As part of our month of crafts for children, we will be posting links to cool ideas and inspiration as well as tutorials and articles. We are still taking tutorial and article ideas for the month so please email your ideas and stories to me at whipup[at]gmail.com.

Alisa wrote in with this great letter and kids craft idea:

For Christmas I made playsilks for my kids. I bought the Habotai silk scarves from Dharma Trading for only about $3 a piece then I dyed them in the microwave with koolaid. It was a super quick and really satisfying project. Plus cost effective. It was only about $40 for 10 scarves instead of paying well over a hundred dollars somewhere else for playsilks. And my kids (2 and 5) seriously play with these all the time. They are a hit with all the neighbor kids too, boys and girls alike. We were even able to make the hankie dolls with them. There are a million great tutorials for dying with koolaid. Here is one that I used: Sara’s Toy Box.

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