An “ear of corn” bookmark is a fun project to make and give. It is a perfect bookmark for those that have to mark a few succeding pages since the paper clip base is flexible can be adjusted. A great gift to give to students and teachers!

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Using crafts to decorate around the house, doesn’t necessarily limit your enjoyment to making refrigerator magnets, or tissue boxes glued with macaroni, and painted gold. It also doesn’t mean you have to take classes in glass blowing, or making stained glass, in order to really provide worthwhile craft decorations to your home. Floral decor is always popular, but in the fall, it can only be an added expense. The holidays are coming up, so why not make some Thanksgiving decorations for your home?

The best kind of decorative home accents are the kind that actually provide some use to you and your family. So what better decor craft, than the edible kind?! Naturally, none. Try these festive holiday decorating ideas for Thanksgiving or Christmas:

Fairy Food

Garnish baked goods with edible flowers, like miniature roses, or other blossoms, such as dandelions, if it’s warm where you live. You can bake full size rose petals into cakes, or make rosewater lemonade, which includes pink or red rose petals in the glass. Another festive idea, is to make rosy ice cubes, –pressing full size rose petals into each panel of your ice tray then filling, and freezing it will produce beautiful and colorful ice.

Another idea, is to dust wet grapes with sugar, to make them appear sparkly, or frosty. Other creative ideas, are using powdered sugar, or flour to lightly dust other dishes, for the snow effect.

RainCollection.Com is useful if you want to craft beautiful gift baskets on your own, or just to skip the craft part of home decorating. The site has a huge selection of lovely home decorative pieces, –not edible, but still useful for the family, or as gifts for friends.

Quilting has been an American past-time since colonial days, when women gathered scraps of cloth, feather down, or bits of cotton, to sew them into heavenly warm blankets that were cherished for several generations. Everyone has some fond memory involving a warm quilt on a chilly day or night; there are also quilt museums, fairs and other community event. There are even quilting website for quilting lovers, and quilting forum where people can meet and share techniques. However, when it comes down to it, many people shy away from quilting because they’re intimidated by the time and effort necessary for the task. Quilting doesn’t have to take hours, and it doesn’t have to be difficult either. Here’s one easy quilting task that anyone with a sewing machine can manage in a single day.

What You Need:

Sewing machine
Four yards muslin
Two pieces of fabric, each two yards long
Thread
Scissors
Needle

Instructions:

1. Wash fabrics, along with the muslin, together, according to the care instructions for the fabric (which can be found on the bolt.)
2. Lightly iron fabric and muslin after it’s washed and dried.
3. Stack fabric wrong sides together, with mulim on top.
4. Machine stitch three of the four sides, using a straight stitch and a quarter-inch or so seam allowance.
5. Turn the piece right side out, and look for mistakes or irregularities in the seams.
6. Turn it back around and trim any excess fabric from the seams.
7. Turn the quilt right side out and take time to smooth the quilt and make sure that the muslin is distributed evenly around the quilt.
8. Stitch the fourth side by hand.
9. Do any finishing work; sew straight lines down the quilt, and then across to make a pattern of squares. This also helps to keep the muslin in place.

You can share and find easy quilting ideas like this one, online from a quilting group. Have fun, and happy stitching!

We all know how hard it is sometimes, coming up with consistent ideas to keep your students busy, entertained, but most importantly educationally productive. There are plenty of craft books out there with the standard, boring crafts out there that offer your students no enrichment whatsoever. Ideas from the March Group, and other homeschoolers, and teaching groups, have come together here to provide you with more educational options for crafts in your home classroom. Whether you’re teaching just your children, or have other kids in your home classroom, these ideas will provide hours of fun for everyone, –including you!

Thanksgiving is right around the corner, and it’s also a great way for kids to learn early colonial and Native American history while they make colored paper cut out turkeys, or horn o’ plenty’s. These make fantastic art for the fridge, or as Thanksgiving buffet decorations. There’s also photography crafts, which can be used for creating basic maps, for local geography. Taking pictures, arranging them and pasting them to create a map of your block, or local neighborhood not only teaches basic geography and directions, but it’s also a great for safety.

Polaroid PoGo is the hottest new phone accessory, because it utilizes Zink technology. What is Zink? Zink basically is short for “Zero Ink”. There are lots of different things you can do with PoGo, like making Baby Blocks, Refrigerator Magnets, and Scrapbooks. For more fun ideas, visit or join The Polaroid PoGo Club, and start making memories today, –the easy and fun way!