How to Make Cool Stuff
Silhouette portraits make a wonderful gift for Mom and Dad for Birthdays or for Mother’s Day or for Father’s Day … and better yet, they are very easy to make. This will make a wonderful keepsake craft for Mom and Dad as they watch you grow up and get to see how small your head used to be in comparison to how you look now (when they look back on it years later).
Every family has news—lots of news—so why not make a family newspaper! This would be a great gift to make for Mom on Mother’s Day or Dad on Father’s Day or for birthdays. For gifts, you can put clever titles like ‘The Best Mom in the World Has Been Found’ … or The Sweetest Mother in the World Has Been Found to Be Timmy’s Mom (if your name is Timmy). This is a great crafts idea that will produce a keepsake to cherish in years to come.
This is a really neat arts and crafts project to make a real, usable bowl, hot plates, or other type of pottery from normal crepe paper party streamers. You might even have these hanging around the house already. This would make a great crafts project to make a gift for Mom or Grandma on Mother’s Day or for a present for them on their birthdays. Follow the easy directions on this page.
Here is another gift idea to give to your Grandmother or Mom on Mother’s Day. This would also be great for Dads and Grandfathers for Father’s Day. Make a picture frame from cardboard and the instructions below. If you are looking for something to give Mother for her desk, a picture holder like the one shown here is certain to please.
All Moms love jewelry made by hand from their babies (no matter how old you get, you will always be your Mother’s baby). Here is a necklace arts and crafts project for kids. This jewelry is made from colorful cardboard, stiff paper, or construction paper. This makes a great, colorful, and thoughtful gift to make for your Grandmother or Mother.
Flowers make a great gift for Moms on Mother’s Day…they are beautiful, just like she is, inside and out. How about making a pretty flower holder vase for the flowers that you pick for her (or buy for her). This beautiful flower holder in which you can place real flowers would make an especially nice Easter gift for someone you love.
Need ideas for gifts to make for your Moms for Mother’s Day? Every Mom I know has a box full of stationery for times when they need to write correspondence and other type of letters. This attractive and useful gift is made from a pressed paper package tray and cover from a super market.
Make this cool letter holder as a gift for Mom on Mother’s Day or Dad on Father’s Day or for someone else you love. You can make this attractive and useful letter holder box gift in which to hold correspondence letters.
This is a special arts and crafts project for kids who want to make a special gift for Mom or Dad for a gift for Mother’s Day or Father’s Day. This is a fold-out, accordion-style photo book / folder. You can either use real photos or make your own comic book or use pictures from a magazine to make a funny story. This is a great craft to build imagination or to give as a gift to a loved one or friend.
If your Mother or Grandmother is a big sewer, embroiderer, etc and has a lot of thread, needles, and other sewing supplies, then why not make them a sewing box? Sewing boxes make great Mother’s Day gifts as well as presents for birthdays and other special occasions. Below you will find easy step by step instructions for putting together a great sewing box.
This is a great craft for older children, girls, and teens. This is a more complicated arts and crafts project than many of our other crafts ideas, so read over the following craft before deciding to do it. This pot holder craft would make a great gift for Mom or Grandma on Mother’s Day.
Sea Shell earrings turn out beautifully and they are very simple to make. Below you can find easy instructions for putting together earrings that are made from sea shells and earring clips. These would make a great gift for Mom or your Grandmother on Mother’s Day.
This is an easy sewing project with easy illustrated instructions to make a make-up / cosmetics case. Girls and Teens will love making this cosmetics bag / case / wallet – whatever you want to call it. It is also a great project to make for Mom or Grandma on Mother’s Day…and it would also be a great group project for Summer Camp or Girl Scouts.
Mother’s Day is coming up soon so it is time to start thinking about making your Mom a gift. How about trying to make this pretty necklace for mother that can be made out of simple plastic straws. All you need is some yarn and some straws and some love for your Mom. The simple instructions follow.
Does your Mom cook the best food? Does she love hanging out in the kitchen to cook you the best food? Don’t you think that your Mom is the world’s greatest chef? Show her what you think of her by making this chef doll out of foam for a Mother’s Day present. The simple step by step instructions are given below.