Help your kids adopt the easiest pet ever — a ROCK! (I know. Why didn’t you think of this before?) Once your child adopts a rock, he can dress it up, name it, and give it a home! Not only that, add literacy learning with a funny and fun writing activity. Use a procedural “How-To” book like Laura Numeroff’s 10-Step Guide […]
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Simple Christmas Zentangle for Kids
Coloring books are relaxing and fun but we highly recommend making Zentangles for a fun art project instead! Here’s a simple Christmas Zentangle that you can do with your kids. All the ideas in this project use lines or circles making it easy for a child to do. Simple Christmas Zentangle for Kids 1. Start by […]
How to Make Cute Clay Creatures
Modeling Clay with 3 Basic Shapes by Bernadette Cuxart shares step-by-step directions and photographs for kids to create cute clay animals. (Or cute eraser creatures as we did.) Using three basic shapes — a ball, a worm, and a teardrop — this step by step book will show you how to make tons of (40) cute creatures. Creatures such as […]
Play the Forest School Way
Play the Forest School Way: Woodland Games, Crafts and Skills for Adventurous Kids by Peter Houghton and Jane Worroll knows that the greatest playground for children is outside in nature. Play the Forest School Way I like the activities in the book as well as the background information for facilitators to know and share with children before, […]
Make a Wish Jar! DIY Origami Stars
Inspired by the Star Darlings positive messages, my daughter and I created our own Wish Jars — with our wishes written on colorful strips of paper which we made into origami stars. Star Darlings are star-charmed girls who encourage and help others to fulfill their heartfelt wishes. Now with nine books, dolls, music and apparel, along with a mobile app and […]
DIY Heart Book
I’m loving Making Books with Kids: 25 Paper Projects to Fold, Sew, Paste, Pop, and Draw by Esther K. Smith with illustrations by Jane Sanders and typo-o-graphics by Dikko Faust which will be published 2/1/16. I adapted one of the book’s projects to make a found-object heart book for kids for Valentine’s Day or any day. […]
Patterns for Doll Clothes
My kids are big crafters — and recently, sewers. Is that the genderless term? I’m not sure. But you get the gist. The girls love to sew doll clothes for Barbies and American Girls. I bought a great inexpensive Brother sewing machine for us a few years ago and it’s been fabulous. (Under $100!!) I can hem and […]