Valentine Heart Accessories

February 4, 2019
Grown-Up, Holidays, Jewelry and Fashion, Older Elementary, Toddler, Tween to Teen, Valentine's Day

valentine conversation heart necklace diy kids

Here’s a sweet idea that kids can craft to celebrate their loved ones beyond February 14th. By giving a keychain, a pin, or a necklace, your Valentine will feel loved when she looks at her heart all year round!

conversation heart easy diy gifts for kids valentines

What you’ll need:

 

Make it!

  1. Paint your hearts and let dry. (You can also leave the hearts natural wood.)
  2. Stamp your message onto the conversation heart.
  3. Loop string through the hole to make a necklace or keychain. String on beads. For a keychain, knot it a few times onto the keychain.
  4. To make a pin, glue pin-back to the back of the heart. Glue the ends of the tassel to the bottom edge.

 

 


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Stuffie Superhero Capes

January 17, 2019
Activities, Animals, Early Elementary, Family Bonding, Older Elementary, Preschool, Unplugged Time, Yarn & Fabric

stuffed animal cape felt for kids diy

Who was your child’s first best friend? Before playdates and string bracelets, kids find love and companionship in their stuffed animals—a playmate, a shoulder to cry on, and a superhero all wrapped into one.

kid with stuffed animal and cape hero diy craft

If you are in the NYC area, please join me on Saturday, January 19th at the Museum of the City of New York to celebrate the exhibition, A City for Corduroy: Don Freeman’s New York. The classic story celebrates the bond between a girl and her bear, who through her eyes, is perfect just as he is. We will be making superhero capes for your kids’ favorite lovies (stuffed animals are welcome too!).

Click here to RSVP!

MAKE A SUPERHERO CAPE:

What you’ll need:

Make it:

  1. For a medium-sized stuffed animal, cut an 8-inch-by-10-inch piece of felt. Cut 6 slits about 1/2-inch down from top edge.
  2. Weave ribbon through the slits.
  3. Decorate the cape the cape using Aleene’s Turbo Tacky Glue to keep those embellishments right where you want them!
  4. Tie cape onto stuffed animal and watch them leap tall couches in a single bound!
  1. For a medium-sized stuffed animal, cut an 8-inch-by-10-inch piece of felt. Cut 6 slits about 1/2-inch down from top edge.
  2. Weave ribbon through the slits.
  3. Decorate the cape the cape using Aleene’s Turbo Tacky Glue to keep those embellishments right where you want them!
  4. Tie cape onto stuffed animal and watch them leap tall couches in a single bound!


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Show & Tell #2

January 4, 2019
Uncategorized

julia rothman new years resolutions list

What’s your feeling on the whole New Year’s resolution thing? Do you make ’em? Do you keep ’em? Do you write them down? Do you share them or keep them secret? This is the first year that I didn’t even mentally write a list of promises of change and I’m okay with that. And then I saw Julia Rothman‘s More/Less list on Instagram and thought it was the perfect soft launch into resolutions for 2019. I’ll be penning mine this weekend.

We got a great response from our first Show & Tell last week, so here we go with installment numero dos!

  • This Printbrush do-hicky on Kickstarter literally blew my mind. When he printed straight onto a balloon, I was done.

 

  • So the Ostrich Pillow is not a new thing, but it just landed in my inbox via their PR company and it just made me want to curl up in a warm ball. Plus, Moira uses one on the best show on the planet, Schitt’s Creek. Is anyone watching on Netflix?

 

  • Would you add an IV drip to your wellness routine? Too drastic or just what the doctor ordered?

 

 

  • I’m loving Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s response to the people that find fault with a video of her dancing on a rooftop in college! Explain to me what’s wrong with that original video!


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Crafting with J. Crew!

