Crafts

Toddler Button Craft

Need to entertain your toddler for an hour? Give her a bottle of glue and a box of buttons. Okay, it might not have been an hour, but this was definitely the longest-lasting activity Allie has ever done. It all started because Grace was working on her rainbow button craft, and Allie was not content [...]

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Chocolate Orange Hand Scrub Recipe

We had a pamper yourself day at MOPS last week. There were stations set up around the room with massage chairs and nail polish and assorted paraphernalia. One of the areas was a craft station where we made hand scrubs. I’m not a hand scrub kind of person. I think I still have two salt scrubs [...]

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Melted Bead Suncatchers – Perfect for a Homemade Mother’s Day Gift

This is an awesome homemade Mother’s Day gift that you can make in an afternoon. If you are my mother, mother-in-law, or older sister, you should stop reading now. Or keep reading and ruin your surprise. It’s up to you. A few weeks ago, my little sister sent me these two photos on Facebook. [...]

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Rainbow Button Craft – An Easter Egg Craft

Sometimes, when Grace and I are really lucky, Allie meanders down the steps after lunch, lays down on our overstuffed chair, and falls asleep. I say it happens only when we’re lucky because – although we love her madly – Allie can be a veritable distraction when Grace is trying to get her schoolwork done. [...]

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Making Styrofoam-filled Christmas Ornaments with a Preschooler

We’ve made several Christmas ornaments by stuffing things into a clear glass ball. We tried several combinations of paint and glitter, and those didn’t come out as well as we would have liked. I’m not sure why. We stuffed pom-poms into a bunch of them. Those were all really nice. This ornament was supposed to [...]

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Sequined Snowflake Ornaments that Preschoolers Can Make

Christmas Ornaments Preschoolers Can Make

Back when I was pregnant with Allie and on bedrest, Grace and I made all kinds of Christmas ornament crafts. Grace was 3 1/2 at the time, and I posted them on this page of Christmas Ornaments that Preschoolers Can Make. Last week, I went back through the 31,364 photos in my iPhoto library looking for [...]

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Bird Seed Painting – Easy Crafts for Kids

I try to do an easy craft or artsy project during each day’s homeschool lesson. This one was especially fun for Grace (because it was really messy, just to give you fair warning) and used up some supplies we had lying around. We worked a lot of different materials into this particular project, incorporating fine [...]

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How to Make a Yarn Doll

As I have mentioned a time or eight before, Grace and I have been working our way through the The Complete Little House Box Set that I got for Christmas when I was little. I’m so excited to be working on a Little House unit to share with you, but in the meantime, I’m going [...]

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How to Make an Herb Terrarium for Under $15

Yesterday, my girls and I were wandering around the Wal-Mart (we’d gone in for one thing, but it always happens) when I saw a large glass jar. I didn’t see a large empty jar on the shelf; I saw a lush terrarium. So of course, I bought the jar and a couple of herbs. The [...]

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Our Family Rules Tutorial

My family rules. It’s a fact. My family also has rules. It’s another fact. Years ago, I saw a family rules canvas on The Pleated Poppy. As soon as I saw it, I knew I would make my own. It’s only taken me two years, but I finally got mine done. This month, I participated [...]

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