All too often kids stick to the common gifts for Valentine’s Day such as the homemade holiday card or box of candy. However, an often over looked option is making a friendship bracelet. Almost every school girl has made one at some point in time. I spent countless hours making stripe, chevron and diamond designs in my youth. Yet, it never occurred to me to knot a heart friendship bracelet for a holiday gift.

It’s astoundingly simple to make a heart design using simple knotting techniques. Mainly, you just need to know how to make a basic chevron and have three strands of white along with three strands of red embroidery floss. On the How to Make a Heart Friendship Bracelet for Valentine’s page, you can learn how to create a bracelet with hearts in one color or alternating colors.

For those needing a refresher course on the basics, the How to Make a Friendship Bracelet site is very informative and concise.

Valuable Friendship Bracelet Design Resource:
http://www.friendship-bracelets.net/

Pivot 3 Stick Figure Animation Software

The animation can be enhanced by audio or sound effects which would give additional meaning to the stick figures’ actions, reactions, and interaction. Deciding the points that the audio or background sounds will be incorporated will make the animation fun to view. The creator of the animation should want the viewer of the work to know exactly what is going on with the story line. So the first step in creating the stick figure animation is writing out a story line.

Smooth story line and precise action will make your end product an original work that is a bit different from many other examples of stick figure animation. Too much violent action without a story line would make the end result have no meaning. So the finished animation should have a purpose, characters that have a personality or a specific function and a goal. The end of the animation is just like the end of a story. If the stick figure animation is really good, it can be displayed on a website.

The holiday time is here now and the kids are out of school for the holiday vacation. The holidays are less exciting as people grow older, but it’s of supreme excitement to young kids. While anticipating Christmas day, kids can get awfully bored. Alternating between writing projects and crafts projects may be the no-cost answer to you child’s boredom.

How about writing Santa a letter and sending it to the North Pole? Just print out a few pages of Christmas writing paper and half the work is already done. Just find an envelope and pop it into the nearest mailbox. Your child may want the Santa writing paper, or may prefer to have the Nativity scene writing paper or an Angel or Sled. The alternative is to draw your own writing paper or let the child draw their own personalized writing paper.

Origami (折り紙) is an old Japanese art form. It works with paper and when folded this way and that, is made into a work of art.

Some Origami paper works are fairly easy. The Origami paper rose is one of the easiest and with the green leaves and stems, will work great as a bouquet of paper roses. There are more difficult origami crafts and ebooks on the subject can be found online. Some really great artwork can be created using toilet paper and the dollar bill. Toilet paper roses in a dollar bill vase may be just the present someone is looking for. Children may like an entire menagerie of dollar bill creatures in a basket. Grown-ups like dollar bill trinkets, too and a dollar bill origami sculpture will be treasured as priceless.

Whether you celebrate Christmas, Kwanzaa or Hanukkah, there are activities for children’s crafts that are very easy, so that even small children or adults can put the Origami candle and candleholder together, or cut out the paper dolls and clothing. There are several ethnicities and several wardrobes of paper clothing. The candle can be used for all three holidays. Children will love spending time with these arts and crafts and the projects will keep them busy while waiting for that special Christmas morning.