Can anyone help me with craft ideas for the family?

Question

Me and my boyfriend are trying to think of a craft we can do as a family with his two kids. Any ideas? Crafts that we can used materials from around the house would be good. I thought about making kites, but not sure on the materials to use.

Answer 1

We used to do collage project in school and I never forgot how wonderfully creative they can be.

Give everyone a head start by telling them that each person is going to create a collage of some kind (collage means pasting various textures or things onto a canvas or board and making a picture of it)

For example, I wanted to make a cat so I found some black felt for the body, pipe cleaners for the whiskers, colorful material for the back ground, and buttons for the eyes.

It does not have to be something in particular... it can be a composition of various textures, or buttons and string.  Screws, bolts, wire... anything.  Each person can look around and start to compose in their minds what they want to fix.  It can be nature.    It can be family photos, or mementos.  Different shapes of pasta, sprayed with paint or dipped in paint.

What's great about it is that everyone uses their own imagination and expresses their selves.

You will need one canvas of any size for each member of the family, or a piece of white canson paper.  You might want to frame each one and place it somehwere on a wall.

Plenty of Elmers glue or any kind of glue that will dry transparent, and lot's of imagination.

Have fun.

Answer 2

You could make picture frames! If you have any cardboard lying around, cut frame shapes (you could let the kids have fun with this and do star frames, or a heart, or a circle.) You could then either paint them, color them with markers, or glue colored paper to them, and then find various assorted objects to glue to the frame, (shells, tiny rocks, shiny things, etc.) then find some fun pictures and tape them into place! (And then attach some string to the frame so you can hang it on the wall.)

I'm not sure the ago of the kids, so sorry if this is too childish. I would put this craft as a nine or eight and under

Answer 3

If you have some old puzzles, maybe with pieces missing, here's a project for the family. Take some file folders or cardboard and cut circles with a hole in the middle like a donut. The size can vary for your liking. Glue puzzle pieces in about 3 layers onto the cardboard. After the glue dries, spray paint the puzzle pieces green and let dry. Put dots in groups of three with red paint on the green puzzle pieces (I use a dull toothpick dipped in the paint.) Attach hanging loop with yarn or ribbon. Use as a Christmas ornament or wreath, depending on the size.

Answer 4

Kites are a great idea.  Very fun and easy to make.  the following link should help.

http://www.aloha.net/~bigwind/20kidskite...

Hope that you have fun.