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Family Crafts

Why Family Crafts?

Family crafts give families the opportunity to relax, connect, and talk.

Relax - After a long day at school or work, parents and kids need time to unwind. Creating family crafts is an easy way for families to be together without the competitive pressure of games or the distraction of TV.

Connect - Family crafts allow parents and kids to connect. Crafts with family inspired themes encourage families to talk about togetherness, compassion, holiday celebrations, and relationships.

Talk - Free from distraction, quiet family craft time often leads to great talks between kids and parents. Feeling safe from the outside world pressures, kids often will open up about their worries, hopes, and fears. A perfect opportunity for parents to sit and listen without judging.

Family Craft Tips

Plan the Family Crafts Ahead of Time - Nothing ruins family time when mom is stressed and unable to find the supplies. Craft kits are a great way to minimize the stress and time involved. If craft kits aren't for you, then plan your family craft in advance and have all the supplies on hand and ready to go.

Do Some Prep Work - Some of the family crafts will go smoother (especially if you have younger children) if a parent does a little prep work before the family craft night. Set up the craft table, do some pre-cutting or painting of materials, and read through the directions.

Have Snacks Available - Kids get hungry! Remember to have some healthy snacks readily available at the craft table or nearby. Avoid greasy and chocolate snacks because the grease can get on the craft and leave marks.

Family Craft Ideas

Soap Crosses
Fun and easy family craft for the Easter and Lenten season. The soaps can be placed in the showers, in the kids' baths, or by sinks as gentle reminders to families throughout the Easter and Lenten season. Placed in gift bags with favorite Bible verses or poems, they can also be given as gifts to family and friends on Easter Sunday or to friends at your church or in your neighborhood.

Family Advent Activity Kits
Celebrate the Advent season with these simple family activities and crafts. One for each week of Advent, beginning with the making of an advent wreath and ending with a family Giving Box.

Bubble Gum Kit - Hearthsong
What's chewable, blowable and, most importantly, poppable? It's every kid's favorite: bubble gum! Now kids can make their own gum - nearly half a pound of it - with this easy kit that includes corn syrup, powdered sugar, classic bubble-gum flavoring, special gum pellets, bowl, mixing tool, wax paper for wrapping, and instructions for stove-top and microwave methods.

Sure to be a winner at parties - kids can make and wrap their own flavorful party favors. How about a bubble-blowing contest? For ages 8 and up.

Egg Cups and Cozies Kit - Hearthsong
Want to know how to really coddle an egg? Serve it in an eggcup you decorated yourself, and craft a cute farm-animal terry cloth cozy to keep it warm. They make great additions to the family dinner table.

Glow in the Dark Garden - Hearthsong
Super-luminous Glow-in-the-Dark Pebbles (set of 100 assorted shapes) make a great complement to the family garden, and are a fun way to highlight paths and plantings.

Garden Stepping Stones - Hearthsong
Bring the family's handiwork to the garden with the Handprint Kit that comes with sweet, child-friendly designs on its 12"-sq. border, plus 6 pots of acrylic paint, a brush, mixing paddle, and writing tool.

Make Your Own Root Beer Kit - Hearthsong
Bring back the flavor of the old days Remember when drugstores had counters where you could sip a root beer? Bring back the flavor of those days by making your own incredibly fresh soda with the all-natural ingredients in our kits. Naturally carbonated with real yeast, they're as much a cooking and science lesson for kids as a traditional treat. Kits come with soda extract, brewing yeast, funnel, blank labels, and complete instructions for up to four gallons of root beer, bottled in recycled soda bottles (you supply) with your own custom-designed labels. For ages 8 and up.

Pocketful of Recipes - Hearthsong
Many recipes are about so much more than food. What makes them "great" often includes memories - of the person who gave you the recipe, or the occasion or place you first served or tasted the dish, for example. Our expandable, three-ring recipe notebook was created with this in mind, and includes a Dedication Page, Table of Contents, 20 recipe pages, 20 memory pages with room for the "special ingredients" (a snapshot, memory, menu, invitation, or other memorabilia that give a recipe its unique flavor), 2 page protectors, and an envelope for collecting. It's the kind of cookbook that's as much fun to sit down and read as it is to use. As your memories (and expertise) increase, add extra Refill Pages (ten of each). A personal cooking album the whole family can enjoy.

"Our Family" Photo Frame Magnet Craft - Oriental Trading
Wooden Craft Stick "Our Family" Photo Frame Magnet Craft Kit. 5 1/8" x 5 3/4" with a 3 5/8" x 2 1/4" photo space. (makes 12)

Family Photo Quilt Craft Kit - Oriental Trading
Foam Family Photo Quilt Craft Kit. Includes 3/8" - 7/8" plastic buttons. 13" x 10" with five 2 5/8" - 3 1/4" photo spaces