Children thrive when they play with simple, earth-friendly toys that inspire the imagination and spark long sessions of creative play. Natural toys are great for kids and for the environment. A weaving loom is one such toy that helps inspire creativity, problem solving, patience, and self-confidence. Today, I am reviewing a high quality potholder loom kit […]
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Benefits Of Arts And Crafts For Kids
Getting your kids involved in art is a great way to teach them to think creatively, learn to entertain themselves, and to pick up random useful life skills. Everything from drawing on paper with crayons to building mud sculptures in the yard has its own merits. Here are the major arts and crafts mediums that […]
Tips For Fast Pinewood Derby Car Designs
My son has been in Cub Scouts since Kindergarten (it is for children in grades K-5). I enrolled him because I knew that he would learn lots of great skills. As it turns out, he loves Cub Scouts! He not only has fun, he also learns skills to help him do things himself, he picks […]
Cool Plastic Bottle Crafts For Kids
Rather than sending your used plastic bottles to the recycling bin, gather your children and come up with a list of clever ways to reuse them as free craft material. Once you start brainstorming, you’ll soon realize there are endless creative ways to repurpose them. To help inspire you, I’ve included several plastic bottle crafts […]
Decorative Flower Pot Painting for Kids
If you are looking for a fun craft to do with your child, you will love these decorative painted flower pots as a fun spring craft! The painted flower pot can either be gifted to a mom or grandmom or can just be kept at your own home! I got my kiddos to do this […]
Homemade Bookmarks: Easy Craft for Kids
My kiddos love to read and so do quite a few of our family members. On Easter, it’s always the kids getting all the goodies so we decided this year to hand make a couple Easter Bookmarks for some family members. Of course, the kids wanted to make these easy homemade bookmarks for themselves as […]
Fun Icicle Sticks Craft For Preschoolers
My kids love to be outside even when it’s really chilly! Lately they have been going on nature “hikes” around our yard. We do have a little bit of woods behind our house so there are definitely items to gather up. We decided to make stick icicles. It’s a pretty basic craft but my kids […]