Easy Paper Swedish-inspired Projects for kids

by willowday | July 6, 2017July 6, 2017

1. DIY Dala Horses or DIY Dala Containers | 2. Dala Horse, Moose or Snowman Snow Flakes | 3. DIY Paper “Little Red Swedish” Treehouse

Where to eat in Stockholm with kids

Where to eat in Stockholm with kids? Food is such a fun way to get to know a city or a culture. Visiting Stocholm with kids? Here’s an updated list of our favorite places to eat in Stockholm as a family. Where to eat in Stockholm with kids.

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Printable Ice Cream Cone Wrappers

Do you have plans for the 4th of July and will it include ice cream? There’s nothing like cool, melty, ice cream on a sweltering day. This year, I created Printable Ice Cream Cone Wrappers that are perfect for ice cream gatherings all summer long but inspired by red, white and blue! Print these Printable Ice Cream Cone Wrappers

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Stockholm with kids

With summer vacation here, I’ve received a lot of mails from people requesting my favorite things to do with kids in Stockholm. I wanted to take a little extra time to put together an updated list with things we do and places I return to time and time again with visitors.

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Make a Watermelon Flower

Watermelon Flower Greetings.

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Watermelon Fairies

Does watermelon spell s-u-m-m-e-r for you, too? If it’s summer near you, then, it’s almost guaranteed that you’ll have watermelon in your home at some point this summer. Right? Flowers? Check! This is why I can’t get these Watermelon Faries into your hands quick enough! Make Watermelon Fairies!

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Flower Straw Toppers

Flower Straw Toppers are blooms for you to have inside or out! This time of the year, isn’t there always a reason to add a flower detail. These details also need to be quick and easy. After crowning our Maypole Cupcakes with Flower Toppers, we couldn’t stop cutting paper flowers and realised that these would make the perfect

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Father’s Day: 10 things to make for Dad

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Entertaining with Kids: Stacked Rock Place Settings

It’s that time of of year: time for easy entertaining. I love table settings as a creative way to invite kids to help prepare and become involved in a dinner party and all that making dining an experience.

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Journal Sparks

I dare you to make it through this book without lifting a pencil. This is book is perfect for your kids. It’s perfect for you. It’s perfect as a gift.

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5 Handmade Gifts for Mom

5 Handmade Gifts for Mom. Flowers and handmade gifts from the kids are a match made in the stars for me. On the brink of Mother’s Day Weekend in the US, I’m asking myself, ”so, which handmade Mother’s Day projects have been my personal favorites?” Here are 5 Handmade Gifts for Mom for you to make, too. I

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Mother’s Day Nesting Bowls for kids to make

Kids — even little kids — can make Mom a special Mother’s Day Nesting Bowl. Let your little kids (or big kids) dig their hands into clay to make these simple yet special, Mother’s Day Nesting Bowls

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Flower Face Vases

Hey Mama! You’re beautiful like a flower. Make Mom a Flower Face Vase.

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Happy Earth Day

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How to make Flower Mandalas

Happy Friday. Why not Make Flower Mandala this weekend? Mandalas are blooming everywhere: coloring books, coloring apps, tear sheets in magazines and as a part of the doodle-craze. My, go-to mandala, is the Flower Mandala (or Flower Portraits). As the weekend kicks off, I’d like to invite you to make Flower Mandala, too. (In fact, join me and others.

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DIY Melted Bead Magnetic Frames

Make Magnetic Melted Bead Frames. Let your junior product designers built functional design! Product engineering starts in the most elemental of ways: beads + imagination. Make Magnetic Melted Bead Frames to hold their photos or artwork. They’re pretty enough to stand on their own.

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Eggspiration

I’m just waiting for our oldest to finish his school day and our long, Easter, holiday weekend officially starts. Tomorrow, we should have trick or treating witches knocking at our door. Last night, the kids and I have added feathers to our Easter Bouquets and as I added a few eggs that were coloured with my

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Emoji Eggs

Who hasn’t fallen for the charm of the smiley face Emoji? With smiley emojis in more forms than I’ve ever imagined, of course, it was only natural for the idea for Egg Emoji to show up in my Kid’s Art Studio last week. My student, Kirra, made emoji eggs for all of here nearest and

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DIY PAPER RAINBOW RINGS and “My Color is Rainbow” children’s book

Looking for a rainbow project with your kids? Make Paper Rainbow Rings! (It’s almost like holding rainbows in your hands!)

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Write and Erase Emoji Cards

Looking for a fun project to make with the kids on break? Who can resist an emoji? Make Emoji Cards. These Emoji Cards are stand out fun because you can reuse them or create new faces, again and again. I’ll show you how to make them and how to use these again and again in today’s Write and Erase Emoji

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FREE PRINTABLE VALENTINE BINGO

Hi Friends, Looking for last minute Valentine Day fun with kids? I have a gift for you to solve this: PRINTABLE VALENTINE BINGO. Print and play at home. Print and play in a group Print and play at school. PRINTABLE VALENTINE’S DAY GIFT just for you.

