#mombassadorchat Moms, Today's #mombassadorchat is with @believeinbuddha on crafting!!

Hey everyone! Welcome to Craft Chat 😁 feel free to ask any questions and post any photos of crafts you may have recently done by yourself or with your kids! I have a new blog post on my favorite Halloween crafts to do with my children that can be found here: www.craftingmamablog.WordPress.com

@believeinbuddha love crafting my mom and i have started crafting together to go sell at local craft shows in town. We did this last weekend

I am currently knitting a blanket, making two tie blankets, and doing some canvas crafts with my little dude!!

@tristan-makes-5 that is amazing! My husband and I have a dream of having a booth at the local fairs and events. How well do you guys do with sales?

Joann' s is my favorite craft store. Especially when you use their app for coupons. I can get a lot of things for very little money using the coupons and military discount. That's where I get all my painting supplies.

@sawyersmom that sounds so fun! I have a few ideas for canvas painting on my new blog post if you'd like to check that out! 💚

@believeinbuddha we are doing our first one nov 11 we wanted to get a good inventory

@lovelily isn't it nice how they let you use all the coupons you can find? I always take advantage of the 60% off coupons they release every week. I've found that several things I went there for they have at Wal-Mart for cheaper like felt squares and acrylic paint tho!

@tristan-makes-5 I would love to see some more pictures of the crafts you two have made!

@believeinbuddha I'm willing to pay a little bit more just to avoid ever going to Walmart haha. I won't be caught dead in there unless I absolutely have no choice.

@believeinbuddha i can post them no problem

This is our christmas train starting to make a 2nd one@believeinbuddha

@tristan-makes-5 omg I love that. Did you use the wooden crates they sell at the craft stores? I've been looking for a good craft to make with them

@believeinbuddha some of these we put bells in

@believeinbuddha popsicle sticks

@tristan-makes-5 these ornaments would be perfect kids crafts! I just might steal this idea 😂

@tristan-makes-5 nice even better popsicle sticks are another thing I've been wanting to craft with

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@tristan-makes-5 what stores do you utilize for crafting? I go to JoAnns, Hobby Lobby, Walmart, and Target. I've wanted to check out Michaels soon too

@lovelily true. Wal-Mart is a bunch of craziness!!

@believeinbuddha you can move the tiles and put them in any order you want the black are chalk board

@believeinbuddha all of those plus dollar store

@tristan-makes-5 that's a good one. I like the little stuff they have. I made a fairy house one time and I got tiny clothes pins for It at the dollar store.

@believeinbuddha the santa is a sea shell i painted

I made this canvas with some letter tiles I had accidentally bought. Didn't have the receipt any more, but wanted to use it for something cute. 😁

I'm not hugely crafty, but I have my moments.

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@courtney.welsh that is so wonderful! Crafting with things is a great way to not let things go to waste! I love it

@believeinbuddha my kids loved helping make the glitter acorns

@tristan-makes-5 are those tiny sleds? How cute! I have an ornament like that from when I was a kid its one of my favorites

@tristan-makes-5 was the glitter super messy??

I crochet

@believeinbuddha my kids have been wanting to make things so i told them i would go get them there own clay pots this week

@believeinbuddha i love it so cute

@believeinbuddha yes they are and they are also made from popsicle sticks

@believeinbuddha with my son no hes 9 but my daughter got glitter happy lol she turned 7 today

@tristan-makes-5 that's so cool. You're quite crafty! I'm impressed 😁

@believeinbuddha i always go to the dollar store first because there were some things i was looking for and i found them there then went next door to hobby lobby and for the same thing they wanted 4.99 for it and the dollar store had a slightly smaller bag for 1.00

@believeinbuddha thank you i have really just started found that im more crafty then i thought

@believeinbuddha im having so much fun doing these crafts and im getting to spend so much time with my mom

@tristan-makes-5 same here. The more I craft the more I realize "hey I'm good at this!" I noticed the same trend with Wal-Mart and joanns. Ill buy paint at joanns that costs 2.50 a bottle but at Wal-Mart they're .50 each! Hobby lobby has better deals than joanns most of the time too. Not only that but they carry higher quality products I've noticed. Joanns is good for beginners but hobby lobby is where I've moved to since becoming more familiar with materials and new projects.

