15% off Sale on hair accessories & supplies

CONTEST - FREE GIVEAWAY

Every order who uses the code below will be entered to win a free
goody bag from me filled with flowers heads and crochet headbands.

contest ends on Sept. 1st

www.creativekiddos.com

Enjoy 15% off Enter code: MKB

The two photos of models wearing some of my products
are copyright to Betsy Straub Photography.

Check out the new look of my website, I spent two weeks on it. lol
I will post the winner here on the blog.

Thank you,

Heather

Kids crafts - How to make Play Dough

I had so much fun making this the other day for my son.



directions:
Take a pot and fill it with;
1 cup water
1 cup flour
1/2 cup salt
1 teaspoon vegetable oil
1 1 / 2 teaspoons cream of tartar
food coloring of your choice - I use 10 drops per color or more to darken.

Place you water in the pot on low heat, next at all the other ingredients and stir for a few minutes until it gets thick and then shut off the heat. Once it cools down a bit taken it out of the pan. I roll mine into three ball shaped and then place them in a zip lock bag to keep the dough from drying out. I gave my children plastic knifes, a rolling pin and cookie cutters and they had a blast.

Enjoy
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Curly Ostrich Feather Group Buy

Group buy for The Curly Ostrich Feather is going on now
thru August 15th.

here are the colors I would like to order;

Candy (bubble gum pink), bright hot pink, & dark brown.

Colors that are in stock are;
White, Lt. Pink, Purple, Star Blue, Lavender, teal, Eggplant, Camel, Dusty Rose, Lt. Yellow, Red w/ Purple Mixes, candy pink and Aqua.

Brown and bright pink are not in stock and will need to be ordered and pre-paid, before they will send them out to be custom colored. Orders take two weeks once paid to arrive to the supplier.

Prices per boa - 2 yards are $16
group buy fee is $1.50
paypal fee's
shipping from supplier ( split between the number of buyers)
shipping from me ( should be able to go 1st class mail.)
If we order 25 of one color the price drops down to only $14.75

Please post your orders on the MKB forum

Fold Over Elastic Headbands

Fold over elastic

This stuff is great for making headbands. It us usually made for baby diapers but is available in many colors. You can also find Zebra and other animal print designs.

Here is sample of one I made. I cut 13 inches of elastic glued the two ends together or you can sew them. I then added a 3/8th ribbon strap to it.

Wool Felt Flower Hair Clips

These are so easy to make. Buy some wool felt or blends wool felt.
I use the big kick machine to cut my flowers layers some people
use the Cuttle bug. I can use Cuttle Bug dies with my big kick machine.

The flowers shown in the photo above were made with Cuttle Bug dies.
This is a 4 piece flower set. I can place up to two of these dies at a time
inside my Big Kick. I layer the 4 pieces from largest to smallest.
Sew the 4 layeres together and then sew on a button for the center.
Just hot glue them to a lined alligator clip and you have a finished
boutique flower hair clip.

Curly Marbou Animal Print Hats

They have arrived! My Retail price: $15 -$18
Wholesale Price to other bow makers: $9.50 Zebra Print or Leopard Print
You can re-sell for $22 retail or more.

Decorated Kufi Crochet Hats

I have had a few customers ask me the best way to add ribbon to kufi hats. I weave the 3/8th ribbon in and out of the crochet loops. I always let extra ribbon hang in the back. When the hats are worn the ribbon stretcesh so if it does not hang long enough then the ribbon will fall out of the loops. I make a knot at the end of each of the ribbons that are hanging and heat seal the ends.

Next I make hair bows or Gerber Daisy hair clips to clip onto the hats through the crochet loops.
When making the flowers I use silk Gerber Daisy Flower heads. I take them apart and hot glue each layer back together and then glue a 18mm or 20mm rhinestone in the center. I often use two flowers put together so the flower will look nice and full.