January 3, 2019
Everyday Crafts, Family Bonding, Games & Activities, Jewelry and Fashion, Parties

meet my crew crewcuts project kid

Project Kid had the extreme pleasure of working with J. Crew and their mini-me brand, crew cuts on a super fun craft event to celebrate their September 2018 relaunch. If you know Project Kid and our aesthetic, you’d hopefully recognize that crew cuts is like the clothing sister to our lil craft brand. Bright colors, sweet shapes, and a little bit of humor.

J. Crew’s relaunch campaign was called Meet My Crew, celebrating the people in all of our lives that make up our beloved trusted crews. And when it comes to families, there’s no better crew than the folks that live within the same four walls.

When tasked with creating kids’ craft activities for an iconic clothing and accessory brand, we had to consider a bunch of things. First, the projects have to make sense with the style and the message of the campaign. So making a bird feeder, for example, would have not have flown (pun intended). Also, you can create things to accent their products, but not compete with them. So I’m glad I researched their accessory line before I went to them with my fun pom-pom necklace idea. Here’s what we came up with…

COLORFUL PATCHES

Mom and daughter making patches

Crew cuts wasn’t currently selling anything like this, but there were so many ways to use them with their products…on jean jackets, backpacks, or hats. We started off creating the felt patches beginning with 4 basic shapes…a square, a half-circle, a rounded rectangle (think Pac-man ghost), and a triangle.

Circles and squares and colors OH MY!

We brainstormed different icons that could be made with these simple shapes. So that the kids didn’t have to cut up all of the little pieces, we pre-cut all of the pieces and displayed in sort of a toppings-bar style buffet.

“Toppings” buffet for felt patches!

This was our process of planning colors and shapes for the patches

COLORED GLASSES

Riffing off of the “seeing the world through rose-colored glasses” idea, we gave the kids these cool blue, red, yellow, and green lensed glasses to decorate and wear. They had a real Elton John 70s vibe and the kids looked amazing in them. (These are the cardboard glasses we used, but we punched out the centers on all of them.)

Glasses in the making!

MEET MY CREW PHOTO BOOTH

Clare, me and Bridgid…my beloved craft crew!

What’s a party without a photo booth? Made with just grosgrain ribbon and gold paper, this backdrop had a cool, geometric vibe.

FLOOR TILE PROMPTS

We had vinyl floor tiles made to match the colors of the collection. We wanted it to feel like confetti was dropped from a giant down onto the floor.

 

And every so often, there was a circle that gave an instruction, like “floss like you mean it” “freeze like a flamingo” “believe you can fly” or “high-five your crew”. We wanted the kids to literally stop in their tracks and do something silly, sentimental, or just plain fun.

FUN DECOR!

Just to add some whimsical decor, we also made these colorful panels to match the color story of the collection. You can bet these will be tiling a wall of my studio!


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Show & Tell #1

December 28, 2018
Show & Tell

show and tell project kid

Ya know those moments when you read something or see something and you think, “Oh how clever/cool/sad/beautiful, I need to remember to tell so-and-so about that.”? I have them all the time, and so for that reason I thought I’d start a little weekly habit here on Project Kid called Show & Tell…a column to share discoveries with my like-minded people (that’s you).

Not quite sure if it will be the same number of items every week, but I do hope you’ll enjoy discovering these little Internet tidbits as much as I enjoy sharing them!

Show & Tell, issue no. 001…let’s do this!

  • After the the crazy gift-giving month of December, seeing these beautiful DIY toys made by South Sudanese refugee children both tugged at my heart strings and blew me away with their ingenuity.

 

 

  • USA Today gave us a handy little cheat-sheet of the best post-Christmas holiday sales.

 

  • Holiday party season ain’t over yet! For a little shake-up in the hostess gift category, consider one these clever little guys. (My personal fave is the knife that solves the butter that’s too cold to spread!)

 

  • If you haven’t gotten your fill of Santa beards, twinkle lights, and angels on high, check out this beautiful slideshow of Christmas pics from around the world.

 

  • Any resolutions about taking charge of your life and making changes? Thought so. Check out this list of nonfiction books compiled by some pretty big thinkers to start 2019 off right. (Anyone read this one?)

 

 


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