Sticky Mosaics® Heart Box
- Creating your own handicrafts has never been easier.
- Sticky Mosaics design-by-number craft kits are guaranteed to put a safisfied smile on everybody’s face.
- Perfect as a gift.
- Includes a heart shaped box with mirror and felt and 500+ sparklng jewel stickers.
- The award winning line of Sticky Mosaic craft kits will delight all ages and all skill levels.
The Sticky Mosaics Heart Box from The Orb Factory makes creating fabulously colorful room décor even more exciting because kids can add lots and lots of shiny jewels! With the Sticky Mosaics Heart Box Kit, kids can turn a heart box template into a colorful finished product with over 500 sticky, dazzling ‘jewel’ pieces.
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Kid Crafts – How to Tame Craft Clutter
Article by Shelly Morton
Crayons and paper and scissors . . . Oh my!
If kid craft clutter is making your house look like Nightmare in Munchkin Land; if you find your house slippers are covered in ruby red glitter; if you hope there’s no place like YOUR home then, perhaps what you need is an organizing Wizard? Okay . . . enough of the Wizard of Oz parody!Seriously though, every kid should be encouraged to be creative and enjoy arts and crafts. Despite the obvious benefits of keeping your kids entertained, childhood development experts agree that there is an actual benefit to children participating in arts and crafts. The benefits include: muscular development, general health and overall intelligence.Extensive research has shown that children, who receive art lessons while they are still very young, grow up to be far more creative and imaginative as adults. Creativity and imagination are essential components for measuring IQ. Additionally, in the real world of business, there are advantages to having a creative mind. Creativity allows for innovation – something that is highly valued in the business world today.I guess this means you need to know how to draw a box before you can think outside it?It’s not true that a messy area is the sign of a creative mind. In fact, research proves that living in chaos and clutter can actually hinder creativity, not help it.Here are my tips for a well organized kid crafts area:
Have a special place for crafts (if space permits) Have a place to store the different kinds of art and craft supplies Make the supplies available and easy to get to Make it easy for the kids (and you) to see what they have Make it age-appropriate and safe Make it easy to clean up Make sure the kids have clear rules about clean up when they are done
I don’t recommend letting kids craft in their bedroom because of the obvious mess as well as the potential lack of safety supervision. If you don’t have sufficient space in your home to set aside a special craft corner, then make your craft supplies mobile so you can carry them around. The kitchen table is a great space to craft.You can spend a lot of money on specialty products to store art and craft supplies. If you have the money to purchase these, great! However, if you’re on a tight budget, you can use less expensive items or re-purpose things in your home.Need some ideas?
Use empty, clean vegetable or coffee cans and spray paint them in your favorite colors. You can personalize them by painting the kids’ names on certain cans and labeling them for pens, crayons, etc.Old canning jars make handy storage for yarn, string, stickers, buttons and other loose craft supplies.Look around your house for small containers (plastic containers, baby food jars, etc.) for craft storage. You can even use the cardboard paper towel roll for storing ribbon and lace. Get creative!
The best rules for storing kid crafts are:
Make it fun Make it colorful Make it accessible (easy to get out and put back)
Using a little creativity and imagination, you and your kids can enjoy fun, peaceful times together building memories while creating and still maintain a decent amount of order and cleanliness.
About the Author
Shelly Morton is a professional organizer with 30 years experience in corporate and private home organizing. Her website http://www.straighten-up-now.com provides free organizing information, tips and tricks to help you reduce clutter, save time and money and life a stress free life.
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Great project for my 8 year old,
My 8 year old loved decorating this cute heart box and she was so happy when she finished. I can see her using it through grade school. It is now filled with all the treasures she finds through out her day. With her dyslexia, she has a tough time with number recognition but this connection between the color tiles and the corresponding numbers made a lot of sense for her. She could also add some of the extra tiles that come in the kit to spots she found lacking! Over all this was a great purchase.
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|birthday present,
I bought this for my 4 year old. She loved it – easy to put on but not so easy to get them to stay on. I think we will be finding these all over the house for years to come.
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|pretty fun toy for daughter,
10 year old daughter sat down and got right to work. didnt take much of a break til it was finished. looked cute also.
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