Comment from EL
Time: July 14, 2009, 2:17 pm

Congrats on your 100th episode! Here’s to many more.

Comment from margie oomen
Time: July 14, 2009, 2:44 pm

I love abby’s birds!!
If I had a playdate with 3 and 5 year olds ( alas my children are almost all grown up now) I would do some ephemeral art with petals, leaves, stones, twigs and what ever else I could find. We would photograph them for future enjoyment and while doing this awesome activity we would learn the names of the plants and flowers looking them up in nature books or online. Of course we would have a garden tea party and invite the fairies to join in.
Thanks for this give away abby.

Comment from calamity kim
Time: July 14, 2009, 2:49 pm

Oh congratulations on your 100th podcast! That’s a whole lotta craftiness and living artfully that we love to hear! I would love to see pictures of you guys getting together and having a tea party and making paper dolls. I can just see it with cupcakes and bunting and paper lanterns in the trees- smiling faces and lots of giggling!
Please enter me in the springtime bird giveaway too- what a generous spirit Abby has.
Again congrats on the 100th! Looking forward to the next 100!

Comment from Rachel
Time: July 14, 2009, 3:12 pm

Congrats on 100! I’ve adored Abby’s work for ages, and love seeing her work here.

A fun craft for little ones is doing sunprints – super easy and exciting for them to see the sun create images! :)

Comment from Turtle
Time: July 14, 2009, 3:35 pm

congrats on the 100th podcast!

How about color bubbles. Just old fashioned liquid soap, a pan, straw and food coloring (or fabric color drops) Blow into the batch with straw and rest papers, fabric on top to pick up the marbled bubble prints, let dry. Then you have unique items to create even more with!

Or paper clay impressions, queen anne’s lace, leaves, flowers, etc. They can bake dry, paint and be used for many things!

Comment from Eva
Time: July 14, 2009, 3:44 pm

When my sister was around 3, I would have her plop down some very watered down acrylic or watercolor on paper and then she would take a straw and blow air through it, the paint moved and created all sorts of interesting designs. It’s very fun and colorful!

Also, we used to decorate paper plates with big googely eyes, scrap pieces of cardstock, etc. The possibilities are endless.

Nowadays, we do slightly more complicated things, kokeshi dolls, clothespin dolls, making our own rubber stamps- so fun!

Comment from meg
Time: July 14, 2009, 4:10 pm

If this were a summer play-date, I think a super-fun thing to do would be to make gods-eyes! I always loved weaving those as a kid. Or else go out and collect things in the woods and photograph them, form them into drawings and letters or even build them into little houses. But I’ve got outdoorsiness on the mind right now!

This is such an exciting giveaway! Congratulations on the 100th podcast, that’s huge!

Comment from Terrill
Time: July 14, 2009, 6:37 pm

Today my 3-year-old and I gathered things from the yard (daylilies, pinecones, rocks) and used them to paint with–it was fun to see the different patterns everything made!

Comment from Dana Smith
Time: July 14, 2009, 6:52 pm

My daughter and son, ages 3 and 6, loved painting and decorating one of those cardboard 3D letters you can get at big box stores. I dragged out fabric, mod podge, paint, all manner of art supplies and let them go to town. He got a D, she got an E (initials, of course) and it’s a fun thing to display in their rooms.

Comment from kelli
Time: July 14, 2009, 8:06 pm

Congratulations on 100 episodes! I’ve probably listened to about 40 of them — someday maybe I’ll get to the first 60.

I have 3 kids: 18months, 3y and 5y. I also coordinated art projects for our co-op preschool for 2 years — lots of fun. The best projects? Playing with cans of shaving cream, putting down butcher paper and spraying tempera paint + driving trikes through, painting on easels (and bodies), paper+scissors+glue, playdough.

I want to do everything on this site: http://artfulparent.wordpress.com/

Here’s to 100 more episodes!

