I’m looking for some cute craft ideas that don’t require a lot of materials. I have a ton of scrapbooking paper, a roll of magnets and some random household items I could use ( I have a lot of aluminum cans that I could use for a recycled art project). I’m looking for something that’s not to corny and that the kids would have fun with. Any ideas would be great!
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Any good craft ideas that I could use for a group of students from 5th to 9th grade?
Thursday, July 29th, 2010How to Make Unique Handmade Arts & Crafts : How to Decorate Your Coffee Mug
Saturday, July 17th, 2010
How to decorate your coffee mug, a handmade craft project using household items, in thisfree arts and crafts video taught by an expert. Expert: passportt Bio: Melody has been involved in almost all forms of art medium since she was about 2 years old. She has been painting in mixed media for as long as she can remember. Filmmaker: Daron Stetner
Fun of Bead Crafts
Saturday, July 10th, 2010Craft beads have been utilized for making jewelry and decorative pieces for centuries. In olden times stones, turtle shells and animal horns etc. were used for making decorative pieces. Now beads are made of semi-precious stones wood, glass and plastic. The possibilities with craft beads are unlimited.
Craft bead projects range from beginner’s to advanced and complicated designs. You may buy craft bead kits online or from local craft shop. If you have supply of craft beads, you may look for patterns and designs online.
The most common use of craft beads is for making jewelry. You may also make holiday things like beaded Christmas trees or you may put beads on household items it will give them a new look. Another interesting item can be to weave small beads in intricate designs to make beautiful flowers.
Craft beads are made of various materials like glass, metal, terracotta wood, plastic, stone, bone, ivory, ceramic fiber, shell, coral, gemstones, etc. You can make any number of shapes with beads like oval, cylindrical, square, heart and flower.
The price of beads depends on what they are made of, their utility and their age. You may even take out beads from your old necklace or some other jewelry and make them into a new piece which you will love.
You can make unique jewelry for yourself and decorative gifts for your loved ones. If you are making your own design, ensure that you have all the craft beads and other things you may require. You can do it by planning your projects.
To complete the project, you will require craft beads, wire, wire cutters and crimp beads. Crimp beads are soft metal and are utilized to finish a strand of beads. For making jewelry you will require proper clasp also.
In the history of mankind beads have been used as personal jewelry, as money and as trading goods and as decorative pieces. To work with beads you require a few simple tools like round and flat nosed pliers, wire cutters and different types and sizes of tweezers. To attach beads to each other or on to other surface, you will require some type of wire along with a crimping tool.
If you don’t like to use wire for your craft beads you may utilize silk thread which is available in a number of colors and thicknesses. Nylon or synthetic threads are also generally utilized along with French wire.
If you are thinking of making jewelry, the best option is to pick a book at your local library and learn about the tools, the process of making beautiful and useful designs which people will be proud to wear.
For others working with beads is not so involved. Making Native American crafts needs small glass beads if you are planning of making designs on loom, which then can be sewn to moccasins or clothing, glass beads are also used in making beautiful dream catchers and medicine wheel that are quite popular in the Midwestern and Southern United States of America.
Where to Find Free Crochet Patterns For Beginners
Monday, March 15th, 2010
Do you need free crochet patterns for beginners? The internet is a treasure of free crochet patterns for all skill levels. Beginning crocheters can pick from hat, afghans, clothes, and household items. If you don’t know how to crochet, you can find plenty of tutorials to help you. Search how to crochet or crochet instructions on the internet. If you already know crochet or teaching someone else, here are a few sites to help you find free crochet patterns for beginners.
Craftown.com isn’t called a crafter’s resource center for nothing. This site carries over 1000 patterns and projects in most any craft. There are free lesson pages that let you learn crochet stitches and styles. There are clear, easy to follow instructions showing the correct way to hold the needle and how the stitches should look. You can find a learning section for the craft you want. Pick from knitting, crochet, tatting, and quilting just to name a few. Beginners are sure to find something. The site is updated often.
Crochet pattern Central is another site full of beginner crochet resources and free crochet patterns. It is updated weekly. Crochet pattern Central is an online directory featuring thousands of links in more than 90 crochet categories. Some of the categories include baby , afghans, dolls, holiday, clothes, and potholders. If you are looking for more specific patterns in a category, click on the sub category links. Crochet Pattern Central offers beginning crochet section and original patterns. If you don’t have a website, and design crochet patterns, you can submit them here. You can find links to beginner tutorials to various techniques off-site in the directory. You’ll find tips and tricks along with encouraging testimonials.
