Thank you to everyone for leaving a comment about your favourite kids craft activity and ingredients - so much inspiration … and thank you to kids craft weekly for the giveaways. - the five winners and their comments are listed below first [please email me ASAP whipup[at]gmail.com with your mailing address and full name etc. And listed below that are just some of the creative ways parents and kids create together … thank you all for a great month of kids crafts.

1. Rachael Said - Favourite everyday item would depend on the day and the craft! My kids definitely like string. My favourite kids’ craft project is the ones that the kids made out of their own imaginations. Can’t beat them.

2. Dawn Said - Our favorite everyday craft items are seashells (we live near the shore) and sticks — any kind of sticks including popsicle sticks, yard sticks, dowels — there is always something to make from them. My nomination for best kid’s craft project this month is that darn fish in a bag soap. How cool is that!

3. Desiree Says: Plastic drinking straws! Where do I start? Use them with paint, playdough, string, blow through them, cut them up, glue them… Our latest favorite project? Colored water “painting” on paper towels (using straws of course)!

4. Thien-Kim Said - Hmm, everyday crafting. I like to pull out the paints and let my toddler just smear paint on paper. She has a great time just dipping her fingers (ok, hands) into the paint, mixing it, swirling it, and spreading all over her paper. It’s just sooo juicy! I love watching her. I guess that’s my favorite kids’ craft project right now. Painting with no agenda, just having fun.

5. Rachel Said - Paper would have to be our all time favorite. Doesn’t matter if it’s construction, scrapbook or typing paper. They love the big paper that some shipping companies use to pack things with probably the most. We’ve made treasure maps and lifesize full body “portraits”.

other comments included:

- our current favourite is using freezer paper to transfer ‘original artworks’ onto t-shirts. My kids love to draw and very proudly display their own special t-shirts - good for presents and prolonging the life of special drawings.
- tissue paper and glue! Messy and fun!
- my favorite kids craft project is anything with popsicle sticks (you can do SO many things!)
- cooking ingredients. I love to make playdough, slime, salt dough and other fun mixtures to craft and play wth.
- Favourite crafting material? Paper, of course! Endlessly versatile. Cut it, paint it, fold it, draw it… What can’t you do with paper.
- leftover toilet paper + paper towel rolls. infinitely useful for crafting and imaginative play, especially for little pirates and star-gazers.
- As far as my favorite kids’ craft, I like the crazy crayons made from leftover crayon bits. Those are great.
- scissors are my favorite starting point……….a fresh notebook and a writing implement
- My favourite everyday item is things we find on our walks - sticks, bark, pebbles, leaves, seashells…we love making temporary sculptures in the garden and letting the garden gradually reclaim them.
- Favorite craft project is making books. My daughters (6 &4) love to make books for family and friends. They usually are about the individual person and the girls create collages about their stories. I love their creations and story writing ideas are endless!
- I love cardboard boxes (they can be cut up into pieces to make anything), egg cartons and toilet rolls. Recently I made a farmhouse, tractor and animals out of those items and my daughter loves it.
- My girls are always coming up with new ideas using crayons and found items, anything from beads to candy wrappers to toilet paper tubes.
- Our favorite everyday craft materials are tape, paper and string. My son can build all kinds of things with these - signs, bridges, buildings -
- My fave everyday item: cardboard box! You can add stuff to it, cut away from it, it can be transformed into anything from a doll’s house to a hiding place to something to store everything else into!
- I have to say my daughters favorite everyday craft item is the Popsicle sticks! It never fails that she can come up with a different idea or use for them every time!
- I asked my daughter about this and she said, “Blankets.” I never would have guessed this but she’s right. She makes temporary crafts all around our house out of blankets. She sets up little environments for herself and her friends.
- Some of our favorite projects aren’t really projects at all. We just sit down with a stack of scraps, a few embellishments, and have fun putting them together. I guess you could just call it collage.
- Favorite everday item: felt. You can glue it or sew it, you can make it soft and fuzzy with a needle point, and your can stick it to itself; we’ve made felt storyboards based on The Very Hungry Caterpillar.
- Our favorite around here would be yarn, especially the little leftovers from my projects. It’s amazing what kids can come up with.
- love love love potato stamps!
- My favorite kid craft (today) is making those crazy crayons by melting leftover crayon bitties into mini-muffin tins.

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