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Touch My Hand trick and Kibble Run craft from the new book 101 Dog Tricks Kids Edition

If you and your kids like teaching your dog new tricks and like crafting, then today's post featuring a tutorial on how to teach your dog the Touch My Hand trick and the tutorial on how to make a kibble run from the book 101 Dog Tricks, Kids Edition: Fun and Easy Activities, Games, and Crafts is for you!

Click on these pages from 101 Dog Tricks, Kids Edition to enlarge the images and read the step-by-step tutorial on how teach your dog the Touch My Hand trick.

 

 

For the full step-by-step tutorial on how to make a kibble run out of recycled paper towel tubes from the book 101 Dog Tricks, Kids Edition, click on this button:Download

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101 Dog Tricks, Kids Edition: Fun and Easy Activities, Games, and Crafts by Kyra Sundance

Having your children train the family dog to perform tricks is an ideal way to build a safe and respectful relationship early on, to build a bond between your dog and the kids, build confidence, and make it fun for everyone! 101 Dog Tricks, Kids Edition will teach you everything you need to know to get your children involved in training the family dog. This book presents full color photos of kids working with dogs for each trick, along with training steps, to make it easy to follow along. The step-by-step approach, difficulty rating, and prerequisites will allow you and your child to start training easily and immediately. No special tools (such as clickers) or knowledge of specific training methods are required. Each trick is specifically targeted to be fun for kids. Tricks include blowing soap bubbles, which hand holds the treat, weenie bobbing, and more. This book also includes a fun arts and crafts section that includes tons of fun activities for kids, including: pawpainting, personalizing dogwear, baking dog treats, crafting homemade dog toys, and snapping pet portraits. Join Kyra and Chalcy for some dog training family fun!

Kyra Sundance is a world-acclaimed stunt dog show performer, dog trainer, and internationally best-selling author. Her dog team performs live acrobatic shows on premier stages internationally; at circuses, professional sports halftime shows, and on movies and television shows such as The Tonight Show, Ellen, Entertainment Tonight, Worldwide Fido Awards, Animal Planet, Showdog Moms & Dads, and Beverly Hills Chihuahua 2. Kyra and her dogs starred in Disney's Underdog stage show and in a command performance at the palace in Marrakech for the king of Morocco. Kyra has written numerous popular dog-training books including the international best-selling 101 Dog Tricks, and hosts a line of award-winning dog-training DVDs. She also set-trains dog actors for movies and TV and lectures on positive dog-training methods. Kyra is nationally ranked in competitive dog sports, having trained, competed, and titled in a great number of dog sports. Her methods foster confident, happy dogs who are motivated to do the right thing rather than ones fearful of making a mistake. She shows us how to develop joyful relationships with dogs who balance enthusiasm with self-control. Kyra and her Weimaraners Chalcy and Jadie live with Kyra's husband on a ranch in California's Mojave desert.

www.kyra.com

How to Make a Faux Taxidermy Deer Head with a Sock from Boycraft

I love regular taxidermy and all sorts of faux taxidermy, and this version of how to make a deer head with a sock from Boycraft: Loads of Things to Make For and With Boy (and Girls) is just darling! Scroll down for the fun and easy tutorial on how to make a faux deer head wall decoration with your kids, and if you would like to get yourself in the running for a copy of Boycraft along with Origami 365 and some cool Horizon Group craft supplies pop on back to Monday's Craftside post.

Click on these pages from Boycraft to enlarge and read the full fun and easy tutorial on how to make a wall mounted deer head from a recycled sock.

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Boycraft: Loads of Things to Make For and With Boy (and Girls)

by Sara Duchars, Sarah Marks

Boys like making stuff. Actually, boys love making stuff. Not just model boats, paper airplanes, bows and arrows and catapults – although they love that too. Boys like knitting; scarves, hats, spiders and monsters. Boys like sewing – especially if they can use the sewing machine. They like cutting and sticking and gluing and sawing and hammering. However, sometimes people – both boys and their parents – need to be reassured that it’s okay for boys to make things. Boycraft does exactly that.

Boycraft is packed full of projects to make for and with boys. It will be illustrated with a mix of photographs and graphic-style illustrations.

 

Sara Duchars and Sarah Marks founded Buttonbag in 2005, a young innovative company breathing new life into old crafts by updating them in a fresh, contemporary way. They have graduated from a stall at London's Greenwich market to a network of more than 20.

 

How to Make Lace Ruffle Boot Toppers - Inspired by the Book, Crocheting Clothes Kids Love

I will use any excuse to make fun new accessories, and virtually any holiday will work for me. The next one is St. Patrick's Day and that means GREEN! And as you know, recycled sweaters are one of my favorite materials to craft with. Today, I thought I'd combine one of my faves with a brand new "yarn" called Boutique Sassy Lace from Red Heart to make these cute ruffle boot toppers inspired by the ones in Crocheting Clothes Kids Love: 28 Fun-to-Wear Projects.

The pattern in Crocheting Clothes Kids Love: 28 Fun-to-Wear Projects is for leg warmers, but I know I would be wearing these with tall boots so I only needed boot toppers.

To make my ruffled lace boot toppers, I started by cutting about 5 inches off the sleeves of a recycled felted rib stitch sweater.

To crochet the ruffle onto the cut edge of the sweater I used a small hook and the loops in the Boutique Sassy Lace yarn. It is a simple single crochet. Poke the hook through the cut sweater about 2 rows down, hook the Sassy Lace yarn and draw through the sweater.

