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Kids Crafts
Easy Kids Crafts-Homemade Crafts
Some fun easy kids crafts can be done right at home. Homemade crafts are so much fun to do with your child especially on a rainy day. Look to Treasure Box Kids blog weekly to get inspirational ideas on more easy kids crafts as well as kids activities. Visit www.treasureboxkids.com to find adorable summer boys and girls outfits. We are going to show you how to make a homemade aquarium. You probably have these items in the house.
Easy Kids Crafts
Take two large plastic disposable bowls and cut a large hole in the middle of one of the bowls. Take the other and cover or color the inside of the bowl blue. Glue cracker goldfish on the inside bowl. You can get very creative when designing this craft. For instance you can use pieces of silk greenery and rocks to line the bottom of the bowl. This will give the likeness to an actual aquarium. When you are done with the inside of the aquarium attach the bowl that has the large hole over the other bowl so that they form a �ball.�
Pull a string through the top of the connected bowls if you would like to hang this new fish tank craft in your child�s room. Now you have your very own aquarium!
Tie die-butterflies: Most of us have at some time tie dyed shirts. It is fun activity for kids. Here is a tie dye idea that does not take a hot stove to create.
Take paper coffee filters and fold them in half. Dip them into different colors of kool-aide. The colors will naturally run and create a beautiful design. Or you can use colored markers to color the coffee filters. Then, dip them into water and let the colors run. When you open the dried coffee filters you will have beautiful butterflies.
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Baby Shower Ideas
Baby Gift-Baby Gift Set
A creative baby gift can be easily done at home. We are going to show you how to create a baby gift set that will help the Mother to be in many different ways. Visit www.treasureboxkids.com to find cute baby clothes that you can add to any baby gift set or wrap separately to give at the baby shower. Visit Treasure Box Kids blog to find creative baby showers ideas as well as baby gift ideas. We have put together four fabulous ideas for your next baby shower.
Baby Gift
1. Purchase a laundry basket and use it place of a gift bag. You can line the basket with a soft baby blanket. Fill the basket with baby laundry detergent, baby wipes, etc.
2. For a unique baby shower gift, give a certificate for a class on CPR. Every new parent can benefit with this very useful and life saving class.
3. As the hostess, you can have each guest bring a little golden book to the baby shower. It is best to have a list when guests RSVP to be sure that all the books will be different. For a personal touch have them write a note to the new parents. Now, the parents have a starter set of golden books.
4. If you are running low on cash, purchase an inexpensive small stuffed animal. Attach coupons that you can make on the computer for your services. This might be one of the best baby gifts. You can offer things like making a meal when mom first comes home from the hospital, cleaning services after the baby is born or offer to take older children out for the day and give mom some time alone with the new baby.
These four shower ideas should be different and fun. The Mother to be will appreciate the extra effort as well.
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Baby Shower Ideas
Baby Shower Favors
Throw a fun baby shower using our ideas to make personalized baby shower favors. Today, we are going to show you fun and creative ways to make personalized baby shower favors. These baby shower favors are a way to make the mother to be and each guest feel extra special. Visit www.treasureboxkids.com, where you will find adorable baby clothes that will be great to give as a baby shower gift.
Baby Shower Favors
1. Bun in the oven. Bake or purchase cinnamon buns. If you bake them yourself let them cool. When they have cooled put them in plastic bag and tie a ribbon around the top. Have a note inside the bag that says the name of the Mother-to-be, thanking the guests for attending her shower.
2. Baby Socks. Purchase baby socks and fill them with candy and tie a ribbon around the top. Place one at each place setting. If you want to personalize it have ribbons made that say thank you from the expectant mom for attending and for the baby gifts.
3. Picture this! Purchase small picture frames at your local craft store. Print �thank you for coming� from the mom-to-be. You can include her due date with the thank you for the baby gifts. The guest will have a nice frame that can be used later, different from many other baby shower favors.
4. Yellow rubber duckies will look adorable at each place setting. The guests will either keep them for themselves or know someone with a young child who would love this reusable baby shower favors.
5. Fortune cookies with a thank you note from mom on the inside. These can be special ordered and are very different and unique.
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Baby Shower Ideas�
Baby Shower: Baby Travel Bag
The baby travel bag makes a great gift for a baby shower. A baby travel bag is a car kit that contains baby products to fit most travel situations: a thermometer, pacifiers, bottle, formula, liners (depending on the bottles preferred by mom), nail clipper kit, washcloths, hair brush and comb, travel bag dispenser that gives you a small bag to put dirty diapers into, burp cloth, nasal aspirator, a few diapers, wipes and a new outfit.
Baby Products
Treasure Box Kids has a variety of baby girls clothes as well as baby boys clothes to put in the baby travel bag. Some manufacturers have prepackaged baby gear such as travel size shampoo, lotion, powder, baby wash, and diaper rash cream that can easily be added to the travel bag.
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Ladybugs-Ladybug Lore
Little girls love ladybugs. Classic ladybug lore is as varied as the regions where the stories began. All month long at www.treasureboxkids.com we are featuring girls ladybug outfits and girls dresses adorned with adorable ladybugs. Lady Bugs are adorable on baby ladybug outfits, dresses and onesies which are also featured this month. Read our blog this month for great ideas for a girls ladybug themed party or a baby ladybug themed party.
Ladybugs:
In most cultures, the ladybug is considered to be a good luck charm. Children love ladybugs because they are colorful and easy to catch. The most popular ladybug lore began in Europe during the Middle Ages when swarms of insects were destroying crops. Farmers prayed to the Virgin Mary. Soon after, the ladybugs came to devour the insects and save the crops. Farmers called ladybugs, �The Beetles of Our Lady,� and over time were called �Lady Beetles� or �Lady Bugs.� The red wings represented the Virgin�s cloak and the black spots were symbolic of her joys and sorrows.
Ladybugs
More ladybug lore:
� In Sweden, people believe that if a Ladybug lands on a young maiden�s hand, she will soon be getting married.
� In France, if you are sick and Ladybug lands on you, when it flies away it will take the sickness with it.
� If you find a Ladybug in your house, count the number of spots and that is how many dollars you will soon receive. In Belgium, the number of spots on a Ladybug indicates how many children you will have.
� In England, finding a Ladybug means that you will have a good harvest.
� In the pioneer days if you found a Ladybug in your house in the winter you would have good luck.
� If a Ladybug is held in the hand while making a wish, the direction that it flies away to shows where your luck will come from.
� In some Asian cultures, it is believed that the Ladybug understands human language, and has been blessed by God, Himself.
� The Victorians in Britain believed that if a Ladybug alighted on your hand, you would be receiving new gloves…if it landed on your head, a new hat would be in your future.
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Kids Craft Projects…
Kids Craft: Quick and Easy Bath Salts
A great kids craft that is quick and easy and can be done at home is making bath salts. Here is another of our home made kids gift ideas that will be quite impressive. It will teach a science lesson to your child as well being fun to create. Treasure Box Kids comes up with new ideas on kids craft projects as well as kids gift ideas every week so make sure you visit our blog often.
Kids Craft Projects
To start the kids project, take small baby foods jar and fill it with Epson salt. Then, take food coloring and experiment with it to get the desired color. Add that to the jar with Epson salt.
Now, take those sample size perfumes that you can get from any department store or use one that has been mailed to you. Add the perfume sample to the jar. Cover the jar with the lid and cut out fabric to make a pretty cover for the lid. Secure the cover to the jar using ribbon or yarn.
Make a second one to keep at home. Your child will learn about what happens with this solid and how it will become liquid when dissolved with warm water. After you are all finished, run a bath and enjoy the aroma.
