Christmas craft zine for kids + giveaway
Kids craft weekly has once again put out their annual christmas craft zine for kids – packed full of fun ideas for crafty things for little kids to make – this
downloadable pdf is 2 zines in one: [all the info here]
1. Christmas Cards: Fun and Simple Card Ideas for Kids
2. Christmas Craft: Inspirational Ideas for a Very Crafty Christmas
These printable mini books are perfect for little hands – the ideas are all aimed at pre-school age kids – but what I really love about this series and about kids craft weekly always is how unpretentious they are – the projects are all really achievable for this age group – with the photos showing finished products made by kids.
Amber is kindly offering 10 whipup readers a chance to win a copy of each of these books – so leave a comment here with your fave kids craft activity to be in the running – open for 48 hours. thanks winners will be contacted.
November 25th, 2009 at 6:51 pm
favorite kids craft activity? anything and everything with mod podge, for sure! and I love kids craft weekly. pick me!
November 25th, 2009 at 6:55 pm
EeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeK! I’m a little too excited! Covered in glue and glitter surrounded by sugar paper & felt-tips! BRING ON THE CHRISTMAS CARDS!!!
November 25th, 2009 at 6:56 pm
I love it when my kids make hot rocks (carefully heat up a large rock in your oven or elsewhere—be careful!) and then take them out of the oven and “paint” crayons on them…the wax simply gets warm and melts onto the rocks. A cheap cute way to add some color to our yard!
November 25th, 2009 at 6:58 pm
Our favourite activity is making cards. This year my child has decided collages are the thing to explore. We would be thrilled to win these books. I have found the KCW site to be a fabulous resource. Martha
November 25th, 2009 at 7:05 pm
I love the 5 minutes craft issue – my girls have gotten so much milage out of the pantry bean letter. We have done whole words, shapes – Halloween and Thanksgiving.
November 25th, 2009 at 7:06 pm
My mom and I always did crafts together while I was growing up. Christmas Crafts were my favorites. My mom is now watching my daughter while I work. This could be the kickoff of a new tradition between my mom and daughter!
November 25th, 2009 at 7:07 pm
An Australian colleague and friend recommended Kids Craft Weekly to me when we were working together in Indonesia. I’m home in the US now and I so much enjoy the weekly emails! Fun times for my princess and me!
November 25th, 2009 at 7:16 pm
I like stamping with my little one. She has fun and I don’t have to clean up too much after…
November 25th, 2009 at 7:19 pm
This time of year, we make angels. Many, many angels. Last year’s featured paper doily wings, this years have are just pretty paper cut and slotted together. My kids adore making them – and I think we have enough for a garland now… which may well fit around the entire house!
November 25th, 2009 at 7:22 pm
We love glue. Last week we made a turkey with tissue paper feathers. Fun!
November 25th, 2009 at 7:24 pm
We like to cut out snowflakes to decorate the windows for the winter. The kids can do it for hours, and they can tape them up in every window-it is decorative and festive!
November 25th, 2009 at 7:53 pm
We love painting with red/green on butcher paper and making it into wrapping paper! We use hands, feet, brushes, pine tree branches, you name it. It always turns out so cute and the kids just love it! :)
November 25th, 2009 at 7:55 pm
I’ve cut out pictures of stars, santa’s and reindeers and together with my 2 year old, we apply glitter and little stars and she has a ball. Very messy, but the smile on her face makes up for the mess!
November 25th, 2009 at 8:01 pm
My little one is only 17 months, so our crafty activities are pretty much limited to drawing and, occasionally, finger-painting (when I’m feeling game to deal with the mess). She’s just started to ‘get’ stickers, so we’ve started adding some to her drawings, which she seems to love.
November 25th, 2009 at 8:08 pm
We love making candy canes reindeers to hang on the tree and give kiddie friends for Christmas…pipe cleaners for the antlers, googley eyes and a pom pom for the nose. too easy and so much fun :)
November 25th, 2009 at 8:12 pm
I love Kids Crafts Weekly! And I love making ornaments with the kids – any ornaments! Our next one will be popsicle sticks with glitter and gems!!!
November 25th, 2009 at 8:38 pm
awww, sounds lovely!
November 25th, 2009 at 8:39 pm
I love making wooly soap with wool roving!! I also like painting christmas cookies with frosting that’s the consistency of paint :-D
November 25th, 2009 at 8:49 pm
I like any craft that involves paint and lots of it for kids-I will have my students make their own wrapping paper this year with carved potatoes and paint! Thanks for the chance to win.
November 25th, 2009 at 8:50 pm
kids craft weekly rocks!!! i love to do ay crafy with my kids that involves their hand prints! Love to reflect on the years of how much the have grown!thanks in advance for selecting me !! lol!
