Valentine’s Day Celebrations
We are celebrating Valentine’s Day family-style today. Don’t worry, we had a date night to celebrate as well. But the kids get so excited about this holiday that we have to have some festivities at home for them as well. I made some tasty cupcakes (using recipes from Just Jenn Recipes for Brown Sugar Cupcakes &...
Crafty Inheritances
My folks have been working tirelessly lately to clean out their basement. They’ve unearthed quite a few treasures while cleaning, and I have benefited. Mom decided to give me a bit of my inheritance early…four garbage bags full of yarn. Jackpot! Now I need to figure out what kinds of projects to do with all...
Winter Craft: Snowpeople
Sam’s preschool teacher sent home a cute craft homework project this week, and I decided to make it into a project for all of the kids. His teacher sent home a piece of black paper and three circles with instructions to make a Snowperson. It’s a simple project, and the kids had great fun creating...
{this moment}
Inspired by SouleMama: A Friday ritual. A single photo – no words – capturing a moment from the week. A simple, special, extraordinary moment. A moment I want to pause, savor and remember. If you’re inspired to do the same, leave a link to your ‘moment’ in the comments for all to find and see....
Easy Christmas Ornament Craft
Organizing crafts for classroom holiday parties doesn’t have to be expensive or complicated. I did this super-simple Christmas Ornament Craft with Ella’s class for their Christmas party in 2nd grade and it was a huge hit. I gave them pipe cleaners and beads and told them to design their own ornaments. It was great because...
Making Handmade Christmas Cards with Kids Part TWO
Each year we make handmade Christmas Cards to send to our friends and family. In November I wrote about how I like to involve the kids in making our Christmas cards. It’s fun to collaborate with them on this creative endeavor. This year the kids decided they wanted to decorate ornaments to put on our...
Making Christmas Cards with Children
Almost every year I try to get our kids involved in the making of our Christmas cards. It’s a HUGE job, but it ends up being less stressful when we all work on them together. Does that make sense at all? How can it be LESS stressful with young hands assisting? Well it is. And...
Easy Crochet Pattern ~ The Little People Hat
I finished Henry’s winter hat last night. It took me one week to make. Because I am slow. It probably would have taken my crocheting mentor, Auntie Annie, about an hour to make. I am still pretty new & slow and I have to sneak in these little pockets of time for crocheting. It calms...
Easy Cloth Napkin Tutorial
I have an easy cloth napkin tutorial to share that made our family dinners a little more environmentally friendly! I am a newcomer to sewing. I can’t do fancy things with my sewing machine. I can only sew straight lines, sometimes not even that. I really have no business posting a sewing tutorial, given that...
Library Books & FREE Art Activities
You know by now that our family loves loves loves our local library. We spend a lot of time there, and take advantage of so many of their wonderful resources. One of Ella’s favorite sections is the arts & crafts section in the children’s library. Recently she borrowed several drawing books and set to work...
Create Your Own Chihuly Sculpture
Our family loves the arts, and we also love creating our own works of art. A few months back I read about a very cool art project for kids on the blog Mary Making and it inspired me to do a similar project with my children. The project was to create a plastic sculpture that...