Comment from Beth
Time: July 14, 2009, 10:13 pm

If I was organising a playdate I would do this: Get the girls to all make a drawing using fabric pens on some cotton fabric. Then swap the drawings over, i.e. the 5yr olds swap and the 3 yr old swap.
Place the fabric in an embroidery hoop and get each girl to sew over the picture. (Nice big darning needles for the little ones)

I think they are never to young to learn how to sew and this way they each end up with a collaborative piece of art that can be made into a cushion, bag, sewn onto a t-shirt, or just hung up on the wall.
My 18 month old loves playing with the pin cushion and as soon as she turns two I shall be teaching her to sew.
Of course the afternoon needs to be finished off with a tea party – as long as I can come!

Comment from Jan
Time: July 15, 2009, 12:18 am

Hi I am from the UK so don’t know whether I am permitted to enter this giveaway but I love Abby’s birds. When my young grandaughters come to stay 5 and 8 yr olds they love pipecleaners, they sculpt dogs, birds, dolls and imaginary friends from these I give them scraps of fabric, beads, paint. paper anything sparkly to decorate their sculptures. They also thread large holed beads onto pipecleaners and make themselves and their dolls bracelets and necklaces.

Comment from Bev
Time: July 15, 2009, 1:51 am

Mmm, I would go outside (seeing as it’s summer up there in your Northern hemisphere!) and all together we would gather a rainbow: something lovely from every colour of the rainbow either collected or painted into one big rainbow picture…

Comment from linda
Time: July 15, 2009, 5:03 am

Lovely podcast! So very interesting to learn more about Abby and sooooo inspiring to boot. Thanks for more great inspiration and the birds are very cool sculptures! Brava!

Comment from Heather
Time: July 15, 2009, 7:23 am

I love doing sun prints with children, either on sun print paper or on muslin with special fabric paint– would be grat on a t-shirt also. My son and I usually take a hike to find objects then place them on the paper or fabric and let the sun do the work while we have a snack. He is 4 and this holds his interest for a long time.

Comment from D’Ann
Time: July 15, 2009, 9:01 am

I believe in imagination. Children have plenty of it. Put your darlings in a room with a couple big cardboard boxes. Cut a couple flaps in them so the children can invent a door or hatch or…. Give them a few sheets or blankets and leave them alone. I guarantee they will invent some grand activity.

Comment from Dawn Blair
Time: July 15, 2009, 9:13 am

These pieces are just wonderful. Abby, I think you are such a good role model for young women in that you have not settled for anything less than what you wanted for your life. There is a way for a woman to enjoy herself while still working for and going after her goals. You have achieved this. Having the open mind for possibility and discovery is so key, and you clearly have that.
Best wishes.
Dawn

Comment from lexi
Time: July 15, 2009, 9:40 am

i don’t have any kids of my own yet (just married two weeks ago! but can’t wait for babies!) but one of my favorite craft projects that I liked to do with the kids I used to babysit for was painting rocks. I liked it because it involved exercise/getting out of the house and being creative. I usually took them out for a walk around the neighborhood or park to collect some interesting rocks (and even better if you lived in the desert like I did!), that hopefully inspired them to use thier imagination to see something in them and then came home to paint and decorate them and later play with them! I always enjoyed it, too. :)

Comment from Jyl
Time: July 15, 2009, 9:42 am

Sock puppets! Grab those single sock, yarn for hair, felt for clothes and face parts and some googly eyes and you’re ready to go. And then of course you need a big cardboard box for a stage and you can sit back and watch the show!

Comment from Wendy
Time: July 15, 2009, 10:21 am

Trying making up new animals, then modeling them in home-made play dough. Think up silly things like a cat that has an elephant’s trunk, but barks like a dog.

Comment from Laure
Time: July 15, 2009, 12:23 pm

What a great show that introduces me to a fantastic artist. If I were crafting with a bunch of little girls, we would go all girly and make sparkly crowns and princess wands! I have sons, so I never got to do all the girly things!