November 25th, 2009 at 8:57 pm
wow! how wonderful.
November 25th, 2009 at 8:57 pm
We love doing collages. First we get some oil pastels and draw a pic and then we paint over the whole page with watercolours and then we paste on something (a paper-pieced robot, a snowman, ducks, flowers, butterflies etc – whatever theme we’re working on) and finish it off with some glitter glue (I’ll often just mix some glitter with PVA and they use their fingers to put it on).
I also love when the do the ‘magic’ pics – a pic in white oil pastel that only can be seen once they have painted with the watercolours.
November 25th, 2009 at 9:24 pm
I like to fingerpaint with the kiddos. It’s something they can both do, ages 4 and 20 months.
November 25th, 2009 at 9:26 pm
Banners! We make them for seasons, for holidays, for special visitors, or just for fun.
November 25th, 2009 at 9:33 pm
Tracing hands is pretty big in our house right now and you can make so many things with hand prints: reindeer, wreaths, turkeys, santas, trees.
November 25th, 2009 at 9:33 pm
My 5yo loves to paint. We have a new craft area with a new utility sink, and setting him up to paint has never been easier!! I’d love these books for him–if my name isn’t pulled, I plan to buy the craft book.
November 25th, 2009 at 9:46 pm
My kids love drawing Christmas pictures with oil pastels, the colours are amazing. I then scan their pictures and we turn them into our gift cards and tags for presents. They think it’s a hoot to have their own range of cards.
November 25th, 2009 at 9:54 pm
We love to paint. But one of our favs was an outer space placemat inspired by Kids craft weekly robot crafts
November 25th, 2009 at 10:02 pm
My 2yr old loves ’sticking’ we have already begun cutting up old christmas paper and cards and gluing them to new card. I think decorating the gingerbread men will be a big hit too, looking forward to it, and we love KCW!
November 25th, 2009 at 10:10 pm
we are big fans of kids craft weekly and are participating in the card swap again this year. been meaning to get some of Amber’s ebooks!
favourite crafts – for me with the kids – stamping, for them – anything with glitter or getting 20 supplies out at once (ugh)
November 25th, 2009 at 10:23 pm
Stamping, painting, cutting, glueing – all the good stuff. And glitter! Looking forward to making all our cards this year.
November 25th, 2009 at 10:28 pm
our fave craft activity is coloring right now but girls love to do anything crafty that i try with them.
November 25th, 2009 at 10:46 pm
We recently loved making the lanterns! My 6 yr old loves to cut paper and he experimented with cutting shorter and longer lines, closer and farther apart to see how the lanterns would look different. We are making mini versions with Christmas card paper for ornaments to give out to family this year! Teri
November 25th, 2009 at 11:06 pm
I keep lots of craft items on hand for us to come us with fun ideas. Right now, my daughter and I are making beautiful bookmarks by collecting colored leaves, drying and pressing them (in a large book), putting them on a piece of cardstock, adding a little spanish moss and glitter, and covering these with clear contact paper. We will be giving these away for Christmas this year!
November 25th, 2009 at 11:14 pm
I love Halloween/fall crafts…pumpkins, scarecrows with buttons eyes, black cats, apple prints…
November 25th, 2009 at 11:48 pm
Favourites? Anything to do with glue. More glue mommy!!
November 26th, 2009 at 12:08 am
Anything involving glue is currently a hit in our house!
November 26th, 2009 at 12:12 am
I have a day home and find the kids love glitter glue! Today I gave them black paper, star stickers, glittler glue, and cue tips to move the glue around with, to make a ‘night sky’. They were engrossed in their work for 15 minutes!
November 26th, 2009 at 12:31 am
our favourite craft activity is painting and also baking shape cookies with smarties ;)
November 26th, 2009 at 1:06 am
Gingerbread cookies and Kids Craft Christmas Cards!
November 26th, 2009 at 1:09 am
I like craft that involves nature and found objects.
November 26th, 2009 at 1:12 am
Oh, me please!!! I’m saving up all the christmas crafting for the advent calendar surprise activities, and this would help a bunch!
November 26th, 2009 at 1:39 am
Lovely GiveAway!!! My kids love anything with paint, glue, collage, ummmm is there a crafty thing kids don’t enjoy? Not in this house!!!
November 26th, 2009 at 2:01 am
I don’t know if it’s strictly craft but we love to make gingerbread and will do some with holes for tree decorations soon – as soon as we have a tree.
My kids are pretty little but a big hit is “playdough safari”. Rolling out playdough and walking all our plastic animals through it to see what footprints they leave.
They love to close their eyes and guess!
