Families will always collect rubbish. This is a fact. The bigger the family is, the more rubbish is collected every year. Think of the scraps you have at home. The teacups, the old toys, the old clothes, loose buttons, old rolls of wrapping paper and so much more that you don’t need anymore.
The easy way is to throw them all out during your spring cleaning. The wise choice is to convert them into crafts. Part of making an effort to be environmentally friendly as a family is making sure you don’t throw away too many of your household items, even those you’re not using anymore.
Your kids will love creating artwork out of household items. Popsicle sticks, newspaper, paper plates, buttons, plastic bottles and egg cartons are some of the many items which can be utilized for fun and inexpensive art projects at home. Choose crafts that kids from grades 4 to 6 can enjoy. Let younger children be part of the craft experience as well with some help from older kids or parents.
The “Look What You Can Make With Dozens of Household Items!: Over 500 Pictured Crafts and Dozens of More Ideas!” craft book is part of the successful Look What You Can Make With series and incorporates eight previous books of the same series. The new compilation is spiral bound. Each individual book is labeled with a tab for quick and easy access to each topic.
This craft book is a great resource for rainy days or even birthday party fun. The materials needed are inexpensive and easy to find within the house.
The book details over 600 craft projects. Each book contains between 80 to 90 color photos and clear step-by-step instructions. Non-readers will need to be supervised since there is only a picture of the finished project.
Apr 09, 2010 | Sentimental Hobbies, Sentimental Thoughts, crafts, family traditions
Fall and the Trick or Treat season offer so many choices for family members to spend quality time together. Here are just a few ideas.
Visit A Local Pumpkin Farmstead.
Throughout the month of October, pumpkin suppliers usually have fairs like live music, hayrides, and crafts, not to mention the opportunity to hand select your very personal pumpkin right off the plant.
Pumpkin Painting
Paint your halloween pumpkins instead of carving them. Carving pumpkins is a great hobby during Halloween, but this can be dangerous to small kids. This is great for kids who want to celebrate the Halloween like adults safely. If you want to learn more about Pumpkin Painting and how your kids can enjoy this unique seasonal hobby, go to EZPumpkinPainting
Create an Eerie Halloween Record Together.
Is there a graveyard nearby? Why not make a movie as a family while you’re all in your scary halloween costumes? You can roleplay as your characters and create a story from your imagination.
Take a video of mom or grandma cooking creepy Halloween cookies or Grandpa drinking greenish looking witch’s brew (it’s just lemonade with green food coloring). Capture the moment when the youngest member of the family dresses as a goblin and tries to feed a piece of macabre heart (cookies wrapped in blood-red icing) to his trusty demon hound (your pet dog in his own costume).
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This is a great hobby to put together an enduring home ritual. The entire family will get to decide on the characters, now and then making non-living things like pumpkins and candy corn come alive. Once you create the personas, the background and the narrative, you will be flabbergasted how much each family member wishes to play a part in the legend. Set aside your annual account in a DVD, CD or a folder and read or view the homemade videos or stories from previous years. It’s a remarkable memory.
Sep 25, 2009 | Growing Up Stories, Sentimental Hobbies, family traditions
One of the most challenging things about building a scrapbook is choosing which photos to include. If you have a lot of photos, it might take a while before you can really choose the ones that fit your scrapbook’s theme and flow.
Organizing your photos can also be very sentimental. You will see the photos of better times and the memories will just come to you. One downside to building a scrapbook is feeling that nostalgia, and being extremely aware that the events have all happened in the PAST. Nonetheless, your task of organizing your family photos for your scrapbook is a fitting tribute to those memories, and should not be considered a chore.
Here are some steps to effectively and rapidly organize your family photos
1. First, designate an are inside your house for your project. The space must be free of clutter initially, to allow you to move the photos around as you sort through them.
2. Next, put the photos that are promising (in terms of inclusion in the scrapbook), and put away those that are damaged. Polaroid pictures should be piled separately because they leak and may damage the others permanently.
3. Make copies of the photos you chose. These will allow you to be creative and not worry about making mistakes.
4. Start arranging the photos again, this time in chronological order, by events, by the people in the photos or by holidays.
Some more Helpful Tips
If you’re compiling photos for a wedding scrapbook, you should include the photos of the couple while growing up.
If it’s a family tree, organize according to the side of the family the photos were from.
Apr 18, 2009 | Scrapbook, Sentimental Hobbies, Sentimental Thoughts
