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Extra Yarn Yarn Hanging

Looking for a fun Valentine's Day craft for the whole family? Look no further than these adorable Love Bugs (or as my son calls them, Yarn Monsters)!

Here are twenty things to make with scrap yarn, fabric, and floss. These projects are great for anytime of the year, and for all skill levels!

You'll get double the fun with these kid-made projects: first the nature walk to gather supplies and then the creating!

This mentor text blog post includes ideas and activities on how to use Extra Yarn by Mac Barnett to teach the theme of kindness to primary grade students. Picture prompts, story discussion cards, and writing response templates are included in the FREE RESOURCE provided. #teachingtheme #extrayarn #mentortext

Remember the tassel wall hanging tutorial I posted earlier this year? Many of you made it. And oh so beautifully, might I add! Many of you agreed it was very time consuming and tedious .…

Extra Yarn

A (age 10) came home from a library sponsered craft session, with a pretty, little, scrap yarn, heart glued to a piece of cardboard. It looked like something the younger girls might like too, so I cut up a cardboard box, and gathered some odds and ends of yarn, together with a couple of bottles of school glue, scissors, and a pencil. I made one with the girls, as a demo, detailing each step, as we went. 1. Draw a simple picture, lightly, in pencil, on a piece of cardboard (thick cardboard is…

Make the most adorable little dolls out of craft sticks, yarn and a few buttons. They're SO cute, and the process is seriously addictive! Kids LOVE them!

A while back my daughter and I had fun experimenting with yarn and canvas to create a few interesting pieces of abstract resist art. I stumbled across those pieces the other day and remembered how much fun they were to make. Looking at them, gave me idea. I love birch trees and thought that this […]

Learn how to reuse leftover scraps of yarn in all kinds of projects like gift-wrapping, pom-poms, and wearable accessories.

Illustration by Jon Klassen

The mentor text Extra Yarn by Mac Barnett is a good winter read aloud for teaching kindness and the importance of making good choices in December or January. Use this book to design lesson plans on possessive nouns, prefixes, compound words & contractions. This Clutter Free Classroom digital & printable book companion resource includes grammar, sentence & punctuation activities and lesson ideas. Spotlight the author’s craft to improve student writing in 1st, 2nd, or 3rd grade writer’s…

04 Made by Joel Weaving How to steps for Beginners and Kids with Cardboard and Yarn

A super fun and easy craft for kids and the young at heart! This awesome yarn project is perfect for beginners with no skills required. Just wrap and twist with pipe cleaners to make the cutest little colorful creatures.

These homemade trivets make great gifts for kids to make for parents and grandparents and they're so easy to make! All you need is yarn, pipe cleaners and a glue gun! #HappyHooligans #Homemade #Gifts #Kids #Crafts #Activities #YarnCraft #PipeCleaners #Tweens #Teens #CampCraft