| American Made Craft Supplies, Craft Kits, and Craft Ideas |
The educational value of crafts for kids, cannot be underestimated. It teaches skills, obviously, but also forms the basis for great attitudes: waking up and knowing you have a project; reading directions, and following them; making choices, colors, shapes, and what to do next; creating something useful with spare time; learning to be orderly and tidy in order to be able to continue. It also offers the possibility of interacting with parents. And some toy manufacturers produce educational projects as well, like a recycled soda bottle into a bird feeder. Clearly, craft kits are worth 4 gold stars on the family values scorecard. And for more opportunities in this regard, please have a look at some selected events we've found for you in craft news and festivals for family fun.
For ideas for craft projects for the entire family, you can scroll down through the American crafts companies below, There are two companies at the bottom part of the page offering knitting and weaving supplies, including the warm and soft, alpaca. There are craft kits, braiding supplies, dollhouse kits, bird feeder kits and more.
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American made graphic tools and supplies are manufactured by Logan Graphics, a family run business offering everythng you need for making picture frames. They have framing tools, mat cutters, mats, kits, books and dvd's. Although they do not sell from their website, they have a very good store locater where you type in your zip code and a list of stores, addresses, and mileage comes up for you.
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American made craft kits and supplies from Toner Crafts in Massachusetts offer construction projects and craft kits for children and adults.
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| Instructions from Toner Crafts |
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| From Toner Crafts, Craft Kits |
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Craft Lace projects, necklaces, lanyards, pencil wraps and instructions for projects, written and as videos can keep the whole family busy. These American made crafts Products are available in stores or online.
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For American made pen wood turning blanks, River Ridge offers a wide variety of beautiful woods nd other supplies for your pen craft projects.
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American made boiled wool fabric for your sewing creations, made by Marshallee in a wonderful selection of colors. They also produce a wool wash called Euclan.
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| Boiled Wool from Marshallee Creations |
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American Made Easels are available from Master Woodcraft in North Carolina. The Easels are shipped assembled. Easels are useful for art work, for a display aid for eductational purposes, and as a decorative object with a painting.
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American Made Wool Rovings, Birdfeeders, Dollhouse Furniture, Watercolor Paints, Acrylics, Oils, Crayons. For Finished Birdfeeders see Patio and Garden
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| Two Craft Projects-Easy to Make |
Here are some crafts projects you can try. The cold frame need plans which you can download from the internet. Instructions for the other two are given here, the planter and the miniature bed. Please see below.
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| From Mary T-Hanging Basket |
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| Succulents are a Perfect Choice |
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From Pokeberry Kitchen To assemble my little straw purse succulent garden I first coated the straw purse with a water sealer--I think that is an optional step, but I'm hoping it will just give it a little more longevity. I lined the dry purse with sheet moss and separated the moss into a sort of pocket inside the purse. I filled the pocket up with a light potting mix then tucked a bit more moss around wherever it seemed to need it. I then took my succulent cuttings and small plants and tucked them into the soil in the top of the purse. In some places I needed to use a pencil to poke a bit of hole, then I put just a pinch of soil in the pencil hole and tucked the plants in. After I was finished planting I tucked a bit of sheet moss in here and there for filler and then I watered the purse in my sink using a just a very mild solution of water and fertilizer--about 1/3 regular strength- because these are baby plants they don't need too much food.
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| Miniature Bed by Deb Roberts from the Greenleaf Gazette. |
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| You will need 1 cd cut in half, 1 small box (an HOM box bottom works perfectly), 2 fabrics of your choice, a piece of soft foam or folded quilt batting, tacky glue, liquid starch, and sewing pins. Complete directions are on the Crafts Projects page.
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| Greenleaf Dollhouses-First Place contest Winner |
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| Arthur Cottage- Miniatures from Greenleaf Dollhouses |
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| Storybook Cottage Kit from Greenleaf Dollhouses |
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| Storybook Cottage from Greenleaf Dollhouses. Click here For Greenleaf Dollhouses.
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Janlynn of Massachusetts offers a wide selection of craft kts, including: Paint by Numbers, Beaded Jewelry Kits,
String Art Kits, Canvas and Fabric CraFt Kits. See Janlynn
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Contact us to suggest a company for us to list or make a comment.
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Wildwood Craft Kits from Mariposa, California: baskets, wreathes, picture frames,hats, quilts - see Craft Kits
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| From NEAFP-alpaca for knitting and weaving |
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| Striped Wool Roving from Spinsters Cottage |
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Spinster Cottage at Leighton Farms offers alpaca wool rovings and other supplies for knitting and weaving.
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