Kid-friendly crafts, easy to do at home for all ages, themes and holidays
Happy Friday… and welcome to May! We Love Weekends can only get better with the onset of longer days and finally, warmer weather. As always, bloggers, link up your best family-friendly fun, activities, crafts, and readers, check out all the great content to fill your family’s weekend with fun. Last…
A few months ago, I had my fill of Big M’s bedtime reading selections. She has a tendency to fall in love with a book and want to read the same one, every night, for weeks on end. There are only so many times you can read the same Fancy…
Signs of spring have been popping up all around us finally… first puddles from melting snow, then buds on the trees, next daffodils popping open, and most vibrant of all, forsythia in bright, golden bloom everywhere. Since moving to Connecticut nearly 9 years ago now, I have learned that forsythia…
Earth Day is next week. In celebration, the girls and I have been exploring all about seeds, plants and gardening this week. It all started when Big M went to Home Depot with the hubby last weekend and the cashier gave her a tiny pot of sprouting grass… We let…
Happy Friday! And welcome back to We Love Weekends, a weekly link-up party I host with four of my fellow kids’ activity bloggers. It gives our fellow bloggers a chance to share their great content, and a chance for you to get a wealth of great ideas to help your…
We have had so much fun from my dust covered golf bag this last month. Starting with our Backyard Golf Ball Hunt, to refining the girls’ fine motor skills with Golf Tee Challenge, and Big M’s favorite to date – Create a Creature with Golf Tees. On Monday, we were…
The Masters Tournament is this weekend!!! And for those mommas out there who don’t share my love of golf (it was an acquired taste for me as well that I only got once I started playing myself), the Masters is one of the four major tournaments annually, and unlike other…
Contact paper has been on our craft wish list for a while now. It’s one of those things that I always mean to get, but never remember when I’m actually at the store, nor am I entirely sure what the right store is to find it in! Then, last week…
When you spend your whole childhood in one place, you grow up believing the foods you eat and traditions you celebrate are the norm for children everywhere. It wasn’t until I graduated from high school and went to college across the country with people from everywhere that I came to…
Before Big M started preschool, we used to attend a weekly playgroup at our local elementary school. It was a great way to meet other moms with kids the same age, the kids got to play together, do a craft, and at the end, had a little circle time singing…
I have been reading the Wizard of Oz to Big M at bedtime for the last few weeks. We read a chapter every night, and she has become totally in love with the story and characters. She plays with her Kelly doll characters during quiet time, and every day asks…
In lieu of our regularly scheduled Financially Savvy Fridays, today, I guest posted for Totschooling! Big M has a fascination with making footprints, or as she likes to call them, ‘paw prints,’ so I made her some paws of her own to try on and stomp around. For all the…
As I mentioned earlier this week, I started reading Big M The Wonderful Wizard of Oz before bed. We read a chapter every night, and each night, she is more excited than the last to hear where the story will lead us next. Earlier this week, our weary travelers finally…
Big M LOVES to craft, and more and more often, wants to do every part of it herself. This includes using scissors. I first introduced her to scissors about a year ago, and it lead to more frustration than fun. However, over the last 12 months, with the help of…
As I mentioned in last week’s post on School Fundraisers, this month, we have been raising money at Big M’s school with Coin Wars. Every week we sort out the coin of the week from Daddy’s coin jar to bring into school and fill her class’ jar. Having sorted the…
The secret to keeping your kids entertained, especially through this interminable winter, is a well stocked craft closet. You’ll often notice in my At-Home Activity posts, I mention that an activity was free or cost me a $1 because I already had everything else in the craft closet. So what…
Lil’ M no longer cares to be left out. She wants in on every craft and activity Big M does these days. Sometimes, it can be a bit of a struggle, given their 2 year age difference, but I am enjoying the challenge of coming up with activities I can…
We still have the Frozen soundtrack on repeat in the car, so anything Frozen related is still a big hit. I found these great heart sequins in the Dollar Spot at Target last week, and the next day saw this amazing post from Totschooling: Thawing a Frozen Heart, and thought…
Do your kids pick the same book at the library over and over? We go to our local library fairly regularly to check out books and participate in story time. I always let the girls select their own books, and they always seem to gravitate toward the same handful of…
One thing crafting with young toddlers has taught me… the more you plan a project, the more likely they will decide to create something wholly and entirely different! These Valentine Relief Paintings emerged last year out of a planned shaving cream art project that went totally awry. And if there’s…