Arts and crafts for kids tomorrow!!

[Jojo F.]

I'm watching my friend's kids tomorrow while she sells her goods at a festival.

The kids are 2, 4, and 11, plus my 5yo DS.

Is there anything we can do that is fun and easy? It needs to be easy enough for the younger kids but also cool for the older one. There are a couple of neat ideas I have but I want them to be able to choose between a few, kids love being able to make their own decisions I also don't want to go out and buy anything as we already have quite a bit of "stuff".

Here's what I have-
loads of construction paper
regular white paper
pipe cleaners
glitter- I detest glitter!!!
washable paints
a million crayons
water colors
markers
color pencils
sea shells
glue sticks and other glue
a handful of corks
raffia
ribbons
buttons
scrap fabric
popsicle sticks
straws
assortment of stickers
colored/white string
stencils
charcoal/chalk
flat toothpicks
coloring books out the wazoo!
did I mentions loads of construction paper?
Hmmmm, that's all I can think of right off hand but I know there is lots more stuff floating around here.

For some reason I get in a kids crafty rut and can't think of anything new to do. Although, DS did just finish an awsome mosaic fish that's now on the fridge

Hit me with all of your cool, crafty ideas!!!
TIA!!

[tinasquirrel]

For the older children (and even the 2yo), what about making some blank books for the kids to write stories, draw, etc. They could use the stencils, crayons, stickers.

http://glittergoods.typepad.com/glit...1/bookish.html

They are really easy to make, and you can customize them for any size.

Do you have contact paper? What about making sun catchers by putting tissue paper in between sheets of contact paper. Or you can also use crayon shavings in between the sheets of contact paper, and then melt it with a very low iron (and some newspaper on top of the contact paper).

[Jojo F.]

Those books are great, thank you!!! These would be PERFECT for some other kids I know

Out of all the stuff DH needs to make architcture models and other stuff for school I should have everything imaginable but, no contact paper.