When I was in Idaho for  Banana Ball , Kari suggested lunch at Fanci Freez . Fanci Freez been around since 1947 and has won quite a few ...

I liked the results of my  wax-resist Colorado hairstreak butterfly  so much that I used the same technique to make a different butterfly. T...

It's been a really long time since I used black paint on a wax-resist project . I decided to utilize the technique to make a realistic b...

In celebration of back-to-school season, today's craft has students make a craft stick pencil, colored pencil, or crayon and use it to w...

It's been almost four years since I've pulled out the warming tray to do a crayon melt project .  I'm surprised it's been th...

I almost never use crayons for artwork anymore, despite having a good-sized collection of them. Last year, I pared down my giant crayon stas...

I've been following Patty Palmer's blog,  Deep Space Sparkle , for years. Her kid-friendly art tutorials are wonderful. I finally g...

As I was hunting for any stray colored pencils that might be hiding throughout the house, I decided to reorganize our huge collection of cra...

After sharing so many  splatter-painting backgrounds , it's time for a splatter-painted foreground. Rather than the thumb-across-toothbr...

The calendar says that fall is coming soon, but here in the Bay Area our leaves won't be falling for another 2 or 3 months. All the more...