Holiday Craft Faire 2009

Below are all of the photos from our Holiday Craft Faire at my daughter's school. We had a nice little turnout, and seemed like everyone enjoyed themselves. It was really fun to watch the children and parents get creative. We offered nine different crafts to do: bookbinding, holiday ornaments, gift tags, fun magnets, snow dusted paper trees, sachets, pomanders, cookie decorating, and linoprint greeting cards. I'm already getting ideas for next year. We did it in combination with the school book fair which was fun. Parents and children were able to do a craft and then go buy some books for the holidays. We appreciated our fearless volunteers who helped assist at the tables, and all of the participants who graciously were patient, and came to join in on the fun.

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Thanksgiving Craft class fun stuff

Here are just a few pictures from the special Thanksgiving edition of Craft Kitchen. The kids did many projects such as: Leaf printed napkins, napkins rings with felt leaves, chocolate dipped marshmellows that looked like pilgrims hats, fun sock turkeys, and tri-bead Indian corn. They also got to enjoy some poems and stories about Thanksgiving, as well as, some Thanksgiving themed coloring pages. Above are shots with children doing the Indian corn, and coloring up some pilgrim fun.

Thanksgiving Craft Class projects

Here's our clan of turkeys. The kids had a great time creating these. The ones above are the creation of myself and my daughters. We were very busy helping all of the kids during our Thanksgiving craft class to take pictures on the fly.

The Indian corn was also a huge hit with the kids. They were easy and super fun to make. I couldn't help but to make more and more and more. They looked lovely around the Thanksgiving table, which my daughter assembled.

After School Fall '09 Silk screen treat bags

Photos courtesy of Megan Simmons
For Halloween we silk screened treat bags with the kids. Above are highlights of the screening process.

After School Fall '09 Linoprints

We thought it would be a interesting idea to try linoprints with young children. The kids drew their design into styrofoam, and created a framed piece of art and stationary.

After School Fall '09 Door Hangers

This was a fun project that we did with the children. They each got to make door hangers that had a special message on each side. We wanted to highlight our "Star".

After School Fall '09 Gift tags & Mobiles

Project highlights from our second class. The kids made collaged gift tags and hand painted hanging mobiles.

After School Fall '09 Tissue Flowers

A big hit with the kids. We love tissue flowers!!

Summer '09 Basic Skirt

Young fashion designers modeling their unique skirts. They each got to pick fabric and sew their skirt on a sewing machine. The children also had to thread the elastic through for the waistline (not an easy task).

Summer '09 Silk-screen continued

These are the finished silk-screened t-shirts of some of our students.

Summer '09 Silk-Screen t-shirts

This is our silk-screening project. Each child created a design for their t-shirt, and I cut out the stencil. Above you see one of the students screening her design onto her t-shirt.

Summer '09 Tissue Collage

Here the children were able to create their own artwork using tissue paper and matte medium.

Summer '09 pendant continued

Our beautiful model of her own pendant.

Summer '09 pendants

During the second craft camp we made decoupaged pendants.

Summer '09 Craft Badges

At the end of our first craft camp, all of the children made their own craft badge for completing the week of fun crafting.