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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 like the clay that hardens in the oven!
We like to color, cut and glue! Painting comes in a close second.
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definitely making greeting cards to send to people.
My kids loved to watercolor paint. Then they painted pet rocks, or brown paper bag masks. Love the coloring pages…great learning while having fun. I’ll pull them out when the grands come to visit.
My kids love painting, play doh, markers, puppets.
We love to play with sidewalk chalk outside! Our little boy likes that it gets him messy and I love that it is outside!
painting is the latest. my fav is using water on the concrete. a perfect blend of easy, clean and cool art in the sun. yesterday my 3-yr old was doing “butt prints” instead of handprints.
I would say that our 4 year old most enjoys anything with scissors and itty bitty pieces of paper scattered everywhere!
One of our favorite arts and crafts activity is coloring, stickers and glitter! Basically we do a lot of just random projects with cutting paper and then gluing it back together. Our favorite craft activity was for my 4 year olds birthday party, which was Wall-e themed and we had everyone make their own robots (spray painted different sized boxes, then let the kids use glue, glitter, pom pom balls, aluminum foil, popsicle sticks, markers, crayons and whatever else they could find to make their robots.
My 4 year old Olivia L O V E S anything to do with GLUE. Construction paper, sequins, buttons, pom poms…it all gets glued into a fabulous mosaic of wonders!
Oh… scrapbooking… hands down… my 2 year old (will a little help) places elements on pages and will “critic” what I’ve done.
My toddler loves to color so I guess that would be our favorite arts and craft project of the moment.
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I enjoy MANY types of arts & crafts individually. But I guess as a family activity I would say coloring is number one. Even though my son is too young for coloring just yet (he’s 8 months), I still enjoy it by myself! Usually I just “borrow” some of my niece’s coloring books whenever she’s around…and I’m not at all embarrassed to admit it:)
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I like to make a poster for the next upcoming holiday or birthday. My baby recently turned one, so I made him a dinosaur/birthday poster.
my kids love it when it’s freestyle! they get to choose what to cut, glue, paste, hang, etc. all the supplies are out and they get to be the creative masters!!
Glitter glue, crayon, and paper. That is all we need to create.
Painting – I hate the mess but my kids love it!
coloring and painting!
my kids love drawing, I prefer sewing.
My son loves drawing trucks in great detail. My daughters love play dough best.. we’re still working on the finer motor skills.
The messier the better—paint is the best!
We all love painting right now.
That is super easy… My daughter and I can’t get enough scrapbooking done together… and she is only 4 ;o) I love it!!!!!
we love all things crafty but especially a box of crayons or markers and a big sheet of butcher paper
Doodling! Epsilon doesn’t get to do much else yet.
Well, our daughter is 5 mos old, so not so many arts and crafts happening around here. My husband and I do like to create things on the computer though.
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coloring!
Coloring and using stickers to cover any spots missed with the colors!
My girls love to make cards for friends and family. It seems there is always an occasion to color, cut, and glue something marvelous for someone’s birthday, anniversary, or other special day. I think it’s the “Let’s make a card for this person just because we love them!” craft days that make me smile the most.
My daughter loves to create artwork with foamies.
My little one isn’t quite there yet, but I’m already stocking up on fun things to use. Personally, I love to knit and to make her hair bows!
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My daughter’s favorite is to paint using her easel.
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My daughter and I love many different crafts, she has the crafty gene like me and is game for anything I throw out, but her favorite lately is beading projects.
My 10-month old isn’t quite ready for arts and crafts right now. But I’m excited to paint with him when he’s old enough!
Homemade playdough. We love it and spend hours and hours making things.
Crayons on scratch paper. I save all the one sided printed paper from the mail and work at home along with packing paper from my home business. My son loves to draw cows.
Our favorite arts & crafts…would be making cards. My daughter loves making and sending them…: )
Putting together the baby book – pictures, memories, souvenirs, for my son to enjoy when he’s older.
