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Sunday, October 12, 2008

Week of the Young Child (Day 1): Simple and crafty

I've talked to many moms who aren't keen to get all craftalicious with their children because one, the kids get their art fix at school and two, they don't dig the clean up effort. I get it because it does bite to clean up paint splatters and bits of paper tossed everywhere.

If there ever were a week to call a truce with getting crafty, it's this one: Week of the Young Child. One full week to embrace your inner preschool-teacher-ness and have some fun letting your kids know how much they rock with cool projects and field trips.

Today, it's all about the crafts. If you need some simple, easy ideas for crafts for kids, I point you to my most favorite site ever: Kids Craft Weekly. I dare you to not be hooked on this site. Not only are the weekly newsletters free, the photos are adorable and the actual craft projects are ridiculously simple yet pack a punch of fun. The site currently has 48 newsletters available for you to peruse for your projects and they cover seasonal crafts along with random fun. But if you want kid-tested, parenting-approved ideas, try the Pirate, The Night Sky and Pets issues. Love them all and they are fun to do as a family even with kids of varying age ranges.

Have a favorite kids-craft site?
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  • MamaGorilla's Avatar
    Posted by MamaGorilla Mon Apr 14, 2008 4:28pm PDT

    I'm aggressively un-crafty, but on the rare occasion that G-love begs to do a project, I usually cruise Wondertime Mag's online database of crafts. They're a lot more interesting to me (and by interesting I mean much, much easier and less inane) than the crafts I typically see at Wondertime's sister publication, Family Fun.

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  • Mimi-pz's Avatar
    Posted by Mimi-pz Tue Apr 15, 2008 11:36am PDT

    What a great site! I'm a hit or miss craft mom, but I always need ideas for school parties!

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