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Easy DIY Halloween Craft: Tissue box haunted house

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Halloween Decor Idea - DIY centerpiece, a table top haunted house. It's cheap! You make it from tissue boxes, napkins, and tissues. A fun and easy Halloween craft to make with kids!

Here’s a Halloween craft your kids can help with that makes a great centerpiece decoration for your Halloween party. A Haunted House out of recycled boxes!

It’s fun when your kids can help you make your own Halloween decorations. This is an easy Halloween craft to make with your kids. It makes a great centerpiece for a Halloween party! I came up with this idea years ago and it was one of the crafts that I had published in Family Fun Magazine.  At the time, it was owned by Disney, and it was fun to deposit checks from Disney in the bank. :)…

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The 4 Best How to Make Homecoming Mum Videos – save money!

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Get great DIY ideas from these videos about how to make Homecoming mums. Save money and make your Homecoming flower special by learning how to make a Homecoming mum. It's a Texas Homecoming tradition! Homecoming season will be here before you know it! Make your own homecoming mum to make it unique and save money at the same time. I’ve put together a short list of the best homecoming mum tutorial videos I can find!…

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Happy Thanksgiving!

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Happy Thanksgiving!

I made this turkey centerpiece out natural products for a very harvest-y looking centerpiece that’s not your traditional cornucopia! …

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Happy Halloween! From my ghosts to yours

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Happy Halloween!

Halloween craft - Tissue box haunt

DIY Halloween craft decoration - tissue box haunted houseInstructions for the tissue box haunted house with tissue ghosts can be found at the post Make Your Own Halloween Decorations: Tissue box haunted house. Happy Crafting!

Homecoming Mums – How to make a Homecoming mum (with pictures) and save money

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DIY Homecoming mum tutorial. Make your own Homecoming football mum, tips to make yours special and save money!If you don’t live in the South, I’m told that Homecoming mums might be new to you. I wouldn’t know. 🙂 I grew up in the south, so I don’t know any different. In fact, I’ve always thought Homecoming mums were the best part about football!

On the other hand, even when I was in high school, Homecoming mums started getting bigger and bigger, and fancier and heavier. And that was before battery operated lights! And feather boas. Oh, my. And you wouldn’t believe how much those Homecoming mums cost!

You can save a lot of money making your own, and end up with something prettier and unique. …

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Winter Craft: twist on a Peekaboo Sugar Egg, a Peekaboo Sugar Snowball

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Here's a super fun Christmas or winter craft activity - peek-a-boo sugar snowballs! The kids can help you pack the sugar.I’m not sure exactly what it is about miniatures, but looking at them is like getting  a peek into a magical world. (Rather like reading a book!) When I was little, we had some peek-a-boo eggs my mother had made out of sugar. Things made out of sugar, sugar art, are instantly magical, just from the sparkle. You could look in a hole at one end and peer in at a little chicky or bunny sticker. Those eggs were tinted purple and pink, but it occurred to me that in it’s original sugary whiteness, they would look exactly like snow. Why not make a peek-a-boo sugar snowball?…

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Winter craft ideas for kids: Styrofoam and Pipe Cleaner Animals Winter Wonderland

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If your kids were as enamored by the Disney movie Frozen as my girls have been, you may be looking for fun winter craft ideas for kids to make. Here in central Texas, we often have to make our own snow. You can make a whole snow scene out of Styrofoam that won’t melt!

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DIY: Directions for Easy make your own Christmas Peppermint Wreaths

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This seems a bit late – instructions for a peppermint wreath after Christmas, but I don’t have the staff (or the desire!) to make my Christmas ideas in July. 🙂 I’m going to work on timing, but for now, here it is – a Christmas craft after Christmas!

Christmas decor - DIY peppermint wreaths. My daughters made these with me years ago and we still enjoy hanging them in our kitchen windows every year. I share tips and tricks for this easy, original Christmas craft that your kids can help you with or even do on their own.

I love making new crafts, but I really don’t like making repeated copies. This was a difficulty with this craft, because I wanted it for my kitchen windows, and I had three. Lo and behold, but as I was working on the first wreath two more magically appeared! It was a Christmas miracle!…

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Happy Thanksgiving!

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Halloween decorations: Little Hanging Ghosts

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ghosts in treesHang these from your trees outside or chandeliers inside for super easy Halloween decorations….

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