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When you think about it, kids really play in miniature-mode most of the time. Think: tiny cars, dolls, legos, tiny doll houses and the list continues. Making a pretend city or street for your child can be literally as easy as drawing on poster paper. Immediately, you create a world that they can bring to [...]

Looking for a fun (and easy!) craft for Easter? The keyword being “easy” here. The kids will love this one: make crowns (yes crowns!) for your eggs. Perfect for blown-eggs or hardboiled eggs, these adorable little crowns are fit for a king or queen or (even better) any little prince or princess! To make them [...]

Rainbows are perhaps one of the most magical things for children to discover and wonder about, don’t you think? My children love the idea of finding a lucky pot of gold at the end of a rainbow and always try to figure out ways they can do that! So, today we’re using our imaginations to [...]

I have this theory about living with children that goes something like this: if you decorate your home with their artwork, they will feel even more a part of it. The secret to pulling this off is to be brave and go with it! Kids are brave. They hang their artwork everywhere and we should [...]

With Valentine’s Day right around the corner, we all have hearts on our minds. When I think of hearts, I think of love and when I think of love, there is nothing that represents that better than my family. So, this year, I had my crew help me make Felt Heart Pocket ornaments so we [...]

As the mother of 4 small children, I think there is nothing in the world more relaxing, more peaceful and more calming as the sound of my toddlers…banging…on…drums. Of course you know I am kidding, but all joking aside, children absolutely love to make things that become noise makers, don’t they? Though sometimes in the [...]

Holiday gifts for friends and families often take on a new meaning when they are crafted by kids. And when I say “new meaning” I mean that in a slightly funny way! I mean, have you ever seen a grandfather wearing a necktie decorated with neon puff-painted handprints? Now, I may be wrong about this, [...]

As a family we make Place Cards for our Thanksgiving table each year. Part of the fun of setting the table that day includes laying out the fun place cards we come up with each year. This year I had the idea to use one part nature, one part craft to form a little turkey [...]