To celebrate Thanksgiving we thought it would be fun to blog a little focus on crafts that convey thanks in some way each day of November. We hope they inspire you.
Thirty Days of Thanks #1
Make a banner that expresses your gladness by cutting out letters from cardboard or paper of any kind, hole punching the tops of the letters and stringing them with ribbon or string.
You can use it year after year.
We had quite a blast creating pumpkins and monsters with shredded documents on Saturday. Our on the road visits to M.FREDRIC Kids at Gelson’s Village and Brookside Elementary School made for messy fun that was all about the process!
Ella had a vision when she saw the tin can her mom drew from a bin during a party. She knew she wanted the can to be a pencil holder that looked like a flower. We could almost see her wheels turning as she figured out how it would look as she gave her mom jobs to help bring it to life. The the end result was quite clever.
Flower Pencil Holder
Ella
6yrs
I feel so inspired by those who do good things. It’s awesome to see companies use their skills to do it too. Participating in World Sight Day with TOMS this October has been good to the core. I have learned about eyesight challenges worldwide, simple solutions and even heard a story or two along the way. Awareness creates change and change can inspire us all.
I love a clever creation.
Brookelyn drew herself a picture that she thought would look best framed. After a good look around the studio she was inspired to make her own frame. She found wood pieces that fit the drawing just right so she put them together with tape. Now, she has a piece of art, framed and ready for display.
Landscape
Brookelyn
8yrs
Wow,
Nothing like a blank page to open a door to inspiration. Bryce used hers to create a mixed media collage using a bit of plastic Cal Trans mesh, swashes of paint, syrofoam bits and a sprinkle of goodies from the Kid Mosaic bin. So modern!
Mixed Media Mesh
Bryce
7yrs
My friend Tanya posted this video on Facebook. Watching it I was reminded how much I love the principal of re-use. Instead of buying more, make greatness with what you have! It’s just good for the sole.
http://www.landfillharmonicmovie.com
We had fun at the Bark in the Park event at Waverly Park in Thousand Oaks this weekend. Photographing dogs in fun cardboard settings to both raise money for WhatCanWe.org and to join in the global day of play for Caine’s Arcade Cardboard Challenge 2013 was a challenge indeed. Getting furry friends to pose behind our cardboard stands took some finesse but the smiles and hearts warmed that day made it all good in the end.
Putting plain things together can have awesome results. Who would think that hangers, tights holders, and liter bottle holders could all come together to make a kid sized skeleton just in time for Halloween!
Gio and his mom had a ball building up this spookily character!
Skeleton
Gio
6yrs
Nolan found a partial book in the Book Pages bin. That started something good. As a budding writer there was only one thing to do, make the partial book he found into a new one! He liked that idea so much he decided to make two! He put his mom to work gathering pictures of animals and automobiles in magazines and calendars while he outlined his stories. The refurbished book and it’s mini mate, like many other great books will take some time to complete. That’s OK, they are nice and portable so he can work on them any time he gets the itch to put on his writer cap.
Animal Book
Nolan
5yrs