| Crafts for kids - don't have to be a costly activities | | Posted Tuesday, January 31, 2006 1:20:25 PM by Rose Martins | Kids love to do arts and crafts, and often the messier the craft is, the more the kids enjoy it. The type of crafts for kids is pretty much unlimited. It's up to your imagination.  And while doing crafts your kid is having great fun, they are also learning new coordination skills, techniques and exercising their creativity and imagination.
The choice of craft is often dependent on the relevant season. Just before Christmas, kids will make crackers and decorations for the tree. At Thanksgiving, kids will make crafty things for the thanksgiving dinner. Around Halloween, kids will make pumpkin lanterns, bats and costumes for trick and treat.
Kids crafts also does not have to cost you a fortune. There is a great deal of craft equipment that one can find for free. During Fall, the brown, golden leaves that have fallen from the trees make a great item for crafting. Acorns and pinecones, twigs and branches are also a great tool for kids crafts.
One can also use food such as pasta and lentils for kids craft activities. Empty boxes and plastic containers are also great when making crafts. One can also buy ready made craft sets for kids that contain everything they need for a craft project.
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| | | Sonia Gandhi opens Surajkund crafts festival with a dance | | Posted Sunday, February 04, 2007 2:59:07 PM by Blog57 Team | | Haryana, Feb 1: UPA Chairperson, Sonia Gandhi and Minister of State for Tourism and Culture, Kiran Chaudhry, joined a tribal dance on Thursday and inaugurated the "21st Surajkund Crafts Mela" or festival.Union Tourism and Culture Minister Ambika Soni and Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda were also present.The festival will end on February 15. Andhra Pradesh is the theme state for the second time at this year's festival. The southern state will promote a wide range of cuisine, handicrafts and folk art. Representatives of SAARC nations and Thailand, besides over 320 Indian craftpersons will take part in the event. The aim of this is to create a scenario of sustained employment for craftpersons, and its main highlight will be the meeting between exporters and craftpersons.To encourage children to participate in large numbers, the organisers are providing free entry to them.... | |
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| | | Needling away paychecks | | Posted Sunday, January 21, 2007 1:04:12 PM by Blog57 Team | | Budding Van Goghs swapping cute, tiny paintings like trading cards. Arts and crafts hobbies are having their biggest revival since the 1970s, when Americans willingly gave up tens of millions of hours of free time to craft macrame plant holders, granny squares and sand candles. The craze isn't just for crafty wives" Artsy hobbies have been taken up by creative hubbies - though many prefer to do their knitting and crocheting in front of the TV and in between first downs. Drawing interest from Wall Street, Hollywood Serious investment dollars are being pumped into retailers like Michaels, where arts and crafts supplies are flying off the shelves. Julia Roberts, herself a knitting fan, stars in "The Friday Night Knitting Club," an upcoming movie sbout a group of women who knit together at a little shop in New York City.... | |
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| | | Weeklong youth show features livestock, crafts, baked goods | | Posted Saturday, January 20, 2007 3:03:06 PM by Blog57 Team | | Area youth are preparing to exhibit livestock, baked goods, table-setting skills and arts and crafts during the annual Collin County Youth Show, scheduled for Tuesday to next Saturday at the Myers Park and Event Center in McKinney.The Collin County Youth Show will feature projects and livestock shown by children from all cities and public school districts in Collin County who are in Future Farmers of America and 4-H programs. It will feature everything from chickens, rabbits, heifers, steers, swine, goats, and sheep to table-setting contests. The youth will show their animals from Wednesday through Friday.The baked goods, table setting and arts and crafts event will take place on only one day this year, rather than the usual three-day event. It will be from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesday at the Collin County Community College District's Central Park Campus cafeteria on U.S.... | |
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| | | Don't take the kids: Del Toro crafts harrowing but meaningful ... | | Posted Monday, January 01, 2007 1:03:13 PM by Blog57 Team | | WASHINGTON (AP) - Guillermo del Toro was asked to direct "The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe," but he turned it down because, as a lapsed Catholic, he couldn't see himself bringing Aslan the lion back to life. Instead, he put his dark, fervid imagination to work on an original story, "Pan's Labyrinth," a bloody and harrowing fairy tale that incorporates elements from C.S. Lewis's beloved Christian allegory and various other classics of children's literature. Set during the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War, "Pan's Labyrinth" shows why del Toro's sensibility is somehow both perfectly suited and utterly alien to the gentle "Narnia." He subjects his hero, an 11-year-old girl whose mother has married a captain in Gen. Francisco Franco's army, to shocking violence and vexing moral quandaries.... | |
