Archive for the ‘Kids Crafts’ Category
Kids Crafts: Valentine’s Day Graham Cracker Love Houses
Ever since we made our Graham Cracker “Gingerbread” houses for Christmas Miss Abigail has been bugging me to let her make them again. I told her that it’s Valentine’s Day now and we don’t have Gingerbread houses for Valentine’s day. So she asked me what kind of houses we DO have for V day, and after [...]
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Kids Crafts: Making Valentines Day Cards
We usually just get the cheapo character cards for the kids to hand out to their class for Valentines Day, but this year Abby wanted to make her own. We got most of the supplies in the dollar spot at Target so this project wasn’t too expensive, and Abby picked everything out all by herself! She had a [...]
Kids Crafts: Make Your Own Construction Paper Football Lacing Cards
In honor of the Super Bowl we decided a football themed craft was in order for today. Abby has been begging to do some kind of sewing because I’ve been sewing felt food all week so we decided to make football shaped lacing cards. In addition to being a great way to occupy the kids [...]
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Kids Crafts: Printable Coloring Pages
Printable coloring pages are a great activity for the the kids to do to pass the time. They are easy to find, there are a wide variety of characters and themes available for download and the fact that they are free, well that’s just the icing on the cake! Here are some tips to make [...]
Kids Crafts: Packing Peanut Snowflakes
I’ve always got an abundance of packing peanuts around here and have been trying to figure out what the heck to do with them so I decided to try to incorporate them into a craft project for the kids. They both had a blast (you can see Miles above counting his packing peanuts) and Abby even [...]
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Kids Christmas Crafts: Graham Cracker Gingerbread Houses
A couple of years ago I bought one of those Wilton gingerbread house kits. I got all of the pieces out of the box and I’m not sure what the problem was (although I’m sure it was related to my being craft challenged) but I couldn’t for the life of me put the stupid thing [...]
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Christmas Crafts for Kids: Salt Dough Ornaments
Both of my kids love crafts and while we usually don’t do anything more than gluing foam shapes onto construction paper and coloring with crayons and markers, I thought it would be nice to try something different so we made salt dough ornaments this weekend. I was a little concerned because as much as I’d like to be, I [...]