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12 Paper Valentines Projects

If I can’t hand each and every one of you a dozen roses, I CAN hand you a dozen, super-simple, PAPER VALENTINE Projects from willowday! (If I could, I would wrap them like #7. You could count on that!) Join me below for your dozen, 12 Paper Valentines Projects from willowday.

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Unicorn Valentine’s Day Cards and Unicorn Bookmarks

Is L O V E in the air around your, too? Are you ready with your Valentine Cards? Do your kids made handmade cards or are you looking for a special Valentine’s Day project to make with your kids? These are so simple that they’re almost magic. These are Unicorn Valentine Cards that are also Unicorn Bookmarks! These require minimum prep and

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Make Cottonball Snowmen | A Kid Lit Project for “The Snowman”

On this wintery day, it feels natural in my surrounding to look at a cotton ball and think, snowman! Let’s make Cotton ball Snowmen today. Today, I want to share a wonderful, story hour, kid’s literature project, with you that’s easy on budgets, great for a large group and simply adorable: snowballs and snowmen that don’t require mittens.

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DIY HELLO NECKLACES

Hej, Hi, Bonjour, to you! Hej, Hi, Bonjour, to your kids! Make “Hej, Hi, Bonjour ” Necklaces with us! If accessories make an outfit, then what can I say about a handmade, personalised, glittery, super-cool Hello Necklace? My 9 year old art students made these Hello Necklaces and I’ve been so excited to finally get the chance to share these with you and your

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Make Paper Cut Hearts

Gently, gently easing into January with snowflakes. This week I’m sharing a new type of snowflake for the coming season and young and old: Paper Cut Hearts from snowflakes. I think they’re magical every time these unfold. The past month has brought a lot of practice with traditional (and not so traditional) snowflakes. Starting the year with the purity

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Happy New Year

Happy New Year!

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DIY Painted Candles for Adults + Kids

In the hustle and bustle of the season, there are project that always truly stand out as the ones that you make again and again. DIY PAINTED CANDLE STICKS for both BIG and SMALL Makers are this project to me.

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RUDOLF ICE CREAM CONE CUPCAKES

REINDEER ICE CREAM CONE CUPCAKES These sweet little cupcakes showed up in our house this week and you can assemble these faster than you can say… You know Dasher and Dancer and Prancer and Vixen Comet and Cupid and Donner and Blitzen But do you recall The most famous reindeer of all? MAKE RUDOLF ICE

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Lucia in Sweden

Good Morning and Happy Lucia. Against the darkness of winter, blanketed in snow, today is the day where Swedish children and choruses rise before dawn with Saffron Buns and songs of Lucia. On every street corner you will see a Lucia,

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DIY Snowball Print Wrapping Paper for KIDS and GIVEAWAY

It’s Kid’s Maker’s Monday at willowday and I have 3 things that I can’t wait to share with you: A kid-tested, super fun, project for kids A creative talented friend A BOOK GIVEAWAY! This is such a perfect project for kids. Follow me below and I’ll share more about all 3 Monday Mini-Maker Treats!

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DAY 11: DIY Dala Horse Boxes

Dala Horses delivered right to your door. Good Morning and welcome to DAY 11 in The Creative Collective’s Scandinavian Christmas Calendar. I’m so happy to meet you here. I think the classic, carved, red Dala Horse, feels like it could have been the original “it gift” in Swedish Christmas giving. Just the word makes me imagine a scene with a

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Dala Horse Snowflakes | Moose Snowflakes | Snowman Snowflakes

Make Dala Horse Snowflakes | Moose Snowflakes | Snowman Snowflakes with template below. “Horses and Snowmen and Moose, oh my!” Come follow the Snowflake filled road below. I can’t think of a more literal way to put Scandinavian Snow into your own two hands than these: Print your own Free Printable Dala Horses, Snowmen and Moose Snowflake today.

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Printable Tree Ornament Cards

Don’t you love opening up the mail box in December? Oh, the holidays cards: each and every one. Then, there are certain people who put in that something extra into their cards and I just can’t wait to see what I’ll receive from them this year. What will their photos be this year; will I recognize their

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PRINTABLE SNOWY WRAPPING PAPER

Christmas and Winter are just weeks away! It’s a big wrapping season in our house and when Scotch ™ Tape reached out to work together, I jumped at the chance. With our current snowy weather, I’ve been so inspired to think of a way to share our snow-globe-surroundings with you and today have 3 FREE PRINTABLE SNOWY

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A special gift for Willowday Readers — something, just for you

I have something extra special for you today. If you’re following along with The Creative Collective Sweden & Friends , “A Creative Christmas Calendar,” then you might already know that this is our third year of creating together and that it’s a very special year. I could gab and gab about who we have in this year’s calendar,