Clothes pins are not just for hanging your laundry out to dry anymore. This smart elephant needed a way to get around the Serengeti plains in style.

Serengeti Elephant

Artist unkown

Cool Candy bracelet

Here’s a throwback to the old days of resourceful fun, making candy wrapper jewelry! It turns out Dum-Dum wrappers when folded just so, make a super cool accessory for your wrist!

Cool Candy Barcelet

Kiersten

10 yrs

Carousel Ride

We can’t deny the intrigue of those colorful Mardi Gras beads. Although they fair mostly in dress-up boxes around the world, they have many more potential possibilities. How about for a carousel scene? Now that’s an idea!

Gracie brought a fairy tale scene to life with odds and ends found in CReATE’s bins. What will you make?

Carousel Ride

Gracie 9 yrs

Don’t all things begin with an idea? Many ideas pass along almost unnoticed. It takes our intention to bring them into reality. Adin had an idea, though at first glance at the material wall, he wasn’t sure how he could make it come true. Still he persisted and over a lovely afternoon with his Grandma he did it! An indian fort was created, complete with horses, Indians, a pot over a burning fire, a Medicine Man’s hut, a canoe and a rolling river.

All ideas have potential to be the great things they stem from. What will yours be today?

An Indian Fort

Adin

7yrs

Dolly sock friend

So this is where the other sock has gone!  Missing sock in the dryer mystery solved!

This sweet ducky printed sock was an eye catcher when Hanna dug through the sock bin with a cushy pal in mind. She gathered a little fluff, some strands of fair haired yarn, a few Coraline style buttons and the broadest smile this dolly could carry. The friendship was all set.

Dolly

Hanna

11yrs

Doodlefribitz

Meet Doodlefribitz, made of clay, a few screws, a piece of plastic mistletoe, a spring and two electrical cones, this trusty pet needs only your smile to keep him going.

Doodlefritz

Maisy

14yrs

Cardboard is a blank canvas for daydreaming minds.

Here Nathan imagines in 3D a smooth ride down a sidewalk perhaps. The wind blowing through his hair and fast moving wheels beneath his feet. Freedom is his middle name…

Nathan Rides his skateboard

Nathan

7yrs

Nathans skateboard ride

Skiing Pine Cones

You may not be able to get to the snow yourself, so send your imagination out for you. Here Sydney got these two pine cones well suited for wintery weather, complete with cozy hats and scarves.

Skiing Pin Cones

Sydney

9 yrs

Kristina's School Project

A canvas can be any size, as big or as small as your eye can see. Try a playing card for example, in certain art circles Artists’ Trading Cards have their niche. Kristina had a class assignment to create her own Artists’ Trading Cards. With all the CReATE materials at her fingertips, she created just that. Nicely done Kristina! You are sure to get an A!

Kristina’s Artists’ Trading Cards

13yrs

Jack's Sculpture

It’s about the process. Jack had creative energy to express, so from the cardboard rolls bin he began attaching one to another until he had a sculpture worthy of a MOCA caliber display. For him, it was about the creative process, for me it was the joy of seeing his free thinking encapsulated.

Jack’s Sculpture

Jack

7 yrs