Spin art is definitely making a comeback. Two families (mine being one of them) brought spin art kits as gifts to a recent birthday party. It was for twins, so it turned out to be OK! But for a simple take on spin art you can always use a dreidel! The new holiday kits from the crafting subscription site Kiwi Crate, provide all the materials needed for a little Hannukah spin art! The Handmade Hannukah kit comes with a wooden dreidel and Hebrew letters to decorate it with. There are also little square papers with holes punched in them so that they fit right over the dreidel. As the dreidel spins (in the cardboard crate, or another box) kids can squirt paint on the paper, watch it spin and see what they create. It worked fabulously, and was so fun for both of my kids, ages two and four! The kit also includes materials for menorah making, including reusable lights! The line includes Crafty Christmas and Gifts Made by Me kits too. ~ What kind of holiday crafts do you make with your kids? ~

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Get 60% off of the first month of a Kiwi Crate monthly or gift subscription with the promo code HOLIDAY on Friday November 23, or 50% off on Saturday, 40% off on Sunday and 30% of fon Monday! Start saving and creating!

Which came first: the creative mom who wanted her kids to do lots of art projects so then they wanted to keep them all, or the creative kids who wanted to make so much fun art their parents wanted to keep it all? In my house it's both! Since both of my kids could literally put pen to paper, I have kept every scribble on a hotel note pad, colored in coloring book page and school collage. What to do with our growing art collections is a big topic of conversation among parents I know. Some answers involve taking photos and ultimately throwing out the original works. Some parents do this themselves, some outsource it to willing grandparents and some just keep talking about it while the pile grows. If you want an easy and electronic way to store your art project photos, then the Artkive app is fun to try out, and free for now. You, or even the little artist, can snap a photo of an artwork, and store it and then share it through email. Soon you will easily be able to get books and mugs made using the images too. Bottom line is, it's stored, and can even be printed if you start to miss the original, assuming you actually threw it away! Founder, Jedd Gold  described the app saying, "Artkive is a win-win for parents and kids. Kids get to see their art saved forever, and can view it anytime on the iphone or ipad, and parents get to remove clutter and no longer feel guilty about throwing stuff away." ~ What do you do with all of your children's art projects? ~