well the kiddies are out of school for the summer here and if you have curious, creative little ones underfoot for a few months, i know we'll both hope to keep the kiddies busy with love of good clean *amuse themselves* fun as the heat grows! {or maybe you just need a *crafting break* yourself by the end of the day! :) }yay handmaking with kids projects!
so how about winning a funfun craft supplies pack for them?
or for yourself?
i've been sorting thru some of my crafty supplies and thought i'd put a little something together to giveaway to one of you with some crafty treats to keep the little handmakers in your life busy busy busy! :)
please note: some of the items are more suitable for adult hands. i'll let you decide! the pack includes:
- over 100 mini new fabric squares for a fun project (2" x2")
- 50 large vintage fabric squares (6"x 6")
- a fun packet of colourful crafty feathers
- pop dots & double sided adhesive foam squares for scrapbooking
- 3 fun tubes of craft glitter
- sew on snaps, lots and lots of vintage lace seam binding, fun trims & more!
- 2 brand new mini-photo albums (for all those summer memories!
- 6 little canisters (of various amounts) of seed beads
- a packet of mixed beads in various shapes, sizes, colours (and some key rings, too!)
............... just add glue! :)
1. tell me what you (or the kiddies) would make with the craft pack!
= 1 entry
2. tell me about about one of your FAVE fun, crafty, handmade projects you've made with the kiddies!
= 1 entry
3. come follow or subscribe to my little blog
(please note: to win this particular giveaway you must be a rikrak studio follower or subscriber! thanks nicies!)
and join the fun everyday!
= 1 entry
4. tweet about this giveaway
= up to 2 entries (one for each tweet!)
and coming back here and telling me about it. please include my twitter account in the update: i'm @therikrakshop on twitter!)
5. tell us about one of your favourite school teachers over the years
and why you loved them.
= 1 entry
6. follow me on twitter
(i'm @therikrakshop)
come back and tell me!
= 1 entry
7. blog about the giveaway
and tell me about it here.
= 1 entry
8. do a facebook update
about the giveaway with a link, and tell us here = 1 entry
9. please make sure that each entry is its own comment!
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RULES:
RULES:
a) it is possible to have numerous entries total per person.
b) please make sure to leave each entry as it's own comment. thanks!
c) for this particular giveaway, YOU MUST BE A RIKRAK studio follower or subscriber,
old or new! thanks!
d) the winner of this giveaway will be chosen from random.org on
friday, july 16th @ 9pm EST.
e) please be sure to leave me an email where i can reach you if your account doesn't link to one. thanks.
f) thanks so much everyone! and thanks for visiting the blog!
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happy handmaking with kids!
and thanks to all of those great teachers who've enriched the lives of our little ones over the years! we love you!
and thanks to all of those great teachers who've enriched the lives of our little ones over the years! we love you!
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How about some patchwork hairbands with interchangeable snap on feather or bead fascinators? Some wee wallet keychains that snap on belt loops (I see those keyrings in there).. aaand some tapestry collages of tropical summer scenery.
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I think clay is one of the best kid crafts, especially if you have a kiln to fire and glaze them. My mom still has some great dinosaurs, a horse, and a castle we made as kids that is actually surprisingly sculptural. Also, what kid doesn't like mucking around with mud and water.
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I'm following on google reader.
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maybe some fun palm tree party invitations. you can never have too many summer get togethers.
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I'd love to use these supplies to make fun cards to mail out! omydarlingblog(at)gmail(dot)com
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ReplyDeleteWhen I was in grade 3-4, we had the school librarian as a teacher. He shared the job with a very nice lady, but I've always remembered his habit of wandering over in the library, and placing his arm on your head to lean on. He had a great sense of humor, and was the only teacher in our school to still wear a proper suit. In grade 11, we had a western civ teacher who was easily sent off on tangents, and we loved his tales of reminiscence; the haunted spaghetti at his family reunion and the girl he wasn't allowed to date due to religious differences.
