Crafting Secrets

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How to make a paper plate card holder for Valentine’s Day cards with your children; get expert tips and advice on making holiday themed arts and crafts projects for kids in this free instructional video. Expert: Stacey Scheideler Bio: Stacey holds a bachelors of science in education and human sciences, with an endorsement in inclusive early childhood education, specializing in birth to third grade education. Filmmaker: Jon Olson

Have a home paper organization plan.
This one is probably the most critical step in getting the paper in your home organized. If you do not have a plan, chances are that the paper that comes into your home simply ends up wherever it lands. This is especially a bad situation when you have bills or important mail that you treat this way. This can lead to late payments, late fees and other things that negatively affect your current finances and your future financial situation.

So how do you get a home paper organization plan? Decide what you will do with every piece of paper that comes into your home. Now depending on the piece of paper, this will affect where it belongs. Let me explain. Chances are that you do not need your kids’ arts and crafts projects from school in the same place that the bills go. So have a designated space in your home for incoming arts and crafts projects and a separate space for your bills. Bills would logically go in your home office while arts and crafts projects could go in your kids’ rooms or in a certain “display” area of the home. Deciding where the paper in your house logically belongs is important for getting it organized in a way that you actually use and can keep up with. And that brings us to point number 2.

Stick to your home paper organization plan.
Easier said than done, I know. But critical if you want to stay on top of the paper that makes it way into your home. So how do you do this? One way is to get the whole family involved in the paper organization plan. Get their buy-in to the plan and more importantly, get their agreement to follow the plan. Having a plan that no one follows is not going to get you very far. Make sure that everyone is clear on the plan so there are no excuses for not following it.

Another way to make sure that your home paper organization plan is followed is to make sure that there are appropriate consequences for not following the plan. One consequence might be that anyone who does not follow the plan has to organize all of the paper that comes into the house the next day. Decide on what works for you but having consequences for not following the plan can help everyone in the house (including you!) keep up with it.

Once you discover the art of paper quilling, you will realize the many different designs that you can create with this simple craft. Rolling small strips of paper around a toothpick can help you create designs for invitations, thank you cards, pages of your scrapbook or even small gifts you give to family and friends. Different flower designs are always popular paper quilling ideas, but you can use several different designs in each flower. You can make one petal at a time and arrange them around a central point or glue large petals on top of one another to give the impression of a flower that rises right off the background.

If you want to create quilled flowers with a difference, simple snip one edge of the paper strip before you start rolling. Roll the paper really tight will make fringed flowers. If you want to make a paper rose, you need to have a slotted quilling tool. First fit the end of the strip through the slot and wind it around the quill for a few turns to make the center of the rose. Then fold down the paper so that it is at right angles to the back. Continue rolling the strip making sure that you keep the bottom of rose in alignment and letting the edges splay away from the center of the rose. When you reach the end of each folded section, fold the paper again and continue rolling until you only have a small amount of paper remaining.

At this point you can releases the rose from the quill and although you let it relax, don’t let go of it completely. If you do the rose will unwind and you will have to start over. Push the center of the rose downwards until you can see the inside rolls of the paper. Now you can glue the paper in place. You will have a little bit of paper left over. Fold this over to cover the glued piece and hold it with your finger until the glue dries.

Flowers are not the only ideas you can use in paper quilling, although they are usually the designs you will begin with. You can also make animal designs using strips of paper, but the process is a little more complicated. To make a quilled mouse for example, you can use three different shapes and glue them together.

Craft stores have books about paper quilling filled with ideas you never thought possible. You can also find many free ideas when you search online. When you get used to paper quilling you can start creating your own designs. The easiest way to do this is to purchase a children’s coloring book of simple shapes. Color in the various pictures with different colors that represent the colored paper strips you intend to use.

For Easter, you can make chicks or eggs, for Christmas you can make wreaths or bows, and for Thanksgiving you can make vegetable designs or leaves in fall colors.

Formore kids crafts visit and info: www.simplekidscrafts.com info@simplekidscrafts.com Also visit: www.artsandcraftstv.com Manualidades para niños en Español www.manualidadesconninos.com Manualidades para adultos en Español: www.manualidadestv.com Muslim Kids Videos and Crafts: www.muslimkidstv.com Background Music: Free Royalty Free Music from: www.partnersinrhyme.com Free Music by Kevin MacLeod from: incompetech.com Public domain music downloaded from: www.virushead.net About Simple Kids Crafts: Simple Kids Crafts is a blog dedicated to reviving the old art of handicrafts. and art that has been lost to fabricated toys. We provide easy fun crafts, with step by step instructions, coloring pages, home school resources, educational resources, kids arts and crafts projects for teachers and all for free! The focus of the site is mainly on preschool, kindergarten, and elementary school crafts. Make wonderful, easy, simple crafts with things found around the house featuring: paper crafts, animal crafts, decoration, painting, beading, gift making, gardening, felt crafts, puppets, play date tips, scrapbooking, yarn and needle crafts, photography, home decor, reading, poetry, jewelry making projects and science projects. About the author of the videos: My name is Merve, I am a Muslim, an engineer from New York, a mom, a wife and a crafter by nature. My parents introduced me to arts and crafts at a very early age. I love doing arts and crafts as a hobby but most importantly to …

For more kids crafts visit and info: www.simplekidscrafts.com info@simplekidscrafts.com Also visit: www.artsandcraftstv.com Manualidades para niños en Español www.manualidadesconninos.com Manualidades para adultos en Español: www.manualidadestv.com Muslim Kids Videos and Crafts: www.muslimkidstv.com Background Music: Free Royalty Free Music from: www.partnersinrhyme.com Free Music by Kevin MacLeod from: incompetech.com Public domain music downloaded from: www.virushead.net About Simple Kids Crafts: Simple Kids Crafts is a blog dedicated to reviving the old art of handicrafts. and art that has been lost to fabricated toys. We provide easy fun crafts, with step by step instructions, coloring pages, home school resources, educational resources, kids arts and crafts projects for teachers and all for free! The focus of the site is mainly on preschool, kindergarten, and elementary school crafts. Make wonderful, easy, simple crafts with things found around the house featuring: paper crafts, animal crafts, decoration, painting, beading, gift making, gardening, felt crafts, puppets, play date tips, scrapbooking, yarn and needle crafts, photography, home decor, reading, poetry, jewelry making projects and science projects. About the author of the videos: My name is Merve, I am a Muslim, an engineer from New York, a mom, a wife and a crafter by nature. My parents introduced me to arts and crafts at a very early age. I love doing arts and crafts as a hobby but most importantly to …