29 Cool world crafts
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Aztec Codex
The Aztecs made stories by carving pictures into bark and leather. Make your codex by drawing a few pictures to tell your own story!
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Suminagashi: Marbleized Painting
Suminagashi is a Japanese art where you create your art on water first and transfer it to paper. It is beautiful and very relaxing to...
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Paper Picado
Why not have your children help decorate for special occasions and birthday parties? I love this sweet banner made from bright colored tissue paper. Much...
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Sun Pinata!
Create a traditional pinata from flour paste, newspaper and paint.
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Dream Catcher
Dreamcatchers are lovely charms! The net catches bad dreams...while good dreams slide down the feathers to the sleeper below.
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Geometric Mobiles (Himmelis)
This stunning project is also surprisingly simple to make. Himmelis are geometric mobiles that are used as Finnish Christmas decorations. Traditionally they are made...
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Tanabata Tree
Tanabata is a Japanese holiday that is celebrated between July and August around different parts of Japan. This holiday is based on a story...
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Egyptian Amulet
Shall we make The Eye of Horus? Maybe a cat? How about an Ankh, or a scarab beetle??? Decorate an amulet with...
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Storytelling Stones
My son had a blast using these stones as a jumping off point to tell his own tales! Native Americans often used symbols to tell...
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Russian Piroshki
Get a taste of Russia and make some delicious Piroshki with your kids! Piroshki are basically small Russian pastries filled with finely chopped meat...
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Chinese Paper Dragon
Chinese dragons!? Hooray! This was one of those projects where I had just barely showed Maddie how to begin, and she took off!...
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Rain Stick
Teach your kids about the importance of rain and the water cycle while they make these colorful, fun-to-make, rain sticks. This is a nice way...
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Asian Paper Lanterns
For big festivals like the Mid-Autumn Moon Festival (usually August or September) and the Lunar New Year (January or February), kids in some Asian countries...
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Make a Didgeridoo
Use a mailing tube and some acrylic paints to create these beautiful didgeridoos from Australia.
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Clay Fortune Cookies
No Chinese take-out meal is complete without fortune cookies. My older kid eagerly cracks open his cookie to read the fortune--eating the cookie is a...
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