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my kids are both still very young but, i think the best craft projects we do are the handmade cards for daddy and the grandparents. even if it was just when they were "firstborn" as my daughter says and only a handprint butterfly.
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What a great giveaway! Thank you for creating such a fun craft pack! My little girl and I would start with necklaces and then make purses and doll clothes! Good times!
ReplyDeleteOne of my favorite craft projects was very simple. Each child painted one black handprint on a small canvas. (The canvas was painted solid ivory.) Then we trimmed the edge of the canvas in black grosgrain ribbon. So easy, but I will keep them forever!
ReplyDeleteI follow your blog!
ReplyDeleteI have so many favorite teachers! One of my very favorites was Mrs. S. I was lucky to have her in 3rd and 5th grade. She was patient, fun, and caring. She met my children a couple of years ago-that was really special!
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ReplyDeleteLots of necklaces and bracelets for dress up time! And since fall is birthday season in my family, we'll make a lot of cards with the glitter and fabric. Can I keep the lace for myself?
ReplyDeleteI love making things out of my girls' crayong scribbles. We can't save everything but making little keepsakes is a way to preserve just a little bit of it.
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ReplyDeleteWow! I just cant find half of the stuff you ar egiving away at local stores where i live!
ReplyDeleteWhat i would make:with the squares , a patchwork bag! with the feathers and beads, headbands,lariats and earrings.(a few key rings too;maybe a feather boa key ring!) and the lace trim is too yummy! would probably add it too some silky blouse!
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I don't have kids but i did make a pair of earrings and a bracelet along with my little neice(for her obviously)
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I'm already a follower! love your blog! :D
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My fave school teacher is one called miss Marie (don't know her full name)! She used to teach in fifth grade and all the kids used to love her! She was sweet and kind and strict all at the same time! Too bad she retired the year i came in fifth grade;she taught my class only for a week or so! We all cried when she left!
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We would probably make lots of fun cards!
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In the past, we've made earrings, necklaces and bracelets which was really fun!
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My first year in high school, I had a great English teacher who taught me not just English lessons, but life lessons that I still remember to this day. He made English not just a class, but something from which everyone could glean life lessons. He also had lots of interesting and humorous stories, and had a lot of life experience that made his class very memorable.
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I follow! I'd love to use these craft materials on projects with my husband and sister. We just moved, and it would be fun to use the fabric, trim, beades, etc. to make some mixed media pieces for the wall in our guest room.
ReplyDeleteMy daughter would use it to make homemade cards for her great-grandma's birthday!
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I would use the fabric pieces to make a doll quilt with my daughter! We love crafting!!! Thanks for the cool giveaway. mybabyappleseed(at)yahoo(dot)ca
ReplyDeleteThe kids and I have enjoyed spool knitting! Also sewing little pillows. mybabyappleseed(at)yahoo(dot)ca
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I tweeted http://twitter.com/Yeslech/status/17829980462
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One of my favourite school teachers is my daughter's grade one Friday teacher this year. She let my daughter read stories to the class that she had written herself and she told me cute stories about my daughter at the end of the day. You could tell she really cared about her students. mybabyappleseed(at)yahoo(dot)ca
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ReplyDeleteI was so taken with your beautiful blog that I bestowed an award upon rikrak! Come and visit to see... cheers, Emma @ Tightwad
ReplyDeleteI'd made lots of beautiful brooches!!!!
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I retweet! (janinilja)
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Fabric Covered buttons!! For Cuteness' sake! And if I have some leftovers, I'll be making a doll's room from cereal boxes and decorated them with these goodies. Or I can make a cardboard crown and royal capes for my little queen. Or making scrapbook pages to treasure on, or making cards for grandma, pirate's map, hair accesories.. the possibilities are endless!
ReplyDeleteDefinitely the home made doll printable. I made this
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printed on magnet paper and we got lost in stories and dressed up plans.
