1. Giant Rubber Bands

    Giant Rubber Bands

    I’ve got to have these giant rub­ber bands! They’re actu­ally used in the ship­ping indus­try to bind boxes together on pal­lets, which begs the ques­tion: how would you use these?

    Avail­able for $15 at Museum of Use­ful Things.

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  2. Tamar Mogendorff Children’s Stitch Workshop

    tamar mogendorff handmade peacock

    seed factory atlanta

    My daugh­ter Izzy and I are super excited that our friends at Atlanta’s Seed Fac­tory will be host­ing two very spe­cial events fea­tur­ing Tamar Mogen­dorff next week! On Fri­day (March 26th), Tamar will be intro­duc­ing her newest gar­den theme fab­ric works and shar­ing some of her larger cou­ture works. The fol­low­ing Sat­ur­day she will be hold­ing two children’s stitch work­shops, where the chil­dren will be cre­at­ing spring rabbits.

    Get all the details at the Seed Fac­tory blog–see you there!

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  3. Etsy Finds: DIY Felt Patterns

    etsy diy felt sweets

    etsy diy felt pattern

    Etsy seller Fairy­fox has lots of fun DIY felt pat­terns avail­able to pur­chase & down­load. My daugh­ter Isabella would love to make these sweets!

    via famille sum­mer­belle

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  4. Projects for Kids: Building Discs Toy

    diy building discs toy

    I found this fun & sim­ple kids craft project on Made by Joel, a great blog with lots of cool home­made stuff for kids. He cre­ated the build­ing discs by scan­ning and print­ing col­lage cir­cles he made, glu­ing yel­low con­struc­tion paper to the back for sturdiness.

    They fit quite nicely in an old round candy tin, too!

    You can down­load and print the cir­cle tem­plates avail­able on his site (or cre­ate your own). Have fun!

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  5. Projects: Polyhedron Crochet Pattern

    Polyhedron Crochet Pattern

    Berroco has a great col­lec­tion of free knit­ting pat­terns on their site, includ­ing this fan­tas­tic cro­cheted dodec­a­he­dron. Be sure to check out their selec­tion of imported yarns as well!

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  6. Projects: Pom Pom Rugs

    pom pom rug free pattern

    Make your own with this free pat­tern from Lion Brand Yarn!

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  7. Projects: Bunting Crayon Roll

    Bunting Crayon Roll Kids Craft

    Bunting Crayon Roll Kids Craft

    Here a fun project via say YES! to hobo­ken–this would be the per­fect acces­sory for Charlotte’s obses­sion with orga­niz­ing and sorting!

    via happy things for kids

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  8. Projects: Cereal Box Village

    Cereal Box House Project

    This sim­ple & fun project posted by Bella Dia looks per­fect for explor­ing shapes and forms with the kids. With a lit­tle imag­i­na­tion we can put some of those post-Christmas boxes to good use!

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  9. Unpainted Nesting Dolls

    Unpainted Nesting Dolls

    These lovely unpainted nest­ing doll sets are avail­able at Romp. My kids are already prone to “mod­i­fy­ing” their toys–why not give them a blank canvas?

    via kids haus

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  10. Projects: Flowerbomb

    Flowerbomb Tutorial

    Flowerexplosive Tutorial

    Flowerbombs DIY

    Here’s a fun col­lec­tion of tuto­ri­als for mak­ing var­i­ous forms of guerilla gar­den­ing artillery.  The con­cepts were cre­ated by Design Acad­emy Eind­hoven grad­u­ate Yoeri Tre­f­fers for Dutch Design Week 2009.

    A lit­tle plan­ning and this could be just the ticket for get­ting my kids more involved with the gardening!

    via idee

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