CRAFT Summer Camp

How-To: Sew a Reversible Sun Hat

How-To: Sew a Reversible Sun Hat By Bernadette Noll and Kathie Sever Future Craft Collective This week I’m passing along a much-beloved pattern that has been in my lexicon of favorites for years now. It’s a super easy pattern that suits kids as well as adults, and it goes together in a snap. My 8-year-old […]

How-To: Make a Cat Toy

How-To: Make a Cat Toy By Bernadette Noll and Kathie Sever Future Craft Collective We’re staying at Grandma’s house for a few weeks this summer. Lots of swimming and card games and board games and croquet and lots of totally unstructured free time too. Grandma doesn’t have a regular craft room but we do have […]

Kids Make Whip Cream

Alice and Arlo, hard at work and focused on the prize! I’m always amazed at how satisfying it is to beat your own whip cream, especially by hand, and for kids it’s no exception. I can rarely get either of my boys to hunker down in the kitchen with me for a real baking session, […]

Ideas for Traveling with Kids

My first idea for traveling by airplane with children involves a kindly mother or mother-in-law, whom your children adore, and who would like nothing more than to come stay at your house with your kids for 3 weeks while you and your hubby fly off to Tahiti. Sadly, we tried this one time, when our […]

Meditation Pillow

Meditation Pillow By Bernadette Noll and Kathie Sever Future Craft Collective Future Craft Collective is still on the road this week – with Kathie and I visiting the coasts of our youth. She west and me, east. We’re kind of enjoying this current process of project making – photos sent and project written. It’s fun […]

CRAFT Video: Pinhole Camera

In this CRAFT Video, learn to make and use a pinhole camera from materials you probably already have around the house. This is a great project to do with your kids over the summer, or just to learn something new on your own. When you make one, post up your photos and cameras in the […]

Super Smooth Scooter Bag

Super Smooth Scooter Bag By Bernadette Noll and Kathie Sever Future Craft Collective As I type this I can see the Atlantic Ocean out one window, the Empire State Building from another, and the full moon too. Visiting family in the motherland has got me feeling all sentimental for all of it — the places […]