{"id":1338,"date":"2013-06-05T15:34:11","date_gmt":"2013-06-05T22:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.museofthemorning.com\/museblog\/?p=1338"},"modified":"2020-04-02T21:31:48","modified_gmt":"2020-04-03T04:31:48","slug":"how-to-have-a-girly-crafty-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/museofthemorning.com\/museblog\/how-to-have-a-girly-crafty-party\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Have A Girly Crafty Party!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I’m a little later on this project than I think they wanted me to be. I hope that doesn’t make them not choose me again because these projects are a lot of fun! It’s just been super busy with camping three weekends in a row and sewing for patterns and whatnot. It’s a fun busy time of year!<\/p>\n

Anyway, this is my second post sponsored by JoAnns and I was really excited to be chosen again! The first time, they sent me fabric and asked me to create something from it<\/a>. This time, they asked me to choose a craft from their large selection of kid’s crafts<\/a> and then they sent me a gift card to use toward the supplies for the craft. I thought this sounded like a lot fun and Lil’Miss and I chose this pop-up book<\/a> project. We planned to get several and invite some friends over for a crafting party.<\/p>\n

Then I went to JoAnns to buy the supplies. I actually went to two. One in my parent’s town and one here in my town. Neither store had the pop-up books! I was really bummed because the pop-up books seemed like one of the few projects that would really allow some creativity to shine.<\/p>\n

So we didn’t get pop-up books. I didn’t know any of the other specific projects that were on the list though, so we just got some stuff that looked like fun. I was initially inspired by these masks:
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Lil’Miss and I decided we would have a little girly crafty party and we got a bunch of other supplies to go with the masks. When I got home, I noticed that the masks were included in one of the craft sheets- this one about a safari girl party<\/a> – so hey! All’s well that ends well, right?!<\/p>\n

Anyway, we invited a couple of Lil’Miss’s friends over and put together a little party. I planned 3 crafts based on the supplies we got at JoAnns. The masks of course, and then I got some felt frames to decorate and Lil’Miss had just won 2 big boxes of beads recently, so we decided to make necklaces as well.
\nFrom JoAnns, we bought sequins, glitter glue and foam and felt stickers.
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I wanted to make a note about these princess things:
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So I think this pack comes with some pages that you decorate with those shiny mosaic tiles at the bottom. You probably know that I don’t do character stuff, so you’re wondering what is that pack doing there, right? Well, they sell the mosaic tiles separately in the Kid’s Craft section. I was going to get some, they come in a pack with one sheet of shiny tiles, one sheet of glittery tiles and 4 or 5 sheets of plain foam tiles. Well, I knew that the girls would only want the shiny tiles, so when I saw this pack in the $1 area, I grabbed it, knowing I could just use the mosaic tiles and recycle or compost the rest! So the girls had no idea about the princess-y thing, they just saw the tiles- and they definitely used them, so I’m glad I got them:
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\nDo you just love her little smoothie smile?<\/p>\n

I was really impressed with the concentration that these girls put into their creations:<\/p>\n

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And I mentioned that we had smoothies, right? Mmmmm! I make my smoothies by dumping in the blender: a scoop of greek yogurt, probably a cup of pineapple juice, a handful of blueberries and a handful or two of strawberries. Then blend, adding more juice if it gets too thick.
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Smoothie Mustache!
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Then they moved onto decorating the frames. I really like these frames. The foam ones are generally flimsy. The wooden ones are nice but sometimes spendy and they don’t always come with a piece of plastic to cover the photo. These are made of some really thick felt, they have a piece of plastic to protect the photo and they have a nice back piece that keeps the photo nice and secure.
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Then they moved onto the beading.
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I was really impressed with their intensity. I didn’t make them do anything, they just sat and worked on each project for a long time.<\/p>\n

The table got really messy with all of our crafty goodness:
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And here they are with their finished projects!
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\nI love how each one is so individual.<\/p>\n

After that, they ran around like the crazy children that they are. Working off all that stored energy, I suppose.<\/p>\n

Here’s the Girl’s Safari Party<\/a> from JoAnn’s kids craft section, and next to it, Lil’Miss showing off her creations.
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Check out JoAnn’s Summer Flyer<\/a> for lots of kid’s craft ideas for this summer and if you sign up for their flyers<\/a>, you will get a 20% off coupon!<\/p>\n

So, what kind of fun crafty activities do you have planned for this summer?<\/p>\n

This post was published on Muse of the Morning.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m a little later on this project than I think they wanted me to be. I hope that doesn’t make them not choose me again because these projects are a lot of fun! It’s just been super busy with camping three weekends in a row and sewing for patterns and whatnot. It’s a fun busy […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3673,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[817,5],"tags":[203,81,554,204,28],"class_list":{"0":"post-1338","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-creativity-with-kids","8":"category-uncategorized","9":"tag-summerofjoann","10":"tag-crafts-with-kids","11":"tag-creativekids","12":"tag-party","13":"tag-tutorial","15":"post-with-thumbnail","16":"post-with-thumbnail-icon"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/museofthemorning.com\/museblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/museofthemorning.com\/museblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/museofthemorning.com\/museblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museofthemorning.com\/museblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museofthemorning.com\/museblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1338"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/museofthemorning.com\/museblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5754,"href":"https:\/\/museofthemorning.com\/museblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1338\/revisions\/5754"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museofthemorning.com\/museblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/museofthemorning.com\/museblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museofthemorning.com\/museblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museofthemorning.com\/museblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}