Stained Glass Leaves
It's fall! The season for beautiful colors and leaf piles for jumping, apples and pumpkins and that fresh cool air that is just perfect ...
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Recipe: Fake Blood
When Spiff was 14 months old he was a Vampire. Because he was in a biting stage. But what kind of a vampire can you be without blood? So I ...
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Super Masks!
When my older son turned four, we had a superhero birthday party. I made a bunch of masks for the kids (and adults!) out of foam sheets and ...
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Printable: Five Little Pumpkins
So, we all know that poem. It's my favorite Halloween poem. Okay, I don't know a lot of Halloween poems, but even if I did, I feel c...
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Pressed Leaf Collage
It's fun to go out hunting for colorful leaves but what to do with them? Spiff had collected so many leaves last year that I was on a m...
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Lollipop Ghosts
I think we've all made these at some point in our childhood, but I just remembered to bring them back this Halloween. They're a quic...
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Cut and Paste: Cornucopia
Since Thanksgiving is upon us (How did THAT happen!?), I was on a mission to find what I thought would be a simple cut and paste cornucopia....
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Trace a Turkey
Spiff's Turkeys are pecking at the grass on a rainy day. This is the age-old school craft that is so easy and fun to do. Plus, it docume...
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Handprint Turkey
A couple years ago my sister sent these Thanksgiving cards out with my niece's handprint. I thought it was brilliant then, I think it...
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Print and Cut: Paper Trees
These are super easy and fun to make and decorate. If we had time and space, we would make a whole forest of paper trees. They're also n...
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Cinnamon Applesauce Ornaments
These are a celebrated Christmas craft and you'll find recipes for these everywhere on the web. They'll vary a little bit but they...
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Gingerbread Man Paper Chain
Remember making paper doll chains? Well, for the holiday season I made some "Gingerbread Man" chains out of brown paper to decorat...
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Magazine Cut-Out Ornaments
This is a really simple ornament that's great for preschoolers (and something I made myself when I was in preschool- and my mom still ha...
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Stained Glass Votive Holder
These votive candle holders are really easy and fun to make and really cheap, too. I like cheap. Plus, they can be as simple or as intense a...
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Gingerbread Play Dough
This is a recipe Griffin came home from school with and is a variation on good old salt dough. It smells delicious but probably doesn't ...
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Salt Baking Dough
While I'm at it, here's a reliable recipe for salt dough. It's fun to play with and you can color it with food coloring. You can...
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Make Your Own Tangrams
When I was in elementary school we had two math classes. One was your typical (boring, if you asked me) adding, subtracting, short division ...
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Tangram Game
Here are two smaller sets you can share with a friend and a puzzle worksheet too. Challenge each other to see who can solve pattern workshe...
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Sock Snowballs
We love snow and everything you can do in it. Snow forts, snow men, snow angels, sledding, snow ball fights. All of it. But, let's face ...
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Chinese New Year Lion Puppet
Every year we go into Chinatown to celebrate Chinese New Year with our good friend N. And every year Spiff comes back impressed and with an ...
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5 on Friday: Paper and Pencil Games
Here are a few great games to play out and about at a restaurant or in a waiting room. All you need is a pen and some paper. When I was a ki...
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Q-Tip Dino
Often I come across a craft that is so cute and easy and clever I just have to go home and do it with the kids even if it means buying white...
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Valentines: Bugs!
Here are some buggy valentines to give to your love bugs. Just print these up on some paper or card stock , color and cut. These fit in stan...
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Games: Crazy Shapes
While Spiff and I were playing Crazy Eights the other night it occurred to me that it would be great to play it with shapes and colors as a ...
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5 on Friday: Paint
Of course you can use brushes to paint but beyond them there are a lot of other fun and different ways to make a neat painting. These are al...
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Game: Color Hop
This is a very simple game my 4 year old and 2 year old like to play. I started playing it to help my 2 year old with his colors in a fun wa...
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St. Patty's Day Wreath
Wreaths are always a festive thing to make and can be as simple to do as it is fun. With little kids, I kept it easy as I could. We cut out ...
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Leprechaun Trap
Leprechauns are tricky. If you ever want to see one, you have to be clever. They're attracted to rainbows and gold. They love to eat pot...
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Easy Rainbow Cupcakes
Just add Skittles and taste the rainbow. To get all the colors, buy an original package and a wild berry package of Skittles.
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Rainbow Cupcakes
Thanks to Disney's Family Fun we found this recipe for rainbow cupcakes . They were the perfect thing to bring to Spiff's school col...
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Easter Bunny Card
This was a really simple card to make. All you need is some scissors, colored paper (maybe card stock) and some glue. And maybe a cotton bal...
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Rice Krispie Treat Nests
In spirit of Spring, we did a little twist on the traditional Rice Krispie Treat. Using the regular old recipe from Rice Krispies we made b...
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Magnets for Mom (or Anybody!)
Mother's Day is right around the corner. So you know what that means. Us Moms wrack our brains for crafty, useful ideas that little hand...
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Paper Butterfly
With two sheets of construction paper and a pipe cleaner you can make a pretty butterfly to hang in your window or from your ceiling. ...
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Easy Pea-sy Garden Markers
It's planting season here in New England. Sometimes it's hard to remember where you planted what. We made these cute little garden...
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Painted Pots
We used Decoart Patio Paints (I bought a sample pack on clearance in the flower section at our craft store.) on dollar ceramic pots to ...
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Hoppy Frog Goodies
Spiff is celebrating his summer birthday in school on Monday with the other summer birthday boys. I wanted to give the kids in his cla...
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