Wondering what to make with your Cricut Maker cutting machine? Click to see our list of 15 incredibly fun fabric-cutting projects to try.

Vintage jewelry- especially your broken or incomplete pieces- is perfect for upcycling, and these craft ideas are so easy to make!

We've been excited about sharing all of the fabulous and free creation crafts that are perfect for teaching about our amazing creator! Grab our Creation Craft Globe for kids!

Wanderlust got a hold of you? Check out these 25 fabulous ideas to incorperate your love of travel in your diy home decor! #diyhomedecor #wanterlust #diy #hometalk #maps #decor

Teach the letter F with this fabulous, fluffy, feathered sensory letter F craft.

I decided to declare this week messy week at our house and I am going to try some of the goopy, slimely crafts for the kiddos. The first thing we tried was making homemade Oobleck. If you are not familiar with this product it is really the craziest stuff. It looks like spilled paint...Read More »

A Mandala Turtle for you to color and craft or you may choose the colored version to craft your own Mandala Turtle. They are a rare species! Find them here!

Teach your kids about the 9 Fruits of the Spirit, we've got a brand new fun and fabulous Fruit of the Spirit for Kids craft series! You'll love these spiritual crafts in your classroom!

In an online extra, Denise Severson shares a technique to make a pieced and bias-cut sleeve.

17 Unexpected Items That Are Making These Walls Really Stand Out- Decorate your walls in style, with these fabulous diy inspired wall decor ideas. #diyhomedecor #budget #walls #diywalls #walldecor #hometalk #decorate #decoraeonabudget

11 Mom Cut Ideas that will bring immediate style to your look in 2024. Elevate your chic-factor with these effortless hairstyles.

This fabulous resource will inspire you to craft and create with these 50+ Ideas of Things to Make With Paper Bags!

Say hello to romantic and graceful fonts for special occasions. These elaborate yet legible font pairings bolster up unique and rea...