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| | | Remotely-controlled love | | Posted Friday, December 01, 2006 1:04:43 PM by Blog57 Team | | And when the stench from your love-carcass seeps out of the cracks in the walls, someone will inevitably come in and open a new window anyway. So if true love didn't put a smile on your face in the end, the irony of love lost definitely will. J. Bina is a recent college graduate currently living in Southern California .... | |
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| | | Celebrity Cruises Leaps Into Learning for Kids With LeapFrog SchoolHouse(TM) Programs | | Posted Wednesday, November 15, 2006 11:07:06 AM by Blog57 Team | | MIAMI, Nov. 13 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Celebrity Cruises has taken a creative leap toward enhancing its onboard activities for kids of all ages by working with LeapFrog SchoolHouse(TM) to provide engaging, multisensory learning tools and instruction that align with Celebrity's travel itineraries around the world. Widely recognized for their interactive, electronic education programs and products for the pre-kindergarten through grade 8 education market, LeapFrog SchoolHouse's award-winning writers and editors have worked with Celebrity to make available onboard a variety of their most popular products, and created six exclusive educational modules for children ages 3 through 9. The new programming onboard focuses on topics including dinosaurs, science and space, sports, the world, art and music, and wildlife.... | |
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| | | Library to hold Colonial Days event Nov. 20 | | Posted Tuesday, November 14, 2006 1:14:00 PM by Blog57 Team | | In honor of the Thanksgiving season, Tuscarawas County Public Library will be host to a Colonial Days event Nov. 20 from 6:30 to 7:30. Shirlie Cattell of Strasburg will present the story of Damaris Hopkins, an elderly pilgrim woman. Cattell dresses in colonial costume and tells about the real-life experiences of Damaris journey across the sea and of her new life in America. Afterward, participants will be able to enjoy old-fashioned games, crafts and food at activity stations. In those times children made their own toys to play with or played games to entertain themselves, said Missy Littell, childrens reference assistant. Well teach the kids how to play a game of jacks, and well also make crafts like a paper quilt and a hanging tin picture that the children can take home.... | |
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| | | Fremont native aids Ugandan kids | | Posted Monday, November 13, 2006 6:59:57 PM by Blog57 Team | | Bringing the healing hope of Jesus to the hurting children of Africa is a mission Catharine Coon has centered her life around. A former Fremont resident who now spends most of her time in Uganda, Coon spoke to the Presbyterian Women's group at Pleasanton Presbyterian Church last week about her work. Coon is the founder and director of Children of Hope, a relief project focused on orphans and fragile family units in Uganda. She went to the East African county more than four years ago after working with children in the rural villages of Cote d'Ivoire. Coon said she would describe the work as her ideal job description. "I truly love doing it," she said Tuesday at the church. The missionary lives in a guard-protected compound in Kampala, the capital of the civil war-torn country.... | |
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| | | 'Rain Forest Adventure' held for kids, adults | | Posted Sunday, November 12, 2006 7:08:03 PM by Blog57 Team | | NORTH TONAWANDA - Rain forest specialist Alice Stein will offer a slide-illustrated "Rain Forest Adventure" from 1 to 2 p.m. today in the North Tonawanda Public Library, 505 Meadow Drive. For children and adults, the program will include information on rain forest animals. No registration is required. On Nov. 14, the library will offer Bedtime Story Fun from 6:30 to 7:15 p.m. Zoo stories, songs and crafts are planned for toddlers and preschoolers. Children should wear their pajamas and bring a favorite teddy bear or blanket. Registration can be made by calling 693-4132. .... | |
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| | | CRAFTS: Create a thankful turkey with your kids | | Posted Saturday, November 11, 2006 11:16:34 PM by Blog57 Team | | 1. Use a copier to enlarge the template for the turkey body parts, or download a full-size template from www.stltoday.com/homedecor. Print the "thankful" template onto white paper. Have the child write what he or she is thankful for in the blank space, then cut out the feathers. 2. For the turkey's body, cut the large circle out of brown felt. Cut out the smaller circle and a rectangle from beige felt to make the head and neck. Use orange felt for the turkey's legs, feet and beak and red felt for the wattle. .... | |
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