Valentine Cards that Kids can Make

You would be amazed at the marvelous cards kids can make with just a little help, browse through these Valentine card ideas and encourage the kids to make cards for their parents or the adult family members!

cute balsa wood craft: mouse

amazing balsa wood crafts job

Like always, we have had some of our wonderful designers/crafters do these amazing balsa wood crafts. They have done an amazing job and spent a good amount of time on making every wood craft look perfect. They use different types of craft paper, paint, embellishments, and more to make it a beautiful decoration that can go in any home.

Enjoyable and inspiring balsa wood crafts

Unique craft ideas and techniques of creating animal sculptured of wood chips from a Russian teacher Sergey Bobkov are amazing, surprising and interesting. Beautiful birds and wild animal sculptures, made of balsa wood chips are striking one-of-a-kind art pieces.

The talented teacher from Russia created and patented a totally new way of working with wood chips for creating beautiful sculptures that delight and impress. 53 year old Sergei Bobkov, who lives and works in Krasnoyarsk, likes to explore unusual and new design ideas, that celebrate wild life.

It is not interesting to repeat what others do, the craftsman says. To create something out of nothing and developing new ideas are far more enjoyable and inspiring.

Never Fade Wood Flowers

Balsa wood is well known for its excellent floatation ability and is popular for use in surfboards. It is also used for building model airplanes. It is one of the most popular woods for carving because it is soft enough to carve with a knife. Another common use for balsa wood is in building miniature furniture for doll houses, and sometimes for making beautiful and never fade flowers. To enjoy!

Scale Models and Balsa Wood Crafts

 

Bead heads crafts Step by Step

When I was a little girl my grandparents lived on Salt Spring Island and we would visit them often in the summer. Salt Spring has always been known for being home to some of BC's most 'artistic characters' so there were always lots of artsy things in the little shops in the village. That's likely where I bought this. . . er . . .

. . . bead head . . ?
And the strangest part is that I kept it all these years in a little box with my other "treasures"?!
But when I look at it I am instantly a kid again which is why I thought my kids and I should make something like it!
Now, I'll be totally honest here . . .
their first questions were "What is it?" and "What is it for?" and truthfully I wasn't able to come up with an answer, but we ended up having fun anyways! ;o)

So we got out the tin of beads . . . yum!

And then chose the basic materials
1 large bead
1 smaller bead
2 googly eyes
glue

And then played around a bit . . .. . .

 and eventually ended up with these!

We still don't really know what to call them or do with them, but who knows, the kids may find them 30 years from now in a little box of theirtreasures?