^_^ I am already a subscriber
ReplyDeleteSince Baby G hasn't started school yes, so I guess it's going to be my teacher then. I always remember Mrs. Netty, my 6th grade teacher, I love the fact that she's both math and tae kwon do teacher, and she goes to school jogging everyday, and her crop pixie cut hair, and she once won me over a big argue with a mean bully (I stood up for a friend against the bully, we got into a fight, yes, "boy" fight, and she noticed my bravery ^^). I love her.
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Well, my little boy is 18 months old and he would probably eat all the beads and throw the fabric in every corner of the house and glitter everything :)
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Of course I didn't start crafting yet with my little one. But I have tons of plans! I look forward to play with salt dough with him, for example.
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I will make a scrapbook with the craft pack ( :
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I'm a therapist working with children and families, and art is one of the best ways to get kids to start talking about what's bugging them. I do art projects all the time! It would be awesome to have all these supplies!
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My favorite thing I've made with the kiddies so far was magnets for their lockers (for the kids who are almost in middle school!). It was fun and I kind of went overboard on my 'example' and made this crazy glittery Twilight magnet that I loved so much I almost took home myself. Haha!
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My favorite school teacher was my algebra teacher in 11th grade. I went to visit him even after I graduated, and I invited him to my wedding (he's friends with my MIL) but he didn't come. That stung :( But I still like him. He was super nice and super helpful and had unconventional teaching methods.
ReplyDeleteWe just moved into a new house so I would probably make a "memory" album of photos of our house being built up to the finish. We could also make a "quilt" too.
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i am a proud follower :)
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when i was a child i love to make summer freshy drinks- shakes, ice cream, milkshake...i love to make cold food in the warm days! :)
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i will make with the things a lot...with the fabric- little buttens ibe want to do for long time..and the beads some chainkye holders for freinds...
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Ooooh, my son would love this craft pack! One of his favorite things to make is puppets, we usually use brown paper bags for the puppet and then decorate away! Thanks for the chance to win!
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One of my favorite crafts my son and I have done together is a painted flower pot that we planted sunflower seeds in afterwards. The sunflowers got about a foot and a half tall in the house before we planted them in the garden! Thanks!
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I am a happy follower and subscriber of the Rikrak blog! Yay!
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My favorite teacher when I was in school? Easy! My Mom! I was homeschooled, so I was lucky to spend each of my school days with my Mom, whom I love dearly:)
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Fun idea!
ReplyDeleteI'd make lots of glittery things with my nephew. He'd love it.
Thanks!
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I thnk the best thing we've ever made with kids is a family tree project at a summer camp. It was so special seeing the results and it was meaningful art making at it's best.
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I would make a tote bag or small quilt with the fabrics! Do some journal pages with the glitter and glue dots. I'd add the beads to my sparkly flower quilts!
ReplyDeleteI follow and subscribe to your blog.
ReplyDeleteI follow you on twitter.
ReplyDeleteThank You for the giveaway!
ReplyDeleteMy boys and I could make a TON of things with this craft pack!!
Since I have 2 boys I can see us making:
*Hats
*Pictures for their grandparents
*Decorate a popsicle stick house
and on and on and on....
Believe it or not my boys love to sit and make potholders with me. I bought them each a plastic loom and a big bag of scrap fabric circles and we have a ball! (they make great presents!)
ReplyDeleteI am a faithful follower!
ReplyDeleteI tweeted!!
ReplyDeleteMy favorite school teacher of ALL TIMEs was:
ReplyDeleteSister Ruth! She was my 1st grade teacher at St. Peter's Catholic School in Rome, NY! She was a Very strict teacher, but she was also my babysitter and had a heart as good as gold. until the day she died (at 89) we still kept in touch. The world is a sadder place without her.
I follow you on twitter!
ReplyDeleteI did a FB update this morning!!!
ReplyDeleteooh, the boys i babysit for would LOVE to decorate those photo albums! probably with everything else in the crafty kit! :)
ReplyDeletethe boys i babysit for love projects with food! spaghetti, food coloring, moldy bread. anything that you can make with food, they love!