November 26th, 2009 at 2:11 am
I’ve subscribed to the Kids Craft Weekly newsletter for at least a year and look forward to it every month. My 5 year old loves the ideas that come out of the newsletter.
November 26th, 2009 at 2:12 am
We lov elove love making story boards with old magazines scissors glue and a simple sheet of paper.
November 26th, 2009 at 4:04 am
My kids and i just love the ideas at Kids craft weekly. But our favourite activity for the season will defnitely be baking cookies.
November 26th, 2009 at 5:44 am
Yesterday discovered a great use for catalogues that come this time of year, make paper chains with them! Strips of the pages plus little strips of masking tape were easily handled by my 3 year old and we have lovely paper chains. It helps if you use catalogues with lovely pics as they then look really co ordinated, we used an upmarket kids clothing catalogue that was destined for the re-cycling bin.
November 26th, 2009 at 7:27 am
Oh what a lovely giveaway.On my blog I like to give ideas for crafting with children so I love to win!!!!
November 26th, 2009 at 8:22 am
This is an excellent source for ideas…I sadly lack in ideas but make up for that with BAGS of enthusiasm as does my wee girly. I would love to win this. B x
November 26th, 2009 at 8:27 am
I love ANY craft I can do with my kids. Homemade play-doh has always been a favorite medium here and anything messy is always a hit. :)
November 26th, 2009 at 9:05 am
I do like knitting and next year I’ll start to teach the class of my daughter to knit little flags and turn these into pins, if you know what i mean (my english isn’t crafty enough to explain my dutch works…)
And i’d love to make those christmascards with my own girls!
November 26th, 2009 at 10:14 am
I remember painting those little wooden ornaments as a child . . . I just got really inspired to make some pretty paper garland with the kids after I saw some cute store bought ones! Can’t Wait!
November 26th, 2009 at 10:45 am
Pipe Cleaners! We can make anything from pipe cleaners. :-) They make great hats, flowers, swords, you name it!
November 26th, 2009 at 11:41 am
I love doing crafts with my little ones, especially letting them paint on patterned scrapbooking paper that I can them make into holiday and thank you cards for our loved ones.
November 26th, 2009 at 1:54 pm
I love all the Christmas crafts and work in a primary school and have this week been covered in glitter! What fun to make glittery snowballs and glittery stars, angels and shepherds, lanterns and everything else in between! I also do lots of making with my young daughter! We love Christmas Crafts!! :-))))
November 26th, 2009 at 2:51 pm
My 5 year old daughter and I LOVE making our own wrapping paper made out of brown paper grocery bags and gift tags! I hope we win!!!
Yay for giveaways!!!
November 26th, 2009 at 3:07 pm
My son and I love to draw frogs and cut them, and make a little pond. He is in the frog phase!
November 26th, 2009 at 3:32 pm
Lately we have been doing finger weaving and making potholders on the little loom thing. Fun!
November 26th, 2009 at 3:50 pm
My childe is still too small to craft with her, but I look forward to doing so in the future. I loved paiper maché – maybe because it was so messy that we only got to do it once in a while – and moulding with clay.
November 26th, 2009 at 7:12 pm
I like doing mosaics with my kids. I just cut up a bunch of colored paper and away we go
November 27th, 2009 at 12:45 am
My kids love almost any craft but their favorite one is dolls made out of beads, pipe cleaners, yarn, and felt. They loved it! They always love craft time so I hope I win!
November 27th, 2009 at 4:05 am
I absolutely LOVE anything with hand prints or fingerprints! They can be turned into about anything!
November 27th, 2009 at 6:25 am
I’m not sure if they count as *craft* exactly, but paper aeroplanes are pretty popular around here…. alng with the current favourite, -making our own slime (out of common household/laundry ingredients. But we are always on the lookout for new ideas!!
November 27th, 2009 at 5:43 pm
Probably cooking—cookies or cupcakes is my favorite. But all crafty things are fun with kids.
November 28th, 2009 at 1:10 am
We like to sew in this house.
November 28th, 2009 at 5:35 pm
I’d love this, who doesn’t need new ideas to craft with her kids on Christmas? ;)
November 28th, 2009 at 6:53 pm
Our favourite christmas thing to make is pop stick snowflakes. Nothing better than loads of glitter all over the house to make you feel like you are in a magical wonderland!
November 28th, 2009 at 8:31 pm
Wow!Wonderful craft ideas and giveaways!I’d love to do some cards with my daughter.
November 28th, 2009 at 9:39 pm
My kids fave crafty activity? Well thats easy, anything!!!! They love all the messy, glittery, sticky fun, and they love to show it all off to whoever will look even more!!!!
November 28th, 2009 at 11:12 pm
Ok, my kid is two years old and I have to admit that I haven’t tried to craft with her yet. So I clearly need these books!