Comment from molly
Time: July 15, 2009, 1:28 pm

thank you so much for introducing me to abby! i loved the interview (and hey, we’re all the same age!), and look forward to checking out abby’s blog.

i’m sure with your knitting scraps and abby’s fabric scraps, you and your girls could put together beautiful bags of scraps for the birds. my kids and i did this years ago (when they were 4 and 6) using mesh onion bags and filling them with scraps from home and abroad. we hung them in the tree and waited for the birds to come take small pieces to build nests.

Comment from sherri
Time: July 15, 2009, 2:33 pm

Congrats on 100! Bravo for a great show I loved it, Abby was very interesting to learn about.

I love to make paper dolls with my grandaughter and she loves to color them as well. We sometimes cut them apart and use them as bookmarkers. Enjoy!

Comment from Shimmy Shake
Time: July 15, 2009, 4:18 pm

I love to do food crafts. Baking cookies or decorating cupcakes. So much fun!!

I adore abby’s birds – they are incredible. I would love to win this giveaway!

Comment from Andrea
Time: July 15, 2009, 4:28 pm

Congratulations on 100 episodes.
For play dates with 3-5 yos one thing I like to do is to get out the clay, show the kids how to make different shapes, pinch pots, etc and just let them create on their own.
Another thing we like to make is to watercolor coffee-maker filters , scrunch them in the center and tie with chenille sticks to make butterflies

Comment from Catherine
Time: July 15, 2009, 4:55 pm

This was a fun podcast to listen to – I liked to hear the stay at home mom’s version of dealing with shows and art, etc.

I have two boys (nearly 3 and 5), so of course my mind wanders off to what they would want to do…but what would little girls want to do?

Lately, David and I have been talking about making our own play mailroom, a mailbag, and a letter drop box. I think that would be fun regardless of children’s gender. And then, it will be even more fun to open the lovely letters and pictures the kiddos make for you. :)

Comment from Caryn
Time: July 15, 2009, 8:12 pm

Hi, I enjoyed the podcast which is the first one I’ve listen too. I love Abby’s birds, the care and attention to detail is incredible.
I have 2 boys both under 3 so if I had girls and a playdate then I would make it really girly and make necklaces with pasta, paints and string and make tiara’s and at the end have a dress up tea party in the garden.

Comment from raggyrat cat
Time: July 15, 2009, 11:44 pm

mine twins are three, and i am a stay at home crafty mum :-) i also have a baby, mary to keep me busy … the girls most like to play with large cardboard boxes, draw on them to make them cars and sit in them, saying ‘drive, drive,’ to indicate travelling !
mummy can use the big sissors to cut out the window
cat xxx

Comment from Deb
Time: July 16, 2009, 8:05 am

I really, really enjoyed this interview! I listen to all of the CraftSanity Podcasts, but I usually like best the ones featuring the crafts that I do, like knitting. When I first saw that this was about someone who made stuffed birds, I didn’t think I would relate…but I just loved this interview. I think I related to Abby on a personal level and just found her whole story so interesting.
If I were to set up the craft time for the mommies and daughters, I’d perhaps cut out a bunch of squares from inexpensive fabric, like muslin or maybe something that comes in colors, and then have everyone decorate their square–either simple embroidery if they can do it, or decorating with puffy markers, glitter & glue, etc. The moms could then sew the squares into a little doll blanket or save them to eventually make a bigger coverlet or even a purse.

Comment from tricia
Time: July 16, 2009, 8:38 am

Great interview:) As for a crafty activity with kids….my kids love to paint sticks. We gather large straight sticks (about 1/2 to an inch in diameter) and they paint them however they want. My older one does some patterns on his and my little one just lets the color flow. When they are finished I clear coat them with spray paint and then we put one end into the ground in the flower beds. It is like a colorful garden sculpture.

