Crafting it up in North Idaho

Last night’s make-and-take craft booth at the North Idaho Fair was a success! Thank you to everyone who organized and helped pull it off.

The kids really seemed to like the activities and I heard parents saying they were going to repeat the projects at home and in classrooms. Yea! Kids’ crafts have a reputation for being somewhat wasteful, so it was great fun to show families they could make beautiful things using items from their trash bins and backyards.

Couldn’t make it to the fair? Here are the crafts we made:

Nature crowns inspired by Maya Made

Bark boats inspired by Rhythm of the Home

And newspaper mobiles inspired by the Queen of Tarte , Kayte Terry and an old project on my blog .

I took a bunch of pictures of the kids with their creations—too many to put in one post. So I’m going to break this up into two editions. Today: nature crowns. Tomorrow: bark boats and mobiles.