Doing a craft with your children around a holiday, like St. Patrick’s Day, helps to make their day extra special. Not only do crafts provide a fun project and pretty result, they also give you the opportunity to teach your children about the day’s history while sparking their creativity. When making this salt dough shamrock […]
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DIY Valentine Door Decorations: How To Make Hanging Hearts
I love a good hack in the crafting world! If there is something I can do to make my project a little easier, I’m all for it! Today’s crafting hack is one of my favorites especially because I really don’t enjoy sewing but I DO love my glue gun! These No Sew Hanging Heart Valentine […]
Preschool Placemat Craft With Paper and Fall Leaves
Well, it’s fall y’all. There are still hot days but see signs of fall coming all around and the leaves are already starting to drop! September 23 marked the first official day of fall this year. I always look forward to the crisp, cool air that feels so fresh and exhilarating after the stifling heat […]
5 Benefits Of A Weaving Loom & A Potholder Loom Kit Review
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 […]
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 […]