Due to upcoming hurricane Irene, I’m hoping everyone will find a safe place to stay and enough food and water to last through the weekend. Once these important stuff are taken care of and everyone is more or less relaxed, another question arises. What in the world are we going to do locked in the house all weekend with super active and also stressed kids?!

Here are just a few ideas of different indoor activities that will keep kids occupied and entertained. They will also help us adults to take our minds off of what the nature is unleashing upon us outside. Read more..

Here’s another very creative gift idea for the upcoming Valentines – a ring with a heart. The size of the ring can be easily adjusted with the size of the paper. Make two rings, one for yourself and another for the one you love.

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Valentines is just around the corner and so is the need to come up with something interesting to give your mom, grandma, sister or that special someone you have been thinking about for a while. Today we are gonna learn how to make an origami heart.

In this tutorial we’ll use standard size 6 inch x 6 inch (15cm x 15cm) square origami paper. There are many different kinds of origami paper – solid color, metallic, tie-dye, floral, geometric, stripe, foil, washi, chiyogami, etc. Sometimes the paper you use can really change the look of the finished origami. So if you can, do try the various types of paper available and have fun with it!
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And the inevitable question – how can we entertain our kids so that both, them and us, are were involved and interested and of course had fun in the making? I believe, and many will agree, that origami is an ideal craft project for kids as much as for the adults.

Origami is the traditional art of Japanese paper folding. The most well-known origami project is the Japanese paper crane, but crafters today can make a number of animals as well as flowers and other decorative objects. Historically, origami projects are done without cutting or gluing the paper, although many modern designs do incorporate these techniques.
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