Crafts for Spring Break

It was General Conference for our church this weekend. For most of our members that means you get to wear sweats all weekend and listen to the messages prepared for us by men of God. For my kids it means a big ole craft-a-thon. I started the tradition with my kids years ago of having a number of crafts on slips of paper that they draw out of a hat and we work on while we listen to Conference. It is a lot of fun but does result in my house looking like this:

Since it is Spring Break here and the weather is supposed to change from lovely today to yucky tomorrow I thought I would share some of the things we did and their links.

Hot Rocks. So much fun! I found this one here. Basically you stick a rock in the oven at 350 for 15 minutes and then use crayons. They melt like magic.

Of course if you live in a new construction area like us you have to be happy with chunks of cement.

Clothespin people. Found this one farther down in this post. I like this because she had you break matchstick and glue them on for arms. These are Brittany's pioneers.

And Matthews Superman.

I bought a bucket of the beads that you put on spiked plastic boards to make patterns and designs. We haven't had them in awhile and they were a HUGE hit. Even Josh liked them

The kids had to make their own version of the stars of Monsters vs. Aliens. which we saw too this weekend. It was very cute, maybe even as cute as their creations.

So those are some of the crafts we worked on, we also did salt dough creations. Did you know you can dry salt dough in the microwave? About a minute at a time until it is dry. Have a fun Spring Break!