Posts from the ‘Arts & Crafts’ category

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Inspiring Pipe Cleaner Animals

Artist Lauren Ryan creates animals made entirely from pipe cleaners – she never uses glue and only occasionally scissors and a little felt tip marker to create the…

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Friendship bracelets

If you can tie a knot, you can make a friendship bracelet. Follow along with The Purl Bee photograph tutorial and create beautiful patterned designs in…

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Homemade Paper Lanterns

Homemade paper lanterns… such a colourful, cheap and easy way to dress up a room or a patio for a party. Get the kids involved with…

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Wooden family

Inspired by mid-century designer Alexander Girard, Meta from One More Mushroom shows us how to create a cool, modernist wooden family out of turned wooden furniture legs and…

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Inspiration: Masking Tape Town

As part of a promotion for a Japanese masking tape manufacturer, art director Koji Iyama constructed a cardboard city and invited children to decorate it with…

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DIY Geometric Stamp Town

This beautiful artwork was made by Claire from Fellow Fellow with simple geometric shapes cut out of stamp blocks. We think this idea would be pretty…

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Make your own sidewalk chalk

This looks so great – DIY sidewalk chalk using plaster of paris and tempera (poster) paint. Who knew it was so easy? There are great instructions and…