Curious Crafting

Curious Crafting

78 Episodes

Set in the ultimate crafting space, Curious Crafting is a short form pre-school age series about the joy of making crafts. Host Mandisa Watts leads a rotating cast of young kids making magic out of common household objects.

Curious Crafting
  • Squeeze Bottle Rockets

    Episode 56

    Piper and Aston prepare for lift off as Mandisa shows them how to make a rocket launcher craft with recycled squeeze bottles. After decorating the bottles with stickers, the crafters make little rockets from construction paper and straws. A squeeze of the bottles launches the paper rockets into t...

  • Fall Tree In A Box

    Episode 57

    Mandisa has a craft idea for Ben and Kiyari who love watching Autumn leaves turn colour – it’s a Fall tree in a box! The kids use pencil erasers to make Fall-coloured paint dots in recycled shoe boxes. They each cut out a tree shape from construction paper and then use a puncher to make tissue pa...

  • Tissue Box Monsters

    Episode 55

    Mandisa helps Emma and Arjay turn basic tissue boxes into monster crafts in a few steps. Starting with a coat of paint, the kids decorate the outsides of their boxes and then attach paper teeth to create big smiling jaws. After adding styrofoam eyeballs and feathers, these monsters are ready to s...

  • Bug Hotel

    Episode 53

    Mandisa unveils to Olivia and Emerson a comfortable place for critters, also know as a bug hotel craft. After decorating the outside of a milk carton, they create a bug-friendly habitat by filling carboard tubes with sticks, pinecones, rocks, and moss. All that’s left to do is fill it with plasti...

  • Pinwheel

    Episode 52

    Today in the crafting zone, Mandisa shows Zahra and Austen the fun of making a spinning pinwheel craft. The two crafters fold out paper wheels, then decorate them with marker and paint. Once the pinwheel is fastened with a screw and mounted to a stick, the kids give their pinwheels a spin.

  • Sock Caterpillar

    Episode 54

    Aarav and Gratian visit the crafting zone and Mandisa shows them how to make colourful caterpillar crafts using socks. The kids stuff the socks with wool, and make caterpillar bodies with a string of yarn. Over in the paint zone, the kids give each section of their caterpillars a different colour...

  • Castle In The Sky

    Episode 50

    Luke and Chloe join Mandisa at the crafting table for one of the most magical crafts yet – a castle that looks like it’s floating in the clouds. The craft begins with a cardboard box, which the crafters paint different colours of their choosing. After adding sparkly turrets and flags, they set th...

  • Glitter Slime

    Episode 51

    Mandisa shows crafters Arjay and Emma how to level up their slime-making game by adding glitter. Once the liquid ingredients are combined, the kids choose a colour and add glitter to their mixtures. The result is slime that’s as fun to look at as it is to touch.

  • Animal Planters

    Episode 48

    In this episode, Mandisa shows Katie and David how to make an earth-friendly planters shaped like animals. Mandisa cuts the bottoms of plastic bottles for the kids to paint and decorate. When the paint dries, the crafters fill their planter pots with rocks and soil to help their plants feel at ho...

  • Monkey Craft

    Episode 45

    Katie and David are ready to monkey around as Mandisa shows them how to make a cute monkey craft. After assembling the body out of construction paper, the crafters fold paper strips into accordians for its arms and legs. All that’s left to do is add a banana, and the monkeys are ready play!

  • Tiger Pencil Holder

    Episode 49

    Mandisa shows Gratian and Aarav how to make an animal craft that sits on your desk and holds your school supplies – its’ a tiger pencil holder! The kids start by covering four cardboard tubes with orange construction paper, then add legs, a tail, a face, and of course, black stripes.

  • 3D Panda Bear

    Episode 41

    Mandisa shows Michael and Zanna how to make a Panda craft out of a paper plate, construction paper and paint. After the pieces go together, the kids learn a simple trick that makes the panda 3 dimensional, and add some bamboo with with a technique called scrape painting. The kids admire their fin...

  • DIY Kaleidoscope

    Episode 43

    Noah and Khamari enter the colourful world of kaleidoscopes as Madisa teaches them how to craft their very own using a recycled paper towel roll. The kids see how combining mirror strips and sparkling plastic gemstones creates the kaleidoscopes’ dazzling effect.

  • Sand Slime

    Episode 42

    Austen and Colette get their hands dirty as Mandisa takes them through the steps of making a special kind of slime – Sand Slime! The kids measure out all the ingredients to create a mixture, adding seashells for decoration. The end product looks and feels just like wet sand at the beach.

  • Paper Bag Fox Puppet

    Episode 40

    Mandisa introduces us to her Paper Bag Fox Puppet! With a couple of paper bags, some orange paper, and a bit of imagination, the kids create a whole family of foxes!

  • Jellyfish Suncatcher

    Episode 39

    Mandisa has a craft version of a Jellyfish that is also a Suncatcher. Learn how to make a see-through Jellyfish with coloured tissue and contact paper that looks pretty in the sunshine.

  • Cupcake Liner Fish

    Episode 38

    In the crafting world, cupcake liners have so many uses – like forming the scales of a colourful fish. Mandisa demonstrates to us how to make a fish from a paper plate painted with water colours before attaching the scales.

  • Cardboard Tube Crocodile

    Episode 37

    Mandisa shows us how to make a croc friend out of things at home we might normally throw away: a paper towel roll body, bubble wrap for scales and even bottle caps for eyes. These materials are magically transformed under a simple coat of green paint.

  • Wooden Spoon People

    Episode 36

    Mandisa shows us how to make wooden spoon people to play with. This fun craft lets the kids dress their little friends up in colourful clothes using spare scraps of fabric.

  • Farm Animal Puppets

    Episode 35

    The crafting room turns into a barn as Mandisa shows us how easy it is to create a family of farm animal finger puppets. All she needs are round bits of paper, some googly eyes and a circle punch for finger holes.

  • My Face

    Episode 33

    Using a paper plate as thee base, Mandisa chooses from buttons, yarn, pom poms and different colours of paint to create ta self-portraits.

  • Scrunch Paper Octopus

    Episode 30

    What has 8 arms and swims in the ocean? Mandisa shows her friends Colette and Hugo how to make an Octopus with four popsicle sticks and a scrunched up ball of tissue paper. The kids see for themselves which supplies would make the most realistic suction cups.

  • Salad Spinner Lion

    Episode 31

    Mandisa shows us that sometimes the things we need for a cool craft are right in our own kitchens. Using a salad spinner and paint, she creates the most important part of a lion craft – the mane!

  • Rainbow Dragon

    Episode 34

    In the crafting room, Mandisa presents a rainbow fire-breathing dragon. She uses a toilet paper roll as the head and attaches multi-coloured tissue streamers as flames.