After finishing off this sprinkle jar of sprinkles for some rice crispy treats my son asked if “we could keep it for our kitchen”. I said yes immediately and washed it out, but as I was drying it I had a better idea. I had my 2yo picked out 5 colors, then he filled a […]
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Monster Mates Valentine
All you need is paper towel tube cut in half, some paint, a white pencil (or crayon or chalk pen), black paper, and googly eyes. Add whatever you’d like inside! We added some chocolates and stickers. Let the kids paint the tubes however they’d like, and let dry. Once dry push half the end of […]
Activities / Crafts / Educational / Fine Motor Skill / Moral Development for Children
“I Love You To Pieces”
With Fathers day right around the corner I thought I’d share what the kids made for their Dad for Christmas. Each kid was creative, and came up with their own from the cookie cutters, and markers I had on hand. You lay 10 popsicle sticks out and then take an 11th to make level. Once […]
Activities / Crafts / Educational
Sunday Fun Day
Need something to do that isn’t outside in the freezing cold or the rainy weather? Grab some paper and some sort of medium. I grabbed our 3 bins with crayons, colored pencils, and markers. and our one catty with pencils, erasers, pens etc. that we use for homeschooling. We also had a few How to […]
Crafts / Fine Motor Skill
Easy Quick Firework Fun!
For this you just need paper, markers, pom poms, and either double sided tape (rolled tape might work in a pinch) or that clear contact paper which would allow for the whole thing to be sticky. Tape up a sheet of paper, I just pulled a chunk from their IKEA art roll. Then just draw […]
Activities / Crafts / Educational / Fall / Fine Motor Skill
Fall Tree
This is a quick and easy idea for if you have one or multiple children. You can even send these out and have multiple families create this for grandparents. If you just have one or each of your children doing one their own you just make one tree truck and branches then let them go […]
Activities / Crafts / Fine Motor Skill
Renewed Crayons
It got to a point where all the “free” thinner crayons and some larger ones that were in the crayon box that were all broken up and to difficult for the kids to use. So instead of tossing them out I cut them all up and had the kids sort them into Roy G. Biv […]
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Promoting Paper Magic Site
Here is her awesome book! https://craftingwithreny.com/ The kids and I really enjoy this amazing women’s work. She has soooo many crafts that we’ve done, and so many more we’ve ear marked to do! Here is just one that we did that my son and I loved making and playing with, It even flies a bit! […]
Crafts / Educational
Felt Fishy Friends
Every once in a while I don’t have the supplies on hand, or have no desire to go out in the cold or rainy weather so I come up with other activities to do vs what Hooked On Phonics has listed. (Just one our many tools for school) This time it was the letter F […]
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Treasure Hunt!
While spring is in the near future and temps keep fluctuating from sunny, warm, and beautiful; to cold, dreary, and yucky here’s an activity to do in the interim on those days you don’t want to go out. I actually can’t take credit for this activity either. My son son is responsible for the thought, […]