Winter Wonderland

Create your own winter wonderland diorama using just recycled cardboard and paint! Put simple shapes together to create a landscape, then add texture by using some special painting techniques!

ProjectsGuest UserJanuary 5, 2022Project, At-home, Color, Colorful, Colors, Layering, Red, Cardboard, Recycled Materials, Craft, Cards, DIY, Sunflower, Paper, Collage, Fall, Late Summer

Paper Feast

Sharing meals and telling the stories of our food traditions is one of the many ways we celebrate community and family. Think about a favorite food or recipe you’d like to eat and share with others and recreate it in 3D paper collage!

ProjectsGuest UserNovember 16, 2021Project, At-home, Color, Colorful, Colors, Layering, Cardboard, Recycled Materials, Craft, Cards, DIY, Paper, Collage, Fall, Food, Feast, Pop-Up

Fall Foliage Collage

Inspired by the art of children’s book illustrator Eric Carle, this torn paper collage is a great way to use up scrap paper and old art projects to capture the colors of the fall landscape!

ProjectsGuest UserOctober 21, 2021Project, At-home, Color, Colorful, Colors, Layering, Red, Recycled Materials, Craft, Cards, DIY, Paper, Collage, collage, paper, red, orange, blue, green, fall, leaves, foliage, ripped, rip, Eric Carle

Constellation Collage

With the arrival of fall and earlier sunsets, it’s a great time to look up at the sky and search for stars and constellations. A constellation is an imaginary picture made by connecting the stars in the sky, like connect-the-dots!

Paper Sunflowers

Celebrate sunflower season with this textural collage project! This project is best for ages 4+, but can be adapted for little ones too.

ProjectsGuest UserSeptember 28, 2021Project, At-home, Color, Colorful, Colors, Layering, Red, Cardboard, Recycled Materials, Craft, Cards, DIY, Sunflower, Paper, Collage, Fall, Late Summer

Ocean Mindfulness Jar

Create a glimmering wave in a bottle! Designed to help us slow down, this sparkling potion will captivate with each tumble. Shaking, squeezing, turning, and watching as the glitter settles offers a calming sensory experience. After a few turns of this mindfulness jar, you’ll be ready to go with the flow!

ProjectsGuest UserAugust 17, 2021Project, At-home, Color, Colorful, Colors, Craft, Glue Stick, mindfulness, jar, bottle, glitter, DIY, tactile, sensory, blue, ocean, shells, sea, water, flow

Be the Sunshine Collage

🌞 Be the sunshine! We never let a few clouds rain on our parade! We’re making our own sunshine with these bright and bold collages. Slices of sun and super-bright rays burst across the page to create an exuberant expression of sunshine!

3D Beach Ball Collage

Your summer project is here! 🏖 Celebrate summer and follow these simple steps to create your own 3D beach ball out of folded paper! On a hot summer day, this project will keep your little artist cool indoors. This project is best for ages 4+.

Spinning Top Fireworks

Baby, you’re a firework! ⚡️Get festive and use metallic art materials to create your own spinning fireworks! Most of these materials can be found in your recycling. This project is best for ages 4+, but can be adapted for little ones too.

Donuts for Dad 🍩

Presents and pastries for Pops – Make something scrumptious and full of color for the fun-loving father figure in your life! Most of these materials can be found in your recycling. This project is best for ages 4+, but can be adapted for little ones too. Make Dad’s day and make some delicious donuts together!

ProjectsGuest UserJune 15, 2021Project, At-home, Color, Colorful, Colors, Holiday, Love, Craft, Father's Day, Donuts, Doughnuts, Dad, Kraft Paper, Sprinkles, Pops, Dads, Glue Stick, Scissors

Rainbow Collage

🌈 Happy Pride Month! We’re starting off June by celebrating LGBTQIA+ communities in Boston and everywhere with a Rainbow Collage project. Think about all of the beautiful colors you see when you walk around your neighborhood. Grab your art supplies and let’s create something beautiful together!

Collagraph – Creating with Cardboard

Collagraph – Explore texture and printmaking with just a few materials. Collect recycled materials from around your house! Glue down a variety of materials (and textures) to a piece of cardboard. We love to use bubble wrap, thick yarn and bumpy/smooth papers. Think about creating a collage!

ProjectsGuest UserMay 25, 2021Cardboard, Recycled, Recycled Materials, Minni, Pattern, Texture, Collagraph, Printing, Printmaking

Origami Mother's Day Craft

Let’s make something beautiful with your little artist or for the mother figure in your life! This project only requires a couple of materials and is best for ages 6+. Make Mom’s day and make some heART together!

ProjectsGuest UserMay 5, 2021Project, At-home, Color, Colorful, Colors, Holiday, Heart, Love, Red, Craft, Mother's Day, Moms, Mom, Origami, Hearts, Heart Origami

Brand Highlight: The Dough Project

What is more fun than playing with play dough? We can’t think of much. Not only do you get to play with play dough, but you can also MAKE your own play dough with The Dough Project’s DIY kit. Follow these easy steps below to make yours today with your little one(s)!

Minni Shop, Products We Love, ProjectsGuest UserMarch 30, 2021Boston, The Dough Project, Playdough, Play Dough, Dough, DIY, Minni, South End

Rubbings – Creating with Cardboard

Rubbings – Explore texture and pattern with just three materials. Collect your crayons and pastels! Sticky Lemon’s crayons are our favorite to use for this project. Place a piece of cardboard on a flat surface, put a piece of printer paper on top, and use the side of a crayon to make a rubbing. Layer colors and use corrugated cardboard for extra texture!

ProjectsGuest UserMarch 25, 2021Cardboard, Recycled, Recycled Materials, Minni, Rubbings, Pattern, Crayon, Texture, Sticky Lemon

Fluffy Shamrock Shake + Pot of Gold Slime!

Stretch, shape, and sculpt TWO St. Patrick’s Day slime projects! This project is for ages 4+ and only requires a few materials (likely in your kitchen cabinet). For an opaque vibrant green slime, try our fluffy shamrock shake slime. For a translucent, sparkly slime filled with glittery goodness, try our pot of gold slime!

A Washi Tape Valentine's Day

Tell someone you like them with a homemade Valentine’s Day card! This project is for all ages and only requires a few materials. This project can be made easier with precut shapes for toddlers. Make someone smile today with a handwritten card with your little lovebug.

Valentine's Day Craft

Let’s make something together this Valentine’s Day! This project only requires a few materials and can be made easier for little ones (with fewer hole punches) or more difficult with more yarn and more holes to weave through. Create something sweet with your little cupid today!

ProjectsGuest UserJanuary 19, 2021Project, At-home, Color, Colorful, Colors, Holiday, Winter, Valentine's Day, Heart, Love, Yarn, String, Thread, Layering, Red, Cardboard, Recycled Materials, Craft, February

Facades – Creating with Cardboard

Facades – collage a simple house façade! Gather your materials and save your cardboard (and sanity): Here is a creative way to transform this commonplace material into something beautiful. Cut a piece of cardboard into a house shape. Invite your designer to decorate their own façade with glue and collaging materials, such as fabric + paper shapes.

ProjectsGuest UserJanuary 6, 2021Facades, Cardboard, Recycled, Recycled Materials, House, Building, Home, Decorate, Shapes

DIY Candle Creations

We’ve got three ideas for you to transform your average wrapped beeswax candle to something showstopping! Our Candle Kit includes everything you need to create multiple colorful candles. Check out our ideas below to take your candle decor into new directions!

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