There are many occasions to tell someone you love them, so Mandisa gets crafters Sukruti and Ben started on a craft that does just that – a giant paper heart! The kids draw whatever they love most on two paper hearts and then cover them in paint. After the two hearts get stitched together with ya...

Aarav and Piper become mechanics as Mandisa teaches them how to make a bicycle craft out of cardboard. The crafters glue strips of cardboard together and attach paper plate wheels with fasteners, adding staws as spokes. After a bit of decoration, and yarn tassels, the bikes are ready to roll.

Mandisa teaches Olivia and Emerson how to make a fun, dancing puppet craft. The crafters cut the puppets’ bodies out of paper, decorate them, and then assemble them with fasteners. After attaching a strings that control the puppets’ movements, everyone gets up to show off their moves!

Shai and Luke take a trip under the sea as Mandisa shows them how to make a an Octopus craft that appears to swim. The kids create an undersea scene on painted paper plates, with paper sea weed, coral, and glitter. The paper octopi with yarn tentacles are attached to a popsicle stick so they can ...

In the Crafting Zone, Piper and Aston make adorable Pull Puppy crafts with Mandisa’s guidance. The kids each fashion cardboard wheels to a tin can, add pom pom tails, and a paper cup for the head. With a pull of a string, the kids can take their puppy crafts for a walk.

Mandisa shows Gabriela and Michael how to craft a type of slime that’s extra fun to play with – floam slime! Starting with glitter glue, the kids stir their ingredients until they can knead the mixture with their hands. Once the white foam beads are added, the slime gets its unusual, crunchy tex...

Mandisa crafts up a slinky Dragon Craft to show her friends Ben and Kiyari, who are then inspired to make their own. The kids each start with the dragon’s face, adding feathers, googly eyes, and grinning teeth, before creating a paper chain for its body. Straws are taped to the front and back of ...

Aarav and Piper learn that a unicorn hobby horse is even more fun than a regular one, and Mandisa teaches them how to craft ones of their own. They cut out two identical horse heads from paper, painting them pink before stapling them together. The kids each stitch on a mane of yarn, stick on glit...

It’s not New Years without a party hat – that’s why Mandisa helps Michael and Gabriela craft their very own celebratory party hats. They need card stock to each make a cone, then to decorate it with pipe cleaner and tinsel. The kids attach an elastic band to keep the hat secure, and then they are...

Llamas live on farms, but Mandisa has an idea for a colourful llama craft that can live anywhere. Crafters Katie and Michael start by painting paper plates yellow and cutting them in half to form the bodies. They decorate a paper saddle with stickers and glitter glue before taping on a popsicle s...

Piper and Austen learn from Mandisa how to make a portrait of a cat whose eyes move from side to side. The first step is drawing the cat’s body on paper, then cutting out holes where the eyes will go. After painting the portraits with water colour, the pair each attach a strip of paper with eyes ...

Have you ever made a craft of your own face? Mandisa shows Emma and Travis the ropes of how to create a 3D self-portrait. After each painting a colourful background, the kids make their faces with paper that matches their skin tone, then folding it so it pops out of the page. After adding a few o...

Just in time for the holiday season, Mandisa suggests to River and Claire that they all make a winter holiday tree centrepiece. Recycled cardboard scraps and tubes get stacked to form a tree shape, before the kids paint them green. They add little decorations, strings of beads, and top them off w...

Everyone loves blowing bubbles! In this episode, Mandisa helps crafters Kiyari and Sebastian make their own bubble machines from recycled plastic bottles and a pair of socks. The crafters decorate their machines to look like different sea creatures and are amazed by the long stream of bubbles the...

Mandisa introduces Luke and Olivia to a craft that’s both a DIY ring toss game, and a bear’s face. After tracing, cutting and painting their paper plate rings with watercolours, the kids attach a recycled paper towel roll to act as the pole. When the paint is dry, the kids see how many rings they...

Sukruti and Ben hop into action to learn Mandisa’s Bunny Craft that has the ability to jump. The craft involves two cups – the first cup becomes the bunny’s face, complete with ears, googly eyes, pipecleaner whiskers, and yarn for hair. The kids fashion elastics to the top cup so it leaps off the...

The fun of playing marbles meets the joys of crafting as Mandisa shows Abbey and Emerson how to make their own marble runs. The kids use an assortment of recycled materials, like carboard tubes and bottle caps, to contruct their courses. After some trial and error fitting them together, the marbl...

When Mandisa unveils an enormous snowflake crafted from paper bags, Abbey and Emerson are ready to learn how to make their own. They first glue together paper bags and cut shapes into them so that when the bags are unfolded, they reveal a beautiful big snowflake. The kids paint their snowflakes i...

Mandisa gives Kiyari and Sebastian a tutorial on how to create an elephant craft with carboard tubes. They cut the iconic shape of the elephant from a thin piece of carboard before painting everything grey. When dry, they assemble their elephants so they stand tall on their cardboard tube legs, a...

Mandisa introduces crafters Zack and Claire to a slime craft with the unlikeliest of materials – shaving cream! The gang heads to the slime zone to mix up the usual ingredients to thicken their creation, adding shaving cream to give it a cloud-like texture. When the kids have their slimes finishe...

It’s fun to imagine what it would be like to fly, so Mandisa helps Daxton and Kaia make a Jet Pack craft that they can wear on their backs. They begin with cardboard and straps, and then each wrap two big recycled bottles with aluminum foil. The pair add felt flames to the bottom and strap everyt...

Daxton and Kaia report to crafting Captain Mandisa, who takes them through the steps of making a Rocking Boat craft. The young crafters fold paper circles which form the body of their boats, allowing them to rock back and forth. They then glue down strips of construction paper to cardstock, creat...

In this episode, Claire and Zack don’t just get to craft birds – they get to craft birds that perch on their wrists! Mandisa demonstrates how to glue feathers and a paper beak onto a carboard tube to make the birds’ bodies. The kids make a bracelet by twisting two pipecleaners so they can wear th...

Mandisa has a new craft to share with Noah and Khamari in the crafting zone – a spider that can climb! The first step is to create a spider from paper circles and bent pipecleaners for the legs. Using a strand of yarn and straws, Mandisa helps the kids engineer a device which allows the critter t...