Comment from Heather H
Time: July 16, 2009, 11:29 am

I love the birds! Abby is very talented.

As for a project with little girls, I would fall back to the nature theme. Take a walk (and look for birds!) and pick up a few found objects of nature- leaves, sticks, feathers (if you are lucky). Then can do one of my sons’ favorite nature projects- sun prints. Ferny plants and feathers are especially lovely for sun prints. Then you can take a simple cardboard frame and glue the objects on to hold a picture of the four girls as a memento of the day they got to play together.

Comment from Joyce
Time: July 16, 2009, 2:21 pm

Wonderful interview! I love Abby’s birds!

If I was doing a playdate, I think I’d build little fairy houses out of whatever you find in the garden…I have a pic of some that I found at a park in Hawaii on my blog at the bottom of this post http://drawdaily.blogspot.com/2009/05/every-day-in-may-queen-liliuokalani.html

Comment from Missy K
Time: July 16, 2009, 7:27 pm

I think a fun project for you all would be to make blank books. Each person makes a blank book. Then everyone gets a time limit to draw or write anything that inspires them into a book. After time is up, everyone passes the book to the next person, and so on until the books are filled. Then everyone has a book keepsake to remember this sweet hang out!

I don’t have children, but my friend plays exquisite corpse with her children while they wait in a restaurant!

Comment from Mindy
Time: July 16, 2009, 7:50 pm

One of the most fun craft projects I did with my kids when they were little, and I plan to do with my grandchildren soon, was to make garland for our Christmas tree. We colored macaroni with food coloring and rubbing alcohol. The alcohol made the coloring dry fast without making the pasta sticky, and the coloring was intense and not watered down. I think I may have colored it and let it dry and they strung it on yarn. We used all shapes and the garland was very bright and colorful. It lasted several years. Kids love stringing things. You could make a necklace by cutting shorter pieces of yarn, or possibly make a garland for their room.

Comment from Amy
Time: July 16, 2009, 8:30 pm

Thank you for the great show, and congratulations on your 100th episode! I really enjoyed hearing Abby’s story and drew great inspiration from her work.

One of my all time favorite “kid’s craft” has been to take inexpensive cotton totes (purchased from a craft store, or whipped up on the machine with scrap material – solid colors are best) and to have a “personalizing” party. In the past I have used sponge cut outs stamps with fabric paint, glitter glue, fabric markers, but you could also use shapes/letters cut out of craft felt with glue. The idea is the kids get to personalize the tote, and then use it as their own “going to the farmer’s market” tote – to help mom or dad carry all the goodies, or their “going to Grandma’s ” tote for favorite books and toys, etc. The great part is every kid gets their own special tote that they designed.

Comment from michele
Time: July 17, 2009, 5:12 am

Congratulations on the milestone! You’ve brought so much fun to so many.

Comment from Cassy
Time: July 17, 2009, 11:31 am

Congrats on the 100th episode!

My favorite thing to do at that age was to make fairy houses. This consisted of using flowers and grass and twigs!

Comment from becky
Time: July 17, 2009, 12:47 pm

nothing fancy…but we just painted with water! it is fun. bucket of water, bristle type brushes + water. Draw on the concrete with the water…watch it disapear. cools ya off and is fun to beat the heat!

Comment from faro
Time: July 17, 2009, 1:48 pm

congrats on the 100th craft cast!
for a summer playdate anything outside! – make some sun tea (herbs in water in a jar in the sun) for your tea party. collect some edible flowers to nibble on, and make some edible flower chains (nasturtiums, borage, calendula, dandelion, etc). make some stick friends and invite them to the party. sit in the shade and enjoy.

Comment from mjb
Time: July 17, 2009, 3:23 pm

Great episode! I think you both could make some terrific puppets for your girls to play with.

