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Cardboard Creations

​IGNITE YOUR CHILD’S IMAGINATIONWITH CARDBOARD!explore – create – tinker – invent It’s time to bring out those egg cartons and toilet paper rolls!Do you have a pile of cardboard boxes saved for a rainy day?Do you collect cool recycled materials and then wonder what to do with them?Do you want to inspire your children’s creative…

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Dollhouse Camp Part 3: Free Guide to Dollhouse Camp

April 25, 2018 by Barbara Rucci 5 Comments

Dollhouse Camp FREE guide for parents and teachers.

Shannon from Hatch is back to bring us Part Three of her Dollhouse Camp series, featuring her Free Guide to Dollhouse Camp! She will answer all of your most urgent questions about running a Dollhouse Camp, and share with you her very own, personal guide to how she sets up her camp days. Be sure to catch Dollhouse Camp…

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Rainbow Weavings with Koolaid Dyed Yarn

January 9, 2018 by Barbara Rucci 24 Comments

Kids dye their own chunky wool yarn with Koolaid, then make small weaving on cardboard looms.

I am so in love with these rainbow weavings that the kids made in Art Bar camp!! And since we used Koolaid to dye the yarn, they smell very fruity, too 🙂 I’ve always wanted to make these, ever since I saw the amazing weavings from an art teacher named Jan. Hers are much more earthy…

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Winter Vacation Crafts for Kids

December 20, 2017 by Barbara Rucci 3 Comments

12 open-ended crafts for kids to do over winter vacation using mostly recycled materials.

Christmas is almost here, your kids will be home for at least 10 days, and you have nothing planned because you spent the last two weeks making magic at home. Art Bar to the rescue! I gathered a list just for you with the best winter vacation crafts for your kids. These are not really…

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Blind Contour Drawings with Kids

December 7, 2017 by Barbara Rucci 9 Comments

This drawing prompt will have kids laughing while creating the most exquisite abstract portraits.

Blind contour drawings are the most fun you can have drawing with another person. Have you ever tried them? The rule is that you can’t look down at your paper and you can’t lift your pen. This makes for the most hysterical – and quite honestly the most exquisite – abstract portraits! So I got…

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Art Bar Holiday Gift Guide: Kids

November 16, 2017 by Barbara Rucci 4 Comments

Art Bar Holiday Gift Guide for Kids // 2017

I’m literally in shock that next week is Thanksgiving… how did this happen? I have been working on collecting the best kid gifts for my holiday gift guide, so don’t panic. I got you covered. Everything from books to clothes to toys to bedroom, your cuddly baby and hipster kid will be prepared for 2018….

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Dollhouse Camp: Part Two

October 25, 2017 by Barbara Rucci 2 Comments

Dollhouse Camp for kids! Handmade wallpaper and furniture for these IKEA dollhouses in PART TWO of the dollhouse camp series.

Shannon from Hatch is back to bring us Dollhouse Camp Part Two!! Read Dollhouse Camp Part One first. And Dollhouse Camp Part Three is now out, which includes a FREE printable guide to setting up your own dollhouse camp! Hello, friends! I’m finally back with more dollhouse DIYs. It’s been absolutely amazing to see this…

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Kids Crafts Tables for Large Groups

September 14, 2017 by Barbara Rucci 12 Comments

Kids make people from wooden clothespin pegs, yarn and fabric scraps.

This weekend I will be setting up four kids arts & crafts tables in Brooklyn at the Shop Up New York event hosted by the fabulous Babyccino. If you happen to be local, please come by and shop and say hello, I would LOVE to see you! [ UPDATE: See photos from the event here! ] I…

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Seashell Collage with Kids

June 25, 2017 by Barbara Rucci 33 Comments

Seashell collages by kids, using tacky glue and liquid watercolor.

Guess what we did last summer? My little campers made the most magical shell collages ever! I beach comb wherever I go, collecting shells and rocks and all sorts of treasures. Most of these shells are from different beaches around the world. (Ok, that makes me sound so much more like a world traveler than I…

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Marshmallow Painting

May 1, 2017 by Barbara Rucci 7 Comments

Children collaborate to make a painting from marshmallows

These photos are from two summers ago, if you can believe it. I was going to put this project in my book, but it ended up being one of the 22 art experiences on the cutting room floor. I am SO excited to finally share it with you now! This one was really fun, for obvious reasons. There was an…

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