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DIY Collapsible Cardboard Playhouse

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The Night Before Christmas Vintage Children's Paper Cut-out

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Gingerbread Houses Free Children's Printables

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More free gingerbread themed educational items here.

Christmas Nature Craft: Stick Stars

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Coffee Filter Cut-out Snowflakes

A bag of coffee filters from the dollar store go a long way! These make the easiest snowflakes - no rounding off the ends. More here.

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DIY Disposable Stick Branch Christmas Tree

My seven year old daughter created a stick (branches)Christmas tree this year, and everyone in the house seems to like it, so it's our tree this year. We've been adding ornaments as we make them. It's been fun and after Christmas we can chuck the entire tree, ornaments and all - easy clean up! Next year we'll start the creative process all over again with a new stick tree and new ornaments. The lights were from the dollar store...we'll keep these for other projects.

The branches can be held in place with large rocks in a bucket. We took our rocks from the garden.


Here's a pretty one that has been painted white:

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Make an Easy Sparkly Cat Ornament - Free Cat Outline

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Use this outline as a template for a glittery cat ornament. I plan to cut it out on black paper, glue to recycled cardboard, and cover with glitter. I'll add a pretty pink bow and hang it on the tree with my pet's name on it.

Some Simple Vintage Christmas Designs for Drawing, Cuttings, Etc.

From The Kindergarten-primary Magazine, 1914

Winter Nature Craft: Pine Cone Snowman

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Dollar Store DIY Bookends

These are items from the dollar store: two acrylic picture frames and cut plastic animals.  She spray painted them with Krylon paint in rubbed bronze. Tutorial here.

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Printable Paper Doll Table Setting

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Autumn Leaf Craft: Hammered Leaves

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Tutorial for hammered leaves.

Printable Vintage Paper Dolls and Toys

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Free and fun for summer crafting time...see here for my collection of paper doll and toy printables. We've done a good number of them, and they print out beautifully using Picasa.

Fun with Paper Cut-out Animals

Cute vintage templates for standing paper cut-out animals from an early 20th century teacher's periodical. Click on image to enlarge and print/save.

DIY Nursery Decoration

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That's a children's book page pasted onto a wooden letter.

Printable Vintage Cut and Paste

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Dress a Llama

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This pin cushion made with a plastic animal is so clever. I couldn't have this at my home because it would be a lure for busy little fingers, but I really like the idea of making authentic folk costumes for plastic animals. This one with ribbons and pom-poms looks fairly easy to make as an extension for a study of Latin American mountain animals. A decorated elephant would be fun for a study of India. Maybe dress up a camel for North African or Middle East studies. They put interesting patterns with dye on camels in Pakistan(and India), and have colorful packs, rugs and bridles.

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Spring Rains Craft

We have had so much rain these last two weeks. This seemed like an appropriate craft for April's showers. I think this is make from pages of an old book, but we'll try it with newspaper and thick junk mail as a backing.

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Vintage Children's Paper Crafts for Spring: Rabbits

Rabbits for tracing and grouping, and a cut-out rabbit paper doll. Both are in public domain, dated 1915. I found these at Google Books. Click to enlarge and print.

Reposted from 2010.