@tristan-makes-5 that's amazing that you do this with your mom. I'm jealous.

@believeinbuddha for the past 10 years i havent seen her that much so its nice

Does anyone have any ideas for clothespins?

@believeinbuddha the craft show were goung to do is at my daughters school and it cost $25 for a table. I will be ok if we just make enough to cover the cost of the table.

@sawyersmom if you go on Pinterest there are lots i just bought some to make snow flakes

@tristan-makes-5 that's awesome I should look into local craft shows. They have one coming up in November its a holiday boutique. There will be vendors and stuff I should ask them how to become a vendor and how much it costs

What arts and crafts can you do with a 1 year old? I love doing arts and crafts and I wanna include my munchkin

@believeinbuddha you should most of the local churches around have them by me

@sawyersmom you could do a shadow box like this one for your baby

@sawyersmom or a piece of art for the wall

@jmw24815 finger painting is so fun! You can use tape to write a phrase or your baby's name and let them finger paint over and around the tape. Once the paint dries you remove the tape to reveal the word underneath. Then hang and enjoy 😁

@jmw24815 here's a fun Halloween themed one!

@jmw24815 you can find nontoxic paint at the store and you can also make it yourself. Here's a recipe https://www.learning4kids.net/2014/10/07/homemade-edible-finger-paint/

@jmw24815 these are some of my favorite activities to do with 12 to 18 month olds

http://chicklink.com/20-activities-for-a-toddler/

I have a shadow box done already! But that’s a cute idea

@sawyersmom I made clothes pins as magnets on my fridge I also have them for holding kids artwork in my living room (:

@believeinbuddha, do you know have any special needs crafts I have 2 extremely special needs sons

How do you make totally edible clay @believeinbuddha,

What’s you favorite project you like doing and why @believeinbuddha, ?

@smilingwithmyawesome4kids here is the website I use for craft ideas with my soon to be 6 year old autistic daughter. They re super fun!

https://www.growinghandsonkids.com/5-fun-art-craft-activities-engage-child-autism.html#_a5y_p=5450224

@smilingwithmyawesome4kids this is a link to a completely edible play dough recipe. It uses only 3 ingredients!

http://web.kidsactivitiesblog.com/49522/edible-play-dough-recipe

@smilingwithmyawesome4kids my favorite project by far is www.thekindnessrocksproject.com

I have received so much joy from seeing children and even adults who find my rocks and say that it made their day better. It makes me tear up just writing about it. I know the importance of happiness in peoples lives and I love being able to bring more of it into the world.

Here are some of my best crafts to date!

@smilingwithmyawesome4kids have you tried koolaid play doh. The making process is fun an playing with it after is even more an it smells amazing. I also did cool whip paint just take a drop of food coloring to the tub an mix an its edible an fluffy

@wafflez, I will try does

@believeinbuddha, it’s not available

@smilingwithmyawesome4kids i fixed the link it should work now I apologize

@smilingwithmyawesome4kids here's another site with more

https://www.allfreekidscrafts.com/Learning-Activities-for-Children/Crafts-for-Kids-with-Special-Needs

My craft I done a while back 🦊🍂

@courtneyraelochamy I love it! Did you use stencils or free hand it?

@tristan-makes-5 @sawyersmom @jmw24815 @wafflez @smilingwithmyawesome4kids @courtneyraelochamy Thank you all for joining me for my first Mombassador chat! I had so much fun teaching and learning with you today. I hope you had fun too and I look forward to next time. 💚💙💛

@believeinbuddha, lol stencil! I’m not that creative

@believeinbuddha, I never thought of that!!! Thank you so much

@believeinbuddha, omg you read my mind

Shirts and signs I painted for my girls and their cousin’s birthday last Saturday.