Comment from Tara
Time: July 18, 2009, 3:45 am

Great episode – thanks for NOT editing, A long chat can still be a good chat! I LOVE Abby’s birds. You’ve had lots of ideas for play dates.. what about making exotic paper parrots? The girls trace around their hands on colored paper. Cut out the shapes. Then overlay these to make glorious feathered creatures. Just add a beak, eyes + some legs.. why not paint a jungle home for them to live in too?

Comment from Marsha Finney Gibbons
Time: July 18, 2009, 7:26 am

Hi! I love the birds, Abby!! Jennifer, thank you for your wonderful interviews. I’m so happy you are going to have more time to devote to you crafty side!! (See, I listen to the after show ;>)

Recently, on craftgossip, there was a post on making sidewalk chalk out of plaster paris, tempera, and toilet paper rolls. I kept it to use when my first bably grandson is old enough! I think that would be a fun thing to do. Well, now that I’m thinking about it, you might have to bring along some chald that was already set and hard enough to use.

Another fun idea is to have a cupcake party. Bake up miniature cupcakes, then have several icings, sprinkles, etc. and everyone makes their own. Drawing on the sidewalk can work up an appetite!

Thanks,
Marsha

Comment from Deb
Time: July 18, 2009, 9:07 am

Hi Jennifer! Congrats on following your dream, I’m encouraged by your courage! Loved the podcast with Abby, you are both amazing. I like to decorate light switch covers with the grandkids. You can paint them, glue things on them, and then easily install them. My granddaughter used those rolly eyes that glowed in the dark – very fun!

Comment from Phyllis
Time: July 18, 2009, 1:33 pm

I have wonderful paper, rubber stamps, fabric, and let the kids make their own quilts. I’d like to win one of Abby’s birds.
Congratulations on your 100th podcast, I really enjoy listening to them.

Comment from Megan Cooley
Time: July 18, 2009, 1:35 pm

Great episode, Jennifer. It got me through a 7-mile run this morning.
I found myself having a lot in common with Abby, too, including having two young daughters who are two years apart and formerly being a teacher (I’m a journalist now, like you, Jennifer).
As for a craft you all could do, I’ve always love this project by Ellen of The Long Thread:
http://www.ohdeedoh.com/ohdeedoh/how-to/how-to-scrappy-owl-treat-bag-tutorial-063207
The kids could do lots of the steps, like choosing and cutting the fabric, sewing on the buttons, etc.

Comment from Kari
Time: July 18, 2009, 3:05 pm

As the mother to a one year old boy I’m fantasizing about a future of parent-child crafting. It’s a little beyond my scope to think of kid-friendly crafts right now though. I will be in awe when he draws with instead of eats his crayons.

Anyway, Abby was a very cool guest with a lot of interesting perspective. Thanks Jennifer and way to go on #100!

Comment from Fran Mcgee
Time: July 19, 2009, 12:55 pm

This one is kinda messy, but I have done it with my daughter, and we had a blast. We made paper pulp beads and sculpture. Cut up some paper, boil in a bunch of water until it becomes mush, drain it, add some glue to the mixture. Then you can press the pulp out onto a cookie sheet and cut them out with cookie cutters, roll out beads, create creatures. It’s very tactile and fun!! Use it kinda like clay. We pained ours.

LOVED the interview, and the birds are just amazing!

Comment from Patricia Crossett
Time: July 20, 2009, 7:35 am

If I were to have a play date with the children and another fabulous crafter, I would choose the theme of turtles and invite the children to create a turtle family on paper that the adults could make from fabric and other things.

That podcast with Abby G was just great. In fact, I have loved all that I have downloaded. I am getting an external hard drive TODAY so I can download, and keep for inspiration, all 100 of your podcasts (since my internal hard disk has no more room…)

Best wishes and many thanks to you for a wonderful help with my “get fit” program.

