The Crafty Crow

Chocolate Dipped Strawberries

Isn't it nice when a cooking activity can be described as quick, simple, and delicious?  That's exactly how I'd describe these white chocolate-dipped strawberries!  Go to Full Circle for details.

Personalized Wood Doll Family

I'm in love with peg dolls and the idea of doing a set of your family is crazy fun!  See more from Colorfool  and her idea of doing different backgrounds - brilliant!

Bookmarks

Two great bookmarks to make! This first one is made with watercolors and you can get the details at Let's Explore. So pretty!

This photo strip bookmark is adorable!  See how to do it at Make And Takes.

Easy Bead Coaster

A great coaster that's easy to make even for your youngest crafters!  Ramblings Of A Crazy Woman shows you how.

Scrunchy Blossoms On A Branch

I'd love to have some of these scrunchy crepe paper flowers!  Get the how-to for this and other flowers at Kids Craft Weekly.

Felted Turtle

Yours 'til Niagara Falls has come up with the cutest little felted turtle.  She has a great tutorial with lots of pictures so check it out!

Strawberry Basket Weaving Pendants

Scrumdilly-Do has come up with a great idea - pendants made from strawberry basket weavings!  You'll have lots of fun with this :)

Paper Tube and Felt Flowers

These wonderful flowers are made from paper towel tubes and felt!  Go to Plum Pudding for lots of great photos and a nice tutorial.

New Categories & Pages and a Thank You!!

I am adding three new categories to
The Crafty Crow:

• Organizing Ideas - ideas and projects that help organize all your kids stuff

• Parent Made - projects made by an adult to be used for kids or projects that involve taking your child's art and making it into something else

• Words Of Wisdom - advice with an arts and crafts slant

Also under "More, More, More" I have added these pages:

• Basic (And Not So Basic) Art Supply List

• Resources

• "How To Put A Button In Your Sidebar" Tutorial

I also wanted to say Thank You!! to all the people who have stopped by, left comments, sent submissions and linked to The Crafty Crow!  This is the seventh week and we have already had over 87,000 page views!  I am having so much fun doing this and it has really given a much needed boost to the crafting I do with my kids.  So thank you from the bottom of my heart and I look forward to many posts to come!

*The picture is an embroidery I did from my youngest son's artwork several years ago.

Child-Drawn Pot Holder

What a great gift idea!  Sycamore Stirrings has a wonderful tutorial to make this potholder using your child's drawings. 

Word Play

This is such a fun way to encourage word play with your kids - and fun to make too!  A Foothill Home Companion tells how she did it. Make a set for car trips with magnets on the back :)

Felted Treasure Box

This felted treasure box is so amazingly simple you won't believe it!  Check out HomeWork and give it a try :)

Tissue Paper Flowers

This week you'll be seeing a lot of great Mother's Day ideas like these pretty tissue paper flowers by Rowdy Pea!

Three Generation Book

I love this three generation book created by Elsita, her mother and her daughter.  What a wonderful way to record memories and make new ones!

Colored Sand Pictures

Colored sand pictures add texture and fun for a unique coloring experience - get all the details at Hop Skip Jump!

Handprint Card

Lovely idea for a Mother's Day card from Zakka Life!

Cake In A Jar

Simply Stork shows you how to do this wonderfully simple and fun idea - Cake In A Jar!

Crayon Rubbings

I love these crayon rubbings by The Artful Parent!  There's a reason that crayon rubbings are a classic - it's like magic watching the rubbed item appear before your eyes :)

Look what Three Sneaky Bugs did with their crayon rubbings - great idea!

Homemade Playdough

Sounds like Mine To Thine has perfected homemade playdough so if you're looking for a good recipe or giving this a try for the first time head on over!

Button Flowers

One More Moore has a nice tutorial on how to make these sweet button flowers.  I'm thinking Mother's Day here!

Puppet Theater

Plum Pudding has come up with a great way to make a puppet theater from a cereal box!  Also check out her adorable stick puppets - the possibilities are endless :)

Bubble Painting

Bubble painting always creates such beautiful and delicate pictures.  A Bit Of This And A Bit Of That shows how she does it here.

Tissue Paper Butterfly Garden

Sunshine streaming through colorful tissue paper always makes for a happy day!  Flossie Teacakes has a nice tutorial showing how to make stained-glass-like tissue paper butterflies - so pretty!

Exercise Game

I think this is a great idea from Make and Takes - an exercise game!  I'm planning on customizing it for my kids karate camp this summer and using different karate moves.