Lion Brand Yarn is a popular yarn brand. Lion Brand Yarn has their own website with several resources for the crochet enthusiast. Offering the services is a good promotional strategy. They provide a set of tutorials which can be viewed online or downloaded for off-line viewing. There is an illustrated directory for novices who can’t fully grasp the basic terms in patterns. Lion Brand contains almost a thousand free patterns for children, adults, home décor, and more. The free crochet patterns are classified according to skill level and you can also purchase supplies.
Free Patterns.com and About.com are popular sites for crafts. They are perhaps among the oldest sites around and still going strong. You can download patterns in PDF format or view online. A beginner is sure to find something. Free Patterns.com offers free video tutorials to any craft. You can learn specific stitches with clear illustrations. Free registration is required for this site. Crochet.about.com has an alphabetical index of free crochet patterns around the internet. There is an onsite beginners guide with links to tutorials on stitches and free patterns for beginners and experienced crocheters.
These are just few sites with free crochet patterns. If you check further instructions or want to make specific patterns check video sites like Youtube.com Sometimes you’ll find videos showing you how to make simple items. As you can see, it isn’t hard for beginner’s to find something. Start visiting these sites and make projects to show off. For more resources, just type ‘free crochet’ or ‘free crochet patterns’ in a search engine.
Amanda Roddy
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Pallet Tutorial (made from household items!)
Tuesday, March 9th, 2010Just a simple tutorial on how to make an inexpensive (cheap, ghetto, FREE actually) pallet to hold depotted shadows, blushes, etc. from things found around the house! Tutorial on depotting:
Online Competitiors Opportunity for Arts and Crafts
Monday, February 15th, 2010
Art and craft
Art and craft convey the inner feeling of the artist. Art is a talent which each person has to discover and it is the indication of the changing time, ideas, thoughts, science, technology and overall culture of the land concern. Craft, on the other hand, has much more to do with working with hands and involves skill, technique, and practice.
Wood carving could be defined as cutting and carving the wood in a desired way. Carving means design or cutting by chipping away at a surface. It is necessary to first identify the texture of wood before the process of carving is initiated. Wood used for carving can be classified into two kinds, namely, hardwood and softwood.
Hardwood -refers to wood that is obtained from deciduous broadleaved trees, which shed their leaves annually. Examples of hardwood trees are teak, oak, rosewood, sandalwood, walnut etc.
Softwood- it comes from trees bearing cones, most of which are evergreen. It is ideal for carving, since it is easy to cut, doesn’t splinter, glues well and is good for laminating. Softwood includes pine, cedar, and fir trees.
Wood carving Techniques
There are various techniques to carve wood. Wood carving may be broadly classified into four types:
Relief Carving: it is a type of wood carving that is basically a two dimensional carving, used for things like wall plaques and household decorations.
Chip Carving: it is one of the oldest and simplest types of wood carving. This is a method of literally removing chips from the wood to form a design or geometric pattern. Chip carving is used to decorate many household items such as music boxes, spoons, hope chests, beams, borders and ceilings.
Carving in the Round: It is a three dimensional type of wood carving. This type of wood carving opens the door to every tool you can imagine and any kind of wood. Some of the more popular figures to carve are birds, people and fish.
Whittling: Whittling is the art of taking a piece of raw wood and carving it into shapes by using a knife. It is reminiscent of a “simpler” time.
Carving Tools
A set of tools is extremely essential to carve wood into desired shapes and designs. The most common tools used by craftsmen to carve Wood:
Carving knives are basic carving tools. They are available in various shapes and sizes.
Chisels have a cutting edge, and are forced into the Wood to produce carved patterns. Square and skew are the two kinds of chisels.
Gouges are chisels with a partly cylindrical blade. They have curved cutting edges.
Rasps and files are used for detailed carving. They have separate conical teeth, and are excellent for shaping decoys.
Grinding Tools are also called Rotary tools, these are one of the most commonly used and preferred tools. Grinding tools should be used in ventilated areas as they generate a lot of dust.
V-tools are known as parting tools, have cutting edges in the shape of a ‘V’. V-tools are used to make sharp incisions and fine carving.
The wood carving helps to develop creativity and imagination by seeing the world around us and its tradition. The creative process itself gives us many aesthetic experiences and the final effect gives us a huge satisfaction.
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