Crafts with kids.

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http://www.enchantedlearning.com/crafts/

This is a great place to find crafts to do with your kids, students, or little brothers/sisters. It's not all boring kiddie stuff, either. Some of it can be altered to make some cool stuff for yourself too.

On the topic of kids, my daughter loves post cards, especially baby animal ones and they tend to get all over the place but she doesn't want to "wreck" them with pins or stick-tack. So, I made her an "art gallery" for a collection of them.

12 post cards 5"x7", 4"x6", etc
12 glass & pressboard picture frames (the kind that is just glass held together by 4 clips) 5"x7"
silver or other fancy tissue paper cut in 12 sheets larger than the frames
podgy or white glue
large brush
scissors

I crumpled up the tissue paper, then shook it out. Then I just brushed the podgy all over the board part of the frame and pushed the tissue paper on to it and smoothed it down. It ended up looking crinkly. When all 12 were dry, I clipped as close to the edge as I could with scissors to get off the extra paper. Then I popped the post cards in and closed them up. The silver paper looks neat and it doesn't matter what size of post card she puts in because they're all matted the same. I would have used a regular matting but I have enough trouble getting the matting and picture to stay in place and I'm an adult. My daughter is eight and she can now change the cards in the frames herself. I mounted them all along one wall and they look so cute.

The paper and the frames were from the dollar store so the whole project cost less than $15.