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The final giveaway for the week is from Chrissie of Flip Flops and Applesauce. She’s a talented artist and mama, and she’s created the most adorable coloring books.
My four-year-old daughter has thoroughly enjoyed each of these editions, and we even used the alphabet books as part of her pre-k home school curriculum. We created an alphabet train, tied each letter together with ribbon, and draped it along the wall.
We also create name art that she enjoys giving to her friends and family. The creative options are endless with Chrissie’s creative work!
I love the unique touches she’s put on her different drawings – I love the teacups in her counting book, and the “o” orange in the lowercase alphabet book.
Chrissie wants to give three Simple Mom readers four of her coloring books – the Uppercase ABC Coloring Book, the lowercase abc coloring book, Numbers 1-20 Coloring Book, and Nursery Rhymes Coloring Book.
To win, here’s how to enter:
Leave a comment at this post, answering the following question: What’s your family’s favorite arts-and-crafts activity?
The giveaway is open to anyone worldwide, and it lasts until this Sunday, May 31.
I hope you win! Thanks again for all your participation. Have a great weekend, and I’ll announce the winners from the week soon.
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We don’t actually have a favourite, but these books look amazing! Thanks for the giveaway!
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We love making animals and people out of horse chestnuts in the fall. Otherwise, melted crayons and waxed paper are great fun.
Just plain old coloring!
My daughter loves to color. Anytime she sees her artist’s pad, she asks for the crayons. We’re working on getting her to keep the crayons on the paper and not on the floor, the walls, the chairs, and her clothes.
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Well, we just started letting my 2 1/2 year old use scissors. So right now it is just cutting, cutting, cutting!
Making fairy dresses with a flower press. We various flora and feathers, press them and then arrange them into dresses for our little paper fairy dolls to wear for special occasions. It’s a great way for the girls to be creative and learn their feathers and flowers!
Definitely playdough. Or anything involving stickers
My daughter got some clay as a gift so we’ve been having fun sitting around the table seeing what we can make. My 3 year old usually makes a snake.
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Fingerpainting!
My daugther loves to “help” me do my needlepoint!
These are so cute!! We love to get a long roll of paper and spread out about 5 yards worth on the driveway. Then we get a cheap set of paints (washable, of course!) and the kids use brushes, hands, feet, leaves, whatever to paint a big mural. They prefer the Jackson Pollack style of spatter and throw, so they ususally turn out really neat.
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Our favorite arts and crafts is just to make collages. I take out all the supplies and give them some glue and let them go at it!
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Well, seeing as my son is just 14 months, we haven’t launched into the crafts world yet. He did just color his first picture yesterday though! But I’m looking forward to play-dough, painting and baking muffins. Baking counts as a craft with kids, doesn’t it?
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We all have different favorites, mine is scrapbooking and my 5 year old daughter loves to draw and color all of the time.
Our favorite activity is probably coloring in coloring books, paper, etc. My daughter just recently discovered how fun scissors are as well, so I’ll have to come up with some new crafts!
My kids love making stuff with fun foam. My younger son makes backpacks with cereal boxes and fun foam.
My three year old begs to be allowed to do a “project” — what she loves is using scissors, glue, and glitter to create masterpiece!
We love all sorts of things! We usually get great ideas on Familyfun.com.
sidewalk chalk in the summertime
currently, it is play doh…our 3-year old is finally good enough to create and name his own shapes and he is so proud!
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We really like painting, or perler beads!
My son loves to draw and illustrate scenes from movies he has seen, and my daughter just wants to draw on any paper that we leave lying around. I hope I end up with two artistic kids, since my husband and I both have art degrees.
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Our favorite art and crafts activity is coloring!
coloring!
Right now our favorite is painting with shaving cream outside on the sliding glass door…messy, yes, fun, YES!
My 13-month-old daughter is a little young for arts and crafts, but I’m stashing away lots of ideas for when she’s older. I’d love to use these coloring books with her!
My kids love to paint,stamp and do playdough.
Making collages from pictures cut up from magazines. The Burpee catalogue is our favorite!
my daughter loves playdough, coloring and ANYTHING that involves glue and glitter
We make cards for all occasions – birthdays, holidays. It saves money and shows the kids’ personalities.
Creating homes for their stuffed animals, has to be a favorite right now. I save everything for them: toilet paper rolls, egg cartons, cereal boxes… It all soon has a new life with their imagination.
I really enjoy the basics. Give my boys and I a brand new box of crayons and we are entertained for hours.
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we love to draw, esp dogs, color, & cut out
My youngest grand-daughter loves to color her Princess Barbie color book so this would be great for coloring and as a learning tool!
Latest favorite was making chalk eggs.
My girls LOVE arts-and-crafts. I guess their favorite right now is painting.
I just asked my daughter her favorite arts and crafts activity and she said, “Pottery!”
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A favorite at our house is writing and illustrating books…there are some interesting stories in those little minds!
My kids love stickers! They can peel & stick them for hours!
My oldest LOVES to color. She would love these. My youngest likes to color some too, but not as much as her sister. Thanks for the great giveaway.
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Our favorite crafts are embroidery, painting, making things with yarn, and gluing things to things.
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We love creating with clay, anything with paper and glue, sewing (even the little ones love this), drawing and painting – Our favorite depends on the day!
My boys love to color and cut…..they’d do this all day! *fingers crossed!*
We like making peanut butter playdoh – at 22m my son still loves to put everything in his mouth – at least I know what’s in this!
We love anything involving cutting and glue. We make a lot of mini scrapbooks and books in this house!
my dd is pretty gung-ho about anything involving scissors, glue and punches! and i’m so happy to play along with her.
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Usually we like to do scrapbooking or just make a page that can be added to their album. My five year old is still into finger painting and play dough which are great stand bys for any day!
