We love doing crafts as months change. Valentines is one of our favorite holidays to do crafts. We have done several over the years. My girls had so much fun with our Christmas Washi Tape Wreaths; they asked to make another washi tape wreath. This is a simple Valentines Washi Tape Wreath that kids can…
Space has to be one of our favorite themed to do. We have done several sets of space weeks over the years. We have some favorite types of crafts to make. We love torn paper crafts. They are so much fun and everyone can be creative. Today we have some torn paper planets! There were…
My girls have wanted to try the perler fused beads for a long time. They have always looked like such fun to do! We got some for Christmas and they asked to make some planets for our space themed activities. I thought why not. Kids can be very creative when they have ideas. I also…
Every now and then we do crafts that change things up. I always love the ideas that my girls come up with. Today was one of their suggestions for a craft. My girls wanted to read the book Snow by Uri Shulevitz. It is one of our favorite winter books. We have always done some…
I’m always looking for something fun and easy for my girls and me to make. And this wreath was a perfect post school craft for us to do. A lot of times we are just looking for simple and easy plus fun for all of us. If you saw our washi tape Christmas trees we…
Every year, we have done some types of Christmas crafts during the season. We have tons of fun making them and enjoy it. This year, we made some Washi tape Christmas Trees. It was a suggestion from my 11-year-old that we make a Christmas tree craft. She also said it might be fun to use…
Every fall we are always doing some fun fall tree craft! It is one of our favorite activities. This year our washi tape fall tree activity was the idea of my 11-year-old. She picked out all the craft items for it, and we made it based on what you wanted us to do. Plus this…
One of our favorite parts of our trip this summer was seeing lots of mountains. We don’t have any mountains in Massachusetts. They thought it would be fun to do something to remind us of part of our trip. I got reminded of the scrapbook paper from the other day and they asked to make…
I have been having fun getting rid of things in our house and my girls just wanted to have fun with the scrapbooking paper I bought and have never done anything with. I challenged them to come up with craft time with mom, that we could do after school. Their first craft is a torn…
My youngest and I have been doing crafts together all school year. It has been tons of fun to do the projects. We learned a lot about playing together without her sisters. Our last project we did was this Ocean themed Wreaths. We have been doing TONS of ocean activities this last month. They have…
We have been big into ocean crafts and activities the last month plus. We have just kept going with the activities. Today I have a great guest post over at Rainy Day Mum! She is doing a great summer book series. Click here to check about how to make a Dot Marker Rainbow Fish! This…
Flower crafts are always a big hit at our house. We love making and creating with them. We did a slight change from the Flower Wreath that we did two years ago. We took the felt buttons from our Flower Button Sensory Bin and made a wreath with them. This was a great way to…
Model magic is one of our favorite craft to do. We do something in it at least once a week. I love that it is such an easy thing to work with. We are on a snow and winter theme at our house. We have been reading a lot of snowmen books and doing some…
Every year we make some kind of window hanging that we put up. It changes every year what we will do. This year we made Tissue paper Christmas Wreaths. We just love having these sun catchers in the window to add more to the season. The Tissue Paper Christmas Wreath is a great addition to…
There are so many different feasts at this time of year. My girls love making placemats every year for Thanksgiving and using them through the Holiday seasons. There are so many different books that we read about feasts at this time of year. I posted about some of the in the introduction post for the…
We loved making these torn paper fall trees. They are fun to make and everyone has a different idea just how their tree should look. Plus, you get a lot of great fine motor while you are working on the trees. One of our favorite fall books is Red Leaf, Yellow Leaf. We just love…
We have been on a HUGE apple kick this week at our house. There are so many fun apple activities that you can do. Every year we do an apple theme. I have done it as an afterschool activity. This year we made a fun tree with different punches. We had tons of fun doing…
We had a had time picking a book for this month’s book club. The girls and I read and watched several of the movies. We love the book Where the Wild Things Are and it was a fun movie and a fun book! We finally picked Where the Wild Things Are for the Books that…
The girls and I enjoy being a part of the Virtual Book Club. We have been doing it for a long time. The girls always look forward to seeing what books we will be doing. At the end of the year I thought I would round up all the activities and introduction posts from the…
With the first look at Pluto this last week we had some fun learning about the planets. I thought it was a great time to do a project and make some of the planets for ourselves. We like doing craft projects with model magic. This was a great addition to our space week. We have…
We have been doing some small activities with space. Today we learned about galaxies. There are many different types of galaxies out there. They come in 5 different types. We had fun learning about them and doing this galaxy painting. The Galaxy Oil Pastel Painting is a great addition to the space activities on the…
I love that every month we look for new books while we are in the virtual book club for kids. This month we knew all three books by Donald Crews. We had a hard time picking just one book. We have read all three books. I really liked the colors in Freight Train. So that…
This months theme is Caldecott Medal Books. There are so many different books to pick from! We really had a hard time just picking one book. There are so many books to pick from. You can see some of our favorites in the introduction post. We decided to pick one from the honor section. We…
We had a hard time picking between the three book. It was hard. We love all the book by Eric Carle. Since we are just starting the explore flower and outside this year I thought it would be fun to do a flower activity. We read the book The Tiny Seed (The World of Eric…
A recent trip to an art museum left us with some fun ideas for crafts. My girls saw a piece in passing that they just wanted to try at home. The collage was made from cut outs. They wanted to try it with our butterfly punch! We have really enjoyed our butterfly punch. It has…
We have been loving studying butterflies at our house. It has been so much fun to learn about the and do several projects to go with all our learning. This model magic butterfly project is loads and fun and easy to do. We love model magic at our house. It is easy to use and…
We have been studying butterflies at our house. It has been a really fun unit study for us. The girls had some time out of school so we got to do a few activities together around it. It is always fun to see the many different types of butterflies there are. We really like the…
We are always looking for new ways to use the printables that I make. We did this fun hands on model magic heart craft by doing just that. This is a great fine motor activity plus being creative with the materials that you have on hand. What I like best about this project is that…
We have been studying penguins at our house. It has been tons of fun. There are so many great books to read about penguins. We did this fun project as a part of our learning about penguins. Easy to set up activities are favorites at our house. You can make your own model magic penguin…
Wreaths are one of the great Christmas decorations. This is a very simple and easy to make wreath. My girls love working with yarn for crafts. This is an easy craft that many different age groups can do together. Yarn is a great craft to work with. It adds fun texture to pictures and activities….