Klutz Helps School Get More Fun!

Here’s how you can get your kids to be fearless about making mistakes...Make Your Own Mini Erasers!

Amy Mascott shares her thoughts and kids’ experience with this new Klutz crafting kit! Even better, she walks us through the simple steps to sculpt your very own creations with eraser clay.

Make Your Own Mini Erasers really allows kids to work independently and creatively, and there’s nothing like a kid that’s proud of their work! Amy shares with her fellow Klutz fans how quickly her kids got the hang of it and how eager they were to make more erasers! Give Amy’s blog a read and learn how her kids took a chance and made mistakes . . . well because they learned how to make erasers!

Unleash Your Inner Designer with KLUTZ!

Why go to the mall when your child can create her very own fashion right at home? In Amy Mascott’s blog post about our new book, “My Fashion Portfolio,” she shows how your child can create and share dozens of looks, no fashion experience necessary. 

Amy explains just how awesome this book is for young fashionistas. Not only does the blog show us step-by-step how the book works, but there is also a super-cool video demo too!

This blog post doesn’t miss a thing about our new absolutely adored book. It highlights all of the key aspects in “My Fashion Portfolio,” including the fun fact that no sewing kit is needed to design outfits with the 100+ paper patterns included in the book. Just your child and her imagination are required for this book; Klutz covers the rest! Check out Amy’s blog, get the book, and let the fashion imagination run free.

Easy DIY Fabric Valentine’s Day Cards (with Design & Dye with No Heat Batik)

by Netta Rabin, vice president of product development and crafty mama of 3 delicious boys

No more excuses! I bought a house in the ’burbs this year (yay!), so I can no longer complain that I can’t find a single square inch of cleared surface area for crafting. My 5-year-old Levi has finally broadened his interests beyond LEGOs, and after the twins went to bed it was time for Design & Dye.

Levi was excited to start this craft as soon as I pulled the book out of my backpack. I promise I didn’t ask him to pose with the book like this, but 

hey—I guess he knows what I do for a living. 

The second Levi saw the bright paints and gooey green gel he knew what he wanted to do for his Valentine’s Day cards. The first design he chose was the skull and crossbones (obviously, since that just screams Valentine’s Day).

Even though the book is age-graded 8 and up, Levi did surprisingly well tracing out his designs with the gel. With the 10 fabric swatches, he decided to do 5 different designs and 5 signed “love Levi” so we could sew the swatches together into cards that open.

He got a little gel-happy and the designs smushed together a bit, but he didn’t care, so I’m not going to let my own OCD crafting tendencies affect my sweet kindergartener.

Once the gel was nice and dry, we were ready for the next step: painting! He had SO much fun mixing together colors from the recipes in the book to create rainbow and tie-dye effects. I had to get in on the action and he let me paint a square. FUN. Why don’t we paint every night?

We then let the designs dry, soaked them to get the gel off, and washed them. We made some serious decisions on who should get which card, and sewed them together with floss we took from our Personalized Friendship Bracelets book. I made the holes and Levi pulled the thread through. I know he could probably do the sewing himself, but I wasn’t feeling brave enough at that moment.

Ta-da! We did it! Levi had a LOT of fun making these, and it was really nice to share a project that we could keep going back to for a few days. They definitely look like they were made by a 5-year-old, but you know what? I’m totally OK with that.