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St Patricks Day Craft – Green Shamrock Stamp

Here’s a fun St Patrick’s Day craft idea, courtesy of Disney FamilyFun magazine.

Green Shamrock Stamp
Spread the luck o’ the Irish this St. Patrick’s Day with a homemade shamrock stamp. Use it to decorate paper place mats, coasters, tablecloths, or anything else your little leprechauns wish to dress in green.
Materials
* Heart-shaped cookie cutter (2 1/2 inches [...]

Easter Tulip craft

Egg carton (with rounded cups)
Scissors
Paints
Ice pick or other embroidery needle
Pipe cleaners (spring colors)
Cotton
Easter basket grass (green or color of choice)
Artificial fern leaves or make leaves from green construction paper if desired
Glue

Cut out each egg cup from container, including the pointed corners on top.
Paint each cup with different spring tulip colors.
Allow paint to dry thoroughly.
Punch small [...]

Halloween Felt Treat Bags

I found this in All You and thought it looked fun and fairly easy.
* Templates (download pumpkin template or cat template)
* Scissors
* For pumpkin: 2 9″ x 12″ pieces of orange felt, plus 2 9″ x 12″ pieces, 1 gold, 1 black
* For cat: 9″ x 12″ piece of black felt, [...]

Cauldron Candy Dish

Start with an empty round plastic container (like a cool-whip container).
Clean it, dry it, and then paint it black.
Paint three small wooden balls black as well.
After the paint is dry, glue the balls to the bottom of your plastic container.
Add a handle made out of wire if you’d like and your candy dish cauldron is [...]

Little Ghosts craft

Cut square pieces of white fabric.
Make a ball out of batting, some old pantyhose or some tissue paper.
Put it in the center of the fabric square and wrap the fabric around.
Secure with a piece of string.
This is your little ghost.
Use a black marker to draw the ghost’s mouth and eyes on.
Thread some string or fishing [...]

Paintbrush cookies

3/4 c. butter
1 c. sugar
2 eggs
1 tsp. vanilla
2 1/2 c. flour
1 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. salt
Mix shortening, sugar, eggs and vanilla.
Mix flour, baking powder and salt.
Stir together and chill 1 hour.
Heat oven to 400 degrees.
Roll out 1/8 inch thick.
Cut in desired shapes.
Place on ungreased baking sheets.
Paint with egg yolk paint.
Bake 6 to 8 minutes.
EGG YOLK [...]

Suet Seed Cakes for Bird Feeding

2 lbs. beef suet
1/2 lb. sunflower seeds
1 c. millet
1 c. cracked corn
1 c. crushed peanuts (ground)
Grind suet.
Place in large pot and cook slowly over low heat until smoothly melted.
Let cool to a semi liquid state.
Stir in nuts.
Spread into shallow rectangle foil molds.
If using paper cups tie string to pencil and place other end in mixture [...]

Paint for sugar cookies

1 egg yolk
1/4 tsp. water
Food color
Divide 1 egg yolk and 1/4 teaspoon water among several cups.
Color each with a food color.
Paint onto sugar cookies prior to being baked with paintbrush.
If “paint” thickens, just add a few drops of water.

Finger Paint

1 tbsp. unflavored gelatin (1 env.)
Cold water
1/2 c. cornstarch
4 tbsp. dishwashing liquid
Food coloring
Stir gelatin into 1/3 cup cold water.
Set aside.
In a saucepan stir cornstarch into 2 1/2 cups cold water until dissolve.
Bring to a simmer and stir until fully thickened.
Remove from heat and blend in gelatin mixture.
Add dishwashing liquid.
Cool and add food coloring as desired.
Store [...]

Peanut butter playdough

18 oz. peanut butter
6 tbsp. honey
Nonfat dry milk
Mix ingredients with enough nonfat dry milk to form into a workable dough.
Can be decorated with raisins and then eaten!

Cookie Dough Ornaments

1 c. salt
2 c. flour
1 c. water
Mix together salt and flour and add water a little at a time.
Knead dough 7 to 10 minutes until dough is smooth and elastic.
Roll dough 1/4 inch thick and then use cookie cutters.
Put hole for hanging in top of shape.
To attach small buttons, smooth on a little water, then [...]

Face Paint

1 tsp. cornstarch
1/2 tsp. water
1/2 tsp. cold cream
2 drops food coloring of your choice
Mix all ingredients in small plastic mixing bowl. Make sure it is mixed well.

Bubbles

1 c. Joy or Dawn dishwashing liquid
3-4 tbsp. glycerin
10 c. clean cold water, up to 50%  more on dry days
Measure 10 cups water into a clean 2-5 gallon bucket.
Add dishwashing liquid and glycerin and stir gently to avoid froth.
A lot of bubbles for a lot of kids, you may wish to use 1/4 of recipe.

Funny Putty

1/4 c. Elmer’s glue
2 tsp. Sta-Flo liquid starch
Combine glue and starch; mix well and allow to dry slightly until workable.
Store in airtight containers.

Ghost Lollipops

Dress up the lollipops you are giving away for Halloween by wrapping a white tissue or small piece of fabric over them.
Secure it with a piece of string or a rubber band.
Take a black marker and draw eyes and a round mouth on the ghost’s face.

Clay Ornaments

4 c. all-purpose flour
1 c. salt
1 1/2 c. cold water
Christmas cookie cutters
Shellac
Ribbons for hangers
Mix flour and salt together.
Slowly add water while stirring with a fork until soft dough forms.
Turn out on lightly floured surface and knead until smooth, adding a small amount of water or flour, if needed.
Roll dough on a floured surface to 1/4 [...]

Spider Webs

To make spider webs you need  3 craft or popsicle sticks and some white or black yarn.
Take two of the craft sticks and glue them together to form a cross.
Glue the 3rd one right in the middle, forming a star shape.
Tie one end of the yarn around one of the craft sticks in the center.
Start [...]