This shop has been compensated by Collective Bias, Inc. and its advertiser. All opinions are mine alone. #GIVEEXTRAGETEXTRA #Walmart #CollectiveBias My kids keep stealing my gum. The same kids who can’t hear me yell through the entire house when it’s time to pick up or do chores or put on pants can hear the sneaky unwrapping […]
Fun Easter Crafts — Egg Dioramas
This is by far one of our favorite Easter crafts to make. These dioramas just look so cool! And the kids like decorating the dioramas — they’re almost like little fairy gardens, because you can put figurines or little toys or eggs in there…and switch them out and play with them and…oh, they just love these.
How to Make Magazine Beads
I get a lot of catalogs I don’t remember signing up for. In fact, I get a bunch from places like fancy furniture stores and upscale kids’ clothing stores. Places I’ll never buy anything from…but I like flipping through the catalogs and pretending that I could put a full outdoor patio set at the end of […]
Valentine Card Making
We’ve been making a lot of cards recently (and we have one or two more ideas still to come!). We did these secret message colored pencil Valentines, AND these secret message watercolor Valentines over here (for BabyCenter), and these lacing heart Valentines. But sometimes? The kids like it best when you just put out a […]
Kid-Made Lacing Heart Valentines
I think kid-made valentines are one of the best parts of Valentine’s Day. We usually start early, and the kids make valentine cards for grandparents, and me and Chris, and each other (it’s beautiful and sweet and highly unusual when they’re this nice to each other. Makes me nervous, actually.) My preschooler loves lacing right […]
Kid-Made Valentines (With a Secret Message!)
I think one of the best parts of Valentines Day is getting a Valentines Day card from each of the kids. We’re not huge gift givers for Valentines Day, we usually just make little things for each other instead (ok, and buy chocolate. Definitely plenty of chocolate.)
Make this Easy Cardboard Dollhouse
We have a lot of cardboard boxes. We did most of our Christmas shopping online this year, which was awesome. Not taking four children to a crowded mall on a freezing day and dragging them through stores was possibly the best Christmas gift of all. This makes me a Smart and Practical Parent, right? Not an […]
31 Christmas Cards to Make With Your Kids
We don’t send many Christmas cards. I think now, with facebook and instagram and email…people don’t really need a Christmas card photo to see what we look like. And, thanks to the same social media, they mostly know what we’ve been up to. I like handmade cards because the kids can get involved in sending […]
Embroidered Handmade Christmas Cards
I’m not a scrapbooker. I’m a knitter and a mediocre sewer and a baker but I have no imagination for scrapbooking. I have great admiration for people who do, and I wish I had lovely scrapbooks full of my pictures…and handmade cards I could give people, and gift tags, and — oh, all those other […]
Creative Gifts from Cool Brands
I think it’s happened to all of us. Our kids get a new toy, open it, play with it…and are done five minutes later. If they’re really little, they may spend more time playing with the box. The one thing most of those kinds of toys have in common? They just sort of…sit there. They don’t […]
