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Kiwi Crate Monthly Craft Subscription

Kiwi Crate (Monthly Project Kits) Flash Sale Wednesday 6/17 – Save 50% On Your First Month

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Summer is here! Celebrate the new season and beat summer boredom with projects designed to spark creativity and curiosity for kids. Each Kiwi Crate comes with 2-3 hands-on projects – including all the materials, inspiration and instruction – around a different theme every month.

But HURRY, Kiwi Crate is offering a ONE DAY flash sale (6/17).

Save 50% on your 1st month subscription plus free shipping with code MAKE50.

Kiwi Crate Family Brands >>

The 50% off applies to any of the Kiwi Crate Family Brands:

Koala Crate

  • Ages: 3-4
  • imagine! magazine
  • Multiple play and learn activities
  • Instructions and guide for parents

Kiwi Crate

  • Ages 4 to 8
  • 2-3 creative and educational projects
  • explore! magazine
  • Step-by-step instructions and inspiration
Tinker Crate
  • Ages 9 to 14+
  • A hands-on activity and experiment
  • Tinker ‘Zine
  • Instructional blueprint

Doodle Crate

  • Ages 9 to 16+
  • A fresh new DIY project
  • Fun bonus craft material
  • Step-by-step instructions

Kiwi Crate was founded on the vision of inspiring kids’ creativity and its mission is to help equip the next generation of innovators with the tools for creative problem solving and exploration. Kiwi Crate offers high quality award-winning products across four brands for young makers ranging in age from 3 to 16+.

Fun & Engaging Projects for Kids

  • Hands-on fun for makers of all ages, delivered monthly.
  • Projects can include arts & crafts, science activities, imaginative play and more. Everything for 2-3 projects is included.

DIY Craft: Hey America! What’s Your ID? Teacher’s Gift Craft Instructions

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I am a big fan of International Delight’s Cold Stone Creamery’s Sweet Cream Creamer.  It reminds me of warm summer days and making homemade ice cream with the kids.  I love summer.. warmer weather and ice cream!

With summer comes the end of school and with the end of school comes gifts for teachers.  Most years we make a craft for the kid’s teachers.  What better way to use the empty International Delight creamer bottles than to recycle them into a gift!

This year we decorated empty International Delight Creamer bottles and put dry ingredients for cookie mix inside them!
Yummy, right?

teacher's gift idea

How to make the craft:

  1. Remove the label from the bottle
  2. Wash the bottle with soap and water and let dry
  3. Once the bottle is dry paint,  the bottle any color you want. We had acrylic paint left over from another art project. It worked great for this project!
  4. Let the paint dry. You might have to apply more than one coat.  We had to apply two coats.
  5. Decorate the bottle any way you want. My son did not want anything else on the bottle.. as you can see in the photo. He’s a simple kind of guy.

Now it’s time to add your ingredients into the bottle!

  1. Decide what cookie recipe you are going to use
  2. Use a small funnel to add the ingredients one at a time
  3. You might need to tap the bottom of the bottle on the counter to pack down the ingredients.
  4. Once all the dry ingredients are in you can put the lid on.

Our bottle was big enough to put the ingredients of one sugar cookie recipe in it.

Next I printed the recipe on card stock, punched a hole in the top corner of the paper, put ribbon through it and tied it to the bottle.

This was an easy project and only took a couple of hours from start to finish.

The added bonus is that you get to drink your favorite International Delight creamer before you reuse the bottle!

Hey America! What’s Your ID? Giveaway!

What’s Your ID? 
International Delight is looking for their most passionate flavor fans. Put your ID on the map to enter to win a Magical Trip, play games and discover more unexpected delight. Share your ID flavor at http://whatsyourid.com.

What you could win:

  • Magical Trip grand prize
  • ID Coffee Mugs, Tumblers and Creamers
  • Visa gift cards
  • ID Re-Usable Grocery Bag
  • Cold Stone gift cards
  • Beach towels
  • Free ID for a year
  • Baking Kit: Kitchen Aid mixer, apron and coupons
  • Coffee Bar Kit: Kuerig Coffee Maker, Folgers K-cups, coupons, mug, and Cinnamon.

Connect with ID:

What’s Your ID? International Delight is looking for their most passionate flavor fans. Put your ID on the map to enter to win a Magical Trip, play games and discover more unexpected delight. Share your ID flavor at http://whatsyourid.com.

This is a sponsored conversation written by me on behalf of International Delight. The opinions and text are all mine.

Easy Valentine’s Day Craft: Valentine’s Day Heart Clasp Box

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Valentine's Heart Clasp Box - valentine craft

My 5 year old daughter is not a procrastinator.   As soon as she finds out that she’s been assigned to do something at school, she does it.  Getting ready for Valentine’s Day has been no exception.  She is in Kindergarten and has never shared Valentine’s that she made before so she’s very excited about Valentine’s Day and couldn’t wait to get to crafting when we had a few extra hours yesterday.