Comment from woolpets
Time: July 20, 2009, 11:13 am

Happy 100th episode! The latest podcast was very inspiring for me. Felting is a great craft to do with kids, especially on a hot summer day. You get to play in water, roll wool into nice, fluffy and colorful balls (or ropes, snakes, etc.)

Comment from sarah
Time: July 21, 2009, 9:54 am

congrats!!

my playdate idea is to read stories or poems and visually interpret through drawing and collage! I have used this activity in groups with a wide age range, and it seems to help give the story or poem more interest as well as give the visual art more theme! Really fun and open-ended!

Comment from shannon duffy
Time: July 21, 2009, 5:11 pm

Whoo Hoo!!!! 100th episode! Very cool. Keep them coming, please. I love listening while I am working in my studio. I joke with my husband and tell him you are my new best friend……
My favorite thing to do with my own children is to just set out some craft supplies and watch my kids “make stuff”……they love building with popsicle sticks, beading on fabric, making little pillows. I enjoy watching there little brains work.

Comment from Aileen
Time: July 21, 2009, 7:04 pm

I have visited Abby’s blog numerous times before, but I am amazed at what a difference insight makes! I just went back and looked at her blog with new eyes after hearing all of her stories. She is delightful, as are her birds. Thanks for another great interview. Keep up the great work and congrats on leaving your day job..talk about an inspiration.

Comment from Becky
Time: July 22, 2009, 5:53 am

We have lots of girls over to make name frames. We have the letters of their names cut out, with beautiful background papers, buttons, ribbons, and charms – and they put together their own masterpiece. We use white frames from Michaels (1.50) and the girls love making something that goes with their room. Fun and personal!

Comment from Nicole
Time: July 22, 2009, 8:34 am

Congratulations on your 100th show, Jennifer. As always, it was a great one!

Such beautiful birds. Thank you for profiling Abby. I’m so happy to get to know her art.

We love polymer clay around here with our friends. Sculpey or Fimo are readily available and not too expensive. They go on sale a lot at Michaels. Good for learning about how to mix colors. We especially like making miniature food for doll houses, Barbie’s, Pokemon figures, etc. There are terrific books with tons of ideas available too . We have two of them from Klutz. Both found at garage sales; both worth the investment!! :)

Comment from Shirley
Time: July 22, 2009, 9:06 am

A fun day would be making some hard sculpture birds and animals. My idea for a camping hobby, or even a fun day with your kids would be to cover a table with some brown craft paper, have a huge pile of clay for everyone to use, and craft some birds and animals that live around your camping site or table.
Using your imagination, use pepples for eyes, etc. sticks for tails, etc., anything you can find.
When done, you can use the brown craft paper on the table for drawing animals with markers.

Comment from Felicia
Time: July 22, 2009, 11:10 am

Jennifer, I’ve listened to every single podcast and have enjoyed all 100 of them. Congrats on sticking with it!

Abby, your story was very inspirational. Thanks for sharing it :)

You know what would be fabulous for ya’ll to work on together? A conceptual art piece with a mannequin wearing a totally groovy apron and a sweet bird flying out of the apron pocket and one behind, flapping it’s wings as it pulls the apron tie. I’m thinking fishing line or wire and definitely a fan blowing :)

Hope you spotted the tongue in my cheek :) Pick me to win please, it’s my 40th birthday this coming weekend :)

Comment from Laurie May Coyle
Time: July 22, 2009, 1:50 pm

big congrats on your 100th episode!
Super show on Abby, so great! and she is so forthcoming with her technique info, that is so refreshing!

For your playdate, I would suggest going for a little nature walk to collect some inspiration — leaves, stones, pinecones, feathers, etc. Then putting together a 3D collage or diorama using those materials and colored/painted/drawn paper cutouts, which would then be photographed and archived. The natural materials are then returned to the outdoors, helping teach the girls about conservation AND artmaking at the same time. Wish I could join you!

Comment from Andrea Porter
Time: July 22, 2009, 4:09 pm

Congrats on the 100th show. I plan to listen to many more – this one is actually my first! So still getting new listeners!