ReplyDeleteI really love DIY crafts. I would use the fabric squares to sew mini pillows for my mini furniture, and I would wrap the lace ribbons around vases I have to pretty them up (even more than flowers already do). :) Thanks for the chance to win!
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I am now a rikrak studio email subscriber.
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With this craft pack I would make braclets with my daughter. She would LOVE this craft pack. Her birthday was yesterday, and on the weekend, we had her party at "What A Mess", a craft studio that does drop in and birthday party crafts. That's her favorite thing to do.
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Yesterday I made pipe cleaner and bead dolls with my daughter. They were quite simple to make, yet cute and fun to play with.
ReplyDeleteI'm following you @therikrakshop on Twitter, I'm @bigdisneyfan
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I posted this contest on my facebook page.
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I posted this contest on my facebook page.
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I tweeted about this contest I'm @bigdisneyfan
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I remember a grade 4 teacher I had, Mr. Matheson. He is the only teacher I remember from school because he really did care about the students and listened to what we had to say.
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I blogged about this contest:
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I would use the craft pack to make something fun for my new kitchen!!
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Hi! With this amazing fun summer craft pack we together with my daughter will do some nice scrapbooking postcards!!!
ReplyDeleteThank you for so great giveaway!
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We have already did some nice foto collages but it was only on paper but this time I would do three-dimensional scrapbooking collages!!!
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I am following your blog!!!
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My youngest would make small doll quilts for her Build-a-Bears.
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ReplyDeleteMy favourite teacher was in Grade 1, a Miss Cameron (I always thought it was camera). I remember loving all the painting we did in class!
ReplyDeleteWe've had lots of fun tie-dying together, and also lots of beaded projects.
ReplyDeleteI think these supplies are just calling out to become embellished journals for the next few months for the family and me. What a fun prize!
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I would make appliquee decorations for my daughter's little dresses, or hairbands and clips...
ReplyDeleteone of the crafts I've done lately with my little one is finger-printed-cards
ReplyDeleteI remember my Catalan teacher at primary school very fondly, she was always very patient and was great at drawing
ReplyDeleteWith the fabric maybe so little purses with bead keychains......
ReplyDeleteThe rest i would have to see what kind of idea I would get.
My favourite craft with kids is to make hand print wreath or flowers.
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I'm a blog follower too! :0)
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I was thinking one could make, or jazz up doll clothes!! this is a fantastic giveaway. What a brilliant idea you had!
ReplyDeleteChristmas is my favorite time of year, and one thing I love to make and help make each christmas, are the construction paper christmas trees -I- made in Kindergarden! So funny I still remembe those! Then we decorate with beads, sequins, etc.
ReplyDeleteWe'd glue little designs on the fabric pieces to 'wallpaper' the fridge!
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one of my favorite projects has been painting with my little boy. He's only 3 so we aren't too crafty yet lol
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following on google friend connect, slblog
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posted on twitter:
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One of my favorite school teachers was my sign language teacher because he was SO nice and you could tell he was a teacher because he cared. He was/still is awesome! (And cause he's my facebook friend! lol)
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already following you on twitter, slblogpost
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my fav project so far has been our birdhouse for grandma
ReplyDeletewe'd probably make some homemade cards
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Oh, there's so much I could do with this, like cards, jewellry etc.
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I am a follower.
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We'll probably be making some headbands.
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Great giveaway!
ReplyDeleteWe'd like to embellish an old photo frame.
Please count me in. Thanks.
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i would definetly make cards.
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ReplyDeleteright now i am making a quilt my first quilt ever from some fabric i won in a give away.
ReplyDeletemy favourite teacher was my high school chemistry teacher who made me love science and go on to study med at uni.
ReplyDeleteI would use the items to make some cards and some scrapbook pages :P
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we would make some greeting cards and some hair bows.
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I am a follower
ReplyDeleteMy favorite is letting kids use the materials to make whatever they think to make.