My boys love coloring, painting and making collages with anything they can find. They also like making cards for holidays and birthdays.
Favorite Arts & Crafts activity – we love to color and draw, but my boys absolutely love to paint with watercolor paints!
We love making anything paper mache (sp). We’ve made ghosts for halloween, eggs for easter, ornaments for christmas…. it’s great fun!
My kids love everything crafty-but their favorite would have to be going to a craft store or wal-mart and getting some of those wooden toys or plaques, or other paintable figurine and paint them. We have dressers full of their painted knick knacks!
right now my daughter can’t get enough of cutting paper and stickers!
My kids love to paint, color, and draw.
My son is to young to have a favorite and I have way to many favorites, it changes daily………
Anything with scissors and glue! A lot of free drawing happens around here as well.
finger painting!!!
We love gluing different things on paper plates. Especially things that we have been collecting, like buttons!
Stamping. I got out all my old rubber stamps a few weeks ago and they have been a HUGE hit.
My boys love to paint their pet rocks! So simple, but they love it!
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Watercolors! My 3 year old could paint with watercolors for hours.
We put a huge blank piece of paper on the living room coffee table and get out the markers and crayons. We trace hands, draw cartoon and objects. The kiddos eat it up every time!
Painting, cutting things out, and making collages–my daughter is much more creative than I am, so you never know what will be next.
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My boys love to free draw and color.
My 2-year-old loves to scribble with crayons.
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My kids love to color, but my oldest (who’s 3) likes to play with the foam stickers and create scenes for them. Her favorite is a zoo for all the zoo animal stickers we have.
We love to paint the boxes they give you at Costco when you shop. We turn them upside down and make them into airports, frie stations, school houses, etc. Then my 3 year old plays with his match box cars with them for weeks… I threw one out recently and he was devastated… he just got a thomas train set for his birthday and he uses the boxes to create towns and tunnels… so cute…
It is fun to watch him imagine what it is going to be ont he way to the car – then we paint together – draw on them and then play with them. It makes me feel less guilty about just throwing them away…
Thanks to all the comment leavers – I LOVE these ideas!
We are really getting into making books from our drawings and turning them into a whole story..of course, painting and glue are a close second! Would love to win the books! I have been eyeing them lately!
Both my kids like to paint. I have started to cut the paper into shapes before I give it to them (heart, flower, egg etc.) and then we hang them once they dry.
We have dry erase markers and a Step 2 easel with a dry erase board. My kids could stand there for hours drawing, erasing, and drawing again. It’s great!
We buy sculpey clay and enjoy making figurines with them, or really just anything. We have a Lord of the Rings theme going right now.
My little one is only 23 months old, so right now we are just coloring, but he loves it!
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Definitely drawing. Easy, straightforward, and priceless!
These look like the perfect thing for my four year old, whose favorite craft at the time is cutting up foam paper!
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Fingerpainting!
My boys love flubber and oobleck. Play dough creations rank high as well.
Play Doh is a hit with all of our kids.
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My favorite would be making pom-pom pets. Easy and cute! The grandkids have a lot of fun too!
My kids love to draw and use scissors.
I like to see them paint.
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Dough. Actual, hope-to-bake-it-and-eat-it bread dough. Although, play-doh will do in a pinch.
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Coloring, painting and creatining their own paper dolls with homes are favorites. They also love to help me bake.
Painting for sure for my 4 and 2 year olds
Molding shapes with modeling clay or play-doh.
Now that it’s nice outside, my 2 yr old loves sidewalk chalk.
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Right now play dough is our favorite arts and crafts activity right now. Addie (18 months) loves to squish it in her hands and mess up anything I make.
Well I love to color, but my son loves Play Doh, so it’s a compromise of sorts!
My oldest enjoys drawing and assembling his own comic books, while my youngest is still at the scribble and color stage (usually all over his brother’s newly-created comic books)
Painting!
We like to use stickers and stamps to decorate cards to mail to our friends and family.
Our favourite artsy thing to do as a family is colouring. My husband can draw (and not just stick people). The kids are always asking “Daddy draw “this”.” This generally is one of the special people or pets in their lives. After drawing someone gets to colour the image he has drawn. After awhile, they’ll start drawing their own version of Daddy’s art work. It is so fun to sit around the table drawing and colouring with them.
Both of mine love paint and glue. Anything messy. . .
The latest craze in our house is pom-poms and buttons – glued on to anything and everything!
Stamps and inkpad crafting.
Oh man, this would be a perfect idea/giveaway for my 3 yr. old niece!!
Not sure if we have a “favorite” art activity as a family, but since my boys are a little older (tweenager, pre-teen, and teenager), we really like anything to do with nature and science experiments!
Oooh, these look so fun! A very frameable coloring page!
Our favorite family craft activity is to cut apart our paper grocery bags and decorate with crayons, markers, stamps and stickers. The handles on the grocery bags make them easy to hang and display!
We like to color with crayons and colored pencils.
Probably painting pottery – we don’t do it often (it’s not cheap) – but it’s so fun to have one of a kind pieces around the house.
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Torn up pieces of tissue paper stuck on (and between) two sheets of clear contact paper. Then cut the contact paper into shapes and display on the windows just like stained glass.
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My oldest has just stopped eating crayons, so he’s finally started “coloring.” It’s still just scribbles right now, but he _loves_ doing it!
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My 2 year old is all about the play dough. My older ones love to cut, glue, and sticker anything they can get their hands on.
We had fun at the last birthday party making little pocket purses made from flet and glued with fabric glue. They glued on rhinestones and butterflies and we used ribbon for the shoulder strap. The girls had fun and they were cute!
My girls love to cut paper up and tape it all over our dining room walls! It’s funny how I don’t even notice it anymore…
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