Paper and crayons give us hours of fun!
Anything with scissors and glue is a big hit!
stacks of magazines, scissors and a bottle of mod podge has been great fun for all lately!
Anything that involves:glue, paper, crayons, clay, markers and paint. Of course there is more but to list my family’s favorite arts and crafts activity would take forever. We do not just have one. Our favorite is actually having the time to do it and making time to do it.
Pretty much anything involving color (paint or crayons…sometimes chalk). My son had tons of fun around Halloween when I let him paint his mini pumpkins. We aren’t really creative. I need more art ideas for him (he’s 2 1/2) Thanks for the giveaway!
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Finger-painting and wheel-thrown pottery… only the messiest for us.
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We love to puff paint. You get shaving cream, mix it with a little glue (that makes it stay longer) and food coloring. Paint on paper with a paintbrush and it’s puffy paint. It’s so fun.
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My boys love decorating white paper with markers and stickers. They also love a cardboard box and a roll of scotch tape.
Painting. Painting. Painting.
Collages…everyone can do them, everyone likes their results!
We LOVE ffandapplesauce and read her blog quite often! YAY for the cute giveaway! I’d say any crafting is HUGE in our home, but especially painting and cutting.
painting and making playdough
I think fingerpainting wins in the arts and crafts division here.
My little one is still too small for crafts. When my niece and nephew come over we lay out the plastic table cloth and get out all the messy stuff their mom will not let them do! We use glue and paints and markers and mix it all up! They have so much fun and lemme tell you…we are the “fun” Aunt & Uncle!
painting!
putting together scrapbooks and photo albums…even my 6 mo. old loves to look at the finished product!
With a toddlet, the most crafty thing we do is play dough.
Our favorite activity right now is Play-Doh. it is somethigngall 4 of my boys (ages 2-10) can do @ one time. My older boys like to scrapbook with me when the younger two are asleep.
My kids love drawing.
We love to make fruit loops necklaces with dental floss and we love to play with playdough and create animals.
Our favorite craft is making things for the felt board! I love flip-flops and applesauce’s prints! Thanks for the giveaway!
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My kids love “Messy Art Fun.” We break out all the art supplies and let them do whatever, with no structure. They’ve made goody bags and puppets with the brown paper lunch bags, cards for family, sculptures out of play-doh, pipe cleaners, paint and beads and one time they made an elaborate spiderweb in the living room with the odds and ends bits of yarn. The sky is the limit.
I love to knit!
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The kids would say Plah-Doh, but I love watching them paint with watercolors!
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dying Easter eggs. It was my favorite when I was a child. It’s one the many reasons I love Easter. Now my family loves it too.
finger/body/anything-within-reach painting with tempera paints!
Our favorite activity is coloring in our daughters Mickey Mouse Clubhouse coloring book.
Well, it changes, but right now we’re really into creating little pieces with melt beads – using those little plastic templates and colourful beads that we then melt with an iron and turn into magnets.
We’re just starting to begin coloring, or should I say “scribbling”. So that would be our favorite!
Outdoor crafts. Next we are going to make some stepping stones for the garden.
My son likes to paint pictures using watercolors.
Right now, it is sidewalk chalk on the concrete slab that is my back porch. Although, my 18mo is sometimes more excited about putting the chalk back in the box than actually drawing with it.
this sounds cheesy actually, but our favorite thing to do right now is print our abc pages and color/sticker/watercolor all over them. see how this would be perfect for my 4 year old? thanks!
Anything involving cutting – my oldest is new to learning how to use scissors and loves to practice cutting stuff!!
This winter my kids loved spraying snow with colored water inside of a spray bottle. Now it’s all about sidewalk chalk and painting rocks.
We love to fingerpaint and get messy.
We love to paint! watercolors on big giant pads of thick paper.
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Coloring, by a landslide. Color color color!!!
We like to collect flowers outside and press them into the flower press.
