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 Vinyl wall décor is all the rage in children’s rooms right now, and this is a simple way to create your own! All you need is some contact paper (matte, if you can find it) and Sharpie pens! It’s always a special treat when I let the kids use Sharpie pens, and I think [...]
Like most kids, my kids enjoy playing with bingo-style dot markers. They enjoy completing dot marker worksheets (we’ve found some fun ones here and here), as well as creating open-ended art with them. Which is where the seeing comes in. One of the reasons I started blogging was because I wanted to focus [...] All credit for this simple symmetry art project goes to six-year-old Emma! She came up with it while playing with glitter glue and napkins left over from her birthday party. She would spread the glue on one half of the napkin, fold it in half (see below), and open it up for a beautiful, [...] I think decorating cupcakes was a favorite activity for several of the kids attending Emma’s birthday party! We set it up just like Lily’s cupcake decorating party, giving each child their own Dixie cups with different toppings. I frosted the cupcakes ahead of time since it was a larger group. It was fun to [...] We have been putting paint (and other liquids, like hair gel with food coloring) in ziploc bags to play for years now, and it is always fun – especially since I discovered the trick of taping them to the table with a sheet of white paper underneath to make the colors pop! One thing [...] I was thrilled to find this unfinished wooden castle at Michael’s before Christmas! The list price was $19.99, and I paid a lot less than that thanks to a coupon. It became Johnny and Lily’s Christmas present together with these knights and fairies – also purchased at Michaels with a coupon, thank you Ticia [...] For Valentine’s Day this year, I made these kids some color-me heart stuffies, inspired by our decorate-a-monster stuffies! They were very simple to make: cut a heart shape out of muslin (twice), stitch together, trim seam allowance, stuff, stitch shut, add a face, and hand to kiddos to play with! We decorate ours with [...] Lily was thrilled to discover that you can “paint” on construction paper with icicles! The paper is fairly porous, so the water shows up right away, then dries so you can paint all over again! This was a great distraction from the virus she was battling, and she surprised me by making some [...] These shape monsters are super simple and super easy to make – and they were such a hit with my kids that I think we’ll make some as part of Emma’s craft-themed birthday party next month! I gave each kid a sheet of construction paper, a bunch of shape foam stickers, and googly eyes, [...] White boards can be amazing tools for literacy and creativity. There’s something magical about the way the markers glide across the surface, dry instantly, and erase easily. My parents purchased a white board for us when I was seven years old, and I still remember how magical it was. White boards aren’t the [...] |
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