Posts Tagged by teaching
Raising Money Smart Kids – Setting Savings Goals
Learn how to set savings goals with your children. Angie Mohr, author of Piggy Banks to Paychecks, offers tips on how to teach kids about saving money. more
Guest Post: How to Be a Financial Mentor to Your Kids’ Friends
Practical advice on how to be a financial mentor to your kids’ friends by financial expert and Piggy Banks to Paychecks author, Angie Mohr. more
Celebrating Seuss
In honor of this favorite icon in literature, we’ve come up with a few fun ways to celebrate his birthday and promote reading and creativity in kids. more
Kids Are Authors Contest Sponsored by Scholastic
Scholastic Book Fair is sponsoring a Kids Are Authors contest! Here are the details. more
Celebrate Diversity with Young Children
Today’s guest post on celebrating diversity with kids comes from Dan Gilbert on behalf of Primrose Schools. Here are some creative ways to teach them about diversity and culture with play, music, games, books and more. more
Discipline Tips to Foster Maturity in Tweens
Try these 10 discipline tips to foster maturity and build character in your tween. more
Teaching Kids with Pizza – Reader Idea
Today’s featured reader idea on Creative Kids Ideas comes from Angie Mohr at Raising Money$mart Kids. Angie expertly combines practical lessons about money, gardening, and health with something kids love: pizza! more
New Blog Talk Radio Show, Will Blog for Kids
Join experienced mommy bloggers, Jo Brielyn from Creative Kids Ideas and Michelle Debenport from SomeGirlsWebsite, as they dare to delve into the world of blogging for children with their new radio show, Robin Falls Kids – Will Blog for Kids. Details follow… more
Reader Idea: Fun Crayon Caddy Craft
Check out this fun crayon caddy craft idea – made from recycled materials – submitted by one of our readers, Denise Bertacchi. more
Craft project and photo provided by Denise Bertacchi
Are you tired of finding your child’s crayons everywhere but where they belong? Crayons on the floor just tempting the dog to eat them (Yes. Trust us, it happens and makes for quite a colorful mess). Broken, melted crayons hidden near the heater, under the furniture, or in numerous other places you don’t want to find them.
Or are you simply looking for a more organized way of storing crayons and other craft supplies?
Whether you decide to use this project at home or in the classroom, Creative Kids Ideas is confident you’ll love this fun, creative craft idea submitted by one of our readers, Denise Bertacchi, as much as we do. Not only is it a great project to make with your kids that also helps to get their craft supplies more organized, it is also made with recycled items and scraps found around the house or classroom – which makes it doubly awesome in our book!
The only items needed to complete this project are a tissue or shoe box, glue and lots of cardboard tubes. Then let your child personalize the caddy with paint, stickers, paper or other scrap materials. We love the concept of encouraging kids to use their creativity, become more organized, and have fun doing it!
To get directions (and a short slide show) on how to make the crayon caddy pictured above, visit Denise’s article entitled Crafts for Kids: Make a Cool Crayon Caddy from a Tissue Box on the St. Louis Motherhood Examiner page. You can also read more parenting ideas and posts from Denise Bertacchi at The WM Parenting Connection, where she blogs as the Stay At Home Mom.
Thanks for sharing your idea with Creative Kids Ideas, Denise!
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