Our little one is only 15 months, so we’re just getting started with crafts. So far we love to scribble with crayons and sidewalk chalk!! I look forward to trying all sorts of things as she gets older.
painting. out on the deck, set up the easel, give each kid a cup of paint and a brush and set them loose!
My son has recently begun to feel confident with his scissors, so anything he can cut is at the top of his list!
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Love this site! Our family favorite for arts-n-crafts is painting at the easel – with lots of colors and lots of brushes and body parts (hands….fingers….we’re flexible!).
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i have little guys, so any version of scribbling on anything is great. although, a recent big hit was building a little sailboat and taking it to the pond.
We love to “draw”! Colors, pens, crayons, and markers on paper of many sizes!!!
drawing. my girls out-draw me by leaps and bounds.
Well, since our son is only 14 months old, we’re just now getting into crayons.
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We love arts and crafts! Painting, coloring, craft store kits, cutting, glueing, and glittering! This year, we made an ABC book by cutting and pasting magazine clippings and photographs for every letter in the alphabet. These coloring books would be a great addition to our collection.
We love to stamp cards and other projects!
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Stickers are very popular with my son. We also did a great activity recently. As it’s autumn here we went for a big walk and collected lots of beautiful coloured leaves then glued them on paper to make patterns.
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If Playdoh is considered “arts-&-crafts” it comes in second place behind painting. A favorite is painting hands and feet and making all kinds of cute things out of them (reindeer from a hand, ghost from a foot). Great cards and gifties for the grandparents. I used to teacher kindergarten so I have all kind of artsy tricks up my sleeve. Am waiting to unleash little-by-little as my kiddos grow! Thanks for a great week of giveaways! So fun!
Painting always makes my kids happy.
Cute books!
i have a 2.5 year old and we’re really into homemade play-doh right now!
We don’t do a lot of projects but I think my kids most enjoy painting.
my boys’ favorite arts-and-crafts activities vary between painting and cutting paper into itsy bitsy teeny tiny pieces and scattering them all over the living room. personally, i can’t say either one of those activities is a favorite of mine, but it keeps them happy, so i go with it.
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Play-Dough! Most certainly (this week, at least) it’s all Play-Dough ’round these parts.
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Our family is now at an older stage, but there is one art and craft activity that we still do… every year we make stepping stones (one for each of us).
We collect things about ourselves to place on the top of the cement when it is still wet so that our stone reflects who we are year after year. I buy the bottom of a plant pot (plastic – from a dollar store). I buy a bag of cement (ready-mix) at our local hardware store. Cement can be of different texture and color. We mix up the cement and put in our mold (heart shaped, circle, octagon, etc). When the water comes to the top, we place our items down into the top of the stone, also use letter die to put our name into the stone if we want (mom, dad, deis, bil, dan)… When the cement is dry, the stone just pops from the plastic mold. My boys are now 16, 15, and 15. I walk around our house, some have broken and been put together.. most are still perfect aged to perfection. I look at dad’s: shutters, truck key, a nail, a shiny copper penny (that has beautifull greened)… Billy’s: plastic mini book, karate keychain, piece of rugby ball… Denis’: basketball button (showing the basketball), laminated picture of a car, high school patch… Danny’s: autism ribbons, mini thomas the tank trains, magnet shapes, etc. Mine are a collection of the kids and my husband over the years, but they always have some sparkle glitter on the top and shine in the sun…
Making these through the years have been our most favorite craft and they tell a story … our family has been challenged by autism and cancer, by facing our challenges, our stones are absolutely beautiful.
coloring & play-do
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My son is five months old, but I like to scrapbook and do other paper arts. I like to alter picture frames, letters, make banners, etc.
We have made it a tradition in our family that we hand make all of our own cards for b-days, holidays, etc. It’s so fun – everyone gets in on it.
Blessings,
Marie
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We love to rubberstamp together. I have accumulated kid-safe ink pads and they also use some of my old stamp sets.
Christmas ornaments and other gifts!
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