As a play date – paper dolls are alays classic – just make your own clothes using bits of materials and other odds and ends and plenty of glue too!

Comment from Brye Lynn
Time: July 23, 2009, 2:58 am

Love your podcast! You do the best interviews of anyone!

My idea – give the girls 7×10 pieces of fabric, some fabric paint, markers, etc… and have them draw/paint a picture. then take those pictures and incorporate them into a tote bag that holds your craft supplies.

Comment from Rachel
Time: July 23, 2009, 7:34 pm

I think dying yarn together would be a great activity for your kids to do together, especially with natural ingredients, like beets, onions, etc. for the dye colors. You can use the yarn for knitting or even gluing the yarn around a glass vase (or other containers), braiding into circle rugs, or using for hair on a sewn doll.

Comment from Penelope
Time: July 24, 2009, 5:01 am

When my two sons were young, we’d make “Oobleck” (from Dr. Seuss’ book “Bartholomew and the Oobleck”). All you need is 1 1/2 C. Corn Starch; 1 C. Water; and food coloring (the latter is optional; the oobleck in the book is bright green). Mix the ingredients together, and voila! you have a strangely goopy but somehow dry substance that defies description. My boys would have a blast playing with it.

I’m a children’s librarian, and I love to read the book and then have my students make the oobleck. The book, by the way, is a gentle moral about the dangers of greed, pride, and arrogance.

I enjoyed Abby’s story so much – thank you for your podcast! I listen while either knitting or spinning, and the people you talk with inspire me immensely!

Comment from Beth
Time: July 25, 2009, 12:19 pm

Congratulations on the 100th episode! I have enjoyed so many on here, I wonder how many I have listened to now. I was so happy when I saw that you interviewed Amy, because she was one of the first softie blogs I found and it was fun watching her go through her journey online. One of my favorite pieces of hers was the Humpty Dumpty she did. Her choice of fabrics and how she chose to put buttons on the hinged parts was just too fun. I am a very artisticly detailed person too, so if she ever did a softies book I would be interested.
This episode was great by the way! So informative for making softies.
If you get your girls together for a play date I would suggest you do some scratch art. You can search it out online if you’ve never heard of it, but it is something my kids really enjoyed making and then creating with. It takes a heavy piece of paper, first you color with bright crayon all over the paper and then you apply black paint mixed with a little dish soap. After it dries you put a frame around it. You could make some for each other before you come and then you could trade papers and enjoy making the scratch art together. The kids love wondering what bright colors are hiding in their papers, that they get to uncover with their art!

Comment from Fanie
Time: July 25, 2009, 8:42 pm

Hi!
One nice craft to do in group is to get some Pebeo colors and paint on ceramic dishes (Plates, cups, etc.) . :-) It doesn’t require that much concentration and you can talk while doing it! You can also do something very abstract that’s going to look nice, so it’s good for the smaller ones, as well!

Then, you can give what you did to your friend! It’s always a nice souvenir!

Thank you for this very informative podcast, Jennifer! I loved it!
You Go for going your way! :-)

Comment from Patty
Time: July 31, 2009, 7:26 pm

Loved this podcast and her beautiful birds she creates. Wow!!!!

Comment from Seo Family
Time: December 15, 2009, 6:09 pm

So cute! Could i use you picture “bird prize” ? it looks like twitter logo ;)

Comment from Red Panda Pictures
Time: January 27, 2011, 1:53 pm

An interesting dialogue is worth comment. I think that it’s best to write extra on this subject, it might not be a taboo topic but generally persons are not enough to speak on such topics. To the next. Cheers.

Comment from Gale Sayers
Time: January 29, 2011, 6:15 am

hiiii and congrats for ur 100th podcast.
The latest podcast was very inspiring for me. Felting is a great craft to do with kids, especially on a hot summer day.

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