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I would use these craft supplies to make jewelry probably necklaces.cardshark42(at)hotmail(dot)com
ReplyDeleteI tweeted-http://twitter.com/409cope/status/18340597743
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ReplyDeleteI have made necklaces with my sons.We used some western looking beads and cord chains so they were manly looking.We all had a good time.cardshark42(at)hotmail(dot)com
ReplyDeleteI follow you on twitter as 409cope.cardshark42(at)hotmail(dot)com
ReplyDeleteMy favorite teacher was my grade 8 teacher,Mr.Garrity.He gave a shy girl some much needed confidence. cardshark42(at)hotmail(dot)com
ReplyDeleteI'd love to sit down with my niece and nephews and decorate picture frames and so much more with these materials! :)
ReplyDeleteI would use these crafty supplies for inspiration. I've just signed up for a class that incorporates embroidery with unusual foundational materials and I suspect some of these supplies would be great for that class. Thanks for the chance to win!
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I'm a follower of the rikrak studio via GFC (Kelli Lee).
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My favorite summer craft for kids is suncatchers using wax paper and bits and pieces of crayons. Using an iron, you melt the crayons between two pieces of wax paper and when the piece cools, you can cut the swirly piece of art into any shape you'd like. A piece of string or yarn can be added between the sheets before you iron for a hanger.
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I would bead some jewelry.
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I would make some hair accessories with them or some fun cards.
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This would make a be great for the kids I babysit. They love making doll clothes and butterfly art.
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I follow as Annie on GFC
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I think a scene depicting where we just were on vacation would be fun - maybe a shoebox diarama using things from the "kit".
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Make some embellished fabric flowers, tiny purses, doll clothes, "art". mlwright29 (at) hotmail (dot) com
ReplyDeleteMy favorite teacher was 4 foot tall, and also was the principal of our 2 room schoolhouse with 3 grades per room. Her energy and presence was more like 6 foot tall, and we all learned to read, write, calculate, and speak. mlwright29 (at) hotmail (dot) com
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My favorite teacher ever was my high school calculus teacher - he made up songs to teach us all the concepts.
ReplyDeletewho knew my most creative teacher ever would be a math teacher!
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I'm a follower on GFC and i subscribe via email!
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My favorite crafty project with the kiddos is probably simple finger painting.
ReplyDeleteIt's fun to let the little ones have a chance to get as messy as they want!
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Let's see... I'd probably use this to finally get some scrapbooking done.
ReplyDeleteI'd also try to find some small sewing projects, maybe some little pouches of some kind!
And I'd make some handmade cards!
And some jewelry from the beads of course!
The possibilities really are endless... :)
This is such an amazing giveaway! I hope i win!!!!
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What would we make... the list is ENDLESS! We'd make cards, doll clothes and bracelets just for starters, nothing would go to waste
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Dressing up our photo frames is one of my fave memories
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Already a follower of RikRak studios
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My fave teacher was Ms Denelzen in Grade 2, she had beautiful blonde hair and always wore long dresses, I remember I used to think she was a mermaid
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wow great giveaway!!! super cute! I would do like a home decor mobile, maybe some birds with fabric and beads (:
ReplyDeletemm i dont have kids but one my fav crafty project was a painting with some friends was really fun (:
ReplyDeleteIm already a happy follower (:
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ReplyDeleteMy fav teacher was one that teach me a year ago, she was a history teacher and is really young, so it was fun havinf classes with her!
ReplyDeleteI added this giveaway to my sidebar (:
ReplyDeleteMy 9 year old would love this and she would use it with her Harmiki designing doll.
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My fave craft activity with my girls is making bead earrings
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I now subscribed via google reader
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My 2nd grade teacher was awesome. She started out as our long term sub and then stayed for the rest of the year. My mom and her became good friends that we were invited to her wedding. Then when we moved away she vacationed in the town we lived in and we got to visit again
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I'd make a catnip toy for my cat!
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