Do you have a child who wants to make “the best Valentine’s Day card ever” and asks for your contribution? In my house, it started early on a Saturday morning. It was five am by the living room clock and I was trapped on a coach with my 2-months old sleeping on…
Category: Crafts
Titanic Day
Today marks 103th anniversary of the Titanic disaster. On April 10th, 1912 the “unsinkable” Titanic started on her maiden voyage with 2,223 passengers and crew. Four days later it hit an iceberg and sunk in the wee hours of April 15th claiming more than 1,500 lives. So many years later the story of the…
Ten Uses for Dollar Store Flat Marbles
Dollar Stores are great places to discover unexpected items that become my kids favorite toys. Last year I bought a bag of flat marbles for $2.99 and they’ve been getting a great amount of use. From budget math manipulatives, to fine motor play, from art tool, to game pieces, I want to share with you…
Shoebox Treasure Chest for Kids
My obsession with boxes started at the age of five. At the time, my parents were just graduating from college and money was so tight that bread was a luxury item. We lived in a tiny room with a pull-out futon, pull-out table, refrigerator and a wardrobe, stuffed so tight that the doors constantly flew…
Melted Shamrock Leaves – crayons and waxed-paper craft
We are big on holiday decorations any time of the year, but especially during winter when we welcome any opportunity to celebrate. As soon as Christmas decorations come down, we start decorating for Valentine’s Day and the day after Valentine’s Day we put up St. Patrick’s Day décor. Ever since we discovered that melted crayons…
How to make a glittery 3D Heart for Valentine's Day
If you are looking for great Valentine’s Day Craft, we’ve got it. This awesomely messy craft is fun and easy and we invented it absolutely by chance. Last week as we were standing in the kitchen, looking at the soggy, colored kitchen paper towels after a Chromatography experiment, we asked what we always ask,…
Toilet Paper Roll Bowling, Stacking and Math Practice
Turn your toilet paper rolls into bowling pins with a bit of wrapping paper and glitter. Toddlers can practice rolling the ball toward the target. Older kids can tape the numbers to the pins and practice some math. They can call out the numbers they knocked down and add them, line the numbers in a correct…
Paper-Mache Snowman Family Craft
Winter is all about snowman for my kids, but this year we haven’t had snowman-making snow yet. We compensate by doing lots of snowman crafts. I have told you earlier about my love of paper-mâché projects, so don’t be surprised when I tell you that when I saw an empty apple juice bottle in my…
Valentine's Day Game: I love you for...
Have you told your family lately that you love them? Was it a casual “I love you” you drop on the way out of the door in the morning or a quick, hurried “Lov’ you” at the end of a phone conversation? Do you take the time to say “I…