Hook another loop of the Sassy Lace yarn and draw through the two on the hook.

I did a stitch about every 4th stitch in the sweater edge. The closer you make your stitches the fuller your ruffle will be.

To make the draw string, I simply did a chain stitch and then sewed it through the ribs of the sweater about an inch from the edge. All that was left to do was make 4 small pompoms and knot them onto the ends of the chain stitch draw string.

Christmas switch over-I think I will swap out the white pompoms for red at Christmas time :)

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Crocheting Clothes Kids Love: 28 Fun-to-Wear Projects

by Shelby Allaho & Ellen Gormley

Whether you have kids or are a kid at heart, you’ll love making the fun and kid-stylish projects featured in Crocheting Clothes Kids Love. This easy-to-use book features twenty-eight designs for garments and accessories for school-age kids.. Projects include:sweaters, vests, a capelet, dress, skirt, tank top, and slippers in styles kids are certain to love.

 

Crocheting Clothes Kids Love also includes patterns for accessories, such as: hats, scarves, mittens, wristers, hair bands, jewelry, leg warmers, a backpack, belt, and messenger bag. Creative, fun photography by Nancy Langdon, who also co-authored and photographed Sewing Clothes Kids Love and photographed Knitting Clothes Kids Love shows kids wearing and using the projects to give you added inspiration.

 

All projects are designed using a variety of yarn types in fibers that are easy to care for. Yarns used represent selections from both LYS and big box brands, with generic descriptions, gauge and hook sizes to allow you to easily substitute comparable yarn. 

 

New to crochet? No worries. General crochet instructions are provided to make it easy for new crocheters to follow along.

 

Shelby Allaho has won numerous design awards, and her work has been published in Interweave Crochet and Inside Crochet, as well as in books from Sixth and Spring Books, and Sterling Publishing. She specializes in designing unique accessories for women and children, in traditional and freeform crochet.

 

Ellen Gormley stitched more than 80 afghans before beginning her design career in 2004. Now, Ellen has sold more than 200 designs, and been published numerous times in many crochet magazines including Interweave Crochet, Crochet Today, Crochet!, Crochet World and Inside Crochet. Her designs have been shown on the PBS show Knit and Crochet Now! Her two books are Go Crochet! Afghan Design Workbook and Learn Bruges Lace.

 

Shelby Allaho's blog: www.stitch-story.com ; also as StitchStory on Twitter and Stitchstory on www.Ravelry.com.

Ellen Gormley's blog: www.GoCrochet.com ; also as GoCrochet on Twitter and www.Ravelry.com

    

 

How to make a cupcake liner poppy from the book How to Make 100 Paper Flowers

I don't know about you, but I am tickled that they are making such fun and cute cupcake papers these days especially since not only do they make cupcakes and muffins a bit more festive, you can craft with them too! And speaking of crafting with cupcake papers, that is just what I have for you today. Here is a great tutorial on how to make a poppy flower with cupcake liners from the book How to Make 100 Paper Flowers: Ideas and Instruction for Folding, Cutting, and Simple Sculptures.

Click on this page from How to Make 100 Paper Flowers to enlarge and read the step-by-step tutorial on haw to make a cupcake paper flower.

 

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How to Make 100 Paper Flowers: Ideas and Instruction for Folding, Cutting, and Simple Sculptures

by Maria Noble

Learn how to make 100 beautiful flowers, from lifelike to fanciful, with How to Make 100 Paper Flowers! These creations are perfect for weddings and other celebrations, and this comprehensive guide brings you a wide variety of techniques and styles. Step-by-step instructions are accompanied by color photos and diagrams; techniques include general crafting (cut, shape, and glue), origami, and quilling. All patterns are included! Color your world and satisfy your craft cravings with delightful, handmade, paper flowers.

For Maria Noble, making flowers is a lifelong passion that began as a child watching her mother and aunt run a floral business. Using innovative methods, they made beautiful flowers from fabric, paper, and other materials for weddings and other special events. Maria started her own business ten years ago, incorporating her inherited skills and exploring ideas of her own to create new, distinctive flowers. The business has flourished, and now her exquisite flowers are sought out by consumers and businesses nationwide, including leading event planners in New York and Los Angeles. Her flowers have been featured in various magazines and on popular websites.

Maria lives in Avon, Connecticut with her husband and two children. Find her online at www.stjudescreations.com

 

Amazing altered book art from Layout Essentials: 100 Design Principles for Using Grids

My jaw dropped when I flipped to this page in Layout Essentials: 100 Design Principles for Using Grids that features an amazing piece of book art. I was about to say that this artist really thought outside the box, but what is more accurate to say they thought outside the book!

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Layout Essentials: 100 Design Principles for Using Grids

by Beth Tondreau

Adhering to certain layout and grids standards and principles is important for any job from brochures, to annual reports, to posters, to websites, to publications. However, knowing how to bend the rules and make certain grids work for the job at hand takes skill.

This book outlines and demonstrates basic layout/grid guidelines and rules through 100 entries including choosing a typeface, striving for rhythm and balance with type, combining typefaces, using special characters and kerning and legibility. These essentials of grid design are critical to the success of any job.

Beth Tondreau owns and serves as creative director of BTD Design in New York. Prior to establishing BTD in 1985, she was design director of Viking/Penguin.