I love bulletin boards. Have I mentioned that? I love making my bulletin boards art. I love putting art on my bulletin boards. Heck...I'll put almost anything on my boards! Here are a few ideas for quick and funky borders using some non-traditional items that you may have laying around your house. Poker Chips I use poker chips for several different things in my classroom, so I have quite a few on hand. They make a great border, don't they? If you have a metal edged board, you can use a glue gun to attach them. If you are working with a board with a wooden frame, the hot glue may damage it. Use glue dots. I like to layer them for more visual appeal. This bulletin board is a free download which feature the old national music standards. Poker chips hold spray paint well. I've spray painted them gold to use for the gold at the end of a St. Patrick's Day rainbow before and was pleased with the result. Boxes I did a movie theme in my room once upon a time. It was so fun to find new ways to use popcorn boxes and bags. They are inexpensive to purchase (I got mine on Amazon.) and could be reused. Popcorn boxes would be great for movie themed bulletin boards, popcorn words, etc... I have plans to do something similar with small Chinese takeout boxes with my Instruments of China board. Cards It seems that it is completely impossible to keep a full deck of cards at my house. Any kind of cards! That's okay, because they look GREAT as borders for bulletin boards. Uno, Phase 10 and regular playing cards work great for math bulletin boards, rhythm or time signature bulletin boards or maybe even a great trim for a bulletin board that showcases your daily schedule. This set is from a Go Fish set of cards I picked up at the dollar store. Love that they work so well with an ocean or beach theme. Kids love to stop and look for matches even when they are displayed on a bulletin board. Cupcake Papers This is one of my go to looks for making a display really pop. There are so many varieties of cupcake papers available that you can find any color and any theme that you may need. Flatten them out and staple them to your board. I've found that buying complimentary patterns and layering them can really be beautiful. When working with my rock star theme I wanted something metallic that would be a little flashy. It turns out that there is a cupcake paper for that! These little baking cups are so cute at the corners of my rock star alphabet display. I added some glittery foam stickers to embellish them a little. (Classroom teachers see the rock star theme HERE. Music teachers see it HERE.) Duct Tape It doesn't get any easier than this! Look at what a great job duct tape does to cover this older bulletin board. Check out your local discount store for tons of duct tape options. The bulletin board above is from my Number Posters - Rock Star Theme. This is another example of the versatility of duct tape. This is a light blue glittery duct tape. It is displayed on my Soar Into Music board. Legos This is SUCH an eye-catching display! The bulletin board is Minecraft inspired and the Legos (or are these Duplos?) go with the building theme. I used Scotch tape to attach them to my board. For some of the pieces I just laid them on top of one piece and then taped the next block on it so that not every block is taped. This may work better on a board that students can't easily touch. (Classroom teachers take a closer look at the board HERE. Music teachers HERE.) Pool Noodles Those of you that have been following my blog for a while know that I have a great love for re-purposing pool noodles. I've made ponies, steady beat swords and even workstations. I also just cut them up to make great bulletin board borders! For this fishy bulletin board I wanted them to imitate bubbles. I've attached them with glue dots. You could also use a low-temp hot glue gun to attach them. This bulletin board is called Making Music Together. Notepads They aren't just for note taking! I often use these little gems to add content to bulletin boards. They also make a great (and inexpensive) border. The iPod pad shown above came from Wal-Mart and the composer bulletin board can be found HERE. Paint Chips Paint chips are free and are a perfect way to add visual interest to any bulletin board. On the border above I chose to use two different kinds of paint chips and to create a pattern with them. Paint chips look just as great mixed up and stapled in any order. Staple them so they hang over the edge of the board and overlap. You can learn more about the Let's Talk bulletin board HERE. Plates Even more than I love pool noodles in the classroom, I love plates! When I packed up my room this year I marveled at my collection. I have Zoo Pals (photo above), baseball plates, basketball plates, beach ball plates, watermelon plates, heart plates, square plates, Santa plates and more. I also have colored plates in 3 different sizes and every color you can imagine. I use them for movement and composition activities, but LOVE using them on bulletin boards. I pick them up at discount stores, dollar stores and party supply places. Here are a few examples. The What's Cooking in Music board can be downloaded HERE. The watermelon plates are so fun! This year I found them in a larger, oval size. This bulletin board is part of my Music Burger writing display. Puzzle Pieces Shhh! Don't tell my daughter but sometimes I swipe her old puzzles for school projects! In this instance, it was a jumbo Barney puzzle that had several missing pieces. For the display below I just attached them to the board with glue dots. You might be able to use Scotch tape too. I have painted them before to match a bulletin board. Tissue Paper Like many teachers I have created flowers and pom poms to decorate bulletin boards. They have a huge visual punch and are relatively inexpensive to make. It's very easy to just scrunch it up together and staple it around your board. Creating enough tissue paper flowers to use around the edge of a bulletin board is also pretty, but time consuming. Braiding long strips of tissue papers creates an interesting look and lets you coordinate your border with whatever colors you may need. Song Bugs Bulletin Board Odds and Ends Really, I'll put anything on a bulletin board. I've used socks, fishing poles, candy, lights, my son's overalls and more. For this movie themed bulletin board I used a few View Master reels to accent the corners. Wrapping Paper In my bulletin board kits I often talk about using wrapping paper as a background for your bulletin boards. It can be found in many themes and patterns and often stays bright and colorful without fading for several months. Reversible wrapping paper can also be used to create borders. As you are stapling the paper in place, leave about two inches overlap on each side. Fold this down to reveal the back side of the paper and staple into place. What unusual things have you put on your bulletin boards? I'd love to hear about them or see a picture!

We are beginning to move full swing into the holiday season and I have been planning the two weeks we will all be at home. With some down time I thought it would be a great chance to plan a few activities with my little ones, and since I do love all things Waldorf, I

Want to add french christmas decorations to the home this year? Look no further than these great ideas from a Brit living in France

You'll love these fun fall festival ideas for school! We have cute autumn themed games and fall fair activities for the whole family.

Do you have a chair in great shape, but you hate the upholstery? Or, have you passed by perfectly good chairs at a yard sale or thrift store because you didn't…

Blossom into creativity with our collection of 25+ FREE flower template printables! Perfect for all your arts and crafts ventures, from papercrafts to DIY decor. Unlock endless floral fun and let your projects bloom.

A Textile Designers guide to the art of Fabric Manipulation to use in simple craft projects

How to Marble Ornaments with Easy Marble! Deck the halls with this fun DIY project of marbling ornaments! Update plain plastic ornaments wit...

My fabulous friend Andie* of Red Roving made this amazing felt pocket sloth and totally said I could share it with you guys. Clearly everyone needs at least one pocket sloth in their lives. Yo…

It's my birthday! Happy Birthday, me! How about for my birthday, you make one of my favourites?! You don't have to make it for me. Make it in honour of me, for yourself or someone else you really like. Or for me if you really want, I guess. Would you believe I have 49 pages

Do you use visuals in your classroom? Visuals support students understand what you are trying to teach them. They encourage students to associate pieces of information with visuals. Visual learning helps you to store information for a longer period of time. It is said that videos and images are directly processed by long term memory. The visual ... Read More about Classroom Visuals

All you need are 8 cords in 2 colors to make these 9 fabulous Kumihimo patterns. Use this as a quick reference for 9 go-to Kumihimo cords!