We have an HP Photosmart Premium Touchscreen printer that allows us to print activities, coloring pages, writing paper, and craft templates right from the printer.  My kids love to go to the printer and browse the latest activity pages and coloring pages.  My Mom has the same printer and actually found the Valentine’s Day icon on the touchscreen and printed a few Valentine’s Heart Clasp Box templates out for my daughter and I to try out.  I spent the next hour cutting the box templates out after printing them on cardstock.  We settled on making seven boxes.  One for each of her teachers and an extra in case one of us messed up.

Here’s the Valentine’s Day Heart Clasp Box template:

Valentine Box - HP Printable craft idea

You can print the Valentine’s Box template here.

Supplies needed:

  • A printer
  • Paper – white cardstock is best but not required
  • Scissors
  • Double sided tape or glue stick
  • Candy

Steps:

  • I cut the template out.
  • My daughter folded along the dotted lines
  • My daughter put double sided tape on the box where the instructions call for glue.
  • We folded the box together.
  • Each box took about 10 minutes from print to fold.

Valentine's Heart Clasp Box - craft idea

After putting the boxes together, we dropped a few Hershey’s Kisses and SweetTarts in them.

I hope you enjoy this Valentine’s Day craft as much as my daughter and I did!  These make great gifts for teachers and friends!

Alicia Hagan, Editor

5 Things You Can Do With Post-It® Craft Paper

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Post-It® Craft Paper holds many possibilities for all children! The paper is thick and has a peel-off backing. I love how mess-free Post-It® Craft Paper is for children.  My five-year-old can create beautiful pictures and ‘art’ without using glue or tape.  She seemed to have an easy time getting the backing off of the paper which was my primary concern.  She was able to cut the paper just fine and loved the different colors in the pack I gave her. She created a scene with grass, trees, a sunshine (see photo below), and clouds, all by herself.  She was so proud and she had a great time creating piece after piece of art while I worked next to her!

Post-It® Craft Paper

Here are 5 crafts your child can create with Post-It® Craft Paper:

1. Create a holiday scene
Your child can easily cut out decorations for a background for any holiday including Thanksgiving or Christmas and simply peel and stick to create a one-of-a-kind piece of art. By cutting out the basic triangle for a Christmas tree, your child can then cut out ornaments, decorations, and gifts out of the paper and attach it to the page, mess-free.

2. Make a card
It’s peel and stick ability make it easy for a child to create a card for a birthday gift or holiday party for that special friend.  My 5-year-old made her friend a birthday ‘card’ out of Post-It® Craft Paper a few days ago! It was adorable!

3. Create a scrapbook picture frame
Cut shapes out of the paper in a variety of colors and use the shapes to decorate a picture frame for a loved one with a photo of your child inside. This is perfect for the grandparent who has everything!

4. Paint a picture that can hang itself
The genius of Post-It® Craft Paper is that your child can create their artwork on the paper and it can be stuck directly to the wall without damaging paint or wallpaper.  This makes the perfect gift for Dad to take to work to put on his office wall.

5. Custom make stickers
Allow your child to draw favorite pictures and characters on the paper then cut them out. Reward jobs well done with custom stickers or use the cuts-outs to decorate notebooks, folders, and papers!

Learn more about Post-It® Craft Paper here on the Post-It website.

Do you have ideas on how to use Post-It® Craft Paper?  Share your ideas with us in the comments below.

Disclosure: I was given a Post-It® Craft Paper to use for review purposes. All opinions are 100% my own.

Alicia Hagan, Editor

How to make a Juicebox Rocket – a fun and cheap craft

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Juicebox Rocket craft

Madelyn comes up with the most interesting ideas when I won’t play with her she’s bored.  I love it!

Madelyn and I were relaxing on the front porch yesterday and because I refused to play with her (oh no!) she got creative with the sand in her sandbox.  By creative I mean she got water, plastic containers, and really messy.   I sat in my chair and read Wired magazine (the actual paper magazine, not on my iPhone) while she delivered  sand-cake, sand-soup, and other deliciously messy sand-snacks for me to enjoy.  Yum!

After playing in the sandbox for about 20 minutes she got bored.  She asked for a juice box.  So, I gave her the juice box that we snagged from her Halloween party at school earlier in the day and she drank like she was parched.

Juicebox rocket craftAfter she drank the juice, she got creative with the juicebox and made a juicebox rocket out of it!

Madelyn flew her juicebox rocket all around the front yard, initiated some pretty serious launch sequences complete with sounds and some crazy spinning action!  🙂  Needless to say, I wasn’t paying much attention to my magazine anymore.  I followed Madelyn around the yard as she flew her juicebox rocket into infinity and beyond!

Supplies needed:

  • 1 juice box – unless you’re on a serious mission in which case you’ll need more juice boxes
  • 1 regular size drinking straw per rocket
  • 2 paint brushes per rocket
  • About 1 cup of moistened sand

How to make your juicebox rocket:

  • Have your child drink the juice until the juice box is empty
  • Cut a hole in the bottom of the juicebox
  • Fill the juicebox with moistened sand (so the sand doesn’t fly out as your child fly’s it)
  • Stick a straw in the sand
  • Strategically place two paint brushes in the sand – for what purpose, I don’t know.

Get in on the fun and make your own juicebox rocket with your kids!   What is the most creative thing your child has made from a juicebox?