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Posts tagged “artwork”

Eco Kids Craft: Flowers From Cardboard Tubes

Reusing things that are normally discarded or recycled is always fantastic, especially if there aren't any extra supplies to purchase! These floral patterns and designs are simply made from discarde...

Amy Ruppel's State Insects

Even if you're afraid of bugs, we're betting you'll be won over by Amy Ruppel's series of State Insect paintings and prints featuring many of kids' favorite crawling and flying creatures. She's cre...

Flickr Find: Photo Wall

There's so much to love in this serene room, but we're especially enamored of the photo wall. It's a look that can be achieved easily with a handful of inexpensive frames. You could fill each frame wi...

How To: Pom Pom Vines!

Just like Julia, we're big fans of pom pom making! They're just so gosh darn bright and cheerful you can't help but love them! So we were happy little campers when we ran across a new twist on th...

Framed Bird Collections

We think kids must love birds because they're accessible and not frightening. We've had birds on the brain ever since we saw this bird artwork collection framed and hung together. We were drawn to...

Kevin Van Aelst Photography

Do you remember all the stages of mitosis? Can you think back to high school biology and name them? Perhaps Kevin Van Aelst's uber charming photos can jog your memory. ...

Numbers Flash Cards by A Little Hut

Do you remember Patricia's Alphabet Flash Cards? Well, she's made a matching set of numbers flash cards to round out your kids' at-home learning. For a little global appeal, you can get the number...

Paper Cut Maps by Famille Summerbelle

Revisiting the beautiful paper arts from Famille Summerbelle, we loved the family tree but love these prints (based on original hand cut paper maps) of Paris and London even more... ...

Pet Care PSA Prints

When are they old enough to take care of a puppy? Beats us, but we were pretty tickled by these retro-ish, PSA-style art prints with reminders of good pet care etiquette. ...

Reader Project: Origami Map Mobile

Ohdeedoh reader, Annalea, sent us a picture of a great project she worked on. We love how this mobile is lovely enough to stay and be admired in the room way beyond the nursery years... ...

Apple Yarn Favors

We love crafts that look like more work to make than they are. These apple yarn balls are definitely easy enough for little kids to help out with, and they're the perfect accessory for your Fall gift...

Reader Project: Tree Mural

Oh, we just love hearing from our readers and seeing your beautiful projects. Kelly wrote to use recently and sent in some photos of her handpainted tree mural. Jump below for details....

Uncommon

What do you get when you mix a mechanical engineer and a dabbling graphic designer? You get the husband and wife team of Uncommon. Lovely lines, simple beauty and great colors come together in items...

Reka Kiraly

While there is wonderful art created with children in mind, we don't like to limit ourselves and usually pick things for our son's space that we would put anywhere in our home. Hungarian illustrato...

Marionette Cards by Darling Clemetine

We love all the work of Darling Clementine but their Marionette series has really stolen our hearts with its old-time cartoon feel and quirky color combinations. Sold as cards, we'd have an awfully...

Soft Sculptures by Anu Tuominen

If you've ever wondered where your children's lost socks and mittens end up, perhaps they're here. Helsinki-based artist Anu Tuominen finds inspiration in the ordinary to create these extraordinary sc...

Play-Doh Singapore Ads

We recently spied these Play-Doh ads, from Singapore, online and thought they were hilarious. Another friend of ours saw them and thought they were disgusting. ...

Muji Felt Pens: Short & Stumpy!

These Muji Felt Pens Markers (because it's more fun to say) could be the highlight of our Friday! They're short, stumpy and perfect for small fingers. There's a ridiculous amount of color choices a...

Displaying Baby Clothes as Momentos

We were up very late last night organizing baby clothes. Three large piles emerged - keep, keep, and keep. Although we tend to be ruthless when clearing out the rest of our belongings, it's hard to ...

Candy Alphabet Art

For kids, candy is serious business. Most of our childhood outings involved procuring candy of some sort. Hess for Lemonheads and Cherry Clans. Woolworths for Necco Wafers and Bottle Caps. Piano...

Quick Pixelated Wall Mural Idea

Due to our love for repurposing and hands on arts and crafts, we've become completely enthralled with the decorating method above. It's inexpensive, easy to do and can be changed out as often as you...

What to Do With a Stamp Collection

If your kids are looking to start a collection hobby, stamps are a classic choice. Eventually, you can turn the collection into a collectible object: ...

Try This! DIY Scratch Off Cards

We've been around the crafting block a time or two and it isn't often a tutorial stops us in our tracks. But that was exactly the case when we came across this super awesome idea for DIY Scratch Off...

Weekend Family Photo

Jenny of Dos Family issued a challenge a couple of weeks ago- to get outside with your family and take a less traditional, fun family photo. Above is her own family photo in the field outside their h...

Ice Cream Art

There are a lot of things we won't miss about summer (humidity! mosquitoes!) but there is one thing we'll miss a lot. Available all year round, it truly is most enjoyable on a hot summer day. We s...