Katie Beese's first-grade class from Edgebrook School in Chicago spent the morning with us at our Fibre-Craft Materials Corp.® headquarters, making fun projects using our Creative Hands® arts and crafts materials.

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Stacy Perez's first-grade class from Wildwood Magnet School in Chicago spent the morning with us at our Fibre-Craft Materials Corp.® headquarters, making fun projects using our Creative Hands® arts and crafts materials.

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Geri Panol's kindergarten class from Ronald E. McNair Academic Center in Chicago spent the morning with us at our Fibre-Craft Materials Corp.® headquarters, making fun projects using our Creative Hands® arts and crafts materials.

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Kristine Kiesel's second-grade class spent the morning with us at our Fibre-Craft Materials Corp.® headquarters, making fun projects using our Creative Hands® arts and crafts materials.

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A class of 23 second-graders from Walt Whitman Elementary School spent the morning at our Fibre-Craft® headquarters learning about art and making fun craft projects, including ones specifically for St. Patrick's Day. The students also toured our HUGE warehouse and received a Creative Hands® goodie bag before they left to go back to their school in Wheeling.

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Inspired perhaps by our fun presentation on art this morning, the 32 first-graders from Chicago's Edgebrook Elementary School attacked their arts and crafts projects with gusto during our Dec. 14 Kids Day. They were so proud of what they made, they happily stood at the front of the room and showed off their "All About Me" creation. They decorated their foam person with such arts and crafts materials as Fuzzy Stix™, Googly Eyes™, glitter glue, spangles, feathers, poms and foam stickers from our Creative Hands brand.

"I made someone who's silvery and shiny," one little boy named Mike said. "His name is Disco Dance." When asked what his favorite kind of dance is, Mike replied "breakdancing" and gleefully demonstrated a few moves on the floor.

Another boy named Conor told us he had made an abstract painting. When asked from which era, he came back with: "ERA? What's an ERA???" Once it was explained to him that era means a time period, he shouted, "2010!!!"

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Students from St. Haralambos School in Niles visited us for our Kids Day event on November 18. The kids, who ranged in age from 3 to 5, enjoyed making craft projects, learning about arts and touring our HUGE warehouse.

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First-graders from Mrs. Martha Orso's class at John Middleton Elementary School in Skokie spent the morning at our Fibre-Craft® headquarters Oct. 14, 2010. They made fun projects, learned about arts and crafts, and met our product designers. Check out more pics on our Creative Hands® Facebook fan page.

First-graders from Stacy Perez’s class at Chicago’s Edgebrook Elementary School enjoy a morning of arts and crafts Thursday, Sept. 23, 2010, during Creative Hands Kids Day® at our Fibre-Craft® headquarters. The students arrived at 10 o’clock sharp to make fun projects, meet our product designers, learn about how products are made and tour our huge warehouse. The event ended with a pizza party, including goodie bags for each kid to take home.

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The question "if you could make anything for kids, what would it be?" generates enthusiastic answers from the boys and girls gathered at Fibre-Craft Materials Corp.® during a Kids Day™ event held July 13, 2010, at the corporate headquarters in Niles, Ill.

“An evil robot!”

“I’d make an action figure look like you.

“I’d design clothes for my doll. When I grow up, I want to make Barbie dolls.”

“I want to design stickers!”

Inviting kids into our office to create arts and crafts projects, learn about how products are made, meet the product designers and tour the huge warehouse is a monthly event at Fibre-Craft®. But the slim blonde woman walking from table to table, leaning down to talk to the kids and helping them with their crafts, is not a regular sight.

In fact, Carolyn Kepcher is a reality TV celebrity who visited Fibre-Craft® last month to film part of the Back-to-School episode for her TV special. She is best known for her appearances on the first few seasons of “The Apprentice.” The Back-to-School episode featuring Creative Hands® and our Kids Day here will air nationally on WE TV at 7 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 28, 2010.



In keeping with the episode’s theme, the kids work on back-to-school crafts, including foam folders and pencil toppers.

“What’s your favorite subject in school?” asks product designer Natalie Rozansky.

The kids shout out:

“Gym—you don’t have to work.”

“Lunch, recess and gym.”

“The playground!”

“I like reading and art.”

“I like science a lot—we get to do experiments.”

Natalie leads the kids on a tour of the warehouse. They watch in amazement as the shrink-wrapping machine whirls and does its job. They get even more excited seeing the forklift in action.

“Whoa!”

“Cool!”

“Yeah!"

“It’s pretty neat!”



Back inside the Fibre-Craft® showroom, the kids, ages 4 to 10, are seated again. Another project they create is called All About Me, where they decorate a foam person cut-out with Creative Hands® foam stickers, glitter glue, feathers and other craft materials to reflect their personality. One girl adorns her “me model” with star-shaped foam stickers for shoes and feathers for hair. A boy puts music-related foam stickers and popsicle sticks all over his.

John Porubsky, the product designer in charge of the project, asks for volunteers to come up to the front and show off their creation.

“This is you as a rock star. Cool,” he says to one girl. To other kids: “I can tell you like cars. I like your big smile … I think we have a Blackhawks fan here. That’s pretty cool.”

The last project before the pizza party is a friendship bracelet the kids make by twisting two Fuzzy Stix™ together. Some of the kids make the bracelets for their newest friends—the helpers who have been stationed by their table all morning.