Sparkle Crafts
Unleash your creativity and dive into the world of crafting with Sparkle Crafts. From DIY projects to artistic endeavors, this category is your go-to destination for all things crafty and creative.
Sparkle Craft: Woodblock Menorah
This week's craft is a woodblock child's menorah that can be made with a few simple materials from your local craft and hardware stores.
Sparkle Craft: Vintage Christmas Songbook
Made from a vintage book and my pile of old Christmas cards, this kid-friendly holiday craft is meant to be added to and cherished year after year.
Our Nine Favorite Homemade Holiday Gifts
These nine projects make for wonderful holiday gifts, whether you make them for friends and family (with the help of children!) or you create them for the members of your own dear home.
Sparkle Craft: 20-Minute Kid-Sized Bobble Blanket Scarves
Use this fun DIY tutorial to learn to make a 20-Minute Kid-Sized Bobble Blanket Scarf.
Sparkle Craft: Martin & Sylvia's Colorable Ornaments for Advent
For this year's calendar, our lovely Sparkle Stories artists have made a beautiful set of printable ornaments.
Sparkle Craft: Sock Bunny
This week's craft is a good example of making do and mending. It uses something you might throw away — an old pair of socks — and makes it into a new toy for a child.
Sparkle Halloween Crafts Round Up
We love Halloween treats and healthy meals, but Halloween doesn't just mean good food. It also means festive costumes and decorations. Here are some of our Sparkly and not-so-spooky ideas.
Sparkle Craft: Quick, Low-Sew Wings
These wings take just the tiniest bit of very basic sewing — hence the “low-sew” designation — and most of the heavy lifting is done by the one big knot you'll tie in the center of the fabric. If you can tie your shoes, you can do this!
Marigold Garlands
Strung into a garland, a bucket of marigolds can make a pretty offrenda into a truly beautiful one. In addition to being a common courtesy for receiving honored guests, the flowers represent the fleetingness of life to help celebrate Dia de los Muertos.
Sparkle Craft: DIY Microscope
This week’s craft project is very easy to put together, but — as with Martin’s microscope — getting it to work well will take a little bit of inventive tinkering. If you stick with it, however, it’s really neat to see how common objects and creatures look at a microscopic level.
Sparkle Craft: Halloween Special - Keepsake "Switch Witch" Plate
This simple handprint art commemorates both the Halloween season and my daughter's sweet, tiny hands.
Sparkle Craft: Recycled Paper Mache Scarecrow
This kid-friendly recycled paper mache scarecrow is a great project to start on a bright Saturday morning. Find all the instructions in this helpful tutorial post!
Sparkle Halloween Craft: Mixed Media Flashlights
While these flashlights will not transform children into their Halloween costume characters (at least, I don't think they will), they are handy for keeping little ones extra-visible when trick-or-treating as the sun sets. And they're extra-fun to carry because, in addition to their utilitarian function, they're little works of art.
Sparkle Craft: Halloween Special - Magician's Cape
Whether you're costuming a magician or a princess, a witch or a king, this cloak is versatile enough to have your trick-or-treater covered. A magic cloak, indeed!
Sparkle Craft: Halloween Special - Four No-Carve Pumpkin Ideas
Enjoy these four ideas for no-carve pumpkins that are beautiful, simple, and delightfully spooky.
Sparkle Craft: Halloween Special - Pillowcase Cross-Body Trick-or-Treat Bag
This cross-body trick-or-treat bag takes its inspiration from the pillowcases you may have used of yore but has a handy added design feature — a cross-body strap — that makes it easy to drop candy into the bag but hard to drop the whole thing on the sidewalk.
Sparkle Craft: “Speak Out” Postcard Writing Kit
With a few dabs of fabric glue and some very fun, non-technical sewing, you'll have a nifty kit that's all prepared the next time you or your little ones need to speak out about an injustice. In fact, this kit is so cute and fun to make that it might even encourage you to speak out more often.
Craft Your Own Personalized Hiking Stick
This week's craft project will hopefully get your kids excited to go on some adventurous fall hikes with their bright, new, personalized hiking sticks.
Sparkle Craft: Super Spy Finger Print Powder
From chemistry to computers, spies must be well-versed in science in order to complete their missions. This week's craft project brings a classic strategy of spy science — collecting fingerprints — into your kitchen.
Sparkle Crafts: Dragon's Roar Megaphone
This dragon megaphone takes just a few minutes to put together with materials you probably already have. Make one up and keep it on hand for the next time someone in your house really needs to let out a good ROAR!
