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Today is my momma's birthday! In honor of my talen Today is my momma's birthday! In honor of my talented, needlepointing inspiration, I'm posting one of my favorite projects from my first book, #ProjectKid. My mom works at @laborsoflove_ndlpt_shop in Atlanta (if you're local, go say hi!) and she really knows her stuff. 🐝 I usually spend an average of 23 minutes on my craft projects, so I never picked up the #needlepoint gene. I have a great admiration for it and respect for the time commitment and attention to detail that goes into it. 🐞 So these needlepointed fly swatters are the Project Kid version of my mom's craft...complete with stitch guides and all! Link in my profile to buy my first book...still a great-looking compilation of over 100 crafts for kids who love to create! (@artisan_books, 📷by @alexandragrablewski)
As #sleepawaycamp sessions are coming to a close, As #sleepawaycamp sessions are coming to a close, kids will be coming home singing new songs, sporting an armful of string bling, and regaling us with stories of color war and cannonball contests! 🏕 While they will be excited to sleep in their own beds and eat their fave home-cooked meal (hello, we are veggies... remember us?), they will ache for campfires and late night giggle sessions. 🔥 Keep the camp vibes alive by welcoming them home with a @campwannabee #craftkit, full of fun crafts and campy merch including a coin purse, button pins, a collapsible drinking cup, and postcards that say "Wish We Were There!" Camp Wannabee is their camp-away-from-camp...because #camp is where they always wanna be! ☀️ Tap the photo to buy and enter CAMP2021 at checkout for a 10% discount! (offer expires 07/17/21)
When you have a daughter at #sleepawaycamp and you When you have a daughter at #sleepawaycamp and you work in a studio of craft supplies, things like this happen! I just hope that some kind mail carriers help shepherd this wacky, mega-postcard into her lil hands! Yay @uspostalservice! (Special thanks to my #mailart expert friend @kieracoffee for some practical tips and realistic arrival expectations!) 💌💌💌
GO Summertime! YAY Sunshine! THREE CHEERS for @the GO Summertime! YAY Sunshine! THREE CHEERS for @theweekjuniorus’ #SummerofReading! While your kids are enjoying their summer fun, it’s so easy to also keep them passionate and engaged about reading. #TheWeekJunior’s highly anticipated “Best Kids’ Books for Summer” list is curated to be an exciting mix of new books, classic books, and books of all genres for kids ages 8-14. The list is included in Issue 63 and you can click the link in my profile for the full list, instructions on how to make these fun crafts, and more, plus a link to subscribe to @theweekjuniorus! #ad⁠
This is what it looks like when fatherhood is a li This is what it looks like when fatherhood is a lifelong goal. He’s everyone’s go-to, attracts the undivided attention of random dogs and babies, and comes up with creative tickle tactics such as “the clavicle is magical.” @mcohen15 ❤️❤️
So excited to share this project that I made in co So excited to share this project that I made in collaboration with @pinterest and @legomastersfox. I got a box o’ LEGO flowers made by the amazing @lego builder, @nathansawaya, in the mail and was tasked with crafting vases to match! Tune into the premier of the 2nd season of @legomastersfox on Fox on June 1 8/7c. Head over to the link in my profile to check out the Pinterest Idea Pin and to give it some love (❤️s and saves) on Pinterest!
When I was in 2nd grade in Atlanta, GA, my Hebrew When I was in 2nd grade in Atlanta, GA, my Hebrew school teacher Mrs. Kleber asked a room of 7-8 year olds this question: "Do you consider yourself an American Jew or a Jewish American?" I remember really thinking about it, trying to decipher what the difference was. It came down to grammar for me...what was my noun and what was my adjective? I decided that my noun was American and my adjective was Jewish...that I was solidly an American first. In looking back at that answer, I think it had something to do with the fact that I was a Jewish girl in an Episcopalian school...and Jewish was a modifier that set me apart from the rest of the kids in my class on a daily basis. And I was uneasy with that difference. Did my parents sit me down as a 6 year-old entering a parochial school to say "You will learn things and hear things, but we don't believe them. You are Jewish."? I have no idea how I knew not to kneel during Wednesday chapel services, but I knew. (Though I was endlessly fascinated with those flip-down kneelers!) Did I go home asking questions? Or did I just stew it around in my head until I made some semblance of peace with my difference? Now I am 46 and pretty comfortable with all of it being the adjectives, and the noun just being SELF. I am Jewish, I am American, I am female, I am flawed, I am sensitive, I am kind, I am optimistic, I am tired. While the conflict has calmed down in the Middle East this week, that question from my 2nd grade Hebrew school class felt pulled into the present—the connection of being Jewish and supporting Israel. Can I support the idea of Israel, but also condemn their actions? I don't even know anymore. And even though their skies are not bright orange this week, the hate and violence are still alive...there and towards Jews everywhere. As a now New Yorker, anti-semetism feels like folklore to me at this point, but it so is NOT. Is Jewish hate so commonplace at this point that people don't feel the need to stand up to it? I decided not to post a blue square as my #stopjewishhate plea, but rather a more entertaining photo of me at my 1988 bat mitzvah, in all its glitzy splendor!
