Be a sweetie and give candy to your close friends and family for Valentine’s Day! This project is so easy and uses materials that you likely have around the house.

What you’ll need:

• Cardboard tube (toilet paper or paper towel)
• Construction / colored paper
• Pencil
• Scissors
• Clear tape
• Plastic wrap or plastic sandwich baggie
• String, yarn, or twine

1. Line the cardboard tube along the bottom shorter edge of your paper, and mark the opposite end with a pencil. Move the tube across the paper and make several marks. (If you are using a paper towel tube, cut it in half first.)
2. Cut along this line and set other piece of paper aside for a future project. 
3. Roll the cardboard tube with the paper and tape to seal. Set your tube aside for now.
4. Fold second piece of paper in half lengthwise and rest the tube in the middle. Make a pencil mark on the second piece of paper on the top and bottom of the tube, right along the crease.
5. Draw half hearts along the fold.
6. Cut out the hearts.
7. Fringe the top and bottom edges of the paper to the marked line. Don’t go past this line. The thinner the fringe the better!
8. Cut off about 1 inch of the paper on either end (You can do this before step 7 but we forgot!). 
9. Unfold the paper.
10. Tape the second piece of paper around the tube, making sure to center the tube from top to bottom. You can use the marks you made in step 4 to line it up. 
11. Now fill your tube with candy, chocolates, toys, etc! We recommend putting unwrapped candy in a plastic baggie or in plastic wrap.
12. Gently bend the fringed ends over the edge of the tube all the way around. Repeat on the other end.
13. Cut two 3″ pieces of string and tie them around the fringed ends. 
14. Tape the ends of the string to the back of the tube to prevent them from sliding off. 
15. Holding a fringe between your thumbnail and the pad of your middle finger, gently pull at a few strands of paper to curl.

Remember Valentine’s Day as a kid, actually in a school building? You’d spend evenings leading up crafting Valentines, deciding which people get signed “love” and which get “from.” This year, like most things, is looking a little different than norm, and Valentine’s Day is no exception. Most kids will miss out on sifting through their classroom mailboxes, anxiously anticipating the candy, toys, and treats attached to their Valentines.

Surprise the kiddos with a little something from you on February 14th this year! Here are 14 ideas for Valentine’s Days gifts for kids of all ages!

1. I Heart Art Crayons
2. Recycled Foam Heart Figure Set
3. Love Languages T-shirt
4. Happy Hearts Mini Pin DIY Kit
5. The Dough Much Love Bundle
6. Ooly Stacking Heart Crayons
7. Chalkboard Heart Necklace
8. Emoji Embrace Valentines Day Cards
9. Rainbow Wooden Heart Clips
10. Custom Letter Cookie Stamp
11. Hearts Tamsin Kids Chair
12. Valentine’s Day Yoda
13. Rainbow Heart Bead Hair Ties
14. I Heart Watercolor by Kid Made Modern

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Traditional snow globes are super fun to make but they require a lot of ingredients…plus the process can be pretty messy. And what if it springs a leak? Yuck.

Instead of the traditional glittery globes, try making a dry snow globe using a plastic cup, cereal box, and tissue paper. It’s truly a parents’ dream craft.

This craft was made in conjunction with the Museum of the City of New York, an extraordinary  institution that celebrates all of the diversity, excitement, and wonder that is the greatest city in the world.

Click the link to watch this video and the two other winter boredom busters that we made!

If I had a penny for every empty food container that I’ve saved for a craft project, I’d be a very rich woman. Here at Projectkid.com, we are serial (and cereal) upcyclers…both for the ecological impact on our planet and for the convenience factor (use what you have!). More than ever during this quarantined time, we’ve hoarded all the boxes, caps, lids, tubes and containers that have passed through our household. When you have a bin of these things in your house, it invites kids to inventively build three-dimensionally; they can innovate with their hands and don’t need to rely on craft kits.

When Stonyfield asked me what I could make with their quart-sized yogurt containers, my creative juices went on overdrive. Hats! Pencil cups! Drums! The tubs are sturdy and waterproof…so yes, a vase or planter would be perfect! I wanted to make vases that felt sculptural—something where you could recognize that the base is a simple quart size container but the boundaries of the basic cylinder were broken. Since duct tape is also waterproof, it was the perfect, colorful option to use on the outside.

These duct tape vases were so much fun to make. You can create people, animals, or just various abstract patterns. They make a great DIY gift idea this holiday season to make with your kids!

What you’ll need:

–Stonyfield quart size containers

-Duct tape

-Scissors

-Cotton balls

-Parchment or wax paper

-Sharpie

-Thin cardboard (from a cracker or cereal box)

-Pipe cleaners

-Single-serve yogurt containers

Make it:

1. Cover the container with strips of duct tape, working from the top down. 
   
2. Cut another strip of tape and stick a cotton ball to the back. Adhere the strip to the container, making sure that the cotton ball lands where the eye would be. Repeat for a second eye. Smooth the tape down around the eyes.
3. To make the eye lids, attach a piece of tape to parchment or wax paper and cut out crescent shapes. Attach to the top of the eyes.
4. Use a sharpie to draw the outlines, lashes, and pupils of eyes.
5. Cut a triangle from thin cardboard, about 2-by-2 inches and cover with duct tape. Fold in half and tape to the container as a nose, right in between the eyes. Draw on nostrils with sharpie.
6. To make the mouth, fold a piece of red duct tape to the center, and then to the center again from the opposite side. Cut out a top and bottom lip and use folded-over duct tape to attach just under the nose. 

Now that you have the face, it’s time to add the features:

7. Ears: Cut two matching ears out of cardboard and cover with duct tape. Tape to either side of the head.
8. Short hair: Cut swoops of duct tape out and attach them along the top of the yogurt container.
9. Ringlets: Tear off a piece of duct tape, about 10 inches long. Lay a pipe cleaner down the center horizontally and fold tape over towards the center. Twirl the pipe cleaner/tape around a thick marker to make the ringlet and use a small piece of duct tape to tape the curl to the yogurt container. 
10. Straight hair: To make bangs, adhere two 4-inch pieces of tape to each other. Fringe the ends and trim to the correct length. To make the hair, cut three pieces of duct tape: 6, 8 and 10 inches long. Fold each in half lengthwise. Make a loop with the shortest piece and tape ends together. Loop medium piece over the smallest loop, and the longest over the medium one. Use matching duct tape to secure to side of yogurt container. Repeat for the opposite side.

Make the body:

11. Peel the wrapper off of a single-serve Stonyfield Farms yogurt container and cover with duct tape.
12. Add details like collars, stripes or buttons to make the body.
13. Use a piece of folded duct tape to attach the body under the head.

This project is sponsored by Stonyfield. 

There are few craft supplies I love more than a yarn pom-pom, but to make them en masse can get a little time-consuming…wrapping, trimming, shaping. When I saw that Oriental Trading had this mega pack of yarn pom-poms in great colors, I knew I just needed them near me. (You can also buy them in individual colors if you want to pick and choose.)

The DIY ornament possibilities are endless I tell you! Here are 5 different yarn pom-pom DIY Christmas ornaments that I made for Oriental Trading’s Fun 365 site. Head over there for the full how-to!