Category Archives: Kids Crafts

Happy Veterans Day – 11-11-11

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This is not a new idea for me– but these are new shirts. So I wanted to blog them. (not very smiley of my son– but he really is excited about the shirt.. at that stage) Last week I purchased red shirts on sale with my 25% off coupon from Jo-Ann’s Crafts.  I had made…

Halloween Brownie Push Pop Treats

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  Wrapping up the last of my Halloween treats and will be moving on to Thanksgiving.   These were a hit at my daughters 1st grade class.   I loved how they turned out. I purchased these wonderful push pops from – http://www.culinarydirect.com I love their quality of their push pops and you can’t go…

Halloween Test Tube Treats – FREE PRINTABLE

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Made some fun treats for a class room of 1st graders. That is what being a room mom is all about. Fun treats to bring in. I had test tubes on hand. I purchased them almost a year ago. Have used them on so many other projects. Halloween just seemed to fit perfectly for test…

Counting down to Halloween – Free Printable

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  I had planned to bag up some candy corn (as we have way too much in this house and needs to be given away). I wanted to make a tag that says 7 days till Halloween for the kids in my daughters class. I was browsing Pinterest today and came across this link. “Count’s…

Dollar Store Pumpkins – Angry Bird Style

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Our Dollar Tree store sold these carvable pumpkins. We decided to paint them up instead. Was quite fun!! I am pretty good at simple hand drawing. So I took a permanent marker and drew all our faces on our pumpkins.  So the kids had lines to follow to paint in. We love using Plaid FolkArt…

Frankenstein Marshmallow Pops – Kid Friendly

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These are so easy to make.  With kids its even more fun to do. Easy for little hands to help. Marshmallows, Chocolate Jimmie Sprinkles, Pop Sticks & Candy Melts Simply press the sticks into the bottom of the marshmallows We melted green candy melts into a glass cup. So that it was deep to submerge…

Dollar Store Finds – DIY Halloween Tap Lights

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LOVE shopping the Dollar Tree.  Found these tap lights for 1.00 of course.   I thought it would make it fun to turn them into a Halloween lights for the house My son wanted his to be a Ghost.   This was such an easy craft. I simply used my Silhouette machine and cut out…

Pumpkin Poop – { Free Printable }

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I love this poem. I have no clue who the original author is. I have used this poem for many years and love it. I wanted to make a cute tag to give away to friends. I worked on pumpkin graphics for Halloween. Then created a fun topper tag. Poem reads: “I started to carve…

Readers Creations – LOVE LOVE LOVE IT!

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I have had readers send me photos of the creations they have made from projects we posted here at Nothing But Country.  It makes me feel so good to see others projects or how they were inspired by a project and made it for themselves. Here are 2 of the recent ones I have gotten…

Puppy Party – Invite & Thank You

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I believe this will finally wrap up everything we did for the birthday party. WHEW.   Alot of work but tons of fun!!! I seriously am already thinking ahead for next years party   I have an idea.. but I will give myself a few months off. HAHA Here is the invitation we mailed out…

Puppy Party – Push Pups

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I so badly wanted to use my push pop containers for the birthday party. So I made these “PUSH PUPS” Filled them with chocolate covered raisins. Added this sticker to it- Click Here To Download I simply printed them on a 8 1/2 x 11 full size sheet of address labels by Avery. Then punched…

Puppy Party – DIY Puppy Ears

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We gave each of the puppy party friends a set of ears to keep. Maria @ Love & Sugar Kisses had the BEST tutorial on how to make these. They were SOOOO SIMPLE!! (Inside view of the ears) I found the headbands 4 for 1.00 at the Dollar Tree.  Felt from JoAnn’s Crafts and some…

Puppy Birthday Party – Part 3 (Fun & Games)

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Wrapping up the rest of the party. We had a blast with activities. We did a group shot of the girls. (We actually did this party 2 times in 1 day– friends in the morning and family (all boys) in the evening) If you missed our tutorial on how to make the card table dog…

Puppy Birthday Party – Part 2 (Puppy Stations)

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Continuing with the rest of the fun party we had a week ago for my daughter. We had many activities. This post is going to cover the fun stations we had I want to give credit where it is due – The Crafting Chicks featured their stations where I branched off and expanded on for…

Puppy Birthday Party- Part 1 (Treat & Food Table)

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I’ve been so excited to share this post. Was not sure if I should show off the entire party at once or pieces. But if I were to show it all at once it would be a VERRRYYY long post. So I will break it up over the next few days Here was some of…

Both deaf since the age of 3, Chad and Mary Beth enjoy not only raising their little family but photographing together, cooking & crafting as well. Living in Central Florida with their ... Read More About Us »
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