Rotary phones ☎️, film cameras 📷 , typewrit Rotary phones ☎️, film cameras 📷 , typewriters 📠? Bring them all on! Introduce kids to tech of the past with this fun #cardboardcraft! I put squishy foam tape under the letters to give them the feel of a button. Visit the link in my profile for the how-to at @campstores! . . . . . . #upcycledcraft #makebelieve #imaginativeplay #projectkid #upcycledcrafts #playcreatively #diytoys #homemadetoys #craftymom #getcrafty #homeoffice #wfhsetup
This is the perfect time of year for some nature c This is the perfect time of year for some nature crafting. Kids are finding that the great outdoors has always been great and are connecting with nature on a deeper level, thanks to the necessity of being outside. . This craft always makes me happy—turning something hard and colorless into something seemingly soft and vibrant. I call it *Rock Garden*
❣️#DIYmothersday gift alert! ❣️ Find a a v ❣️#DIYmothersday gift alert! ❣️ Find a a veiny leaf to use as a stamp in air dry clay. Let them dry in a bowl to give them that organic floaty shape, like a freshly fallen leaf! Perfect as a little trinket holder. Get all the details over at @campstores by visiting the link in my profile!
Recognize the parts of this #yellowsubmarine ? A @ Recognize the parts of this #yellowsubmarine ? A @gogosqueez cap, a @keurig cup, 3 bottle caps, and a @nerf football. That’s some #earthday engineering right there! (Photo by @alexandragrablewski from #ProjectKid Crafts that Go!)
Pipe cleaner crafts are like a beginner course in Pipe cleaner crafts are like a beginner course in Wire Sculpture 101. They are lightweight and easy to shape into whatever you dream up. This craft is a super-fun way for beginning sculptors to explore facial features, making round eyes, short noses, long ears — all with the bend of a pipe cleaner! And because this craft does not require glue, there are no mess-ups. Just give it a facelift and start again! Another goodie in my @campstores series—head over to my profile link for the steps!
Put that lonely, abandoned glove to use in my late Put that lonely, abandoned glove to use in my latest craft for @campstores. Grab all of your craft scraps and have fun turning them into silly monsters. Click the link in profile for details!
Have you ever cut your own #honeycomb paper decora Have you ever cut your own #honeycomb paper decorations? 🐇🐣🐰It’s a magical material that’s so delightful and surprising, every time you use it! Check out these sweeties from the blog archives! Link in profile! Check out @devraparty for all of their lovely honeycomb paper products!
Matilda-inspired Easter Eggs. This was one of my m Matilda-inspired Easter Eggs. This was one of my most fun assignments ever! A few years ago, I worked with @people to produce an #easteregg craft based on Matilda the Musical. I got to craft with the four young actors that alternated in the role of Matilda and this video appeared on People.com. To this day, one of my favorite gigs ever!
The best #easteregg 🥚 craft is one that starts The best #easteregg 🥚 craft is one that starts with the simplest materials and results in unexpected beauty! Nothing but the classic materials here—eggs and food coloring! Click the profile link for the how-to! 🥚
If you ask me, Easter baskets are so much better t If you ask me, Easter baskets are so much better than Christmas stockings, Valentine boxes, or Halloween trick-or-treat bags. First, the colors. When it comes to Easter, all the pastels are fair game—pinks, greens, purples—and the light, bright hues help to stir us from our dreary winter woes. Next, and probably most important, is the cute factor: Everything gets more adorable when you put a bunny on it.⁠ 🐰⁠ This bunny basket, that I made for the @Etsy blog, from the archives is one of my all-time faves. Hop on over 🐇🐇🐇 to my profile link for the how-to!
In a time when it feels like there is little to ce In a time when it feels like there is little to celebrate, we always have #pizza, #slime, and #wifi! 📣 Excited to share that I’m working with @campstores, helping to fill their website with clever and creative ways to entertain kids on rainy days, holidays, and every day! Many more to share soon! Link in bio! 📣 Gooooooo wifi!
Feeling inspired by Sommer’s snowboarding color Feeling inspired by Sommer’s snowboarding color story...
There is a great story behind this craft. Over 3 y There is a great story behind this craft. Over 3 years ago (I think it was closer to 4), I had my studio in my apartment in Brooklyn. That meant that when my kids came home from preschool with their babysitter, they would b-line it for my room for mom hugs (which obviously I loved). 🍪 I was making a craft that required a small piece of cork, so I grabbed a cork coaster and cut a chunk out of it. I left the remainder sitting on the table, and when Sommer, then 4-years-old, came in, she picked it up and said "this looks like a cookie." So I handed her some brown paint and a paint brush, and she added chocolate chips. 🍪 I have been holding onto this coaster for years, always meaning to make a post out of it because it's everything that Project Kid is about...seeing a shape, a random object, and reimagining it as something else. 🍪 I brought the chocolate-chip cookie coaster home from my studio today, along with 3 blank ones, and asked Sommer to finish the set. She didn't remember doing the first one--for her, that was half her life ago, but to me it was just yesterday. And it was a day that I realized I was raising my very own #projectkid. 🍪 #iamaprojectkid
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