Sunday!

    Welcome to Craft Schooling Sunday, where contributors from around  the world come here to share, places like The United Kingdom, Portugal, Macedonia, Muldavia, Turkey, Israel, Italy, Australia, The United States, Denmark, The Netherlands, and Guatemala. And of course we very often have contributors from Jakarta, Hungary, France, Germany, South Africa, Sweden and Greece, I guess…

  • Summer Blooms In My Container Garden

    Climbing pink tea rose in bloom One of the great joys of container gardening is enjoying plants in bloom. While my garden in mostly in maintenance mode this year on account of a busy schedule, I do fortunately have quite a few plants that with regular watering and some minimal attention do produce lovely blooms!…

  • Drawing Exercise For Kids: Drawing Faces

    Summertime is a great time to work on drawing, and I have quite a few fun exercises to share with you coming up! For starters, work on drawing faces by tracing a round object on paper and then filling it in. So much fun and with great results, don't you think? You could then cut…

  • Fun With Air Drying Clay

    Air drying clay is a wonderful way to experiment with clay, without having to worry about firing or baking. We haven't taken our project to the next step yet, namely painting them, but I thought I'd share this with you anyway, since summer is a great time to sit outdoors and sculpt something! My daughter…

  • Cut Paper Collage For Tisha B’Av

    Tonight is the solemn Jewish holiday of Tisha B'Av, (which commemorates the destruction of the Holy Temple in Jerusalem) and as with all holidays we try to get in the mood, whether it be joyful or the extreme opposite in this case, by doing a little crafting. Yesterday I had four boys hanging around and…