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Hand-made card prints for Mother’s Day
When looking for inspiration for a Mother’s Day gift from both Nico and I for Valerie, I stumbled upon a great idea of hand-made card prints from Let’s Explore and immediately knew that this was a perfect thing to do and give Maman something special It’s really easy and quick to do and just like Amy @ Let’s Explore wrote, it is addictive! So what do you need? A flat, wipeable surface (such as a … Read entire article »
Filed under: Crafts, English, Holiday Crafts, Home, Mother's Day
Quick Lady Bug Café sign
This was our quick sign for our quickly improvised Lady Bug Café for Valentines Day dinner. I didn’t have a big poster board and couldn’t go buy one as Nico was sleeping. So I took 4 pink cardstocks and taped them together. Then I penciled the letters for the name, free handed. Don’t press to hard or it’ll be hard to erase, but I erased just enough to not have it show through the paint and … Read entire article »
Filed under: Crafts, English, Glitter, Holiday Crafts, Home, Valentine's Day
Paper bag cheese (paper bag challenge from Tinkerlab)
I’ve been thinking for 2 weeks about this challenge, I wanted something new that Nico could help with making and play with when done. Finally the night before the launch of the challenge I asked my mother because I was stumped. She gave me the same ideas I had thought of and didn’t wanna do. Then she came up with a cheese! Nico has a little plush mouse called “EE” so I thought it would … Read entire article »
Filed under: Challenges, Crafts, English, Everyday, Home
Valentine Ideas Collaborative Project
Today we are proud to bring you a great project of 53 amazing kids’ blogs – the Valentine Ideas blog hop! Make sure to check out what these creative minds have come up with! Mama Pea Pod, Let Kids Create – My Creative Family – Hands on: as we grow – La Dolce Vita: The Sweet Life – AngeliqueFelix.com – The Golden Gleam – Teach Preschool – Critters and Crayons – Living at the Whitehead Zoo – The Iowa Farmer’s Wife – Nurturestore – Kitchen Counter Chronicles – The Chocolate Muffin Tree – Jamie’s Jumble – The Outlaw Mom Blog – Mama Smiles – The Mommies Made Me Do It – Dinosaurs and Octopuses – Mom to 2 Posh Lil Divas – Toddler Approved – Messy Kids – Rainy Day Mum, JDaniel4sMom … Read entire article »
Filed under: Crafts, English, Holiday Crafts, Valentine's Day
Play dough hedgehogs (porcupines)
All you need is homemade Kool-Aid play dough and toothpicks. I used the glittery leftover from our baked play dough ornaments and shaped the hedgehog for Nico. He went to town with the toothpicks He even posed for me! Variation: You could use colored toothpicks and talk about colors If you do this, we’d LOVE to see a photo of it. Email it to us or post it on our Facebook page. We’d love … Read entire article »
Rainbow painting surprise!
The other day I bought a Rainbow Art Kit at the thrift store, brand new, not open. I had never seen one like this before, so I had no clue how to use it. Since we bought it, he kept bugging me to use it, so after a few days, I gave in and brought it out. There were several brush sizes and the hard paint pucks were glued to the tray, so he dipped the … Read entire article »
Filed under: Activities, Crafts, English, Everyday, Home, Indoors, Life, Simple Pleasures
Valentines Day glitter globe
Here’s the final result: So I’ve seen those paper plate snowman snow globes everywhere online over the holidays. I knew I wanted to make one with Nico as he loves shaking the regular ones (it looks like glitter to him, lol). Time went on and we were so busy making all our tree ornaments that time kind of ran out and I put that on my “to do next year” list. Now Valentine’s Day is here … Read entire article »
Filed under: Crafts, English, Glitter, Holiday Crafts, Valentine's Day
Play dough eggs
So the other morning, I leave Nico with my mom (she lives downstairs) to drive hubby to work. It was cold and not worth dressing him all up for 20 minutes of total car ride. I set him up with the orange Kool-Aid play dough we made the night before and leave. I come back and Nico is all happy because he got ghighis (think of eggy, last syllable). He comes running to me with an … Read entire article »
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Lion head cut-out
A few weeks before my boy’s second birthday we went to the Alice in Wonderland theme park designed for kids up to 9 yo. He did all the rides, I was so shocked he wanted in all of them, even the ones he went alone into (he’s pretty shy about leaving maman in a new place). One other thing he really liked was those characters where the face is cutout so you can stick yours … Read entire article »
Letters, colors & shapes All-In-One
I kept seeing sandpaper alphabets on wooden circles everywhere I thought it was a nice idea but living in a small town I couldn’t find the wooden circles. It would have meant driving 1h30 to the US to get some and frankly that was just ridiculous to do for such a small project, so I left it alone for a while. Then one day it hit me! Literally, I smacked myself on the forehead when … Read entire article »
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