If you want to do a truly Irish themed craft for St. Patrick's day, you can't get any closer than using a potato to make a shamrock print. This is a super easy craft that is fun to make and looks amazing when done. Everyone will ask you where you got your fun tea towel at. You don't just have to make a tea towel like I did, you can use this same technique on shirts, bags, on a piece of paper for a child. It's that simple. Well, for some people it is... for me... You know a Polish girl is trying to tell you how to do an Irish themed craft when: She repeatedly calls it a clover on … [Read more...]
Borax Free Slime? Making Slime with Contact Lens Solution
Once upon a time, there was a craze going around the land where kids would mix borax and glue together to make a crazy thing known as slime. Then it was discovered that borax wasn't always gentle on skin and people started searching for ways to make slime without borax. I would love to say that our house was free from the slime making craze but it wasn't. A while back after finding dried slime in our junk drawer and sun baked slime strands hanging from our picnic table, I outlawed slime. Slime was not allowed in our home under any circumstances! Or so I thought. Then the glue kept … [Read more...]
Cloud In a Jar – Easy STEM Activity for Kids
Have you ever asked your kids how clouds are formed? Dependent on age, the answers can be pretty funny. Maybe a unicorn got a haircut in heaven or possibly they'll get close to the truth. But how great would it be to show them on a level that they can touch and see? A while back we made a cloud in a jar for our homeschool science lesson which turned out to be an easy STEM activity for kids of all ages - husbands included. It's a simple science lesson that left my kids dancing for joy. Plus the great news is that once you have all the supplies together, you can make it over and … [Read more...]
The Perfect Fall Decoration to Make With Kids – Wax Paper SunCatchers
This is one of those posts that are so old that I almost started to rewrite it and modernize it a little bit for you before I shared it again. BUT I can't. I scrolled down and saw the pictures of two of my girls that I dropped of for their first week of middle school on Monday and I can't change a thing about it. They were so little. Where did that go? Two things are true. This truly is a great fall craft to make with kids to hang in your windows. It's so pretty when the light hits it. When someone tells you to hold your babies close because they'll be grown before you blink, they're not … [Read more...]
Fairy Dust Popcorn – Perfect Treat for a Girl’s Birthday Party or for a Movie Night
Popcorn is magical. Almost everytime I throw a party or a get together, I serve popcorn of some kind. With three girls, you can imagine how many little girls birthday parties I have thrown and there was always popcorn at every party. Everyone loves it and it's extremely affordable. Our family loves popcorn and many times will eat it for lunch. Every now and then you really just want to jazz up some popcorn and the good news is that is it so much fun to let your imagination go wild when it comes to ways to dress up that popcorn! What better way to dress up popcorn than to give it … [Read more...]
Pigeon Craft for Kids! Don’t Let The Pigeon Steal Your Paintbrush!
One of our daughter's favorite authors is Mo Willems. Anytime we tell her to bring us a book, she shows up with on the of the Pigeon series books. The other day at the chiropractor, I was saved from waiting with a pouting (and moody) kid by the discovery of two Elephant and Piggie books in the waiting room. Not only does she love his books but they always make me laugh as well. That's one of the reasons that I wanted to share with you this easy craft for kids based on the Pigeon books by Mo Willems. For Christmas, my daughter got a stuffed pigeon and several of the books, including … [Read more...]
Game On VBS Decorations – Perfect For Any Sports Themed Parties or VBS
Our church always holds it's VBS the first week of summer. One part of me loves that because it's a great way to kick off summer but the other part is already worn out from end of school stuff. Last year when I found out that the theme was sports, I was kinda lost on ideas for decorating for a sports themed VBS like Game On. I wasn't sure how I wanted to decorate or how I could do it quickly when I was already so exhausted. However I found a magic trick that I want to share with you. Not only did this one magic thing make everything so much easier - it was cheap too! First … [Read more...]
DIY Fascinators – The Craziest and Funnest Hat You’ll Make This Year
The royal wedding is only days away and there's nothing funner than donning your craziest hat or fascinator and camp out in front of TV with a ton of junk food. One simple trip to the dollar store and $12 later we had all that we needed to make 4 different fascinators. If you're not getting ready for the royal wedding, store this DIY Fascinator idea away for crazy hat day, tea parties or a Kentucy Derby party. Once we got started making them the supplies we used varied from everything to a bug net to a loofah but the base is always the same. We made these DIY fascinators using simple … [Read more...]
VBS 2018 | Game On! Craft Ideas
Vacation Bible School will be here before we know it. Last year our church did a space theme which was fun and easy to come up with plenty of craft ideas. However this year when I heard that the VBS theme was sports, it kinda threw me for a loop! We have three girls. One who is sporty but we're not like a family with a boy that might have sports balls all over the place and have spent years of their lives getting balls thrown at their heads. How do you do crafts for a sports themed party or VBS??? To make matters more hair pulling, our children's ministry asked me to come up … [Read more...]
Baseball Craft for Kids! Cute Idea for VBS or Sports Teams!
Sometimes you just need a craft that's easy to make a lot of them and great for kids. Right? You might need a gift for the end of a kid's baseball season for all the coaches or if you're like me, this year's vacation bible school will have a sports theme. This at our church the Vacation Bible School theme is Game On which means that we need simple sports crafts for kids of all ages. Every year during VBS we do one picture frame where the kids can take home a recent picture of themselves to remember that week. That's why I came up with this simple baseball picture frame using … [Read more...]
Decorating Easter Eggs with Melted Crayons – Dye Free Easter Eggs!
Easter is almost here and if your kids / grandkids are anything like mine, they're already begging you to let them dye eggs. The good news is that there's other ways to make pretty Easter eggs than dealing with that messy dye that covers everything. Have you ever thought about using crayons to make easter eggs with? Here's the truth - I hate dyeing easter eggs. It doesn't matter how many towels you put down someone's going to spill the color and it's going to go everywhere. Then the kids are going to fight over who gets the pink dye first. If you put down several cups … [Read more...]
Duct Tape Beads – A Super Fun and Easy Duct Tape Craft for Kids
Duct Tape crafts are fun and so simple for most kids to get the hang of. They can be as intricate and making an entire outfit from Duct Tape or they can be so simple that a preschooler can do them. The great news is that this craft today, how to make duct tape beads, is easy enough for a preschooler to make but interesting enough for elementary and middle school age kids alike. Basically if you can wrap duct tape around an item, you can make these simple duct tape beads. We made them last week when we needed a item made with duct tape to wear to church for an event. My oldest … [Read more...]
