Toilet Paper Tube Knitting!

Hey, y'all! The other day I shared a blog post titled Toilet Paper Tube Crafts and it was wildly popular! It made me recall another favorite craft involving the lowly toilet paper tube and that's making a Nifty Knitting Tube! Here's a three minute video to show you how:

All you'll need is a tube, some popsicle sticks, tape, scissors and yarn. That's it! For a loose knit, use only four sticks. For a tighter knit, try using six.

If interested, this is just one of the 44 stitch and string projects from my book! Have fun :)

Pirate Week: Pirate Ship Collage

Our pirate-y adventures continued yesterday when we made this fun Pirate Ship Collage!

 If you missed out on the fun, don't you worry! You can watch the video right here. Below is a list of the supplies we used. 

This one is so fun and you can use a lot of recycled materials from around your home! 

If you wish to join us live today, that would be awesome! Below is the list of supplies needed. You can join me on my Facebook page or my Instagram for the live stream. 

Want more art makin' fun? Then you might want to subscribe to my YouTube channel! I'm uploading new videos almost daily. 

Pirate Week: Wanted Pirate Poster!

Ahoy, mateys! In case you missed yesterday's live art class, here you go! We had so much fun making Wanted Pirate Posters. Here's what you'll need:

And here's the video so you can create your very own Wanted Pirate Poster!

In case you need more ideas on how to draw your pirate or if you'd like a Pirate Coloring Sheet, be sure and visit here.

 If you need a little help coming up with your pirate name, I created these two What's Your Pirate Name?! sheets just for you!

 And if you wish to join today, Tuesday, March 31st at 11am CT, here's what you'll need:

I go LIVE on my Facebook page and my Instagram. All videos go to my YouTube channel later in the day so be sure to subscribe to see! 

Pirate Week!

I hope you Pirates are as excited as I am about Pirate Week! We are going into our third week of themed home-based creating and I am loving it! In case you missed, we've done Robot Week and Zany Scientist Week. All of those videos you can now catch on my YouTube channel. More are added all the time so I would encourage you to subscribe! 

Once again, we are keeping the supplies simple. Most days we are just using household items. So that you can scavenge around for them like a true pirate, I'm including the list of supplies for each day this week! 

When I go LIVE, I do so on Facebook and Instagram. You can find me there, each weekday at 11am CT. 

If you know of ANYONE who would like to join, please know that this is absolutely free. Anyone is able to be apart of the creatin' fun. Art teachers, feel free to add this to your list of creative activities your students can do at home. Our kids are currently left with a lot of time on their hands. Let's fill their days with a bit of normalcy and FUN! Thank you SO MUCH for continuing to get the word out, it means the world to me and our creative kiddos. 

On Monday, we'll be drawing Wanted Pirate Posters! To get those creative juices flowing, I created not one but TWO coloring sheets! You can find them here and here. 

Just for fun, I created these What's Your Pirate Name sheets. You can use these any ole time but we'll definitely be taking a look at them on Monday! Of course, coming up with your own name is most of the fun!

Tuesday's activity is going to be all about recycling as we use a toilet paper tube and a cereal box as our main creating source!

Last week, making our own clay was a HUGE hit! If you want to make your clay in advance or find out more, just hop over here! 

The most fun in making your own treasure map is making it look old when you are finished. For that you can use a cup of coffee or tea. I used my cold cup of morning coffee and it worked great. 

I love making puppets, they are so much fun. And this one is a simple puppet that can actually be transformed into so many things. We'll be making a Crocodile Puppet with ours!

And here's the daily lineup! I hope to see you there. 

Zany Scientists! Making Your Own Clay!

Can you believe that Zany Scientist Week is over!? Not to worry if you missed a single day because I'll be sharing all of our art AND science projects right here! Let's start with yesterday's installment where we made our very own clay and then created with it!

Then on Thursday, we created our own beakers and made a Magic Potion which was my favorite experiment we did all week! 

On Wednesday, we created a drawing that exploded before our very eyes! That was so fun. We also did Floating Chalk Prints!

Tuesday we created our very own Thinking Caps before venturing into our experiment:

And on Monday we did Bubble Printing and drew Scientist Selfies!

If you missed ANY of our adventures during Robot Week, you can see them all right here. You might want to subscribe so you don't miss a single episode! 

Next week, our theme is Pirates!! I'm so excited. I'll be sharing with you the list of supplies needed by tomorrow. You can catch me LIVE every weekday at 11am right here on Facebook or here on Instagram!