I'm going to show you how to make a smart and fabulous pillow cover with a truly invisible zipper! Few things bring me more satisfaction than a well done invisible zipper. I see lots of tutorials for

Embroidery hoops aren't just for...well, embroidery! If you don't believe me, see if these embroidery hoop crafts will change your mind!

November is coming to an end, so it's time for a lil freebie to make this month a bit more exciting ^^. This time it's the Grace embroidery design that you might already be familiar with from my previous posts. I'm excited to share not only the pattern and stitches I used but also a bit of guidance and tips. Hopefully, it will make the stitching process easier for you! This design features 3 key elements: Rope-looking lines and outlines for the leaves Filling of the leaves Lettering Lines All of the lines are worked in stem stitch. You can see some additional tips on stem stitch in the following posts: Changing direction of stem stitch and the 6 faces of stem stitch. Long story short, as you are stem stitching, keep bringing your needle up to the left of your stitches. This will help you achieve the “rope” appearance of your stem stitch. Given that the direction of lines keeps changing throughout the whole pattern, be careful to not mix up the sides of where the needle should come up. If you are confused, rotate the hoop or embroidery frame so that the line faces upwards and make sure the needle comes up to the left of the line. When I stitched I worked the outline in portions. Let's say I completed 25% of outline first, then filled in some of the leaves, then worked the next 25% of outline and so forth. It helped me to keep a steady path. But, of course, it might be more convenient for you to work it in another way. Maybe you'd like to complete all of the outlines first and only then fill in the leaves. It's completely fine! Decide for yourself the order of working this embroidery pattern and work it in the way that makes you comfortable! I used two strands of floss for the box around the word GRACE, and one strand of floss for the rest of the lines. It made the plant motif look finer and helped the box to stand out. Leaves All of the leaves are filled with the fishbone stitch after the outline is already complete. The leaves are not always conveniently “straight” and with even edges. Their form changes here and there and sometimes they are not complete or cross with other leaves. So, yes, although the fishbone stitch itself is quite easy to pick up on, this design might still present a challenge. As a result, it will be an excellent practice of fishbone stitch for you ;) The order of working the leaves can be whatever you want. Just like with outlining I did it in portions, but it is possible to fill all the leaves with one shade of floss first, and then another and so on. I used two strands of floss when I embroidered the leaves in this pattern. Also, in some places leaves “fold”. These small areas are worked by satin stitch using one strand of floss in the needle. I didn't do any padding here. Just stitched the outline the same way as the areas of the plant motif and covered the “foldings” with parallel satin stitches. Lettering I used an easy and quick approach to lettering for this design. Take two strands of floss and outline a letter in back stitch first. Then “wrap” the letters in satin stitch. Because the letters are not that big and we use two strands of floss, there is no need for any padding. The letters look dimensional enough and pop out of the fabric surface. That's pretty much it. In case you have any questions left, you're always welcome to leave them in the comments below or send me a DM through the contact form :) DOWNLOAD THE FREE PATTERN HERE Have a nice stitching!

I am busily putting the finishing touches on Christmas presents, including one quilt that needs a label before it can be given away. I thought I would share how I make my quilt labels. This is not …

These cross stitch patterns are completely inappropriate (also known as subversive cross stitch.) They have bad words in them and some have mature themes. Please only click through if you are looking for inappropriate cross stitch patterns.

by Robin Along the way, we have become experts in basement ceiling ideas. We're actually very proud of this. It's a great example of what we're all about: taking a problem and figuring out an

Don't throw away your old towels. Here are 10 amazing ways to give them new life.

I owe a huge hug of gratitude to Kathleen at Grosgrain Fabulous. She posted 30 days of sweater embellishments on her blog. In those tutorials she took the most ho-hum sweaters from Goodwill and turned

DIY Wallet Free Sewing Pattern and Tutorial

It is truly amazing how many Easy and Beautiful Budget Friendly Farmhouse Projects You Can Build With 2X4s! Great Weekend Projects

Fall is always a favorite! Don't forget to send a box of love to your long-distance loved one this season. Here are 9 fall care package ideas!